Great Elephant Tommy and Hippo Babe Undergo Veterinary Feats
A New York Central Park elephant nicknamed Big Tom is restrained and had its toenails trimmed to curb temper, a painless technique praised by the keeper. In a traveling show, Babe the hippopotamus underwent dental work to reduce overgrown teeth, while a skin graft saved Belle the elephant after a shoulder injury.
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Circus
Zoological Gardens
Bir Tom
Central Park
New York
Antchak
Big Tom
Babe
Rabel
Kha
Lie
Belle
Assie
Melle
Frederick A. Talbot
London Magazine
Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field on Dusty Toys
Poem reflects on a toy dog and toy soldier left in a chair awaiting a child’s return. An angel awakens Little Boy Blue as years pass and the toys stay faithful, wondering what became of the boy who once kissed them there.
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Blue
Blue—Og
Eugene Field
Giant Prehistoric Bird Sighting Spurs Madagascar Expedition
The Krause expedition led by Gottlieb Adolf Krause searches Madagascar interior for living epytornis specimens after reports of an eg in St Augustine Bay. They weigh theories of recent origin versus long burial, amid claims of vanished faunal evolution since Madagascar split from Africa.
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Madagascar
Villarivo
Krause
High Table Land
Wilds
Quiluhy River
St. Augustine Bay
Gottlieb Adolf Krause
Interiour
Professor Krause
Africa
Ankarah
The Key of Romance in a Fashionable Car Scene
In a New York Herald paragraph, a stylish woman wears a diamond set key on a gold chain as a prop of romance. Observers speculate about a lost lover, a broken engagement, or a vault mystery while two women trade comments on belonging and fashion aboard a streetcar.
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Hance
Sixty-fourth Street
Marie
New York Herald
Retired farmer claims trout hypnotism in pond
M. J. King of Charjon Ohio asserts fish can be hypnotized and reason. He stocked a government trout from a nearby bunker years ago, and now claims over 1 060 trout in his pond with several weighing two and a half pounds. He describes a hypnotized trout appearing dead when removed from water and other fish leaping from the pool.
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M. J. King
Charjon
Tve
King
Bntehery
Mr. Wing
No Chance for Him
In a Baltimore American item a fiancée boasts she can perform many practical feats such as driving nails without hitting her thumb and arranging figures correctly, prompting the groom to lament he cannot marry a woman who proves male superiority with such traits.
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Baltimore American
The Logical Youth Seeks Grammar Parade
An exchange in Baltimore reports a teacher prompting a student to parse the word mountain in a sentence. Johnny Wise argues mountain is a common feminine noun, while a witty remark questions the gender claim as an old man proclaims vigor on the street.
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Johnny Wise
Baltimore American
Heaviest Man in World Henri Cannon Dies in San Francisco
Henri Maurice Cannon known as the heaviest man died suddenly of heart disease in San Francisco. The Zurich native weighed 613 pounds and had a noted athletic and wrestler background. He began rapid growth about ten years earlier and led a bohemian, good natured life despite his size.
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Henri Maurice Cannon
San Francisco
Cal
Cannon
Zurich
Switzerland
Cuba's First Minister Represented in Washington
Senor Gonzales de Quesada, Cuba's minister, presented credentials to President Roosevelt marking Cuba's entry into international politics. A native of Cuba aged thirty four, he grew up in New York after exile with patriots. He served at the unrecognized Cuban legation and became a friend of Roosevelt.
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Senor Gonzales de Quesada
Cuba
Roosevelt
New Republic
Senor Quesada
New York
Younguesada
War For Freedom
Legation From the Republic
Mr. Roosevelt
Idyl of Ian sas Sparks Poem Print Protest
A poet storms into the editor’s office to protest the publication of his poem in the paper. The editor notes a humorous misprint replacing whispers of the wind with whiskers in the wind in a Kansas poem.
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Kansas
Baltimore
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