Treasure hunt season across Atlantic coast and Caribbean seas
The piece notes a renewed interest in treasure hunts from Labrador to the Gulf of Mexico with side trips to Caribbean islands. It cites Oak Island and a Bay of Fundy tale as enduring lore, while acknowledging many discoveries vanish quietly and legends persist into the future.
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Atlantic
Labrador
Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean Sea
Oak Island
Mahone Bay
Nova Scotia
Bay of Fundy
Jewel Island
Gardiners Island
Campobello
Home gardens gain traction in Kansas City unions
The Kansas City Star notes growing interest in home gardens. With cooperation from the City club and the Athenaeum, practical tips for cultivating garden patches are available to residents. A small plot can cut grocery costs and provide wholesome outdoor activity for families, teaching boys and girls to be producers.
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Kansas City
City Club
Athenaeum
Kansas City Star
Hailstorm Damages British Steamer Aureole Off Gulf Coast
The captain of the British steamer Aureole reports a remarkable Gulf of Mexico storm that battered rigging and superstructure with hailstones larger than hen eggs. Galveston authorities note the ship’s battered appearance as evidence, arguing the captain is not exaggerating.
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Galveston
Gulf of Mexico
Campaign cigars appear in political campaigning
The passage discusses a proverb about gifts and a proposed variant about campaign cigars. It notes some candidates use real cigars while campaigning, implying mixed attitudes toward gifts and branding in politics.
France's rising pilots and wind of aviation progress
The article praises France as a world leader in aviation with many French inventors bringing aircraft to market. It contrasts France's growing number of practic al machines with Germany's focus on military dirigibles and notes American pioneers like the Wrights and Curtiss.
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Germany
France
America
Wrights
Curtiss
Cuba’s swift troop dispatch shows progress toward self government
Cuba moves troops and machine guns to rebellious provinces. The government treats armed forest resistance as an attack, signaling a developing, more disciplined approach to governance.
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Cuba
Paulhan Flies London to Manchester In Record Time
French aviator Paulhan completes the London to Manchester flight covering 117 miles in two hours and fifty minutes. Observers see potential for commercial flying as the current generation matures.
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London
Manchester
Paulhan
Royal Welcome for Roosevelt in New York Parade
Theodore Roosevelt returned to the United States on June 18 to a spontaneous non partisan welcome in New York. A flotilla met him at quarantine and a grand park reception followed with speeches by Mayor Gaynor and others. A city parade was shortened to avoid excluding groups from Maine to California and the Great Lakes region.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
T. Flotilla
New York Harbor
The
Maine
California
Gulf
Great Lakes
Battery
Harlem River
Roosevelt Homeward Bound Welcomed by Massed Crowds
The Voyager returns to New York as a coast line flotilla greets the liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. Colonel Roosevelt with Mrs Roosevelt and Kermit aboard, is welcomed by Mayor Gaynor and hundreds of leaders amid a water parade and cheering crowds. Rough Riders parade leads to Battery Park reception then luncheon at Sherry's.
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Teddy
Twenty-third Street
Battery
Manhattan Island
Roosevelt
Gaynor
Battery Park
Mounted Police of
New York
Robert Hunter
Oklahoma City
Broadway
Fourth Street
Fifth Avenue
Fiftyninth Street
Donald McLean
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Sherry’s
Mr. Roosevelt
Long Island
Oh Yo of Little Faith Druggist Confesses Mix Up
A puzzled customer questions a pharmacist about a prescribed medicine. The druggist admits uncertainty but asserts the mixture aligns with the doctor's order, as reported by the judge.
Decision confirms Guthrie as capital under enabling act
Guthrie Oklahoma. Judge A H Huston overruled Gov. Haskell demurrer to injunctions. Capital removal until election prohibited, enabling act retaining Guthrie as capital until 1918 binding. Gov. Haskell appeals to the Supreme Court seeking a ruling on the status within days.
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Guthrie
Oklahoma
Gov. Haskell
A. H. Huston
Supreme Court
Huston
May Avoid Rules Fight as Congress Debates Amendments
In Washington the rules fight planned for next week may be avoided by concessions from the rules committee. A lively session discussed Champ Clark's proposed rule amendment that would let a single member demand a committee discharge after one week and a motion could be made on Mondays following the unanimous consent calendar.
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Washington, D. C
Rules
Champ Clark
Armed man demands audience at White House confrontation
A six foot tall man with black hair and a heavy mustache asked to see the president at the White House. Recognized as the same man who resisted arrest last June with two revolvers, he is in custody and held for sanity observation. He claims persecution and asks the president to intervene. He identified himself as James Stricklin from Cumberland Maryland.
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Washington
1.C
Executive
James Stricklin
Cumberland
Stricklin
Arkansas
Doctor Endures 31 Day Water Fast to Prove Mental Gain
Gustav A. Gayer in New York completed a 31 day fast living on water only. He lost 385 pounds but claims greater mental performance and productivity during abstinence. He plans to report to the Society for Psychological Research of England.
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New York
N. Y
Gustav A. Gayer
Gayer
Society For Psychical Research of England
Shippers Prepare to Fight Freight Rate Advances
Kansas City leaders and shippers from the Middle West and East marshal for a contest against freight rate hikes. They return from Washington after talks with Interstate Commerce Commission members as a railroad bill moves toward law. E J McVann of Omaha and George T Bell discussed the agreement between the president and railroad officials.
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Kansas City
Middle West
East
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Shippers’ Organization
Washington
Commission
E. J. McVann
Omaha Commercial Club
George T. Bell
Mark Twain’s Great Stroke Of Luck With A Dry Match
The Rochester Post Express quotes Mark Twain recounting a Nevada trek when his matches failed after six hours without a smoke. He found a dry match on the ground, lit his pipe, and pressed onward to a white man’s settlement, calling it the greatest luck of his life.
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Mark Twain
Septimus
Rochester Post-Express
Nevada
The Laughing Barber and a Freshman Rower
Jim Rice, coach of Columbia crew, praises a young freshman as they joke about his looks. The captain recalls the barber scene where the youth asks about his beard and is teased about inheriting his mother’s traits.
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Jim Rice
Columbia Crew
A Doctor’s Experience Coffee Misuse and Postum Cure
A letter claims coffee harms health, arguing Postum improves nervous prostration and sleep. The writer cites age forty two, weight gain from 146 to 167 pounds, better energy, and healthier children after switching to Postum, urging readers to try The Road to Wellville and noting new letters periodically.
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Postum
Wellville
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McTaggart Bros., Publishers
Scandia
Taft
Stereograph
Underwood & Underwood, N
Haskell
Grank
White House
Dr. Gayer
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