Western clubs dominate early in major league play
Eastern fans lament the balance of power shifting west as Chicago and Cincinnati lead the National League while New York Philadelphia Boston struggle. The American League tour shows weak results for eastern hopefuls with Brooklyn and Washington faltering and Cleveland and Detroit seeing personnel shifts. The piece notes widespread player movement across clubs and hints at a volatile race as interleague play nears.
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An Eccentric Genius Baudelaire The Poet’s Oddities
The article profiles Charles Baudelaire as an eccentric genius whose tastes ranged from dyed green hair to opium and sexual exploits. It notes his fascination with putrid odors and disease’s stench, yet praises the musicality of his French poetry while detailing his superstition and ritual counting of numbers such as three and seventeen, including a cab incident ending with the number seventeen.
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Rouge
Fashionable Lady’s Escape In Ludicrous Lunatic Asylum Scheme
A stylish woman named A' Sharp' Gwindler visited a private asylum near Paris to gain access to the proprietor. She claimed to wish to place her husband under care for a supposed mania over jewels worth many thousands of francs. She persuaded a shopkeeper to accompany her to obtain money, then vanished with the driver after her carriage ride to the asylum. The husband was later found to have been sold. the woman vanished and was never heard from again.
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Paris
General Scott and an Umbrella Arrest Tale
A regular army officer recalls how General Scott once faced a rain soaked incident. In Washington he borrowed an umbrella after being caught in a wet afternoon while in full uniform. An under officer later informs him he is under arrest for eight days for carrying an umbrella in fall.
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Yale Cheers Taft as He Attends Class Reunion
New Haven reports Secretary of War William H Taft returning to Yale for a 1870 reunion. He attends corporation meetings, speaks to graduates, and receives cheers from the alumni as he moves through Woodbridge Hall Commons and Memorial Hall. The event underscores Taft as Yale's celebrated guest during a busy reunion week.
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John W. Foster
Hadley
Medical School
College Hall
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Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Thames
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Oyster Bay
Lake
Wright
Inferno Devours Much of Three Rivers Business District
A June blaze in Three Rivers Quebec, fanned by a high wind, scorched the lower town and most business structures. More than 100 buildings burned, including the post office, city hall, and many hotels. only Rochelaga bank building spared. No lives confirmed lost though a woman and two children were badly injured.
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Rochelaga Bank
Western Fraud Case Verdict In Four Men
Four westerners faced conspiracy to defraud the government in a lands case. Frederick A Hyde and Joost H. Schneider were convicted on several counts. Benagh Dimond and Henry P. Mond were acquitted on all counts. Hyde and Schneider bail set. Dimond and Benagh freed. sentence deferred for Hyde and Schneider. The maximum penalty per count could reach 1 year or a $10,000 fine or both.
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Joost H. Schneider
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Schneider
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Corks blamed for Arcadia explosion in Philadelphia harbor
Investigation points to corks packed in bond to Chicago as the explosive source aboard the Hamburg American Line Arcadia in the Delaware River. Sixteen cases, nearly a million corks, and three cases removed before the blast are cited with corks bore with a powder charge.
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Delaware River
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Man Dies of Hydrophobia After Dog Bite in Pittsburg
Charles Waltz died of hydrophobia at the Mag Pathological Institute of the Mercantile capital after a dog bite months earlier. His wife and two children, bitten by a wet cat attacked by the dog, are under treatment. Thirty others at the hospital receive Pasteur treatment.
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Pittsburg
Charles Waltz
Mag. Pathological Institute
Merch
Waltzer
Pasteur
Woman Dies in Philadelphia Heat Wave and Boy Follows
Philadelphia records an extreme heat event with one woman killed and a boy’s death attributed to the heat. The government weather bureau reports a June high of 91 degrees at five o'clock, one of the hottest days since the bureau began. In Wilkes-Barre, a lineman, William M. Wintermite, died after live wires sparked when a broken line fell across an electric wire on Pittston's Main Street, witnessed by a crowd.
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Wilkes-Barre
Jaone
Pittston
William M. Wintermite
Scranton
Nueman
Fatal head injury from pitched ball in amateur game
In Woonsocket Rhode Island on June 29 August Benecas aged eighteen died at his home from injuries after being struck on the head by a pitched ball during an amateur game at Bridgeton.
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R. i
Benecas
Bridgeton
Five men injured as scaffold collapses at Pittsburg plant
Five men were seriously injured when a scaffold collapsed at the National Tube worker site in Pittsburg. The incident halted operations and prompted an investigation into safety practices at the plant.
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International Sunday School Convention
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Bryant
Thomas Littleton
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N. R
M. Sallfer
Baward Jones
Albuquerque
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The Innocent Fox and Its Real Foragers
A Forest and Stream reader argues foxes rarely harm poultry, citing a decade of field observation. He suggests hawks owls raccoons and other predators cause most losses, while foxes primarily dig for grubs and mice and may trap grouse only in winter, challenging common claims of fox predation.
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Soine Eyewlinenses
Brothers of the Forest
Mosquito Species and Yellow Fever in Panama Canal Zone
The Panama Canal Zone hosts eighty three mosquito species, thirty unique to the area, with yellow fever carried by only one. Certain megathinid genera attack their rivals, while the yellow fever mosquito remains the sole American carrier. This domestic species breeds in artificial receptacles around human dwellings.
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Canal Zone
America
Chicago News
An Author's Trip Confession From a Writer’s Quarrel
A paraphrased claim attributed to an absorbed writer quotes a casual confession about marital strife. The author admits breaking his wife’s concentration to incite anger, prompting quarrel, crying, dish breaking, and even harming a kitten or puppy, then returning to work after reconciliation.
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New York
Preas
The Personal Equation in Business Contact
Analysis shows success rests on contact with people and harnessing their latent forces. The personal element must be stamped upon business, shaping growth by how often you mobilize others to support your ventures. Edward Payson Hatch notes that locating vital points of human contact accelerates achievement and outlines a proactive approach.
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Edward Payson Hatch
The Firet Hello Girl At A Cafe Debate
A group in a famed cafe debates the lying machine and other inventions of the era. A solemn speaker claims telephone service dates to Eden, joking that the garden's call was 28-3 Apple before exiting with a bite of sandwich.
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Tutf
Garden of Eden
New York Globe
Great City For Frayer Moscow Holy City
A visitor to Moscow discovers why it is called the Holy City with churches and shrines at every turn. The piety of the place is hard to grasp for outsiders who see people crossing themselves and hear church bells ringing in public streets around the clock.
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Holy City
Cause of the Row at the Popleys Home
Mrs Popley hawks at her husband and son while Mr Bopley complains Tommy wants the earth. In a domestic exchange, the Popleys quarrel over washing and the boy’s demands, illustrating a chaotic morning scene from a Catholic Standard pod Times page.
Humphy Davy Lights a Tiny Reed with Striking Cane Experiment
A historical note describes young Humphry Davy solving a mystery with two cane pieces rubbed together to create light. It highlights his patient inquiry aided by a little girl and his later scientific curiosity. The story mentions plant outer skins protecting interiors, reflecting early observations in science.
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Lila
Tha Marcon Monster and the motorist exchange
A fragmented dialogue shows a motorist recalling actions at night with a wry undertone. The garbled lines mention running something up, and reference to two men up a tree, framed as a quirky street encounter in a noisy scene.
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A Change. Mrs. Tarkin Seeks Quick Money From Fred
In a brief scene Mrs. Tarkin asks for money today, while Mr. L expresses relief that a bargain is likely. Mrs. L is surprised by the mood and asks why. Mr. L remarks that she typically seeks a favorable deal.
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