The Telegraph Operator in the Grand Stand
In a bustling ball park a lone telegraph operator with a clattering instrument narrates the game to distant fans. Operators in distant towns read, react, and taunt with coded phrases as the ninth inning unfolds, turning the wire into a chorus of strike calls and fan banter. A separate note mentions rapid banana unloading at New Orleans port using a portable electric conveyor system.
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Bingville
Jones
Brown
Smith and Green
Mike
Bugville
Fisher
Johnson
Ringville
Casey
Parsons
Squeedoak
New Orleans
Cosmopolitan Women’s Club in Constantinople
In Constantinople a cosmopolitan women’s club gathers once a month with members from many nations. American, French, German, English, Bulgarian, Greek, Armenian and Russian women share talks on literature and travel, with each speaker recounting delights from her homeland.
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Constantinople
Pages of Honor at Court Aided by Privilege and Duty
Describes the page of honor role for princes at the royal court, duties in the ante chamber, and the procession train. Details the limited slots, age 18 retirement, marriage alliances, education funding, and ceremonial dress from Victorian to modern times and the distinction from coronation pages.
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George
Buckingham Palace
Windsor Castle
Scotland
Queen Victoria
Pages of Honor
Coure
Master of the Horse
Polite duchess and blunt professor clash over golf etiquette
Excerpts discuss a duchess blamed for a poor drive and an obsequious professor insisting the hole was cut left. The text pivots to a science note on corpuscles described as tiny negatively charged bodies, their size, and rapid travel, with examples comparing speeds of cannon balls and candle flame bombardment.
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Blankshire
Golf Illustrated
Globe
Life's Little Worries Matches
Satirical piece on matches describing their fiery nature and assorted varieties. It lampoons inventions like the tandsticker and pasteboard matches, notes humorous risks and uses, and ends with reflections on early automatic fire devices and their practical limits.
German Pamphlet Urges Use of Native Goods
Berlin report notes a pamphlet urging Germans to boycott imports. It promotes German products across daily goods including paper, ink, flour, beer, clothing, and even coffee. The decalogue frames purchases as civic duty to strengthen the Fatherland and deter foreign influence.
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Berlin
Royal vineyard yields hundreds of Hamburg grape bunches
The famous royal vine near Cumberland Lodge in Windsor's Great Park bears between five hundred and six hundred splendid bunches of black Hamburg grapes. Each bunch weighs about four to five pounds on average, with some reaching six pounds, per the London Times.
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Cumberland Lodge
Windsor
Great Park
London Times
Paris Tragedy Pont Neuf Double Drowning
A man on the Pont Neuf threw his five year old daughter into the river and then killed himself. After a long search the bodies of both were recovered. A letter to a brother in law warned of the planned drowning and suicide amid a separation dispute.
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Paris
Pont Neuf
Pauline
Charity Hospital
Resolutions Honor Late Charles Wernette By Bexar County
The Bexar County commissioners adopted resolutions commending the services of the late Charles Wernette as a member of the commissioners court. The documents praise his faithful efficient public service and honest character and direct a copy be sent to his relatives, with the text spread in the minutes.
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Charles Wernette
Commissioners’ Court
Bexar County
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Buffalo
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People’s Medical Adviser
Royal Orchestra
Saratoga Restaurant
Main Plaza
Savarin
Houston
Hades
Hay
Phile Hay Specialties Co
Newark
N. J
U.S. A
BEXAR
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Child
Bridge
Commissioners
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Electric Park
Exposition Park
Ft. Sam Houston
San Pedro Park
Brackenridge Park
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