The Long Distance Jump in Yale Class Dream
A chaotic tale unfolds around Clara Jane and Clarence Edgerton Mortime in a country buggy pursuit. The narrator recalls a wild ride, smashing through barriers, leaping toward Portland, Maine, with Clara Jane at his side and a horseless contraption failing along the way.
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Montrose Bac Bean
Clara Jane
Yale Clnee Ag
Hbo
Mont' Rue
Clare June
Hone Sorde
Alee Fryad
Pleda
Newyary
Elie Ford Toot
Ehade
Har
Wren
Berton Montrose
College
Jane
Clarence Hada
Lonely Lane
Clarence Edgerton Mortime
Eine
Portland
Maine
Clapa Jane
Saved From Dread Fate Helps Beggar With Aid
A compassionate lady meets a starving man who pleads for charity. He fears he must resort to work but accepts a two-dollar bill from the woman who intervenes, and he thanks her for her mercy. Weekly.
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Abe
Betef and Mourspars Weekly
New Yorkers Lead Growth with Western Banking and Insurance Leaders
The era sees D. C. Mills J. D. Haale and Jigen t iKejoe migrating from California to New York as the metropolis leans on western figures. Theodore P. Shanta aims to solve New York’s train and supply issues while Esquit abla Life Assurance Society’s shifted leadership under Thira F Ryan and Paul Morton signals stronger southern influence and growth in finance and industry. Western magnates like EH Gary and John W. Gates also rise to prominence in New York’s corporate sphere.
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Whem D. C. Mills
J.D. Haale
Jigen tiKejoe
California
New York
Theodore P. Shanta
New
F Ryan
Virginia
Esquitabla Life Assurance Society
Jan. H. Higde
Paul Morton
South
Morton
Equitable
Gary
U1. 8, Steel Co
John W. Gates
Henry C. Frick
Normanb. Ream
Wm. H. Moore
Daniel Geld
Humming Birds In England at Regent's Park Zoo
Interest grows as humming birds arrive from Venezuela and are placed in two glass cages at Regent's Park Zoo. Of fifty three captured, many died en route, twenty reach London alive, seventeen visible now among flowering plants and warm sand habitats. Locals hope these delicate gems adapt and flourish in smoky London surroundings.
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England
Zoological Gardens
Venezuela
Regent's Park
Londom
Westminster Gazette
Mountain Climber’s Irony Over Glassless Summit
Mantike and her companion reach a towering Adirondack peak in a tense moment over leaving the glass behind. The man jokes that drinking from a bottle is harmless this one time, shifting the lunch basket as they gaze at nature.
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Adirondack Peak
Perhaps He Was the One to Blame Hick s He Fret Tale
Fragmentary text suggests a misattributed relationship story with unclear names and a rural setting. The wording hints at a mistaken identity or mistaken relationship during a camping trip in sparse woods, mentioning marriage and a remark to a wife. No clear dates, places, or organizations are identifiable.
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Hicks
Secret Coffee Shake Up Converts Grocer to Postum
A grocer tests Pontum Food Coffee then doubts customer taste but later in a sale tells a customer how to brew it properly It yields improved flavor and health value and the grocer joins the Postum following, feeling life is better since.
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Postum
Old Sailors Passing as Steamers Rise in Sea Roles
Seattle era notes that the sailing vessel fades as fast steamers rise, with officers losing navigation skills. Old captains lament the shift to cargo handling, dead reckoning and limited seamanship, while cadet training and state ships are urged to restore practical seamanship and boost American maritime numbers.
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Seattle
Wash
California
San Francisco
Naval Training Station
Goat Island
Plan to Hunt Polar Bear With Moving Pictures
New York amateur John R. Bradley plans a summer voyage beginning July 1 to Boston to hunt polar bears musk oxen and walrus aided by an auxiliary schooner. Dr. Frederick A. Cook joins as a companion researcher and will use a moving picture camera to document animal behavior while Bradley pursues game.
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New York
North Pole
John R. Bradley
New York City
Boston
Frederick A. Cook
Robert K. Peary
Mr. Bradley
Paris
Cook
Dual Identity Resurrects Man Thought Dead for Four Years
In Burlington New Jersey Charles Brewin, believed dead for four years, reappears alive as Charles Johnson a gray tailor in Plainfield. Physicians consider a brain bone pressure as the cause of his split memory while his wife and children mourned him as dead.
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Burlington
N. J
Charles P. Brawn
Charles Johnson
Charlon P
Brewin
Nim
Plainfield
Mastiff to Serve Jail Term in Detroit
A mastiff owned by Mrs. Albert Chenes of 12 River Street began a 40 day jail term after the mistress refused to part with the dog. The dog followed to the county jail, whined outside, and was permitted to lie beside Mrs. Chenes’ cell. The dog is said to have bitten a child.
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Detroit
Albert Chenes
River Street
Kit
Mra
Chenes
City Youth Learns Haystack Lesson in Farm Tale
A Chicago youth, famed politician's son, visits a Cairo-area farm and questions the haystack’s doors and windows. The farmer explains it is a haystack, revealing urban naivety about country life in a Harper's Weekly inspired anecdote.
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Chicago
Cairo
Jimmy
Harper's Weekly
Toad as Assistant Gardener
A Suburban note praises the toad as a garden helper after counting its stomach contents. The speaker sizes up 50 grape vine worms 55 potato bugs 60 sowbugs 40 angleworms and adds mosquitoes as seasoning concluding that one toad offers substantial service for garden pest control.
Great Land Owner and the Duke of Northumberland
A colorful portrait of the Duke of Northumberland as England’s foremost landowner. The piece describes his vast estates, stately appearance, old-fashioned manners, and strong lineage, comparing him to Perey traditions and noting his religious stance and personal pride.
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Duke of Northumberland
England
Perey
Ter
Ingie
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