Elopement schemes amid train comings and goings
Lieut Harry Mallory and Marjorie Newton plan to elope as a minister rushes to the train. A set of West Point classmates hijinks with bridal props unfolds on the car, while a widowed minister and his wife join the ruse on a Renobound transcontinental. The scene blends romance, humor, and a festive, chaotic mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Mallory
Philippines
Marjorie Newton
Porter
Ira Lathrop
Alopers
Little Jimmie
Wellington
Reno
Jimmie
Sammy Whitcomb
Mallory
Angela
Chicago
Marjorie
Bonnet
Walter
Ypsilanti
Sally
Walter Temple
Pye
Noted Soldier Resists Flying Wedge at West Point
With alarm she watches Wellington approach as Hudson and Shaw, veterans at West Point, counter the center rush. They drive the charging foe back, forcing him into his berth. He ends up on his back, deciding to stay there amid the carnival outside his canopy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson
Shaw
Bode
Reno
Jimmie Wellington
Buttercup
Stan
Lieutenant Shaw
Wellington
Ashton
Diogenes
Wealter Temple
Sally
Hfe
Walter
Tobh
West Point
Cornea Transplant Restores Sight in Blind Man
The French Academy reports a cornea transplant from a donor to a man blinded by a lime burn. The preserved cornea remained transparent after seven months, enabling the patient to see dimly again, marking a landmark in ocular science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
French Academy of Sciences
M. Magnot
Centenarian Navy Pensioner Dies at 102 in Sussex
John Wilson a naval pensioner died at Beshill Sussex aged 102 and did not know he was a centenarian. His real age was found after death when his naval service papers were checked. prior estimates by his baptismal date put him at 99.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wilson
Beshill
Sussex
London Daily Mail
Cheerful Fontenelle and the Joy of Philosophy
The French writer Fontenelle, famed for cheerfulness, lived to one hundred and believed cheerfulness gives value to philosophy. Near death he quipped that he did not suffer, only felt a difficulty in living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fontenelle
Cole's Carbolisalve Promises Skin Relief and Pile Cure
An advertisement touts Cole's Carbolisalve as a cure for itching and skin conditions with 2 percent and 50 cent sizes, inviting free samples from J. W. Cole & Co. It cautions against imitations of LEWIS' Single Binder cigar and urges upright conduct after hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cole
J. W. Cole & Co
Black River Falls
Wis
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Rarenaiy W. Savage
Yrigat
Fe. Alm
FLY CO
Widey
Mrs. Whitcomb
Lieutenant Hudson
Salaam
Manila
Ty Cobb
Tigers
Philadelhia
Rupert Hughes
Dean
Illinois
H. H. Davis
Commercial St. Danville, Ill
Doan
Haynox Co
Main Street
Birmingham
Mich
Carter
Arte It
Absorbine, JR
W.F. Young
P.D.F
Temple St
Springfield
Mass
Daisy Fly
Warold Somers
DeKalb Ave
Brooklyn
peMeane
Troy
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