Miss Bouverie Meets the Mysterious Stingaree at a Ranch Concert
At a remote station a refined singer Miss Hilda Bouverie joins Mrs. Clarkson for a concert where she discovers the bold stranger Stingaree is in town. A tense dilemma unfolds as revolvers appear and the audience faces a perilous confrontation during the performance.
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Hilda Bouverie
Mr. Clarkson
Hilda
Mrs. Clarkson
Sir. Julian
Melbourne
Miss Bouverie
Sir Julian
Sir Julian Crum
Galland
Julian
Radford
Dale
Stingareé
Bouverie
Ars
Clarkson J
Andy
Lin
Current Topics and Events Roundup
A collection of brief items covers themes from suffrage talk and labor strikes to Indiana politics with Albert Beveridge, social remarks on athletic women, a city hens ban, and New York milk protection efforts. It notes infant milk depot outputs and pasteurized milk totals across years, with monthly bottle counts.
Guns to Fight Air Craft In British Armored Ships
London reports four British armored ships will gain overhead armor to deter air attack and will mount high elevation guns for anti aircraft action. The weapon doubles as a torpedo craft and air weapon with 13 000 yard surface range and 31 pound shells. It elevates to about eighty degrees reaching 9 000 yard height. At four and a half miles a shell can reach 13 000 feet altitude. A new shrapnel shell is prepared for air defense.
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London
Plans revised for the battleship Pennsylvania build
The navy trims the Pennsylvania’s beam to ninety seven feet from ninety five to stay within safety limits and canal width concerns. The vessel will displace about 31 000 tons with margins on both sides of the weight and keel arrangements.
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Pennsylvania
Washington
Mct
Havy Department
Panama Canal
Becoming Apes Again. Hondlop Oct 27
Dr. Ross predicts a drastic shift toward ape-like human features by 2000 due to evolving brain capacity and facial structure. He cites a trend of increasing prognathism and robust canine teeth as evidence.
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Hondlop
Ross
Washington Mothers Congress Leader Highlights Record Feet
Mrs A A Birney, president of the Washington page, speaks for the Mothers Congress noting record breaking feet among women. The fragment mentions Ney ani and other garbled phrases but centers on Mrs Birney advocating for women with notable feet.
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Dhihew
A.A. Birney
Washington
Mothers Congress
Bir
Prison health plan aims to cure inmates for better work
Colonel Joseph F. Scott, superintendent of prisons in Poughkeepsie New York, advocates comprehensive medical screening for all arriving prisoners. defective vision or deafness would be treated and prisoners assigned to suitable duties to aid recovery and post release success.
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Poughkeepsie
N.Y
Joseph F. Scott
Scott
Chicago’s Great Terminal Aims for 200 Million Union Hub
Chicago plans a $200 million dream terminal uniting passenger and freight facilities. Four lines entering the city back the project, a post fire reconstruction that could have been cheaper decades ago.
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Chicago
Panama Canal Opening Dates for First Vessel
Washington reports revised Panama Canal estimates show first vessel through the Atlantic to Pacific path in about twelve months with a formal opening set for January 1915. Commercial use begins December 1913 and completion cost may fall to about 375 million dollars, with bond interest savings of roughly one million.
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Canal
Washington
Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Panama Canal Commission
Taft
Goethals
The Illinois Governorship. ee Oct! 28.
Governor Cheri S Deneen already won two state campaigns for the terms 1905 09 and 1909 13. He was a school teacher before being admitted to the bar in 1886 and serving as Cook County state’s attorney 1896 1904.
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Illinois
Cheri. S. Deneen
Deneen
Congress
Cook County
Bristol man finally recognized as British subject after deportation
Frederick Starkey of Bristol, long a man without a country, is confirmed as a British subject after a series of deportation orders and detention. He had been convicted of theft, claimed American status, and faced expulsion before authorities established his British nationality.
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London
Frederick Starkey
Bristol
England
Starkey A
United States
New Hampshire Gubernatorial Race Shapes Up
Concord early in September 1923 sees the entrance of Winston Churchill into the three way gubernatorial contest adding interest. Democratic candidate Samuel D. Felker of Rochester has served in the state senate and led the minority twice in the house. He faced no opposition for the nomination, as did Republican Franklin Worcester of Hollis.
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Concord
Waja Cchurchill
New Hampshire
Samuel D
Felker
Rochester
Ile
Senate
Franklin Worcester
Hollis
Women Organized for Fire Prevention Effort
Mrs. Eva MacDonald Valesh proposed a national women's fire prevention association in New York urging housewives to remove waste, reward orderly homes, and stop using gasoline on gloves. She noted fires can ignite spontaneously and called for factory outreach to educate girls on handling and extinguishing small blazes.
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New York
Eva MacDonald Valesh
National
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