Impudence or Heroism in Bakersville Fishing Tale
In Bakersville a vacationing city girl Bessie Foster feuds with a cheeky stranger while fishing by the river. A prank board mishap sends her into the pond and over the dam, where the impudent youth heroically leaps after her to pull her to shore and save her, earning a reunion and a visiting card.
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Bakersville
Bessie Foster
Joe
Mary Warner
Amd
Aunt Mary
Rye
Poe
Mary
Bessie
Joseph Warner
Sam
Uncle Joe
White's
Joseph
Yike
Aunt Mary's
Miss Marjorie Gould Makes Social Debut
Miss Marjorie Gould eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs George J Gould and granddaughter of the late Jay Gould will debut next season. Seventeen, a beautiful girl, she spent much of her girlhood at the Gould country home in Lakewood New Jersey. Her mother Edith Kingdon was a noted actress. Paul Helen, the French artist, created the etching used for her likeness.
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Marjorie Gould
George J. Gould
Jay Gould
Edith Kingdon
Miss Gould
Lakewood
New Jersey
Gould
Paul Helen
Impudent Feller and the Fishing Pond Adventure
A conversation unfolds as a maiden contemplates a caller, Aunt Mary muses on catching more than fish, and the tale hints at flirtation and danger near Bakersville pond. The aunt warns the girl about impropriety while joking about life and luck on the water.
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Bakersvie
Mary
Joe
Woman's Queer Status In China
A historical commentary describes Chinese mourning and gender norms. It notes a man must mourn three years for his dead spouse and a hundred days for a former relation, while signs of grief for a wife are forbidden. It claims men avoid female relatives in conversation and women announce their approach to prevent awkward meetings.
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China
Insmoller
Where Fielding Is Buried in Lisbon English Cemetery
A London Chronicle note recounts the burial site of Henry Fielding, the father of the English novel, in Lisbon. It mentions a tomb erected after his death, weeded and hidden in 1772, a large sarcophagus replacing an earlier marker, and a long Latin inscription on the front with a restoration of the back motto Euget Britannia gremio non dare fevere nutum.
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Fielding
Trenry
Lias
Lisbon
London Chronicle
Austrian Boy’s Extraordinary Grit in Surgery
Fourteen year old Tucek, son of Baror’s surgeon Fislberg, displayed remarkable grit in an amputation. He refused anesthesia to watch the operation, did not wince, and afterward valued the sight as worth the pain. Dr von Fisvielers rewarded his pluck with a watch.
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Tucek
Baror
Fislberg
Vienna
New York Sun
Bera
Miners Bills Disapproved by Governor Stuart
Harrisburg June 1 Four bills urged by the United Mine Workers the garnishee bill and the anti vaccination bill were disapproved by Governor Stuart The governor also signed the employers liability bill and a bill repealing the 1868 act classifying railway mail clerks as railway employes to give them same right to sue for injuries as passengers.
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Harrisburg
United Mine Workers
Stuart
Raihead
Centenary Garibaldi Birth Memorial Planned in Staten Island
Next month marks the 100th anniversary of Garibaldi birth with plans to dedicate a permanent monument at the Clifton house in Staten Island once home to the Italian liberator. A 1850s celebration organized by Italian societies in America is recalled in the message.
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Garibaldi
Clifton
Staten Island
America
Frederick Market Price Quotation 1907
Frederick County Farmers Exchange provides a June 1907 market price list for grains hay and feeds. Wheat, corn, oats, rye, buckwheat, beans and flour prices are given by grade and quantity with per bushel and per barrel figures. Potatoes millet and seed meal show regional price ranges for farmers preparing sale and storage.
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Frederick County Farmers’ Exchange
Hay
Bae
Timothy
Glover Sappling
Bashel
Roosevelt Speech Highlights Navy and Tax Views at Exposition
President Roosevelt urged a strong navy as the nation’s peace guarantee and discussed taxation and inheritance laws with editors at the Jamestown Exposition. He pressed for better worker safety laws and warned against private control of public lands while noting possible future income tax legislation. Also reported are Mrs Birdsong’s murder trial verdict, a man’s fatal court death, and a rainstorm that dropped two tons of fish in Independence Missouri.
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Norfolk
Roosevelt
Georgia
Bulloch Hall
Roswell
Georgia State Building
National Editorial Association
Exposition Auditorium
Georgia Butline
New York
United States
Hipda
United States Supreme Court
Christie Tests Automobile For Grand Prix Race
Christie conducts trials in Nassau county with a car claimed to exceed two miles per minute in speed. The automobile, prepared for the Grand Prix in France next month, completed several runs with fractions of a second under 20 seconds for the mile and finished the measured course within half a minute after a lying start.
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Christie
Long Island
Wale
Christie Wilh
France
Nassau County
BASE BALL SCORES AND REGIONAL LEAGUE NOTES
Result summaries follow yesterday's games across American League with many rainouts. Notable scores include Athletics 2 St Laws 0, Cleveland 6 Detroit 0, Chicago 2 Washington 9, New York 9 Detroit, Pittsburgh 3 Brooklyn 3, Elizabeth 1 Newark 6. Tri-State and Atlantic League results listed with several incomplete lines and a West Point related civil notice. Old Warship St Louis sold for 4210 to junk dealer citing copper value. A man named Henry Retting hanged himself in a police cell after accusation of assault by a 12 year old girl.
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Chicago
Philadelphia
New York
Rose Askar
Washington Street
Henry Retting
Root Turns Down Pastors Letter On Vatican Attitude
Secretary of State Root refused to forward to the French government the Philadelphia Baptist Ministers Conference resolutions commending France’s attitude toward the Vatican. The reply states it would be improper and violate diplomatic etiquette to express approval or disapproval of a matter treated as purely domestic. It also notes a prior refusal to protest France’s action.
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Catholic Church
Phiadelphia
Root
Philadelphia Conference of Baptist Ministers
United States
Princess Anne hotel burned at Virginia Beach
Fire destroyed the Princess Anne hotel and adjacent structures in Virginia Beach after Origin in the kitchen suspected from a defective flu. In two hours the hotel depot bowling alley laundry engine house and boardwalk were wiped away. One guest or employee missing. 110 people were inside the building. Loss about 185000 with 83000 insurance.
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Princess Anne
Virginia Beach
Norfolk, Va
Middle Atlantic Seaboard
Norfolk & Southern Depot
Virginia Beach Development Company
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Boston
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Tie
Newcardle
England
Newcastle Chronicle
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Newcastle
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Rad
Ryz
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Jackson
Miss
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Thomas Butler
Easton
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Petersville
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Ginger
National Biscuit Company
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St Laws
Teveland
Stosten
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Deirent
Celor
West Point
Newburg
N. Y
Williams
United States Litary Academy
New Orleans
Ranson
Walter Lamana
Polic
American Tobacco CO
Syeman, J. Tersey
CIT
ST. Louis, MO
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