Folindee Heir Noted as Ashcroft Suit Ends in Newport
Martin Folinbee mortally ill contemplates wealth and a fool of a son. In a seaside villa, his servant John learns of Folinbee’s plan to wed Isabel Winter, not Mrs. Lomax, while a telegram reveals Folinbee has married Miss Winter and left for Newport with new clothes.
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Martin Folindee
John
Lancelot
Martin Folinbee
Golden Gates
Isabel
Mr. Folinbee
Folinbee
Ashcroft
Newport
Wise Words From The Cynic On Folly Love And Fame
A collection of pithy quips on folly, money, manners, and vanity from Musings of a Cynic. It parodies optimism and romance, noting how conscience, weddings, reformers, and fame ideas shape behavior.
Railroad Caution Signals and Speed Rules Debate
A careful excerpt discusses fixed rail signals for employees and cautions against treating caution signals as optional. It argues trains at 30 40 mph must positively reduce speed when caution signals appear, noting ongoing violations as crews ignore semaphores and keep advancing when the track ahead is clear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. O O. Fagan
Atlantic
Alcohol From Potatoes Promises New Fuel Source
The Delineator reports denatured alcohol as a future power, backed by a New York firm led by a diplomat turned president. Legislation removed the revenue tax, dropping price to fifty cents per gallon, while Washington promotes a new potato variety to enable farmer production. An alcohol powered flat iron stove and lamp burner set sells for seven dollars, claiming cheaper operation than kerosene.
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New York Company
United States Consular Service
Department of Agriculture
Washington
The Murderer and the Money Order Dilemma
A New York businessman in Chicago claimed to be Thomas Blank and produced letters to prove his identity. He explained he would get a $100 money order, then faced the clerk who reminded him he had supposedly murdered another man and taken his letters.
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George
New York
Chicago
Thomas Blank
New Yorker
Harper's Weekly
Cemetery of 4000 Dogs in Paris Court Case
Paris court reveals details of a dog cemetery on Ile des Ravageurs founded in 1899. There are about 4000 graves with concessions costing from five to two thousand francs and an entrance fee of fifty centimes. Tombstones carry memorial lines including “Homage to a Faithful Heart” and “Here Lies Black, Killed by a Civilized Savage.”
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Paris
Ile Des Ravageurs
London Telegraph
The Rising Tide of Temperance
A Harper's Weekly essay by Charles Frederick Carter reviews the spread of prohibition across western states and territories. It notes Idaho Sunday closing laws, dry counties and cities in California Oregon and Washington, and the Anti Saloon League campaigns in Colorado New Mexico and Arizona. It highlights North Dakota’s strong prohibition law and a court shut down of a blind pig at a railroad station.
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Jintana
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Nevada
California
Oregon
Washington
Anti-Saloon League
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Montana
North Dakota
Harper’s Weekly
Functions of the animal tail across species
An Outing Magazine excerpt surveys how tails serve purposes in cats dogs and other animals. It covers purring and nervous energy release in cats, balance in felines and generally notes the tail’s varied roles from locomotion to fat storage in sheep tails.
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Asia Minor
Tartary
Outing Magazine
Squaring the Circle by Emily James Putnam
The piece notes that in mathematics many proven theorems were first posited by those unable to prove them and stresses the value of stating problems. It cites Greek efforts on a square equal in area to a circle, Archimedes’ limits, and the later roles of decimal notation irrationality transcendentals Napierian logarithm, leading to Hilbert and Gordon's 1893 resolution.
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Emily James Putnam
Archimedes
Hilbert
Gordon
Putnam's Monthly
China’s Imperial Army on Path to Modern Force
Harper’s Weekly surveys China’s second imperial army maneuvers near Chang-te Fu. It notes heavy German and Japanese influence, modern training, and improved discipline, while acknowledging remaining structural weaknesses and the battle between traditional forces and reform.
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China
Red Cross
Japan
Chang-te Fu
Europe
America
Witness describes hog killed by locomotive in Tennessee court
A Tennessee courtroom hears an elderly colored woman recount how a hog was struck by a railway engine. When asked for a brief account she replies in dialect that the hog "jest toot ed an' tuck him," then clarifies she can only tell the event in few words.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Poison in Foods in Washington Report
Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, testified before the house agriculture committee on exhaustive experiments. He cited borax benzole acid benzoate of soda sulphate of copper sulfur dioxide formaldehyde and salicylic acid as harmful in foods. He said the kidneys expel these substances and that life expectancy could rise if they were removed from foods. He linked frequent kidney disease to constant intake of preservative substances in foods.
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Washington
H. W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
House Committee On Agriculture
Bureau
Grape Nuts Promoted as Brain and Nerve Food
Pure Food claims Wheat and Barley form a digestible mixture transformed starch. It cites Dr. Carey and Postum Cereal Co endorsement, detailing potassium phosphate as key to nerve fluid and brain health, with testimonials on improved appetite, nerves, and productivity.
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Geo. W. Carey
Tam
Alec
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek
Mich
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MR. Folindee
Lancelot Folinbee
Oriental
Mrs. Lomax
Daisy
Miss iWinter
Mr.Folinbee
Dan Cupid
Lot
New York Times
Ada Neces
Charles Frederick Carter
C. William Beebe
Pekin
Canton
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