Joe Barry Sees Circus Day Dream Then Returns to Frederick
In Frederick Maryland Joe Barry plans a grand escape after a bank withdrawal but the circus parade pulls him back. He longs for Sue Dayton yet stays tethered by a life or death obligation tied to the Dayton Brothers circus. A Christmas tableau closes the fragment with Louise and Mumsie cherishing holiday spirit.
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Joe
Joe Barry
Frederick
Dayton Brothers Circus
Raiilroad
Dayton Brothers
Bever
Sue Dayton
Dan
Sainted Christmas Gift Saint and the Measure of Love
A tale set at Christmas in a western town centers on Martha Ruth Anna and Caroline as they exchange gifts. The narrative contrasts humble generosity with snobbery and ends by asking how a gift measures love and how judging others contradicts the holiday spirit.
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Santa Claus
Martha
Ruth
Caroline
Anna
Aunt Caroline
Santa
Western Newspaper Union
Britons Losing Grip as Expansion Fades Across Empire
A century of migration shows Britain still holds vast territories but English emigration wanes. Many Britons in Australia petition to return, citing misleading propaganda and declining prospects. Commentators note industrialized peoples struggle to settle new lands while other groups may fill future colonies.
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Britain
Australia
England
Warren S. Thompson
Thompson
Canada
Baltimore Evening Sun
Desperate caretaker drawn into crime plot in New York
Joe Barry a country youth and longtime Louie Bertolini’s waiter faces a murder robbery case after refusing a liquor runner offer. He is identified as a suspect in the killings of prohibition agents near Newburgh. Detectors try to trap him while he navigates prison life and a fledgling escape. Joe flees New York with help from a dying fellow inmate’s gift and money.
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Joe Barry
New York
Louie
Bertolini
Newburgh
Martin
Joe
Joseph Bradley
Sue Dayton
Fullhouse
Bertolini’s
Hammurabi Imposes Death Penalty on Flawed Builder
Babylonian king Hammurabi decreed the death penalty for a builder whose house collapsed and killed its owner, reflecting early legal accountability for construction failures.
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Hammurabi
The Other Fellow at Christmas
A lighthearted reflection on love and its complexities during the Christmas season. The piece implies that being the other fellow can feel preferable at times, especially amid holiday sentiment and romantic tensions.
Pearl Farms Prove Good Investment in Japan
Kochi chi Mikimoto, dubbed the pearl king, controls 40 000 acres of warm salt water in Japan to farm 7 000 000 pearl oysters. Each year 2 000 000 dollars worth of cultured pearls are produced for world markets under scientific methods developed over 23 years with 1000 assistants. Natural pearls form when an intruder triggers oyster layers.
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Miskimoto
Japan
Kochichi Mikimoto
Earl Chapin May
Popular Science Monthly
Magistrate Calls Turn on Oxford Union President
In London, the Oxford union president, after a night with friends, was found asleep in a wheelbarrow in Piccadilly Circus. Before the magistrate he bluffingly claimed he rested there for valetudinarian reasons and acknowledged his role as president with the quip We are.
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Oxford Union
London
Union
Piccadilly Circus
Identification of John Paul Jones by Exhumed Body Match
Eminent scientists from the United States and France compare the life size Houdon bust with a photograph of the exhumed body. They note exact alignment of brow contour, eyebrow arch, eye distance, cheek bones, facial muscles, lip to nose measurements, and ear lobe shape. The bust’s ear lobe shape matches the observed body.
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John Paul Jones
United States
France
Man as boss study spurs worker opinions
Life reports a poll of 200 shop girls where 184 say a man makes the best boss and 16 are married, highlighting attitudes toward gender and leadership in the workplace.
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WNN Service
Courtney Ryley, Cooper
Meti
Mumsie
Louise Waterbury
Louise
Sam’el
Samuel
Greenland
India
Africa
Dearie
Unio
Clara Agee Hays
Lemuel
McKessone Robbins
Gilbert T. Hodges
Advertising Federation of America
Seepie
Tal& Chemical Corp
I Malden, Maes. Ury
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