Canada Seeks Tourist Boom With Open Borders and Parks
The Canadian Government highlights easy border entry for visitors, expanded park access, and enhanced roads to Glacier and Western Canada. Officials urge Americans and British residents to visit, promising friendly reception and minimal delays, with emphasis on Wheat fields and vast cattle country.
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National Park System
Canadian Pacific
Grand Trunk Pacific
Canadian Northern Railways
Canada
National Anthem Change Sparks Convention Song Moment
Tom Daly notes at the National Association of Credit Men meeting in Pittsburgh that the anthem was sung to new music. After applause the president urged a full stand and a return to singing America, prompting prolonged applause.
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Tom Daly
Philadelphia Evening Ledger
National Association of Credit Men
Pittsburgh
America
What’s your idea of a crank essay says Boston Eve
A crank is a fellow who insists on trying to convince me, instead of letting me convince him. The Boston Eve comments on debate styles and the stubbornness of interlocutors.
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Boston
Eve
Prodigy William Strong Declines Circus Offers
Ike Stong, a 28 year old from Tazewell county Bloomington Illinois, astonishes crowds by instantly solving complex arithmetic. He lists totals for trains, rails, nails and bricks, answering puzzles in seconds and avoids public travel despite frequent offers.
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Bloomington
William Stong
Tazewell County
Ike
Financier Disowns Sister Under Won Testament Bequest
In John Black's probated will, about 275000 is left to Episcopal institutions and Johns Hopkins University as residuary legatees from a 1 million estate. One sister was provided for but died recently. another sister Harriet, disowned forty years ago for marrying a Jewish doctor Adler, is mentioned with surviving sons in New York or Philadelphia.
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Baltimore
John Black
Episcopal
Johns Hopkins University
Scraps and Home Front Dreams in a French Legion Pit Stop
A vivid interview with James Bracy a Potsmouth Virginia born Black recruit in the French foreign legion at La Vaubonne. He longs to fight the Germans but only if it can be done at home in the United States. He recounts eight months of scraps around the depot and says he is ready to serve but was told the legion does not need him. He hopes Mistah Wilson acts to bring the war to America.
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Deninton
Canadia
Great Britain
United States
Canada
Europe
Rocky Mountains
Trauder
Iummense
Paris
la Vaubonne
Foreign Legion
Virginia
James Bracy
James
Martial
Bordeaux
Wrestlin
Norfolk
Old Point Comfort
Chamterblain's Hotel
Fortress Monroe
Portsmouth
Old Point
Hampton Roads
America
United States of America
Legion
Theah
Bouligny
New Orleans
Mistah Wilson
Train Rider Respects No Iron Laws in Unclear Case
A fragmented report notes a train rider in Birdshow, Pennsylvania tied to Rudolph and Michelott, with an arrest by authorities referenced in broken text. Details remain incomplete.
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Irons
Birdshow
Europe War Recap A Year Later July 1915
A timeline of July 1915 battles and events across Europe. Hindenburg pushes Russians near the Narew while Russians repel Austrians on the Vistula. Krasnostaw falls to Mackensen. Souchez and Meuse fronts stay volatile. Italian offensives in Cadore. British gains near Ypres. Austro German advances east of the Vistula and in the Baltic region. Turkish, French, and Russian actions noted amid naval tensions and air activity.
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Hindenburg
Narew
Vistula
Riverside court hears cat reputation case over missing pet
Mrs. R S Allinder defends her black Persian against neighbors accusations of moral corruption among neighborhood cats. She sues Mrs. Farrar for $25 value of the animal after its disappearance. Farrar cites chicken predation and nightly yowling as damages. Justice Elis notes cross species cat encounters can spark conflict.
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Riverside
Cal
R. S. Allinder
Privileged Classes and an Eager Angler
A cockney angler complains to a Highland boatman about respect and his claim that his family has borne arms for two generations. The exchange highlights social pretensions and class tension in a maritime setting.
Druggist Recalls Bold Child Toothpaste Charge
A bareheaded 3 or 4 year old boy entered James Whitney’s drug store in Muncie and asked for a quarter’s worth of toothpaste saying charge this to mamma. The boy would not reveal his name and a well dressed woman later claimed the purchase, saying she would learn the family’s name.
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James Whitney
Muncie
Whitney
Walker
Indianapolis News
Gold Collar Request Sparks Lighthearted Spat
A humorous exchange centers on Mrs. Come Up asking her husband to buy a gold collar for their French poodle. He dismisses the idea with a lighthearted pooh-poodling reply, leaving the matter unresolved.
Conversationist as a Field of Education
The passage frames education as leading out rather than pouring in, critiquing bookish pedagogy as a narrow process. It highlights the value of dialogue and active engagement, suggesting that true cultivation of minds stems from conversation and inquiry rather than mere information transfer.
Busy men seek time for matters that concern none
A proverb notes that a busy man cannot spare moments to interfere with affairs outside his duties. It underscores restraint and focus on personal responsibilities rather than gossip or trifles.
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Wliavis
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Steng
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Fred B. Pitney
Cunarder Orduna
Bryce Commission
Teutons
Mackensen
Krasnostaw
Souchez
Meuse
Cadore
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Vistula and
Bug
Wolicza River
Gallipoli
Nasiriyeh
Arabia
Ypres
Reims
Ostrolenka
Blonie
Grojec
Radom
Tarvis
Adriatic
Trebizond
Vosges
Fecht Valley
Argonne
Warsaw
Ivangorod
Sokol
Soute
Goritz
Munster
Alsace
Windau
Baltic
Tolmino
Autry Station
U. S. Lusitania
Germany
Cat
Libby
Libby, Mneill
Ebasnae
Dette i Mee
Éloy
the “Parker
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Milford, N.fl
Florida
Doug
Glass
Groveland, Fla
Daisy Fly Killer
Express
Harold Somer Somers
de Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
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