Railway Commissioner H T Clarke Returns From Pacific Trip
Railway Commissioner H T Clarke comes back from a fortnight on the Pacific coast. Plans for fighting lower freight rates are expected to be laid out once commissioners have time to assess the situation. Beatrice, Neb July 30 Wymore secures national coursing meet for early October with about five hundred greyhounds to enter. The meet moves from Friend Neb where held in recent years. Blair Neb July 30 George Jewett of Omaha bound over on murder charge after preliminary exam for killing an infant found at Arlington July 10. Simple Things Best quotes Frank Crane urging love of simple pleasures to keep youth and vitality, warning against pessimism.
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H. T. Clarke
Pacific Coast
Wymore
Beatrice
Neb
Friend
Blair
Arlington
George Jewett
Omaha
Gambart rejects Holman Hunt painting The Scapegoat
Art dealer Gambart, after sending Holman Hunt to the Holy Land to replicate Light of the World, refused to accept his work The Scapegoat. He voiced disappointment to painter Tinnell saying he wanted a nice religious picture but received a great goat.
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Holman Hunt
Gambart
Holy Land
Hunt
Tinnell
FEGHEN ABINET IS THY CAUSE OF COMFORT
A cryptic archaic verse speaks of comfort and fellowship across years of famine. It urges sharing and unity between the speaker and a brother, invoking a ritual of mutual aid through hardship.
Bread to keep life’s staff in good condition
This article lists several bread recipes including Vienna Rolls Brioche and Parker house style pockets. It explains ingredients methods and rising temperatures to ensure bread raises properly and to kill the yeast, ending with a note on baking at a high initial temperature.
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Vienna
Parker House
Tonsilotomy and Adenoid Advice for Anatomy Readers
A New England exchange notes the tonsil can be useful in some throats and should only be partially removed if oversized. It says adenoids that do not fill the airway can remain, and that neither tonsil nor adenoid surgery prevents colds or hastens cure.
Trust Wars On U S Producers Hit Sugar Industry
The sugar trust faces market disruption as a surge in beet sugar production from American farmers across 73 factories from Ohio to California lowers prices. Beet sugar undercuts cane refiners, with some Atlantic refineries closing or cutting hours, and a push to repeal tariff protections to boost home-grown sugar. The dispute includes fraud cases totaling about 3.5 million dollars returned to the government, amid probes of the refining companies.
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United States
Ohio
California
Mississippi
Seaboard
West
New York
Trust
Atlantic Seaboard
Congressional
E. PP. Atkins
American Sugar Refining Company
The
Sugar Trust
Nebraska
Wilson
Tropics
Cuba
Federal Refining Company
Treasury
Humor of the Day: The Dimming Bachelor’s Lament
A Chicago Record-Herald verse laments a once vigorous bachelor whose sight fades and spirits sag. Once hungry and cheerful, he now gibes at others, clings to dejection, and endures pity from impecunious nephews. The poem traces his wasted life and faded pleasures.
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Chicago Record-Herald
How It Happened In a smoking carriage from Manchester to Glasgow
Several travelers discussed health preservation as a florid man boasted of a rigid routine from ages twenty to forty. He claimed daily nine to six life, plain meals, and regular exercise, prompting a facetious interjection about his past circumstances. The exchange appears in London Answers.
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Manchester
Glasgow
London
Worthington’s Farmhouse Visit Figures In Amusing Tale
A Wall Street anecdote about B A Worthington, president of the Chicago and Alton, recalls a 1911 Indiana farmhouse stay. He warned the farmer the pigsty would need attention, only to receive the quip that no hogs remained since his departure, prompting amusement in offices.
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Worthington
Wall Street
B. A. Worthington
Chicago and Alton Railroad
New York Telegraph
Proposal leads to unintended engagement in Detroit
A man who proposed to many girls for fun is rebuffed but ends up finding a willing partner. Miss Evelyn answers with affection, and the suitor learns where to approach for marriage. The anecdote reflects light courtship norms reported by Detroit Free Press.
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Evelyn
Detroit Free
L’ress
Lost Golf Ball Found On The Links
A London Opinion snippet recalls Tommy finding a golf ball on the links and declaring it lost. He asserts its owner was searching with a caddy, prompting his father Mr. Traddle to question the ball's status.
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Tommy
Mr. Traddle
London
Jealous boy warns off Perkins boy over romance
A jealous boy threatens to mash Perkins to a jelly if he comes near his love interest. The girl responds with a playful line about loving jelly, echoing a Yonkers Statesman moment.
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Yonkers Statesman
On the Contrary in Stray Stories
A humorous dialogue unfolds as a suitor seeks a daughter’s hand, facing the father’s reluctant yet emotional admission that she is his only child and her mother is gone, prompting a quick paternal reassurance.
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Mr. Hardhead
Will Establish Schools for Agricultural Training in State
The state superintendent will designate thirty high schools as agricultural training schools by Aug 12. Each institution will receive 500 from the state to support branches tied to this study. Applications must show at least seven pupils per class in agricultural home economics and manual training, plus facilities worth 400 and at least five acres of ground. Programs must run four years in the three subjects.
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Delzell
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the Luckless Bachelor
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