Cleveland Urges Charity Clearing House for Poor Aid
Former President Grover Cleveland, on his 71st birthday in Lakewood New Jersey, called for a nationwide charity clearing house to channel gifts through proper channels, arguing against dependance on scattered relief and urging rich donors to fund an organized system. He praised the public spirit of wealthy supporters and stressed empowering the poor to help themselves.
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Grover Cleveland
United States
Lakewood
N. J
Cleveland
New York
Mr. Cleveland
Princeton
Parachute Thrillers Highlight Triple and Double Leaps
Popular Mechanics features a daring triple parachute leap from a balloon in which an aeronaut uses red, white and blue chutes in successive plunges to reach earth. A second stunt describes a man and woman parachuting from 500 to 600 feet before their chutes deploy.
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Earth
Somnambulism Case Reads and Writes in Darkness at Night
An extraordinary somnambulism case from Birmingham Hospital details a 21 year old teacher and music student who, while sleepwalking, reads and writes in near darkness. She enters the music room to tune a violin and study harmony, producing letters in German and about The Sonata Form addressed to her music teacher. Upon waking she recalls nothing. Her condition has since improved though she still sleepwalks at times.
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James Russell
Birmingham Hospital
Wasi
Breakfast Brotherhood Club feeds crowd at church
A prank at the Second Presbyterian church in Pittsburg caused a hungry crowd to gather for a supposed free breakfast. Pastor Edward Young started a collection and soon funded meals for ten men and then for all in attendance, creating a lasting Sunday morning breakfast plan funded by the pastor.
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Second Presbyterian Church
Pittsburg
Wighth Street
Edward Young
Pastor Young
Speculation Praised as Insurance by Cornell Professor
Cornell economist E. W. Kemmerer argues that stock exchanges act as large insurance firms where society benefits from speculation. He notes the role of speculators in stabilizing prices and guarding against sudden market drops, despite some dishonest manipulation. The column also mentions a geese-hunting incident, a novelty about pay-as-you-enter cars aiding female exits, and sculptor Edward Potter seeking a Kentucky horse to model General Custer's statue.
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Cornell
E. W. Kemmerer
Ithaca
Edward ©. Potter
Greenwich, Conn
Kentucky
Wabash
Ind
General Custer
Custer
Edward Sholder
Heffley
Champaign
IIL
FNR
Darwin Centenary Celebration Planned at Cambridge
The centenary of Charles Darwin will be celebrated in Cambridge England during the fourth week of June. The council report urging a university commemoration has been confirmed by the senate.
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Darwin
Charles Darwin
Cambridge
England
Two Eggs One Side and One On the Other Joke
An American tourist in a London restaurant requests two eggs cooked one on each side. A humorless waiter struggles to understand and repeats the request, leading to mounting confusion and, after a long delay, the waiter apologizes with a wild groan about boiling eggs.
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London
Horder
Sarly
Tea tonic claimed to restore health and vigor
Advertises Sol lister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a superior spring tonic for the whole family by Pioneer Drug Co, promising vitality, disease protection, and renewed well feeling.
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Sollister
Rocky Mountain
Pioneer Drug Co
Deserved to Succeed Lady’s witty reply sparks marriage rumor
A young woman famed as wit and beauty reportedly accepts a late marriage proposal after a sharp exchange with a admirer. In a supper interlude, she told him present company excepted that she had refused all eligible men, and the pair lingered in a sequestered nook while a discarded suitor allegedly overheard the exchange.
Best Healer in the World Says Rev F Stubird
Reverend F Stubird of East Raymond Maine swears Bucklen Arnica Salve cured an old army wound and stubborn sores and praises it in his veterinary business. The product sells for five cents at C M Olsen's Drug Store.
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F. Stubird
East Raymond
Maine
C. M. Olsen
Wrong Side of the Fence at the Lunatic Asylum
An inmate at a Scotch asylum watches road workers through a fence and muses on pay and marriage while a laborer jokes about the man being on the wrong side of the fence. The page ad promotes DeWitt’s Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve available from Eugene A. Pfefferle.
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Tam
DeWitt
Eugene A. Pfefferle
First Explorer Questions Pole Sighting
Two explorers discuss the anticipated first sight at the North Pole. The dialogue contrasts curiosity with cultural reference as they mention Esquimnaux and post cards in a playful, antiquated tone.
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Pole
Esquimnaux Gelling Sonvenir
The Temperance Orator and the Prizefighter Tale
Washington Star recounts a temperance meeting in which boisterous drunks disrupted events until a hired ex prizefighter kept order. The orator contrasted home life with drinking and asked what they wanted after the day, provoking a shouted warning about beer from the gallery.
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Answ
Washington
Washington Star
Misrouted Dialogue Fragments From Transatlantic Tales
A collage of short, alternating quotes and remarks appears. The lines touch on charity to heathen lands, marriages into foreign nobility, political life versus private conduct, and a self portrait remark about memory and appearance. The piece reads like fragmented dialog segments from a period anthology.
What shall I play in the absent clergyman’s room
A disjointed fragment notes a question from an organist about repertoire to perform in a room belonging to an absent clergyman, followed by a reply about the quality of the hand and a Shakespearean quote on oaths and truth.
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London Telegraph
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