His Needless Fears In Bequah Ends in Job Salvation
Jenkins a Bequah leather company agent fears losing his weekly check and his wife Laura in hospital. After first contemplating theft he almost robs a doctor, then learns the company reorganization offers him a new superintendent post at five thousand dollars a year.
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Jenkins
Bequah
Mrs. Jenkins
Leather Company
Laura
Siery de
Doctor Evans
Mr. Hyde
Evana
Ake
Mr. Jenkins
Sequah
Hovey Reports Caribbean Volcano Study After Expedition
Edmund Otis Hovey of the American Museum of Natural History returns from a three month tour to Guadeloupe Martinique and St Vincent. He reports ongoing activity at Mont Pelee Soufriere with fumaroles steam vents and new surface features including a large crater lake and regrowth of vegetation enhancing the landscape and indicating partial recovery since the 1902 1903 eruptions.
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R Edmund “ Otis “Hovey
Department
American Museum of Natural History
Lesser Antilles
Guadeloupe
Martinique
St. Vincent
West Indies
St. Pelee
Soufriere
Doctor Hovey
Twin Islands
Antilles
Mt. Pelee
St. Pierre
Hovey
Island
Mt. Pelée
Vuélcano
Boys Foreordained to Fail and the Path of Crime
A moral meditation on bank robberies and street crime, arguing that attempting to gain wealth without work leads to ruin. The author links youth indulgence and lack of industry to criminal life and eventual punishment.
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Cincinnati
Kansas City
Criminal Court
Motor Wheel for Bicycle Powers Ride Without Frame Changes
A self contained gasoline motor unit attaches to a bicycle via clamps without altering the frame. The power plant sits on a rubber tired driver wheel with a tank mounted above, offering an independent propulsion option.
Mermaid star recalls Bermuda accident during Neptune's Daughter filming
Annette Kellerman recounts a dimensional moment in a Bermuda glass tank during filming. Director Herbert Brenon leapt first through a torn end of the tank as glass splinters rained. Kellerman, Brenon, and aquatic creatures escaped as blood and water cooled. The question lingered whether the picture was ruined.
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Annette Kellerman
Bermuda
Neptune
Sarah Bernhardt
Miss Kellerman
Herbert Brenon
Mne
Katherine
Mr. Brenon
Clubs for Boys and Girls in Agricultural Education
The boys and girls clubs organized in agricultural communities teach farming by doing. Supported by the department of agriculture and joined by state, county, and private agencies, the movement spreads nationwide, building a foundation for future farming success and teaching both practical skill and thinking.
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Department of Agriculture
The Way Out Encourages Perseverance for Girls
A Girls' Companion remark urges Rye to keep trying despite a discouraging year. It states that giving up worsens matters and questions the outcome of ceasing effort, urging girls to try harder rather than quit.
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Rye
Retreating for Strategical Purposes
An exchange echoes a claim of retreat as a tactical move rather than fear. The speaker insists they are not running but regrouping to gain advantage in the pursuit. The dialogue reflects wartime rhetoric and strategic thinking in a terse, laconic cadence.
Hearts and Masks in Film Stirs Audiences
Harold MacGrath’s beloved Hearts and Masks becomes a three reel motion picture featuring Kathryn Williams Charles Clary Wheeler Oakman and Fred Huntly. The adaptation is described as exciting with constant action and strong character portrayals.
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Harold MacGrath
Kathryn Williams
Charles Clary
Wheeler Oakman
Fred Huntly
Part Suits Her Mabel Trunnelle Plays Japanese Maiden
Mabel Trunnelle, famed for Edison girl roles, learns she will portray a Japanese maiden in Greater Love Hath No Man by Mary Imlay Taylor. She eagerly sews a pretty Japanese gown in spare moments.
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Mabel Trunnelle
Edison
Mary Imlay Taylor
Miss Trunnelle
Thompson to Return to Motion Pictures in New Role
Announcement notes that David H. Thompson will appear in moving pictures again. A year ago a leading company chose him to handle its extra people and cast due to his good judgment of actors and knowledge of the basin.
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David H. Thompson
Mr. Thompsoon
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W. G. Chapman
Lac Des Palmistes
Mt. Peles
Roxelane
St. Pierre How
Alde
Secho
Blanche
Soufriere Crater
MT Pelee
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