Desperate confession on a dying bank manager
Margaret rushes to her ill father in a Lancashire town after receiving a telegram. In his final hours he confesses a ten year old bank fraud, revealing he robbed a dead man and saved the estate while the victim’s widow and children suffered. He names the son Paul Cleland as the potential target for restitution.
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Margaret
Spottiswoode Street
Margaret Crawford
Miss Tait
Adamson
Bolton
Lancashire
James Crawford
Minnie Whyte
Jane Adamson
Miss Margaret
Jane
Meg
Iit
Western Bank
Glasgow
Young Cleland
John Cleland
Cleland
Paul Cleland
Observant Man Details Wardrobe Woes On Charles Street
A young man describes a Saturday walk where a fashionable woman drops papers, trips over her high heels and gown train, loses a handkerchief, and endures wind-induced wardrobe misadventures along two blocks of Charles Street. He laments women’s fashion and urges reform, noting the era’s style excesses.
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Charles Street
Baltimore News
Madman in Scottish asylum dreams of Christmas feast
A tale from London Tit-Bits tells of a Scottish lunatic confined in an asylum who believes every day is Christmas and that he dines on turkey beef and plum pudding. In reality his meals are simple oatmeal porridge served twice daily as he proclaims tasting porridge in everything he eats.
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London
Uncle Sam is Third in World Commerce Share
United States Consul Winter of Annaberg reports in a state department briefing that total world commerce amounts to 18 billion dollars with England at 18.3 percent, Germany 10.8 percent, and the United States 9.7 percent, ranking the three leading nations in global trade.
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England
Germany
United States
Winter of
Annaberg
State Department
Old Masters Face Problem If All Art Shops Turned Art
A playful pondering asks what painters of the past would do if every art shop produced true art. The thought experiment highlights abundance and the value of originality in a world of perfect imitation.
Professor Norton Named U S Consul to Harput Garden of Eden
The United States appoints Professor Thomas H. Norton of the University of Cincinnati as consul to Harput in Armenia. Norton, born 1851 in Rushford New York, fluent in Turkish and familiar with French Arabic Greek and Russian, will establish the inland consulate amid diplomatic duties and past American property losses in 1895.
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Garden of Eden
McKinley
Harput
Turkey
Adam
Leslie
Thomas H. Norton
University of Cincinnati
United States of America
Norton
Tigris
Euphrates
America
United States
Armenia
Ottoman Empire
Constantinople
Graham
Porte
Great Britain
Canada
Germany
France
Greece
Syria
Asia
Europe
Rushford
N. Y
Cincinnati
Clifton
The
University of Cincinnati Librarian to Assume New Post
The University of Cincinnati appoints a librarian for a three year term who will take charge of his duties early in the fall. The appointment marks the start of a new era for the library and its services.
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University of Cincinnati
Nail in appendicitis case shocks Chelsea nurse
A 9-year-old boy Isaac Lipson of Chelsea Massachusetts was operated on for appendicitis when surgeons found a one inch wire nail inside the diseased appendix. The nail was removed and the operation deemed interesting as the first report of a nail inside an appendix.
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Isaac Lipson
Chelsea
Maas
Death by Grief Claims Philadelphia Woman
Grief over the death of Mrs. Goldberg led to the collapse and death of Mrs. Sarah Tilles of Philadelphia. She visited her neighbor to help prepare the funeral, grew faint, then suffered repeated attacks and died three days later.
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Mrs. Goldberg
Sarah Tilles
Philadelphia
One in Five Cleveland Marriages End in Divorce
Cleveland court year totals reveal 3235 marriage licenses issued and 646 divorce petitions filed for the year ending June 30. The finding shows about one divorce per five marriages in the county.
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Cleveland
Dream Dreamt Death Awakens to Wife Found Dead
Edward M. Powell of Camden New Jersey awoke to find his wife dead hanging from the bedpost in the bedroom. The dream he had moments earlier appeared so real he questioned his wakefulness until he touched the body to confirm the tragedy.
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Edward M. Powell
Camden
N. J
Powell
Italian government grants monopoly over Mount Vesuvius
From Naples comes a report that the Italian government has awarded a major international tourist company a monopoly on Mount Vesuvius. The piece humorously imagines extending such concessions to other volcanoes to form a global volcano trust that would limit production.
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Naples
Mount Vesuvius
Hat adorned by butterfly at Brookside park in Athol
Mrs. Cash of Athol Massachusetts wore a hat at Brookside park that a large butterfly landed on. The insect settled on the hat and began creating a nest, attracting attention as Mrs. Cash wears the hat in public.
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Mrs. Cash
Athol
Mass
Brookside Park
Chinese legation in Washington and its early missteps
The article recalls the Chinese legation in Washington housed in the former Snyder property, once moved from a distant site by Li Hung Chang’s visit. Wu Ting Fang hosted public gatherings that overwhelmed the residence, prompting a retreat from open hospitality as American social customs clashed with expectations.
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Washington
Wu Ting Fang
National
Snyder
Legation
Li Hung Chang
Snyder House
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