Glenn Young Slain in Herrin Battle
Herrin scene of deadly clash as Glenn Young and Ora Thomas clash in front of the European hotel. Forbes and Warner die. Young and Thomas mortally wound each other amid gunfire and counterclaims. Police and Klansmen amid a tense, quiet town as bodies lie in morgues.
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Herrin
Williamson County
Carbondale
S. Glenn Young
Ku Klux
Ora Thomas
Gamier
Young
Ross Lizenby
Thomas
Bioni
Antiklansmen
Forbes
Thomass
Oung
Warren
Outbreak of Civil War in Chile Is Averted
Santiago Chile The agreement between the Chilean army and navy officers mediated by former Foreign Minister Agustin Edwards declares Arturo Alessandri constitutional president. Prof Dominingo Amunategui named to form a cabinet. Buenos Aires reports say disturbances followed the overthrow of the military government with gunfire a fire and vandalism at the Union club.
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Santiago
Chile
Agustin Edwards
Arturo Alessandri
Dominingo Amunategui
University of Chile
Buenos Aires
Union Club
Three More Indictments In Atlanta Prison Graft
A special grand jury returned three additional indictments in the Atlanta federal penitentiary graft case. A. E. Sartain and L. J. Fletcher, already indicted in December, are named with an unnamed third person for conspiring with Father Thomas Hayden to accept bribes of 1500 dollars from wealthy bootleggers in exchange for favorable prisoner assignments.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
A. E. Sartain
L. J. Fletcher
Sartain
Fletcher
Thomas Hayden
Canada Stocked With Coal For 2000 Years
Canada reports its coal mines hold enough reserves to supply heat and power for two millennia. Official projections indicate ample supply to meet domestic demand across generations, with ongoing production and exploration expanding accessible resources.
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Canada
Allure of the Byways in Rural Passages
A reflective piece on quiet country roads comparing main roads with byways. It evokes friendly greetings from lesser paths, simple rural life, animal curiosity, and the prospect of distant blue waters seen beyond a hill, promising quaintness and beauty around the next turn.
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Collier’s
Pearls Gathered in Many Parts of World
Pearls come from pearl oysters in the Pacific, pearl mussels, and freshwater mussels. Principal fisheries include Ceylon in the Gulf of Mannar and ancient Persian gulf sites. Native divers descend to collect oysters, later rotting the shells to search for pearls. artificial pearls are largely produced in France Germany and Italy by blowing glass and filling with a fish scale solution.
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Pacific Ocean
Ceylon
Gulf of Mannar
Persian Gulf
Sulu Archipelago
Borneo
New Guinea
Gulf of Mexico
Australia
France
Germany
Italy
Prometheus and the Myth of Fire and Prominence
Prometheus in Greek myth endowed mankind with fire and arts, teaching skills from astronomy to medicine. He created man from clay, stole fire to give life, and was punished by Zeus with eternal liver torment until Hercules freed him.
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Prometheus
Heaven
Zeus
Jupiter
Herecules
Debate on Shakespearean Authorship in the Nineteenth Century
Miss Delia Bacon argued that Lord Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare plays. William H Smith Nathaniel Holmes and Mrs Henry Holmes supported similar claims. Ignatius Donnelly in 1888 proposed a cipher theory. Shakespearean scholars reject the Baconian authorship theory.
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Delia Bacon
Lord Francis Bacon
William H Smith
Nathaniel Holmes
Shakespeare
Henry Holmes
Ignatius Donnelly
Bacoh
Deprivation of Mr and Mrs Prefix in Early Colonies
The Detroit News notes that colonial punishments included stripping women of the titles Mr and Mrs. A Massachusetts record from 1680 cites Josias Plaistowe fined five pounds and ordered to be called Josias not Mr for stealing corn from Indians. The clause targeting women’s prefixes was not recorded as enforced.
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Detroit News
Massachusetts
Josias Plaistowe
Josias
Telephone to Teach Better Enunciation
Enunciation efforts hope to improve speech over telephone lines and speed business. Experts warn even simple names like Dix can be garbled, spelling out letters may help verification. The eye outperforms the ear in reading words and misheard telephony risks misinterpretation.
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Dix
Dan
Ike
Stinging Snakes a Myth Says Science
The passage debunks the idea of a stinging snake noting no credible observer has seen one. It says rewards for stinging snakes exist but no specimen has ever appeared. The nearest is Farancia abacura, a harmless tail-spined snake called hoop, rainbow, mud, or stinging snake in the South.
Why He Changed Name Sam
Sam, a small office boy in the Business Girl's office, says he once was named Samson but shortened it to Sam. He explains his heavier tasks would have required a huskier name and admits the original name was worse, noting the change was to fit his size.
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Sam
Samuel
Topsy
Samson
New York Sun
Yerba Mate and the Secrets Behind Its Global Reach
Yerba mate is a South American plant used to brew a tea like beverage. It is grown and shipped worldwide and has inspired feuds and even wars over its cultivation and preparation secrets.
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South America
A Compliment to All Men
A quotation from The Green Hat by Michezel Arlen argues that a good woman’s love is a compliment to all men and that women often fixate on what they do not see in a man. It notes how women sometimes cast a grimace of distaste into a reflecting surface as a social commonplace.
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the Green Hat
Michezel Arlen
Amundsen Receives $100000 for Pole Flight Journey
Akron reports Roald Amundsen arctic explorer has been given a $100,000 check to finance his North Pole flight by James W. Ellsworth financier and philanthropist. Ellsworth's son Lincoln will accompany Amundsen on the expedition.
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Akron
Ohio
North Pole
Roald Amundsen
James W. Ellsworth
Ellsworth
Lincoln
Amundsen
New Yorker Dies After Niagara Falls Plunge
Nicholas Iverson, a New York man, leapt over the American Falls in Niagara Falls N Y and died. A note found on the river bank read I am sorry for what I did and God forgives me.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Nicholas Iverson
New York
Seven Years Crafting Mrs Ward Novel Robert Elsmere
English novelist Mrs Humphry Ward spent four years thinking about the story and three years writing the novel Robert Elsmere, dedicating seven years in total to its creation.
Colonial Speed Record Express Wagon Flight to Philadelphia
In 1708 excitement rose over an express wagon that traveled from New York City to Philadelphia in two days, setting a remarkable colonial record.
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New York City
Philadelphia
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