Ranch Cowboys Pursue Lost Phonograph Amid Cake Pranks
Speed to train for a Centipede race as Helen Blake bonds with him while trainer Glass suppresses a romance. Covington sends Speed racing into a tense showdown with the ranch owner and a scheming rival.
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Flying Heart Ranch
Tipede Ranch
Flying Heart
J. Ws Ainev
Yale
Culver
Pasar Selle Hepiain
Speed
I Co
Arora University
Willie
Ganman
Covington
Omaha
Covington Arrival Spurs East Side Ranch Showdown
Wild Crosstown plot thickens as Culver Covington is slated to arrive, prompting Gabby Gallagher and the Centipede crew to press bets against Yale’s Speed and Stover. Tension mounts among ranch hands and Bet-heavy spectators as a high-stakes race looms.
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Mr. Speed
Willie
Pardner
Culver Covington
Gabby ~ Gallagher
Jack
Jean
Gabby
Gallagher
Benneath
Speed
Yale
Nee Mny
Stoyer
Stover
Carara
Murphy
Miss Chapin
Wille
Holy City
Madamosella Melby
Editor Returns Manuscript After Indignant Note
A magazine editor sent back a story to a contributor who had partially pasted inner pages. In her reply she accused editors of careless neglect, while the editor explained that a bad egg at breakfast does not require eating the whole egg. The anecdote appeared in The Sunday Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Speed
Oil Field Discovery Tied to Native Boy Whipping
A native boy claimed innocence after a miner whipped him over kerosene poured into a well in Papua New Guinea. The boy guided investigators to the water source, which was found to be coated with kerosene, signaling the start of a developing large commercial venture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Papua
British New Guineas
Finland’s struggle marked by a great 1905 strike and culture
Aio Malmberg in London discusses Finland under Russian rule. She notes educational suppression, political exile, and a Russian-dominated senate. Finns resist via passive defiance, home research society records, and a long tradition of bathhouse culture tied to identity.
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Russia
Helsingfors
Japan
Finland
Sweden
Home Research Society
Atlantic
Se & National Institution
Duel Challenge Ends In Lake Tontchartrain Joke
Representative Borland recounts a Louisiana duel challenge between a Georgia blacksmith and a Missouri aristocrat. The blacksmith refused at first, then agreed to a duel with sledge hammers in five feet of water. The Georgian, shorter, found humor in the matchup and declared the duel off.
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Borland
Missouri
Louisiana
Tate
Aturdly
Georgia
Lake Tontchartrain
Fize
Bullets Recovered After Balkan War Reach Marseilles
Vast quantities of Balkan war bullets arrive in Marseilles from Constantinople. A single steamship unloaded around 2 095 sacks, each with about sixteen thousand projectiles weighing over a hundred pounds, totaling roughly three and a half million bullets.
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Marseilles
Constantinople
Rats on the Mary-Ann Tale Ends in Fateful Escape
From Tit-Bits comes a rousing nautical yarn in which a wily rat evades capture aboard the Mary-Ann. The clever rodent outsmarts the crew, climbs a deck rail, uses a seagull as a sail, and claims a final share as the boat sails to shore.
Kaiser Plans Magnificent Rebuilt Opera House
Kaleer a Opera House site near the Reichstag will house the Berlins Royal Opera, owned by the Kaiser. The new building may cost about £1,300,000 with Emperor William providing half and the rest funded by the Prussian parliament and the Berlin municipality. The old house ran a yearly deficit, and Herr Rudolf Martin estimates the Kaiser’s fortune at £19,700,000.
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Kaleer
Berlins Royal Opera House
Reichstag
William
Royal Opera House
Rudolf Martin
Germany
Manchester Evening News
Carpet Rag Mania Shocks Neighborhood
Marcella bursts into hysterical laughter after bragging about folding a carpet rag across her lap and parading it down the street to show Rosemary. now every girl in the block joins in the quirky fad.
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Marcella
Rosemary
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Glass
Miss Blake
Larry
Mr. Bypeed
Emile
Blake
Lawrence
Helen
H McEforth
Heneceforth
J. Wallingford
Wally
Roberta
Lawrence Glass
Allah
Keap
Berkeley Fresno
Socrates
Baul Armstrong
Der
Ts Saath
Hapere
Ewe
Und
Mong
Fru
Aino Malmberg
London
Mme. Malmberg
St. Petersburg
Landtag
Senate
Jarket Doats
Melsingfors
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