Young Poet Orrick Johns Wins $500 Lyric Year Prize
New York reports Orrick Johns born in 1887 in St Louis wins the $500 Lyric Year prize in Mitchell Kennerley s contest. Competitors included Edwin Markham and Richard Le Gallienne. Johns published a volume of 100 poems titled Second Avenue from the contest. He studied at the University of Missouri and Washington University but did not graduate.
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New York
America
Mitchell Kennerley
Orrick Johns
St. Louis
Edwin Markham
Richard Legallienne
Johns
Second Avenue
University of Missouri
Washington University
Balkans Prepared for Call 10 Arms and War in Europe
A London dispatch describes the Balkan alliance mobilizing for war against Turkey. Serbia Bulgaria Greece and Montenegro prepared for a long, coordinated campaign with peasant conscripts turned fighting men and officers trained in modern warfare. The piece emphasizes prewar planning, organizational strength, and the historical-racial backdrop of the Balkans shaping the conflict.
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London
Balkan States
Turkey
Europe
Montenegro
Servia
Bulgaria
Greece
Constantinople
San Stefano
Russia
Balkan
Balkans
Asia
Railroad Time Table Extract From Mexico to Houston Route
A fragmented timetable lists train numbers and routes among multiple cities including Mexico, Laredo, Palestine, Kerrville, Houston, Galveston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Victoria. It shows departures and arrivals with times such as 6:00 am for local AMBOG, 7:30 am for local to Palestine, and various north and eastbound services, reflecting era rail scheduling.
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Mexca i Czico
Pon
Palestine
Ammbog
North
Mexico
Laredo
Houston
Galveston
Dallas and
Fort Worth
Dallas
Ft. Worth
Gal- Woston Ae
London Club And Flats Blamed For Low Marriage Rates
A prominent London woman writer argues modern comforts keep men from marrying, making bachelors surge while weddings shrink. She says clubs and flats foster domestic ease, and men see wives as encumbrances, not partners, amid a wave of readied excuses from writers and actors.
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London
Arthur Bertram
Fergus Humer
Tom Galion
Bachelor’s Witty Take on Marriage Sparks Emerson Club Talk
Harold J. Brimley of the Emerson club declares that all women should marry but not men. He argues a married man loves one woman while a bachelor loves many, and he says he is a bachelor who loves variety.
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Louis Zangwell
Israel Zangwell
Torace Wyndham
The
Authors’ Club
Bernard Shaw
Harold J. Brimley
Emerson Club
City raises bids for deer and elk sale in San Antonio
San Antonio plans to sell twenty five deer and six elk at Brackenridge park with higher bids than previously offered. Bidders must pay more as $5, $10 and $16 for deer and $25 for elk are deemed too low, with elk expected at $500 per pair and buck deer at $10 by lot. The city seeks authorization to dispose of most animals, requiring buyers to capture box and transport them, acknowledging the capture challenge and history of high capture costs.
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San Antonio
Brackenridge Park
Jones
Texas
Oklahoma
Downtrodden Physician Fined for Begging in St. Louis
Dr Hugh Atkins a former New York physician married to a wealthy relative was fined 25 dollars and costs after admitting he begged to survive. He testified he practiced medicine 11 years in New York and turned to morphine after an illness while seeking a hotel house physician post in the West Indies.
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ST. Louis
Hugh Atkins
New York
Hordentyle
Pr. Atkinson
New York City
West Indies
Dr. Atkinson
Chinese Celebrate Independence Quietly in Beijing Review
President Yuan Shi Kai reviewed about 30 000 troops in Peking as the first anniversary of the revolution passed with calm. Westernized dress appeared, foreigners attended a reception, and cheers echoed from multiple nationalities while legations fortified their quarters against any anti foreign sentiment.
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Pekin
Navy
Yuan Shi Kai
China
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Standard
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the Menger
New Republic
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Shumway
Laclede Ave
Harlandale
N. B. Shumway
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Traveling Men's Headquarters
Alfred Lanner
San Antonio, Texas
Hotel
Savoy
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San Antonio Hotel Company
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ST. Anthony
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