Man Fights Bear to Save Cub in Maine Standoff
In Bangor Maine a hunter Jack Gilpatrick wrestled a mother bear during a bear attack on sheep near Clifton. He freed a cub, faced the mother, and killed the bear with a knife after the cubs were threatened. He escaped with injuries and the cubs survived.
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Bangor
Maine
Southdowns
Shropshires
Clifton
George Archer
Thomas Hussey
Joseph Chick
Chick's Hill
George Patten
Patten
Jack Gilpatrick
Mother Bear
Jack
Diving Venus Tries To Bathe With Fountain In Park
In Madison Square Park on a Saturday afternoon a woman named Annette Kellerman climbed the fountain fence and waded in. A crowd cheered as a police officer tried to stop her and she was escorted to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation.
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VENUS
Madison Square
New York
Madison Square Park
Rusty” McGurk
George Francis Train
Rusty
Fitzgerald
Annette KeHerman
Annette
Missouri
Bellevue Hospital
Reptiles Battle in Boat During Thunder Storm
In Darby creek Radby Pennsylvania owners Radby Henry Williamson and George Marker aboard a 16 foot launch faced two four foot water snakes that crawled aboard and fought near the motor. After more than five minutes the snakes were crushed in the boat’s revolving wheel as the pair watched in fear. A Providence dispatch reports wild deer in Rhode Island seeking baths, leaping through an open window into a house bathroom and later removed by police using ropes.
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Radby
Henry Williamson
George Marker
Darby Creek
Williamson
Marker
Michael J. Kilroy
Great Seal History and Franklin Objections to the Eagle
Washington scene outlines Franklin's objection to the bald eagle as the national emblem. Gaillard Hunt completes a sketch tracing the seal's development from Congress decisions to its final adoption. Franklin argued the eagle seemed lazy and unworthy, referencing 1784 correspondence with his daughter.
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Franklin
Washington
United States
Fathers of the Republic
Order of the Society of the Cincinnati
France
Turkey
Benjamin Franklin
The Great Seal and Its Presidential Significance
The piece discusses the great seal’s role as a government symbol, its careful custody by the secretary of state, and the legal limits on affixing it. It cites Chief Justice Marshall’s 1803 opinion, noting the seal accompanies signed commissions and presidential documents, and details which instruments require the seal.
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Cincinnati
America
Marshall
Supreme Court
United States
Senate
Civi
Howells Rebuked Americans Boasting On July 4
A Chicago editor recalls William Dean Howells rebuking spread eagle boasting and notes Howells recently joined a society promoting woman suffrage. The anecdote recalls Howells’ Maine Fourth of July oration and a child’s mocking fable about a hen and an egg.
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William Dean Howells
Chicago
Howells
Mr. Howells
Maine
Skin eruption cured by Calicura Remedies
Mrs R R Whitaker of Winchester Tennessee recalls a two and a half year old daughter suffering severe itchy eruptions on hips and legs. After two doctors failed, two weeks of Calicura Remedies ended the problem for good and the child, now fourteen, has had no recurrence.
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Calicura
R. R. Whitaker
Winchester
Tenn
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Sole Props
Boston
The Thrifty Scot Joke on a Sea Burial Cost
A Scots couple travel from Leith to London by boat. A great storm near the Yorkshire coast brings narrow escapes. The wife fears death, but Sandy jokes it is cheaper to be drowned at sea than buried elsewhere.
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Leith
London
Yorkshire
Sandy
County Attorney Candidate Receives Rustic Advice
A young lawyer, elected county attorney, asks eccentric Si for reaction on his win. Si offers homespun counsel saying when lacking a cork a corn cob can stopper the woodpile of pride, echoing rural wit from Youth's Companion.
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Lonny
Irate Editor Expels Writer After Abrupt Exchange
In a terse confrontation the editor ejects a writer amid a spat over content. The exchange ends with the writer leaving, while newsroom staff regard the incident as a cautionary example of editorial tension.
Notable Quotes and Patent Medicine Claims
A collage of sayings on speech and duty followed by ad copy for Perry Davis Pain Killer Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup and other patent medicines. The text mixes literary fragments with promotional lines and dubious health claims, presenting a dated, salesroom style typical of early advertising pages.
Old Man Bitt’s Field Becomes Summer Hidden Work
A city man rides in a rickety wagon with a glum driver toward Old Man Bitt’s summer field. They discuss who owns the pine field and who the Bitt boys are as the driver remarks on the heat. The exchange hints at a simple rural scene and work on a hot day.
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Hosses
Law of Attraction in Men and Women
The piece explains attraction as a physical law of opposing forces where magnetism involves attraction and repulsion. It notes that in relationships the masculine force is often the stronger, reflecting common but perplexing inconsistencies in romantic appeal.
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T. P.'s Weekly
London
Reputation and ambition echo in two observers
The Autocrat quotes a remark on reputation tied to future expectations. The Recondite and Practical Persons discuss how some men gain or lose reputations and how others must fit or create theirs, aided by a college‑fresh voice on how a reputation can control a man.
A Baseball Preacher's Quip During Sermon Ends Inning
An Episcopalian clergyman and baseball enthusiast, at the start of the season, concluded his Bible reading with the remark Here endeth the first innings and then woke up.
How an Angry Woman Looked
A Nebraska Journal item describes an angry woman on a streetcar scolding a conductor without cause, her furious expression making her appear more terrible than any real grievance would.
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Nebraska Journal
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