Bright Filipino student earns multiple medals in Spain
Jacson de Paula, a Georgetown student born November 1883 in Negros Island, is hailed as an intellectual marvel. The piece traces his father Governor Ros Lacson, his Jesuit education in Manila and Bilbao, and his triumphs at Santa Clara University including a Master of Arts at seventeen, plus medals in astronomy, politics, and chemistry. It also discusses Philippine education under American rule and the Jesuit influence on prominent figures like Rizal.
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Jacson Y de Paula
Georgetown Univer. G
United States
Porgetown
Cson
Negros Island
Ros‘Lacson
Manila
Eo Municipal de Manila
Jesuege
Bilbao
Spain
California
Negros
Er McKinnon
A Clara College
Santa Clara
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Gov
Lacson
The
Philes
Opes
Philippines
Young Lagan
Europe
Eac
Society of Jesus
Jesuits
University of San
Supreme Court
Rizal
Peonage in the South and Alabama indictments
A syndicated commentary recalls Alabama officials indicting thirty six white men for peonage under federal law. It outlines how debt bondage and deceptive labor contracts create involuntary servitude, with labor camps and commissary debts trapping workers and prompting arrests and beatings to enforce debts.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Mexico
Arizoh
New Mexico
Congress
United States
South
Justice of the Peace Court
Africa’s gourd drum telegraph as ancient rival to Marconi
Rev. C Rideout describes a century old African system among the Basutos and Pondo tribes where messages travel village to village via trained guards tapping a coded drum. The gourd drum and marimba, part of an African Morse like code, relay news across miles with striking precision, even in war.
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Marconi
Franklin
Morse
Ideout
M. E. Church of America
South Africa
Natal
Lerothrodi
United States
Kid
Basuto
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Tory
Orange Free “State
Transvaal
Africa
Mr. Rideout
Kansas City Star
Rattling Hand and a Kansas Farm Romance
An Ottawa farmer recalls hiring two workers from the town, a man and a boy named Bud. The boy proved capable but later quit after his wife injured herself. The farmer praises Bud as a remarkable and capable woman in the kitchen, despite a rumor of hardship on the ranch.
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Kansas
Bill Bitts
Ottawa
Ottawa Republic
Burg
Bitta
Bud
Bitts
Man’s longed travel blocked by fate at earth Globe
A man who saves for years to travel discovers that his hoped journeys must all be postponed as fate Or circumstance denies his plans, leaving him at a crossroads of desire and reality.
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Earth
Globe
Her Brute of a Husband
A broker quotes a tale of a newlywed wife who suspects her husband’s drinking and, in fear and doubt, confronts him with a list of long words. The wife’s confidant reads the paper, noting the husband’s difficulty pronouncing the terms, while the wife laments missing many of them.
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New York
Taking Care of Her Own
A Vermont neighbor recalls Hetty Green as a youth who protected her property. When threshers damaged her wheat, she borrowed a neighbor's winnowing fan but faced a rule against removing implements. She also refused to lend a side saddle, offering instead a workaround for a visiting relative.
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Hetty Green
Vermont
New England
German Reichstag Votes Big Budget for Army Motor Cars
The Reichstag voted to spend 70000 for the purchase and maintenance of motor cars for the German army. In contrast the French appropriation for a similar purpose was 44000.
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Reichstag
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