The Winning of a Wager and a Wife
Jock Lanister and Archie Rumble plot a burglary as Netta Marshly and her sister invite them to their home at St Anne terrace. Jock aims to rob while Netta tricks him, catching him in the act. Police arrive. Netta reveals the ruse and helps trap him, leading to a quirky romance and a fulfilled bet between the lovers.
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Stanford
Jack
Oxford
Jock
St. Annne Terrace
Toa
Mrs. Stanford
Lyle
Nella
Lile
Mill
Mills
Netta
Milly
Hatta
Xnetta
St. Anne’s Terrace
Education in Germany Promotes Practical Learning and Technicians
Dr Nicholas Murray Butler cites Germanys progress and prosperity driven by practical education. He argues for widespread technical training, noting German pupils learn theory and practice, factory chemists, and Charlottenberg Technical High School, where specialists diagnose and fix industrial issues. He contrasts with emphasis on the three Rs. The piece ends with a science aside explaining popcorn physics.
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Butler Sap
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Germany
Hatler
Nicholas Murray Butteriag
Empire
Technical High School
Charlottenberg
Charlottenhere
Charlottenbers
Scientist Claims Mind Can Create Photographs
A scientist named Darget reports photos of human radiations produced by concentrating the mind while touching a sensitized plate in darkness for 10 to 15 minutes. At a Paris society meeting, he showed that without mental focus no image appears, but with concentration the imagined subject or scene appears on development.
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Comimyrdant Darget
Societe Universelle d‘Etudes Fsychiques
Paris
Darget
Cat Guards Howse Cats and Intruding Guest
An intelligent cat, left alone by a physician, guards the house while the host is away. The cat warns a guest at the open door, growling and acting as if intruders have no business inside. The hostess discovers the scene as the guest questions the cat’s behavior.
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Hom
Tom
Ships With Fish Skins For Faster Ships And Clean Bottoms
A German inventor experiments with fish scale coatings to reduce drag and prevent barnacle growth on hulls. He claims the coating, mimicking fish skin, keeps bottoms clean and lowers water resistance, enabling faster speeds with the same power. Also covered is a new electric iron praised for rapid, even heating and reduced labor, plus a quip about a suitor’s marriage proposal.
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Sct
Louis Dispatch
Japanese Influx Threatens American Labor in Hawaii
A historical piece argues that growing Japanese immigration to Hawaii has displaced native Hawaiians and Portuguese workers, driving down wages and altering the island economy. It contrasts workers who left plantations for towns and cites wage gaps, with claims of demographic shifts and the rise of Japanese labor across trades in Honolulu, Hilo, and other ports.
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Hawaii
Lac E@riitery
Doewdit
Chieu
Enuare
Evers Beawaler
Vaitaxe
Madeira
Cape Verne Islands
Hilo
San Francisco
Restau
Hawaiian Islands
Fitting Out Men to Get Work at Guardians Meeting
A Strand Board of Guardians meeting discussed an inmate Kennedy applying for false teeth to improve job prospects. They noted a six guinea set was costly and recalled recent purchases of a false nose for three guineas and a false ear before similar efforts to aid inmates in finding work.
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Strand Board of Guardians
Kennedy
London Telegraph
New Orleans to Build Modern Drainage and Water System
New Orleans faces ongoing risk from sewerage and water supply gaps as it races to upgrade its drainage with a $12.6 million bond. The plan adds pumping stations, six power pumps, and Lake Borgue outflow while considering Mississippi filtering or Pontchartrain intake to provide clearer water.
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New Orleans
Crescent City
Orleans
Raf
Earle
Lake Pontchartrain
Bayou Bienvenu
Lake Borgue
Mississippi
Gulf
New York Tribune
Dick Turpin Pistol Linked to Historic Ride
A London equestrian plate shows a pistol claimed as Dick Turpin's property. Found by a workman during demolition at the Old Plough inn at Etting, a site tied to Turpin through family history. The weapon bears the initials D. T. and the date 1737, noted as the era of the legend.
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Dick Turpin
London
York
Bonnie Black Bess
Etting
Terpin
D. T
Look Toward the East and the Desk Position Claim
A savant asserts that sleeping heads facing north aid rest and that work requires the desk to face east. He tested the idea with two score friends and says the practice improves action. The notion foresees compasses becoming essential for seafarers as well as land travelers.
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New York Herald
Mystery Railings Sink Beneath Meuse Heat
Authorities in Hermanescus Huy on the Meuse suspected theft of iron railings used as river guards. Investigation shows heat expansion loosened the railings from stone sockets causing them to fall into the river.
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Hermanescus
Huy
Meuse
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