Smartest Army Dog Cupid at West Point Teaches Tricks
Captain Oscar J. Charles of the Seventeenth United States Infantry owns Cupid a Boston terrier praised as the army’s cleverest. The dog learns drill commands walks on two legs and performs on trains with station calls, showing poise and discipline rivaling soldiers.
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West Point
New York
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United States Infantry
United States Military Academy
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Charles
Chicago
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Harvard
Yale
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Princeton
Pennsylvania
Annapolis
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Point
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Academy
Severn
Weehawken
Englewood
West Nyack
Haverstraw
Iona Island
Highland Falls
Hobble Skirt Championship Winner In New York
Mrs. Sarah King of Brooklyn won the 100 yard hobble skirt event at North Beach L I shortly receiving a tall silver cup. Promoters warned entrants lacking hobble skirts would be hobbled with ropes to mimic the discomfort of fashion. King completed the race with seven tumbles and no official time was recorded.
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New York
Sarah King
Brooklyn
North Beach
Washing Clothes Prodigy Returns to Sharparille
Gharon Pa Gam Sing, who has not run a laundry in Sharparille for thirteen years, returns home and is said to have amassed wealth near fifty thousand dollars after washing clothes at the washtub.
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Gharon
Sharparille
Tite
Col. Stearns Lands Season Record Swordfish at Avalon
Col. John E B Stearns of San Francisco catches the season's record swordfish off Avalon California. The 292 pound fish was reeled in after a 46 minute battle leaving all aboard drenched from the spray.
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Avalon
Cal
John EB. Stearns
San Francisco
Prince Is Coming on Visit London Plans for Prince of Wales US tour
Plans mount for the young prince of Wales to visit the United States echoing Edward VII s American tour. Edward s swings across the Yankee circuit won praise for his democratic style. The future king George V saw America only from the eastern seaboard with the fleet and did not venture inland.
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London
Prince of Wales
United States
King Edward
America
Edward
England
George V
George
Boston
New York
Blue Hens Chick Mascots for Delaware Warship
Wilmington residents presented the battleship Delaware with a $10 000 silver service on October 5 and donated a blue game cock and hen as mascots. Miss Jennie Cunningham, a patriotic Wilmington woman, funded the Blue Hen chickens. Commander Gove had asked the board of trade to obtain the fowl, noting Delaware troops in the Revolutionary War carried the birds.
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Del
Delaware
Jennie Cunningham
Gove
The
Board of Trade
Eskimo Burial Customs On Arctic Hills Revealed
The article describes the long standing Arctic practice of leaving the dead on moss covered hilltops to be scavenged. It notes 1200 skulls were interred under Bishop P. T. Rowe in Port Hope and discusses the harsh permafrost making grave digging nearly impossible and the community’s restrained sorrow.
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Port Hope
Aldsky
Episcopal
P. T. Rowe
Arctic
Northland
Million Bullets a Minute Gun Demonstration Stuns Delegation
A Swiss inventor named Bangerter unveiled a gun claimed to fire a million bullets per hour at a cost of twenty dollars without powder or shells. Reporters watched bullets flood four targets, producing at least 15 000 hits in under a minute, while the mechanism beneath oilcloth remained hidden. The inventor's group claimed the weapon could mow down a 30 regiment army with ease, though they released no technical details.
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York
New York
Bangerter
West Point Cadets Inflict Silent Protest at Mess Hall
At West Point the cadets practice a long standing protest called a silence Targeting Capt. Rufus E Longan. The ritual unfolds in the mess hall with first class captains, cadet officers, and others maintaining absolute stillness. The act signals general dislike or disfavor and can lead to changes in leadership.
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West Point
Military Academy
Longan
Eleventh Infantry
Texas City's Municipal Abattoir Pioneers Public Welfare
Texas City operates the first and only municipal abattoir in the United States, in operation for months. The Paris sanitary department faced slaughters by private butchers, prompting public support for a city run plant. A $10,000 bond issue financed construction of a modern, sanitary facility ensuring healthy animals and sanitary meat for residents.
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Aris
Tex
United States
Paris
Public drinking cups blamed for disease spread in schools
Health officials warn public and parochial schools against shared cups as tubercu losis and other infections may spread. Studies cite a high school cup with brown sediment containing bacteria that killed a guinea pig, prompting calls for bubbling cups or individual vessels.
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Health Bureau
Johnny Briggs the Quick Worker Outsmarts Miss Myers
In a New England farm tale, Susan Myers hires Johnny Briggs who arrives with a spool of cotton and quickly completes tasks. He sweeps the porch, fetches blueberries, and returns swiftly, prompting Miss Myers to test his limits and admit his strong, capable nature.
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Susan Myers
New England
Miss Myers
Miss My
Johnny Briggs
Johnny
Window Seating Ad Explains Pudding Size Trick
A customer complains of a larger pudding serving by the window. The waiter admits the window seats attract bigger portions as a form of advertisement, revealing the restaurant’s tactic to entice patrons.
Mine Schools in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region
The Scientific American praises mine schools in northwestern Pennsylvania. European workers, not connected to mining, previously dominated the region. Companies like Philadelphia and Reading Coal & Iron have opened programs teaching mathematics and drawing tailored to mine work for apprentices and journeymen.
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Pennsylvania
Dowith
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company
Advice from a political insider
A brief exchange shows a conservative strategist urging caution as Bronson seeks political guidance. Johnson advises that giving advice may be unwise, framing the moment as a caution on counsel in public life.
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