Red Saves Lizzie Amid Fiery Escape on Bowery
Ex-convict known as Red, just out of prison for grand larceny, schemes to regain his wife Lizzie through a jewel heist. A fire traps him in a mansion and he carries Lizzie to safety, earning her renewed affection and two lives changed in a dramatic rescue.
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Red
Lanagan
Hubert
State
Lizzie
Reformation Society
Bowery
Fifth Avenue
Ike
Rea
Periscope on land diagram explains system
Diagram shows how the land periscope works to bring special parts of a field under accurate observation. The illustration outlines components and the process, indicating how signals are directed and monitored for precise readings.
Early periscope designs contrasted with submarine scopes
The article reviews simple land warfare periscopes using two parallel mirrors at 45 degrees, mounted on rods, and contrasts them with submarine periscopes that use two or three telescopes in series. It outlines basic optical principles, including reversed and erecting prisms, magnifications, and a fixed eyepiece with a bearing scale for distance estimation.
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D. Crabbmers
Messrs. Goerz
Berlin
Gen- Howard Grubb
New York Inventor Patents Hard to Pick Door Lock
Julius Grossmann of New York patents a door lock that drops an internal bolt over the hasps when the outside key is turned. The device fits an ordinary Yale outside lock but adds a bolt that engages slots and is unliftable by burglars’ tools. It uses voluntary tumbler action to raise or lower the bolt from inside.
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Jimmy
Julius Grossmann
New York
Yale
Europe’s trenches chained from sea to sea
The article notes European trench lines stretch from Switzerland to the North Sea with hundreds of miles of opposing fronts. It cites immense casualties in eight months, saying many died for Fatherland and allied causes, far more than can be carried by the combined U S forces.
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Europe
Washington
San Francisco
Army
Switzerland
North Sea
Batmen in Military Service Term Explained
The Manchester Guardian notes County Palatine engineers seek 291 drivers and batmen. A batman is the driver or manager of packhorses, with a bat horse carrying officers' luggage. The term derives from French saddle usage and echoes the proverb about where the saddle pinches.
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County Palatine Engineers
Manchester Guardian
Copenhagen Advances as Free Harbor Hub for Trade
Copenhagen demonstrates its capacity to retain the title London of Scandinavia with Europe’s only free harbor in the north. The city offers abundant banking and attracts American merchants who are relocating agents and branches from other continental ports.
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Copenhagen
London
Scandinavia
Europe
A Journalistic Color Scheme
A colorful quip from the Philadelphia Ledger ponders why some papers seem blue or brown while others appear yellow, reflecting on newspaper moods and styles.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Cables and Cable Laying Across Oceans Noted
The article explains English dominance in submarine telegraph cables with German-made parts. Cables come in two mile sections tested for resistance before being placed on ships. Over forty steamers repair or lay cables, enabling swift fixes near breaks. The Atlantic cable from Penzance to Bay Roberts took 13 days aboard the Colonia, the largest laying ship.
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England
Germany
Penzance
Cornwall
Bay Roberts
Newfoundland
Colonia
American Review of Reviews
Champion Mean Thief Stages Heist At City Welfare Station
A thief dubbed meanest man stole the scales from a Los Angeles welfare station at a Violet Street playground, leaving 20 mothers with hungry babies unable to weigh them and secure milk until a borrowed scale later in the day. The welfare station serves underfed and scantily nourished infants.
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Violet Street
City Health Department
Los Angeles Times
Father of Thirty One Blesses Newest Child Candido
Anastasio Chelotti a Savona newsreader recently celebrated his thirty first child named Candido. He recalls marrying at twenty one and having nineteen sons with his first wife before her death. He remarried and added twelve more to the family, eight of whom are married. One son fell in the Libyan desert shouting Viva Sayola. Chelotti is now sixty.
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Anastasio Chelotti
Savona
Italy
Candido
Chelotti
Sayola
Federated Malay States Population and Industry Overview
The Federated Malay States population is estimated at 1,117,000. The region’s main industries are rubber cultivation and tin mining, with outer territories still undeveloped and exposed to capital exploitation.
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Federated Malay States
Vaat
Indians Report Creation Legend From Amazon Mountains
An account of creation told by an isolated Amazon tribe living between Brazil and British Guiana was received by the University of Pennsylvania. Dr William C Farabee notes the tribe had seen a white man and recounts a myth of a world tree whose fruits fed early humanity before being cut down.
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Brazil
British Guinea
University of Pennsylvania
William C. Farabee
Amazon
University Museum
Farabee
Tuminkar
Duwid
Dawid
Bawid
Philadelphia
Gas versus electricity sparks debate on air hygiene
Gas industry campaigns to prove gas outperforms electricity for lighting heating and cooking. German studies cited show room with gas flames reduces airborne bacteria by 40 percent in one hour versus 24 percent with no flame, but U S medical journal calls the difference too small for practical hygiene significance.
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K. Ahlborn
Hygienic Institute
University of Munich
Journal of
The
American Medical Association
Prince John Advice In Van Buren Letters
The piece notes President Van Buren praised as a wise politician faced with rivals who dubbed him the Kinderhook Fox. It recalls his reputed warning to son Prince John to avoid political writing by traveling 150 miles rather than composing letters, a maxim long seen as impractical.
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van Buren
Kinderhook Fox
Prince John
Good Ground From Garbage In Seattle
Seattle Washington finds a waste disposal solution by dumping garbage on swampy ground near the city, spraying an antiseptic to prevent decay, covering with porous sand and ashes, then sowing grass seed. The result is a fertilized plot that increases local property value and eliminates the need for an incinerator.
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Seattle
Washington
There 2 No Luck Inkstand Quote Duel
A witty courtroom exchange defines luck as inkstand emptiness. The judge quips about upsetting an empty inkstand while debating the meaning of luck.
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Judge
What It Does Promises and Promissory Notes
A fragmentary quote study discusses adversity revealing character with dubious humor. The text parodies headline style and cites a Boston Evening Transcript remark about Fleecer’s fiction as mainly promissory notes and IOUs.
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Fleecer
Boston Evening Transcript
Elixir Babek: Cure For Malaria In Philippine Service
A testimonial from Brasie O'Hagan of the U S Cavalry at Balayan in the Philippines praises Elixir Babek as worth its weight in gold. He says a prior treatment failed, but the elixir cured malaria on his return, and is offered for 50 cents at oil druggists or by parcel post from ki & Coy Washingtons.
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Philippines
Brasie O'Hagan
U.S. Cavalry
Balayan
Ki & Coy Weahlngtos
Liberal juries spark Mississippi money-friendly law notes
The Mississippi jury system is praised as a place where money flows easily. Illinois Central railroad v. Dacus yielded a $500 verdict after a ticket agent used a slur. Railroad company v. Morris reports a liberal jury awarding $16,000 to a white woman compelled to ride with three Black men, later cut to $2,000 by the court.
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Mississippi
Ilinois Central Railroad
Hands Like Velvet One Night Treatment for Hands
An old advertisement promotes Cuticura for red rough chapped hands. It instructs soaking in hot soapy water, drying, applying the ointment, and wearing gloves overnight. A mail sample offer is available for 32 pages with a penny stamp, from Cuticura in Boston.
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Cuticura
Nept KY
Boston
Ady
Russia’s wartime ban drops Moscow vodka sales sharply
The Russian empire’s brandy ban in government shops, in force since mobilization, correlates with a steep drop in Moscow vodka consumption in 1914 versus 1913. Figures show July and August volumes fall from about 612 686 and 667 926 gallons to 359 124 and 23 373 gallons respectively, with October down from 707 688 to 2 913 gallons.
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Russia
Russian Empire
Moscow
Earmarks of English Troops Hint at Distinct Origins
War correspondent Alexander Powell tells a New York tea audience that English volunteer troops show clear ear marks of their origins. He notes miners from the Midlands and mill hands from Manchester, joking that bookkeepers keep rifles behind their ears when told to stand at ease.
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Alexander Powell
New York
Midlands
Manchester
London
Mr. Powell
Now front-line duty theme in new war play faces critique
The play is described as a severe arraignment of the man who won’t go to the front to fight. Actors in the cast respond that many male performers may feel the piece overstates their obligation.
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Bis Country
Grain nourishment claim boosts health and weight gain
A Western town woman describes grave stomach trouble until Grave-Nuts food improved digestion, reduced heartburn and gas, and restored weight from 88 to 116 pounds. Source cites Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan with a pitch to read The Road to Wellville and claims nine new remedies.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Resson
Bret
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