Jury Verdict and Curious Appeal Request Shaped by Mock Mind
The foreman announced the jury found the prisoner guilty after a trial where jurors were described as all Tobias Jones’s friends. Counsel for the prisoner asked which juror held the so called one mind for an appeal, while the judge prepared to sentence. Frances declares she had the beat luck seeing a parade at a psychological moment.
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Tobias Jones
Tobias
New York Evening A
Frances
Richness and wit in old jokes and quotes
A quirky collection of edgy quips and witticisms about wealth luck and romance. It includes remarks on pluto crats rich men kissing danger and gendered vanity reflecting satirical humor of the era.
Vowed Memory Echoes In a Chance Meeting
A faded romance is recalled when a middle aged woman spots Archibald Downing in Chicago. She recalls his boast of knowing her steps across the world and fears he may not recognize her now. She longs for memory but dreads his altered self and the thought of his possible death in China.
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Archibald Downing
China
State Street
Archibald
Archie
Chicago
Record-Herald
Alarm Locates Fire Box for Factory Floors
A Brooklyn inventor has produced a fire alarm box system for factories with many female workers. Each floor has boxes and pushing the button for the fire location lights a number and letter across all boxes. For example a fire near the center of the third floor lights 3C on every bar to guide safe evacuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Java Quinine Industry Shifts Global Supply
The British consul at Batavia reports Java now produces about two thirds of world cinchona supply and has started a quinine factory on Java. The new Java quinine is praised as excellent quality equal to top European brands, addressing price suppression by German and Dutch producers after years of cartel-like behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Java
Holland
Germany
Batavia
London Globe
New Vegetable Ivory From Hybaena Palm In French Sudan
M. Gaston Bonnier has submitted samples to the National Agricultural Society of Paris of a new vegetable ivory made from the albumen of fruit from a small palm in French Sudan. The albumen hardens in air and resembles natural ivory in color and texture, similar to the Brazilian Phytelephas macrocarpa ivory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Gaston Bonnier
National Agricultural Society of Parise
French Sudan
Phytelephas
Equatorial
South America
Cucaracha Slide Delays Panama Canal Progress
In the Panama Canal Zone engineers describe the Culebra Cut slide called the Cucaracha. Colonel Goethals estimates it may cost about 5 million dollars more than the original cut. Officials foresee completion in 1915 with final opening in 1916 if work continues without major incidents.
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Colon
C. Z
Panama
Canal Zone
Culebra
United States
Goethals
Culebra Cut
Col
D. D. Gaillard
Central Division
Empire
Isthmian Canal Commission
Adamson
Colonel Gaillard
Taft
Fatal lumber yard collapse shocks Harrison NJ workers
John Hueselmans superintendent of a Harrison lumber yard died when a 40 foot timber pile toppled as onlookers scoffed at his death premonition. John Bissell leapt clear, was seriously injured, and bystanders helped remove the mangled body from the timbers at the yard during a passing trolley rush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hueselmans
Harrison
N.J
John Bissell
Newark
Hueselmans
Bissell
St. Michael's Hospital
Cuticura Heals Water Blister Eczema Case 1912
A Chicago reader describes severe eczema with water blisters spreading from hand to leg. After two years using various remedies, a sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured the condition in six weeks with no remaining marks, advertised as sold worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress St
Chicago
Ill
Cuticura
Dept. L. Boston
Not a Bed of Roses Says a Humble Life
A discouraged speaker quips that life is hard and mocks rosy notions. A persistent salesman imagines showing St Peter a new card in a dex system. He notes the eye can speak louder than words and jokes that matrimony may be seen as a mere merger.
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St. Peter
Western Canada Crop Conditions Promise Bumper 1913 Harvest
Reports from Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta indicate crops not larger than last year but favorable conditions with abundant sunshine and timely rains. Wheat oats barley and flax are in good shape though seeding was late. observers predict a splendid western crop contingent on continued good weather.
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Canada
United State
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Prairie
When Ex President Taft Was Married
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette once predicted great promise for William Howard Taft, praising his Yale education, integrity, courage, and potential for public distinction following his marriage to Helen L. Herron twenty seven years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette
Helen L. ‘Herron
John W. Herron
William Howard Taft
Wiliam. Hy
Yale
Fragmentary remarks on marriage and travel dialogue
Disjointed lines describe a marriage remark about living on interest and a sheriff’s comment on travel plans. The text resembles a fragmented dialogue with interruptions and noisy social chatter.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Women
Letters from Mrs Emily Summersqul of Swarthmore and Mrs J R Pickins of Baltimore describe relief from female troubles after using Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad asserts guaranteed genuineness of testimonials and suggests potential help for other women with similar issues.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Emily Summersqul
Swarthmore
L E.pinkham
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Mra
J. R. Pickins
Sargent
Lewis Lindee Binder
Lincoln
Nebraska
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