Gullible Marines and a Cunning Sailor's Escape
A navy warrant officer recalls Jim Corrigan an Irish sailor who lied about his identity to join a liberty party. Corrigan swapped into a marine, fled with $300 after shore leave, while his ally Michael Gallagher swam ashore and returned sober. The tale highlights discipline and audacity aboard a U S ship.
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Navy
Jimmy Logs
Bluejackets
Jim Corrigan
Mare Island Navy Yard
Mexico
Central
South America
University of Dublin
Corrigan
Acapulco
Bin
Mare Island
Panama
Mare Island Naval Prison
San Francisco
Marine Guard
Trishman
Mike Gallagher
Mulvaney
Liberty Party
Michael Gallagher
Gallagher
Spick
Spawn
Corrgan
Washington Star
England Would Need Nerve Doctors For Tea Habit
The article notes England consumes about 60 000 pounds of tea annually, equating to 6 200 gallons per minute around the clock. It suggests nerve specialists may be in demand in the future due to sustained tea drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
What is a woman's weapon
A poem fragment presents a Q A about a woman's weapon. The girl shyly hints a pout, a lover says a weapon is a pout, a poet claims many weapons but finally asserts a woman's surest weapon is a tear and exchange.
Old Sal of Hester Street Sells Buttons from One Cent to a Nickel
A New York City feature profiles Sarah Cohen known as Old Sal who runs a button shop off Hester Street. She buys buttons from junk shops and dressmakers, offering matched buttons for garments and often earning higher prices from regular customers. The piece also blends short historical notes and anecdotes about 19th century life and distant topics.
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Sarah Cohen
Hester Street
New York Herald
Sarah
Sal
East Side
Nation
Notable Women in Global Roles and Honors Highlighted
The text profiles several women around the world and in the U S who hold unique positions or achieve recognition. It mentions Miss Daisy Stevenson running a butchery in Rochester, Miss Miles directing a full military band, Miss Winifred Faraday joining the Icelandic society, Mrs. Roger Wolcott honoring Pepperell her town, and other women linked to missionary work, law, cats home in Berlin, and early blacksmithing in Luzerne County.
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Daisy Stevenson
Rochester
Miles
Nelson Miles
United States
Winifred Faraday
Manchester
Icelandic Society
Copenhagen
Roger Wolcott
Boston
Pepperell
Mass
Bunker Hill
Helen Gould
Kate Wield
Harriet R. Stafford
Marthas Vineyard
Paul Jones
Bonhomme Richard
Massachusetts Historical Society
Lucile Daniel
Atlanta
J. C. Daniel
Japan
Henry Clark
Lillian Tracy
Troy
Regina Walker
Berlin
Luzerne County
Jorge Gregory
Shickshinny
Eve Blantyre Simpson
Walter Simpson
Canada
Atlantic Coast
Joubert
Pretoria
Mrs. Kruger
Poultry Pointers From a St Louis Republic Feed Guide
Advice to farmers on poultry care and breeding stressing single breed flocks cleanse nests for easy access separate year-old cocks from two-year hens select vigorous stock avoid deformed birds for breeding provide soaked milk fed bread and whole grain on ground cooked foods fatten birds faster keep fowls active with scratch feeding and note that soft meals require troughs for feeding and a strained hen cannot lay eggs while growing feathers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Republic
Nature’s Oddities and Geological Facts Revealed
A collection of curious notes describes Gibraltar’s towering rock at 1437 feet, a southern California lake with ink black liquid that stains cotton, desert sand pillars formed by whirlwinds resembling waterspouts, and Helgoland’s coastline eroding rapidly as the island sinks.
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Rock of Gibraltar
California
Arabia
Kitchen Fixes From A Past Era
Household tips advise whitening a kitchen table with a thin paste of chloride of lime and hot water left overnight, then washed off in the morning. If a saucepan leaks, drop bread in to seal the hole. Use salt water in the outer double boiler to make it boil sooner.
Trusts and creation of value in early press voices
A Chicago Journal column cites the Detroit Press and Philadelphia Inquirer on trusts, invention, ownership, and the idea that private creations belong to their creator while publicly aided works belong to the trusts, highlighting tension between money power and communal creation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Ree Press
Philadelphia Inquirer
Chicago Journal
One More Chance to Hear the Fisk Jubilee Singers
The Fisk Jubilee Singers offer sacred and spiritual songs that have touched many hearts. Audiences can enjoy their revered choral performances at popular price levels, with selections sung in their distinctive tradition and harmony.
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Fisk
International flirtation cited in press opinion piece
The Indianapolis Journal notes growing cordial ties between John Bull and Columbia as the two symbolize Britain and America. The column jokes about a lovers' quarrel looming, urging friends to guard the fragile alliance and recall economic ties underscored by American wheat exports.
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England
Great Britain
United States
Indianapolis Journal
John Bull
Columbia
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Opera House
Chas. Mupiford
Fisk University
Nashville
Tenn
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Leipzig
Amsterdam
Hamburg
Stockholm
Vancouver Hardware Co
Nelson Opera House
the Columbian Comedy Company
New York
Somers
Nelson Wine UO
Phone 93
Frank A
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Mgr
Baker Street
Nerv
Thomson Stations
Canada Drag & Bi
Home New Hotel
Phair Now
J. Campbell
F. Nelson
J. F. Delaney
A. Bradshaw Blocan News Co
Thomson Bros, Lamont & Young Ui
A. King & Co
Nels
Nelson Nelson Nelson Roseberry
Sioe City
Ion Vancouver Kaslo Greenwood
Victoria
Turner Beetone Co
Vancouver
London, Eng
Pabst Beer
Milwaukee
Gamble & O’reilly
Kootenay Lake
Cartonate
Insurange
Canada Aggident Assurange Company
Montreal
Gamble & O'Reilly
ST. Joseph’s School
Neiaon
B.C
Sistors
St. Joseph of Peace
Mill
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Oi Ye O
E. J. Scovil Mining Broker
Rotary Public
Windermere Minoa
Enco Sol
Windermere
Pilot Bay
Nelson and
Lardo
J. A. Sayward
Nelson Tailoring
Pierre Brothers
Real Clarke Motel
Procter
JUST
Brussels
Axminster
Bugs Smyrna
Maple Leaf
Kanata
Victor
D. Marthur & CO
Conan
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