Salome dancer frightens doctor in New York apartment
Dr A W Newfield woke to his housemaid Margaret Kelly dancing Salome in his West 141st Street study. Police and hospital attendants removed the dancer after she refused clothes. The incident sparked terror among neighbors with reports of a wild man on a hill nearby.
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New York
A. W. Newfield
West One Hundred and Forty-first Street
Margaret Kelly
Margaret
John the Baptist
Salome
Eva Tan- Fee
Police
Eighth Avenue
Terrified residents report wild man near Prospect Hill
In Taunton New Jersey residents fear a wild man roaming Prospect Hill at the city’s north end. Police were asked for help as the figure was sighted in nearby woods and along the edge of the SommeBN area, unsettling the community.
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Taunton
N. J
Prospect Hill
Quotable Aphorisms and Reflections From a Century Ago
A collection of sayings and maxims on wisdom, temperance, and human nature drawn from various authors and periods. The excerpt blends proverbs with humorous observations on life, manners, and philosophy, concluding with a newspaper price of $1.60 for The Courier-Journal.
Last Night Ends Quietly in an Ending Weary
Mortéa and Ella share a last dinner in a mood of delicate tragedy as Grace Channing visits. Violets and slippers symbolize a bond dissolving. a tropical-tinged returning lover awakens Ella to the ache of a pending separation and a hopeful but fragile future with Grace.
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Mortéa
Ella
Morton
Grace Channing
Grace
Miss Channing
Ela
Tropics
Thas
Duveen remembered as art dealer who shaped taste
A reminiscence on Sir Joseph Duveen who died last month in Hyeres. An art critic praises his eye for public taste and knack for turning unknown artists into financial successes. The tale of a Sabine man’s grief contrasts dismissed tragedy with humor.
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Joseph Duveen
Hyeres
Riviera
New York
Duveen
Record Panama Canal steam shovel feats posted
The Panama Canal record shows a 95 ton steam shovel removing 55 419 cubic yards of soft rock at Gorgona in 25 working days. A 15 ton shovel moved 22 028 yards of earth and 20 333 yards of rock in 26 days, per the Canal Record. Shovels run eight hours daily but pause for movement and blasting.
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Panama Canal
Gorgona
A Seasonable Explanation
A witty exchange about leap year marriages. He questions the timing as marriages fall off in leap year. She explains women fear social judgment if they must ask, not the calendar. Baltimore American humor.
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Birl
Salove
Doctor
Caesar
Ben Jonson
Horace
Plautus
Pythagoras
Euripides
Reed
Aggela
J. J. O'Connell
The
Surené Courier-Journal
Frank Hurburt O'Hara
Daily Story Pub. Co
Sabine
W. F. Trusty
Springfield
Kentucky
Hayton & Barber
B. D. Lake
Masachusetts Mutual
Alwaye
DR. M. W. Hyatt
MO. M. Spaulding
RED Cross
Springfield, Kentucky
DR. Hyattigen
Dr. J. C. Mudd
C.J. Baydon
DTS
J. H. Lampton, M. D
Opera House
Ella Adams
T. Scott Mayes
Atty-At-Law
C. C. McChord
W. D. Claybrooke
Courie
E. Selecman
Marshall Duncan
Lawyeroftes Bk Bakertece
S. M. Campbell
John Y. Mayes
Bryan’s Commoner
Courier-Journal
Louisville Herald
Nashville American
Woaty
Cincinnati Airer
Pee Re
St. Louis
St. Louis Democrat
New York World
Farm
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