The Funny Man and the Wistful Widger
In the Daily Record office Billy Widger frets over a near poem and a lost romance with a colleague, later learning she had a child with another man after a train wreck. Perkins counsels him to return to humor as Widger weighs his unrequited love and career.
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Illiam Widget
Daily Record Office
Perkins
Fvo
Widger
Perking
Billy
Perk
Jerusha
Mississippi Valley
Oswood K. Perkins
Oriy
Jones
Miss Smith
the Gazette
John Jones
Highland Brigade At Magersfontein Trench Charge
A London Daily News correspondent recounts the Magersfontein battle where 4000 Highlanders under General Wauchope charged Boer trenches at night. The assault collapses as Wauchope falls, many slain or wounded, with nearly three thousand casualties reported among Cronje’s forces by dawn.
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Magersfontein
London Daily News
Highland Brigade
Wauthope
Wauchope
Kopje
Modder River
Cronje
England
Animal Heroes And The Four-Footed Lifesavers
A narrative recounts heroic dogs saving human lives at sea and on land. A Newfoundland dog aboard a wreck aided by dragging a rope to shore, enabling many passengers to reach safety before lines failed. The piece cites legends of dogs, spiders, and other animals credited with thwarting poisonings and saving royalty, ending with a Philadelphia pug saving a baby from quinine capsules.
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Huuwian
St. Shotts
Newfoundland
Fabie
Frederick Williaw
Prussia
Potsdam
Philadelphia
Ing Welch
Phere
Ina
Mrs Paget Emerges as London Society Favorite
Mrs Arthur Paget, American by birth and wife of Col Arthur H Paget of the Scots Guards, has become a leading figure in London society through charity work for soldiers in South Africa. Her efforts include a hospital train outfit and a highly attended charity bazar led by the Duchess of Sutherland. She recently produced a successful entertainment event benefiting the Scots Guards fund, earning wide patronage among the elite.
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New Society
New York Society
Arthur Paget
Arthur H. Paget
Scots Guards
Paget
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Animal Heroes
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