Jug Worth A Fortune Pottery Valued At 19950
A New York Herald piece notes a single jug valued at 19950 dollars illustrating rare pottery as an object of extravagant price. It contrasts with more affordable finds and cites storied collections like South Kensington Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum.
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South Kensington Museum
England
Louvre
France
Metropolitan Museum
America
Sevres
Dresden
New York Herald
Minstrel’s Song Steals Zuleika From Guarded Gate
A lyric tale of Zuleika, deceived by a minstrel from beyond the sea. His subtle song lures her away, providing wings to her weary feet and leading them to a distant, dreamlike land where love and song endure.
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Uleika
Zulelka
Oriental Courtesy Tale Reveals Cultural Contrasts
Miss Anna Dickinson recalls a San Francisco restaurant reception hosted by Chinaman bosses as she sits with a friend. A server offers a nut box with many compartments. she takes several bonbons while others take one each. The chief host then takes a large handful, and the custom spreads to the rest.
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Anna Dickinson
Detroit Free Press
Chi Lang
San Francisco
Miss Dickinson
Why Ben Hur Was Written by General Wallace
The article states that General Wallace, after a railway meeting with Ingersoll in Indiana, became convinced of Christian claims and studied the Bible and related authorities. He initially wrote a short Christmas sketch about the Wise Men, intended for a magazine, which as the subject grew, developed into the romance that made his literary reputation.
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Gen. Wallace
Robert G. Ingersoll
Indiana
Wallace
2 Magazine
Meredith ‘Nicholson
Lew Wallace
Reader Magazine
Outlawed Bill Stirs Banter and a Bad Check
A physician recalls joking with a street debtor who promised to pay $3. The man later paid $10 by check to the physician’s wife, cashing out $7, but the check was returned later marked not paid. The incident ends with the physician settling the wager and reflecting on the handling of the bad debt.
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New York Press
Marriage Decline In Britain Alarms Authorities
British marriage rates fell in 1903 with fewer marriages than 1899 levels and the marriage rate per 1000 of the eligible population the lowest in over two decades. Remarriages among widows also dropped, only 65.8 per 1000 in 1903 versus 98 in 1879. A London telegraph notes Pickwickian advice on to beware of the widows.
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Great Britain
London
New York Herald
Weller
Pickwick
Telephone as a Reformer at Clover Club Dinner
Congressman Bingham praised modern life and reform minded by the telephone. He cited a breakfast anecdote showing how a telephone links work and home, influencing morals and encouraging honesty and upright conduct.
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Telephone
Congressman Bingham
Philadelphia
Clover Club
Primitive Mexicans Tarahumare Of Northern Mexico
The Tarahumare people inhabit the most inaccessible regions of Northern Mexico. They live in caves or simple villages at about 8,000 feet above sea level. They are small wiry people with notable endurance. Their staple food is maize parched and ground, and they drink teshun a maize beverage with a sour milk turpentine flavor. Their language consists of about 300 words. Their knowledge of numbers stops at ten. Their religion blends distorted Christian traditions with their own ideas and superstitions.
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Mexico
Recited Creed as Surgeons Operated in Santa Barbara
Charles Weile, 60, of Santa Barbara watched surgeons remove a large portion of flesh from a vital area, reciting Latin the Nicene Creed. He refused pain drugs to stay lucid, endured the operation without shock, and survived a previously unperformed procedure, showing remarkable endurance through the long, risky surgery.
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Charles Weile
Santa Barbara
Cal
Weile
Welle
Mr. Welle
Natural Cross of Pearls Washes Ashore in Australia
A pearl oyster find off West Australia yielded a nine gem cross formed by nature. Seven pearls make the upright and two form the horizontal, creating the Great Southern Cross pearl. Reported value starts at about $50,000.
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West Australia
Growers Earn Tiny Share in Apple Shipment
William Soule of South Livermore Maine shipped apples to England via Liverpool merchants. Mrs Lillian Bassett asked the buyer to card the price. The barrel sold for 2.48 dollars, Sousa received 68 cents per barrel, while transporters and English dealers netted about 1.80 dollars.
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William Soule
South Livermore
England
Liverpool
Lillian Bassett
Sousa
Moon Volcanoes Debunked by Scotsman Theory
A Scottish observer proposes that the moon lacks volcanoes because it never reached high temperatures. He suggests lunar craters are created by meteoric impacts rather than volcanic activity, challenging prevailing theories.
Walking Crow 18 Dead Never Believed Crow Could Reason
A Smithsonian professor mourns Jack the crow eight years with Prof. Wood as a roommate. The bird learned to imitate speech and other birds, sometimes repeating phrases after the master. Wood suspects old age caused the crow’s death, rejecting the idea crows live to a century.
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Jack
Wood
Weod
Trees Join Their Lives in Maine Pine Twin
A rare arboreal phenomenon photographed in Elot Maine by Harold Goodwin of Dover High School. Two young pine trees stand about one foot apart and have formed a living union by branches that grew together to create a single dual organism. The joining occurs about seven feet above the ground and the connecting limb is five to seven inches in diameter.
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Elot
Harold Goodwin
Dover
N. 1
High School
Boston
Mail Car Turned Barber Shop On Market Street
A trolley mail car near the Philadelphia post office was temporarily converted into a barber shop early yesterday. A conductor’s hair and beard were trimmed by a local employee with barber skills, using a stool and whisk to finish the transformation back to a mail car.
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Market Street
Post Office
Philadelphia Record
Irony of fate as Grimsby trawler Satyrion foundered
The Satyrion with eleven crew members was lost yesterday after setting course ten weeks ago for Iceland under chief engineer John Rutten. A message recalling Rutten due to his uncle's death left him £8,000, highlighting a grim twist of fortune.
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Satyrion
John Rutten
London
Dog Escapes Quarry Plunge in Portland Incident
A dog belonging to John Smedick fell forty five feet into a quarry in Portland Connecticut. It landed in water which cushioned the fall. A man descended and retrieved the animal unharmed aside from three broken teeth.
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John Smedick
Portland
Conn
Big Rhubarb Farm Enterprise Near Chino Mills
Clark Standiford, a famed local grocer, plans a large rhubarb venture at his ranch near Chino Mills in Butte county. Five tons of rhubarb roots have been shipped to support the project. Sacramento Bea Marysville correspondence.
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Clark Standiford
Chino Mills
Butte County
Marysville
Sacramento
Bea
Gromer Goll Arrested in Milwaukee Bank Fraud Case
Henry Goll, aide cashier to the First National Bank of Milwaukee, arrested in Chicago after fleeing the $1.4 million defalcation tied to Franks Bigelow. He tried disguise, shaving mustache, altered appearance, and registered as A. G Smith. He declined to speak, said he committed no crime, and traveled through Illinois before capture.
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Chicago
Henry G. Goll
First National Bank of Milwaukee
Franks
Bigelow
Thirtieth Street
Michigan Avenue
Sullivan
Milwaukee
Goll
A. G Smith
Detective Bureau
Phen
Oan
Sulivan
Gall
Milwatakes
Birst National Bank
Madison Street
Watter
Tarrison Street
St. Paul
Wis
Henry T. Goll
North Cape
Union Grove
Antioch
Indianapolis
Wino crushes big factory in Omaha collapse kills three
Three workers died and six were injured when a three story brick building at Thirteenth and Greco Streets collapsed during a storm in Omaha. The Omaha Casket Company occupied the building and all but one victim were employees. The dead include Jacob Kirschner 48 assistant shipping clerk L M Martin 22 collector and Henry Dieu 40 foreman.
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Omaha, Neb
Thirteenth
Greco Streets
Omaha Casket Company
Jacob Kirschner
L. M. Martin
Henry Dieu
Andrews on tainted money in public gifts
Lincoln Neb May 4 E Benjamin Andrews denounces critics who attack accepting gifts from wealthy men. He argues money given for public good, properly used, can accomplish beneficial aims despite concerns over taint.
Stork Party Honored Fassett Daughter in New York
Congressmen J Sloat Fassett hosted a stork party in New York on May 4 to honor his daughter Mrs Fred rick Gray Hodgson who wed a year ago. The guests were unmarried women.
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New York
J. Sloat Fassett
Fredrick Gray Hodgson
Banquet Honors Dr Osler In New York Event
Dr William Osler, soon to join Oxford as regius professor of medicine, was feted at a New York banquet attended by many of his former Canadian colleagues and associates in the medical profession.
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Osler
New York
Wiliam Osler
Oxford
Regius
Canada
Des Moines Manhandles Gambling and Tax Revelations in 1904
Des Moines police press a hard line against "tinhorn" gamblers with fifty informants in courts, while a sweeping crackdown hits vice districts and a wave of arrests. State receipts rise sharply with April collections for inheritance taxes and county taxes, and a probe targets police court witness fees. The town plans two fire teams for a regional tournament as legal cases from a biennial election amendment move loom.
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Des Moines
Police Department
OG. A. Willis
Willis
Jacob M. Funk
Hamilton County
Justices Courts
E. R. Whitney
Board of Aldermen
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Zuleika
By Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Jove
Britain
Walking Crow
Maine
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BIG Factory
Omaha
WII
Supreme Court
Evans
Ladd
Wood Men of America
Frank Stebbins
Iowa City
Peter Steffany
Manning
George N. Frink
C. H. McNider
Mason City
Dan R. Horne
Davenport
John Dennison
Clarion
J. W. Lauder
Afton
Yeckon
Georgia Farmer
James McNeil Whistler
Whistler
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