National rifle tournament opens at Sea Girt range in 1903
The great national shooting contest under the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice opens at Sea Girt National rifle range. Nineteen teams compete in the fall of 1903. by 1904, 19 teams grow to 43 from states and services. Events include slow and rapid fire at 200 to 600 yards, skirmish runs, pistol matches, and team trophy contests with prizes and medals.
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Koeorelli
Seation NS
Sea Gert
Fale Merming
Law of Congress
Met
Army and Navy
Ohio
Michigan
Fort Riley
Kaw
Union Havwaii
District of Columbia
Bealdes
United States Infantry and Cavalry
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Marine Service
Abdemias
West Point
Scrotts
Ood
National Rifle Aspcration
Government
Congress
Hilton
Commander In
State of
New York
Tinker Man Drew Land in Provo Land Drawing
Earl Sheets of Provo won a government land drawing with 1900 chances. his ticket No. 265 earned 160 acres in the Uintah Reservation opened for settlement. Over 40,000 people entered the contest.
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Tinker Man
Earl Sheets
W. PB. Sheets
City
Provo
Sheets
Shorts
Mr. Shorts
Uintah Reservation
Baker City Herald
Milk supply disrupted by drought slows creamery orders
The La Grande Observer reports a drought reducing milk and cream availability. The local creamery has advance orders and can spare cream for the Pendleton branch, while Baker county cream is shipped here for manufacture and butter demands return as irrigation limits milk supply.
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Ita
Pendleton
Baker County
la Grande Observer
Will Keturn Detectives Return to Vancouver and Ontario Institutions
Will Keturn Detectives Miss May Seall state school wrner intendent plans to return to Vancouver and Ontario institutions with the attite's deaf and blind words. There will be sixty of them this year, an increase of 2 or 10 percent from last year as Minn Boott seeks concessions from railroads for reduced rates for the children.
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Will Keturn
May Seall
Wrner
Vancouver
Ondeo
Attite
Lont
Minn Boott
Boine
The Tarantula Killer
A Chambers Journal tale describes a fierce battle between a tarantula and a giant wasp. The wasp stings the spider, delivering paralysis and a swift death as the wasp feeds on its victim, ending with the tarantula rolling over dead.
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Dios
Chadwally
Pnre
Chantbers’ Journal
The Milk of the Aged and Other Wit and Wisdom
A collage of notes on honey’s history as the “milk of the aged” praised by Greeks and Romans for longevity and flavor, plus a fable about a monkey and an owl warning that knowledge can breed ignorance, and a court anecdote about branded horse drinkets tied to U S government initials.
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Pythagoras
Virgik
Pinny
Galen
Foreman’s First Morning Command to His Irish Gang
An Irish foreman begins his leadership by ordering the crew to commence work with a play on words. He instructs the laborers to start when he says “commence,” warning that those who do not will not begin. The exchange, quoted as a London Standard joke, highlights muddled pronunciation and authority.
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Ther
London Standard
Memory Lessons Sparked By Jones Joke in London Society
In a London Modern Society quip Mr. Dobbs asks if Jones profited from memory lessons. A friend notes most students forgot to pay him, while contrasting Jones’s tale with fiction. The Washington Star cites the exchange.
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Jones
Mr. Dobbs
Hat stock and teen worker wages at Boston Store
A brief cartoon caption shows an office boy asking for higher wages beyond four dollars a week while a proprietor questions the use of the remaining pay. The scene teases fall hat stock available at the Boston Store.
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Puck
Japanese Painting and Timeless Beauty in Art Critique
The passage discusses Japanese art as mirroring primal human nature and enduring beauty. It cites W. M. Cabot praising Japan for understanding that art must reflect unchanging human properties while remaining responsive to change, highlighting their delicate Cinew, poetry, freedom, and spirit within a finely conceived design framework.
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Erlte
W. M. Cabot
Atlantic
Power of Fashion and its steady forward pull
The article argues fashion moves ahead beyond origin or explanation, claiming it defines beauty and civility. It asserts refined taste requires garments to be fashionable, regardless of fit or materials, equating fashion with an indispensable indescribable quality that elevates style beyond mere art.
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Sapterial Art Journal
Two Tales of Macready in Provincial Stages
A fragment from a theatre piece discusses Macready’s performance and his anxious, soulful approach. It recalls two anecdotes where he questioned actors in front of small-town companies, prompting witty, abrupt responses about natural acting and improvisation.
Senais: Braided cocoa husk used across Polynesia
In Polynesia and Pacific islands the outer cocoa husk is braided into sen nit strands used for building frames, boot lacing, binding implement parts, and uniting items held together by nails, screws, or glue in other lands. The south sea le mandar supplies the tying material.
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Polynesia
Pacific Islands
One Lewerd Dinner Party Mystery Tastefully Arranged
A curious notice describes a gentleman with a cork leg living in a London suburb who hosts four dinners yearly for a dozen hosts with similar prosthetics. The table features four crunches and an aromatic bloom centerpiece as guests dine, while a bizarre prose voice comments on odd tableware and a missing beg.
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London
Fragmented Finglish Fish Lowe Dialogue Parody
A garbled text fragment notes an act of parliament affecting Sunday sale of fish or food items, mentioning Mingland and a law about selling outside divine service hours. It shifts to a dialogue involving Miss Mammerton and others, then a reflective aside on sleep and physical exertion as a means to rest.
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Mingland
Jong Tho Ae
Won over, Lawyer I’ll be frank with you
A terse exchange shows a lawyer refusing payment unless a will can be broken, then offering a bold alternative to break the will as a solution, reflecting a sensational legal situation in the era. It contrasts with a proverb about not striking a downed man and notes apprentice seamen wages of $16, ordinary seamen $19, and seamen $24.
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Cleveland
Pepper types and digestion in historical New York Press
The old New York Press excerpt discusses black pepper as piper a stomach stimulant and cayenne as hot yet not laxative. It contrasts black and red peppers, noting black pepper’s stomach effects and red pepper scattering in food. It also mentions pepper in soups and a digestion experiment with copalene water and a Congestol remedy.
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Troplea
New York Press
The Smokers Paradise Excerpt From the New York Herald
The passage describes a smoker's life in a fictional locale Vebmees In Holland where tobacco use dominates daily routines. It notes climate driving indulgence and fragrant smoke, boatmen measuring distance in pipes, and rituals like keeping a pipe in the mouth and lighting fresh cigars from stumps.
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Vebmees
Wolland
Holland
New York Herald
Monday as Wash Day in Early American Life
A fragmented piece recalls a 1020 November scene aboard the Mayflower near Massachusetts Bay where women of the party washed clothes in the bay, built fires, and stretched garments in a display of early American domestic discipline, with bright notes on gender roles and social norms.
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Mass
Cebusetta Bay
America
Aston Hole
Squelched! Miss Kottor-Clave a ginas of water
Fragmentary OCR text presents garbled dialogue and scattered phrases. It mentions milk, a wicked wink, and a request to transfer someone named Ross Nichols. No coherent event or clear entities beyond personal names and a local telephone reference are established in readable form.
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Miss Kottor
Mr. Porte
Woodhy
Misa Kottor
Milton News and Visitors Return to Nebraska
Milton news notes Lyda Neil visiting from Klaki and Mrs Leslie heading to Spokane while Mrs M Leslie O’Keefe travels to Spokane to manage millinery stock in Portland bound fall trade. The Ritter family mourns as BR. K Ritter’s body is brought from Seattle for services in Milton with burial at the South Methodist cemetery. many locals attend.
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Nebraska
Mirs
Leslie
Spokane
Towls and
O Clark
Midinery
Portland
Milton
Mias Lyda Neil
Klati
BR. K. Ritter
Seattle
G. M W. Gibbs
South Methodist Church
Ritter
L. B. Storm
CL W. Thomas Wind
The Valuable Palmyra Palm Findings and Uses
A fragmentary verse lists eight hundred uses of the Palmyra palm from paper making to drinks and foods. It notes palm wine sugar candy fibers for ropes brushes and brooms and food from trunk pith. Humorous dialogue follows about stage access and a dramatic entertainment remark.
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India
Merlial Humor And A Clever Candidate
In Strand Magazine a writer notes unusual conduct of a young candidate who answers on the Episcopal doorstep with a curt Don’t mention it my lord. The piece contrasts a congressman praised for clever remarks and the reporter’s selection of interview subjects. A Baltimore American line adds a domestic vignette about a wife’s concern after an accident.
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Strand
Portland youths charged in brutal unprovoked beating
Leo Kura aged 14 Worth Rine aged 14 and James Finsett aged 15 of Portland are under arrest charged with brutal beating of Roy Clark. The victim is severely hurt with internal injuries. The assault is described as wholly unprovoked and Pendleton Business College leads the notice.
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Leo Kura
Worth Rine
James Finsett
Portland
Roy Clark
Clark Boy
Washington and Columbia River Railroad Schedule Notice
Schedule notes show arrivals Monday Wednesday Friday at 12 15 p m and Tuesday Thursday Saturday at 10 15 a m. Depart daily at 6 p m from Walla Walla and 6 15 p m for Pendleton. For rates and accommodations contact W Adams Pendleton Oregon or Calderhead G P A Walla Walla Washington.
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Union Pacific
Pullman Standard
Omaha
Chicago
Kansas City
Pullman
Pendleton
Mall & Express
Spokane
Walla Walla Brant
Portland
Mal & Express
Spokane Divisius
San Francisco
Snake River
Riparia
Lewiston
Riparie Dail
Walla Walla
Wallon Walla
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