Red Tape Delays Reward for Washington Policeman
Gossip columns recount how a Washington police officer named Stott earned a dollar reward for returning a lost Angora cat. The dollar became ensnared in District red tape as it moved through approvals from Capt. Boyle to Commissioners West Macfarland and Morrow, delaying the payout.
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Ashington
Police Department
Stott
Thomas
Boyle
Maj. Sylvester
Commissioner West
Macfarland
Morrow
Best Woman Campaigner for Oklahoma Statehood
BIRD SEGLE M GQUIRE wife of the Oklahoma delegation dean stands as the leading female campaigner in Washington. Her tact and effort are linked to her husband’s political success as Oklahoma moves toward statehood. She campaigned across the territory’s social duties and followed his bills in Congress, spending long afternoons distributing cards to gain friends for the young state. She attended the family gallery at the Capitol during debates on statehood.
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Bird Segle M'Guire
Congress
Oklahoma
Big House On
Middle West
Indian Territory
United States
Uncle Sam
Humorous Reporter Dud Delivers Telephone Directories as Aid
Jim bay, a kindly reporter, gives James S Davenport of Oklahoma’s Third District a public-spirited boost by brazenly distributing local telephone books as if they were documents. Davenport mistakes the bundles for public records, floods the district, and learns the humbling limits of praise while bay awaits gratitude that never arrives.
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Jimbay
James S. Davenport
Oklahoma
James 3. Davenport
Third
Washington
Violet Plucker
Davenport
James 8. Davenport
al Soul
Senate Seat No 23 Hoodoo Stirs Political Superstition
Rhode Island Senator Wetmore regained his seat after a lengthy contest and helped swell the Senate to 92 members, the largest in history. A lingering superstition links a full Senate to a fatality, with Latimer’s death following Wetmore’s return and Kittredge and South Dakota politics now under scrutiny as the so called 23 hoodoo targets the next power struggles.
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Senate
Wetmore
Rhode Island
Oklahoma
Latimer
South Carolina
Senator Wetmore
Kittredge
South Dakota
Gov
Crawford
Okanagan Valley irrigation aims to boost crops and land value
The piece notes irrigation expansion costing about 100000 dollars to water 10000 acres in the Okanagan valley. It argues eight inches of annual rainfall makes irrigation essential, promises abundant sunshine and water to assure crops, and cites Kelowna fruit winning gold medals in Vancouver exhibitions. It also mentions no fruit pests and invites readers to visit Kelowna, with an illustrated booklet to follow. It also references a reflection on women and a Kodak, and mentions home economics clubs teaching poor women to cook economically.
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Okanagan Valley
Fruit Growers’associations
Vancouver
Kelowna Fruit
Washington
Oregon
British Columbia
East
Purpose and perseverance in Thoreau’s probing words
A reflective quote questions whether persistent striving toward noble aims yields reward. It asks if continuous aiming for heroism, truth, and sincerity ever misleads or proves futile, invoking Thoreau’s voice on ambition and gain.
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H. D. Thoreau
Know Yourself and the Value of Self Knowledge
The excerpt asserts self knowledge as the first step to understanding life business and opportunity. It claims 90 percent of business education is objective and covers all life aspects except the most vital factor, ourselves.
Aberdeen spinster leaves nephew $10000 for New Year’s Day dinners
An eccentric Aberdeen spinster bequeathed her nephew ten thousand dollars on the condition that he dine with her every New Year’s Day, a custom she upheld for years believing it brought luck. The nephew accepted both the money and the annual obligation.
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Cat
Aberdeen
A Game of Chance in the Crafteman
Giles Edgerton argues that negative outcomes largely stem from accident, noting that careful subject choice and timing are essential to minimize bad luck in crafts and design. The piece emphasizes prudence and deliberate selection to improve results.
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Giles Edgerton
Good Breeds Good and True in Life
Ruakit Thos Lean of Willow City traveled to St Paul with a carload of fat cattle. The piece emphasizes aging insight through personal truth and the idea that all good comes from good, never evil.
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Ruakit
Willow City
St. Paul
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Jehoshaphat
Ernest Revan
Greengards
Wearé
Bottineau
ADLER
Milwaukee
Shuow
Shoiu
Tokio
Viken's Old Stand
North Dakota
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