Bishop Brings Peace to Lone Dowager on Christmas Eve
In a remote English manor, Lady Althea Bullen, long alone after canceling invitations, grapples with her son Hugh's betrothal to Eva Dereham. The Bishop of Ware counsels reconciliation, urging forgiveness and a union of two noble families, ending with a Christmas reunion and a hopeful future.
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Dormy Place
Althea
Ware
Wareham Castle
Aum
St. Mary Abbott's
Mrs. Dereham
Eva Dereham
Hugh
Bullen
Eva
Derehams
Suaviter
Fortiter
Wildcat Causes Pole Fire On Big Hole Line
A wild cat climbed a power pole on the Big Hole River near Divide and touched live wires, causing a short circuit and fire that damaged the pole. Foreman George K. Aitken and a helper investigated, smothered the blaze, and recovered cat fragments as souvenirs.
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Butte
Butte Electric and Power Company
Big Hole
George K. Aitken
Divide
The Best Razor Strop From Ground Glass
A New York Sun quote recalls a barber who praised a glass razor strop as the best he ever used. He laments its breakage and the difficulty of finding a similar ground-glass strop to restore a sharp edge.
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New York Sun
Russian Army to issue pocket compasses for all soldiers
Every soldier in the Russian army will receive a pocket compass with a luminous needle. A total of 300 000 compasses, costing $40 000, have already been ordered.
Proposal to cut duty on industrial alcohol in Britain
A British proposal suggests reducing the duty on industrial alcohol to six pence a gallon, enabling motorists to buy at a lower price and potentially impact transport costs.
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Great Britain
Shafter's Cuban Pullet Remembers Mercy From War
A glossy "black Spanish" pullet kept by General Shafter in San Francisco embodies a wartime tale. In 1898 a starving reconcentrado boy carried to camp by Lt Brooke later gifted a chicken to the officer. The chicken traveled with the army to Santiago Montauk Governors Island and finally San Francisco, tied to a memory of mercy.
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General Shafter
San Francisco
Cuba
el Caney
Brooke
Long Marches of British Cavalry in South Africa
The article notes British mounted troops in South Africa performing extreme rides, including a Natal squadron covering eighty five miles in twelve hours. It highlights detachments averaging sixty mile day rides and discusses the endurance of horses, each carrying about 250 pounds, with many mounts being American bred.
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United States
South Africa
Natal Mounted Rifles
Amateur Bird Charmers Delight Paris Crowds
A Westminster Gazette report notes in Paris the charmers in the Tuileries and Luxembourg Gardens entertaining crowds each afternoon. Amateurs perform a quiet show with pigeons and sparrows, earning only the public’s admiration and the birds’ trust.
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Tuileries
Luxembourg Gardens
Paris
Westminster Gazette
Ardmore Leads World Cotton Market With Wagons
Ardmore Oklahoma territory claims the largest inland cotton market, marketing over 50 000 bales annually. The bulk is brought by wagon and rail shipments are excluded from this figure.
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Ardmore
I. T
Queer Indiana Farms Grow Rabbits and Odd Livestock
In Posey County at New Harmony Herman Eular expands a ten acre setup raising Angora cats with a ready East market at $25 each. Nearby a German immigrant operates a swamp leech farm. demand from large drug houses is limited but the venture grows. In Wabash Nathan Moyer runs sixty acres with 1,000,000 rabbits produced this season and hundreds of thousands more in reserve. pelts and hair feed diverse fur and hat industries. Indiana hosts at least a dozen skunk farms and other ventures breeding rattlesnakes frogs and weasels. Mark Beeger reports a peppermint farm in St Joseph County and many similar operations along the Indiana Michigan line led by industrious Polish farmers. All these farms are profitable.
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New Harmony
Posey County
Ind
Herman Eular
Eular
Indiana
Germany
Chicago
Detroit
New York
Philadelphia
St. Louis
New Orleans
San Francisco
Wabash
Nathan Moyer
Moyer
Baltimore
St. Joseph County
Mark Beeger
Michigan
Four Ugliest Beasts Across Lands and Their Ugly Traits
Pearsons Weekly describes four grotesque animals the bearded saki from South America, the aye-aye with sharp fingers in Africa, the Tasmanian devil of Australia, and a fierce Asian ground rat the bund. The piece contrasts their ugliness with a strange, unsettling aura while noting their gentle or savage dispositions.
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Saki
South America
South Africa
Antipodes
Pearson's Weekly
Deformed With Speed in Horse Trading Tale from New York Times
A New York Times report recounts a Madison Square Garden sale scene where a horse dealer touts a trotter with a speed record enhanced by a mysterious flesh lump. The dealer claims the lump vanishes off season and reappears at peak training, framing it as a genuine speed indicator amid humor.
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Madison Square Garden
Hart
Pardner
New York Times
Taming Quail A Morgan County Youth Builds Quail Business
A Morgan County Missouri youth has developed a sizable tame quail enterprise claiming easier growth than chickens and higher profits. He sells meat quail at 1 dollar per dozen and keeps pair prices at 5 dollars for pets. Eggs hatch well under quail or hens.
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Morgan County
After all remark from philosopher on the aimless worder
The philoso pher notes that the aimless worder, despite his affliction, seizes every opportunity as nothing ever slips through his fingers, a remark attributed to Haphar's Buzar.
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Harsper
Labor World labor movement notes across cities and nations
The report lists labor developments from Austin and Fall River to New South Wales and Canada. It notes 28 local unions in Austin, Italian stowaways in New York, a new waiters union in Salem, a fortnightly pay day in Concord, and compulsory old age insurance in Germany for workers earning under 600 a year. It mentions Fall River spinners’ golden anniversary, a $50 000 mortgage paid off at a labor temple, Cedar Rapids government building union labor, and 1906 New South Wales union membership. It covers resignations at the Canadian Federation of Textile Workers, Florida child labor law advocacy, 5 000 000 to 6 000 000 working women, and Ellen Donovan’s election as Brockton Shoe Workers’ Council delegate.
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Germany
Fall River
Mass
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
New South Wales
Wilfrid Paquette
Canadian Federation of Textile Workers
Women’s Clubs of
Florida
Leonora O'Reilly
Women’s Trade Unions League
United States
Ellen F. Donovan
Brookston
Stitchers’ Union
Brockton Shoe Workers’ Council
New Tidbits and Global Movements Digest
Gas in bottles sparks invention amid global notes. Mexico and Honduras order troops to border with Guatemala. Mocha coffee must be genuine per inspectors. New York ministers form secret socialist group. Senator Grady tipped to succeed Bourke Cochran. Caracus reports La Guayra epidemic worsens and port isolated. Senate passes naval bill with four battleship amendment defeated. US urged caution for Atlantic fleet in Manchuria. AP&P Company seeks cost inquiry into white paper. NYC art world cites imitations sold as originals. China Japan tensions rise in latest dispatches. East River ferries risk abandonment if city fails to maintain lines.
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Mexico
Honduras
Guatemala
New York City
Albany
N. Y
Grady
Bourke Cochran
Congress
Caracas
la Guayra
United States Senate
Pekin
American Paper and Pulp Company
Japan
New York Corporation
East River
Indians at Syracuse attract Carlisle students
Syracuse is the only Eastern university drawing Carlisle Indian School students. Antonio Jubo, captain of the Indian team, entered Syracuse after last season and is succeeding in his arts course. Bowen and possibly Frank Mount Pleasant plan to join, enhancing the athletic profile.
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Syracuse
Carlisle
Antonio Jubo
Lubo
Bowen
Frank Mount Pleasant
New York Sun
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