Toward Derry and Orations in Antrim’s Towns
A writer describes sighting Tory island and Moville on a voyage to Derry. He visits the city on Orangeman’s day, notes its walls and lack of industry, and observes a calm crowd as Orangemen march past. Derry appears inexpensive but hot compared with American towns.
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New York
Tory Island
Donegal
Malin Head
Lough Foyle
Moville
Finn MacCumhaill
Finn
Derry
Walla
Prince Regent Luitpold Ends Auto Aversion With Car Order
Munich reports Prince-Regent Luitpold, Bavaria’s 91-year-old ruler, overcame his prejudice against automobiles after a horse accident recovery. He enjoyed a car ride recently and has ordered a costly limousine for his official use.
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AUTO
Bavaria
Munich
Luttpold
Girl Hid in Basement Seventeen Days Found Safe
Velma Jones ten years old hid under quilts in a dark basement for seventeen days as guardians and police searched. She was dragged from her hiding place a gaunt pitiful sight, having dropped from 152 to 125 pounds.
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Seattle
Wash
Velma Jones
Girl hides from guardian after late movie outing
A girl, not penitent despite experience, sulks and refuses comfort. Crawling from a hiding place when guardian W. C. Wilber of 3733 Brooklyn Avenue lifted the quilt, she was too weak to walk after being reprimanded for staying out late to a moving picture show.
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W. C. Wilber
Brooklyn Avenue
Ancient Stone Building Found on Fanning Island
Archaeologists report a large stone structure 200 by 50 feet unearthed on Fanning Island in the mid Pacific. The building shows no mortar, with well fitted stones. A tomb held a human skeleton, a seal tooth necklace, other articles, and a dog skull. Island viewed as an early Polynesian resting place. Recently bought by a British Canadian syndicate for a coal station near the Panama Canal opening.
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Victoria
B. C
Fanning Island
mid-Pacific
Makura
Panama Canal
Russian Girls on Begging Tour Reaches Swiss Frontiers
A band of fourteen to twenty year old Russian girls led by two elder women crossed from French territory into Switzerland over Col des Roches en route to Neuchâtel. Swiss gendarmes detained them as the elder women cited family losses from the Russo-Japanese War and exile in Siberia. The group planned a begging tour in Europe due to lack of livelihood in Russia, though how they crossed without papers remains a mystery.
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Geneva
Col Des Roches
Neuchatel
Siberia
Russia
Europe
Burglar Poses as Optician in Red Bank Attack
A stranger called at Miss Jenaie Joline’s Eatontown Boulevard home near Red Bank and claimed to be an optician. He tested her sight with glasses, rendered her unconscious, and stole money and silverware. she lies in bed in critical condition as authorities probe a drug used in the assault.
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Red Bank
N. J
Jenaie Joline
Eatontown
Mise Joline
Rene Soros
Restores Noted Old Hall In Philadelphia
Old Congress hall beside Independence hall undergoes extensive repairs to restore its appearance when Washington took the oath in the senate chamber alcove on the second floor. Since 1820 the edifice has been altered for use as a courthouse under supervision by the Philadelphia chapter American Institute of Architects.
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Philadelphia
Congress Hall
Independence Hall
George Washington
American Institute of Architects
Red tape in London blocks aid after icy river bath
A London police court heard a laborer pulled from the river and denied drying his clothes at two stations and a hospital because he had no order. He later broke a window at a Salvation Army shelter after being told to return at five. A magistrate sought truth of police and hospital denials before ruling.
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Londen
Salvation ‘Army
Whitechapel Road
Salvation Army
London
N Y. Sun
Al-Paid Hero: Rodgers Flight Worth More Than Money
C P Rodgers' transcontinental flight drew five dollars a mile from New York to Fort Worth and four dollars a mile Fort Worth to Pasadena with extra purses. He earned about twenty thousand dollars from backers and three to four thousand prize money. Machine costs reached five thousand dollars with repairs at about seventeen thousand, leaving a small net. At Pasadena he downplayed money, saying the true value was the achievement: did it, didn't I.
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French
Strother
C. P. Rodgers
New York
Fort Worth
Passadena
Pasadena
Immigrants Turned Back At U S Ports Each Year
About two hundred fifty thousand immigrants are turned back yearly by immigration officials. To guard ports and boundaries against those barred by law the government employs nearly two thousand trained men.
Nationalities Night sparks humor at City club dedication week
John F. Smulski recalls a past county Republican slate incident while noting a humorous nationalities night program. He lists participants from German to French and tells how a caucus joked about Americans being left out, prompting a quick corrective tease.
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John F. Smulski
Chicago
Jim’ Reddick
Jim Pease
Murder Plot Foiled By Quick-Witted Bennetts
In a rural incident, Miss Nellie Bennett discovers a threatening letter tied to a planned murder. Constables arrest Joe Gale while revealing he is innocent, and the case ends with a humorous twist as Gale and Nellie marry after clearing the misperception.
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Bennett
Nellie Bennett
Nellie
Joseph Gale
Ferndale
Bennetts
Jack
Joe
Frank
New Colinas Issues Crowned King Emblem Coin
The new Indian rupee from the mint features King Edward crowned on the obverse to suit Oriental sentiment, while the reverse bears the lotus with the rose and shamrock supporting it, symbolizing the Indian empire.
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Colinas
India
Edward
Star of India
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Thames
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Associated Literary Press
Buffalo
Providence
Red House
Shephard
Miger
Gale
Marm
Oenna
Joe Gale
Old Shep
Nelly
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