Famine Tales Reach Moose Factory and Hippot News
Stories from Hudson Bay posts recount widespread famine in the North with cannibalism rumors and perilous travel from Moose Factory to Rupert's. A photographer narrator links famine years to survival ethics while other items note Japanese women studying in the United States and a New York auction of British household goods.
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Alanson Skinner
Skinner
Moose Factory
Rupert's
Rupert’s
Japanese Girls Eager To Learn At Kobe College
Miss Milzabeth Ilsley, head of Kobe college basic department, says Japanese girls are much better students than American girls and require no discipline. She notes they are eager to learn but engage little in fun unless converted to Christianity.
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Mr. Elston
Bob
Jacobs
Batanca
Nation Department
Hazel
Clara Summers
Clara
Milzabeth Ilsley
Kobe College
Japan
Miss Ilsley
Marry a Shoplifter? Marry a Shoplifter?
Department store detective Bob Jacobs contemplates a curious path as he considers marriage to a shoplifter. The piece, credited to R. Ray Baker and syndicated by McClure, hints at unconventional motives and social norms in a tension filled narrative setup.
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McClure
Bob Jacobs
John Muir Shapes Mills Career In San Francisco Encounter
Famous naturalist John Muir influences Enos Mills a youth of nineteen who wandered the beaches near San Francisco. A kindly stranger teaches Mills to study nature, write, and speak about what he sees, giving him direction for his future work and his book Leaf.
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Enos A. Mills
Suthoe
Rockies
West
John Mutr
Mr. Milly
San Francisco
San Franciene
John Muir
Had to Join the Parade in Virginia Ku Klux Raid
An account describes colored men in a Ku Klux Klan parade in Virginia. A colored taxi driver was hired to transport dressed passengers into the countryside, then faced a growing convoy of eerie figures. He warned, seeing the Ku Klux, that he could not go further. The scene ends with tense uncertainty as the fares vanished.
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Virginia
Measured Waterspouts by Theodolite Observations
An engineer aboard a vessel used a theodolite to observe waterspouts and record precise measurements. The inverted upper cone stood 614 feet above the sea, cones about 100 feet in diameter at the base, thinning toward the spout. Each cone length near 250 feet, with the spout reaching about 4,500 feet in total length.
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New York
Sheep king of Australia aims to ship wool to market
David Clark, famed as "the sheep king" in Australia, reportedly owns 17,000,000 head of sheep and 14,000 cattle. This year he plans to ship 75,000 bales of wool to market. The interview quotes him downplaying cattle-raising, focusing on his vast sheep operation.
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David Clark
Australia
Clark
Democrats Urge Stand in North Dakota Ticket
The piece urges North Dakota Democrats to save the party from self serving politicians. It lists candidates on the ticket including Frank O Bell, W P Potter, Harbert A Hard, Isaac Heece, L Ruchate, E A Lie, Thorwald Montad, and Walter de C Pollock, noting who has opposition and urging voters to take the ticket to the polls. It argues for principle over impulse and warns against wavering from the ticket through November.
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Flarbert A. Hard
Hane ‘Asitereen
Isaac Heece
L. Ruchate
E A. Lie Tibridge
Miselover
Agricultura
Liber
Thorwald Montad
Balhesde
Walter de C. W. Pollock
Artoora
Eee
Platou
Gow Fe Hard
Hols
Mom 'Tad
Inbor
Uno
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Globe Fire Underwriters Agency
F. A. Rinkel
Antler, N. D
United States
Amy
Lear
Miss Digby
Milwaukee Journal
Uncle Lane
Great Britain
Canada
Wall Street Journal
Mount Katahdin
New York Herald
Clayton College
Teckll
Gare
Gamalay
Qune
Mr. Biston
Bah
Esther Wiston
Miss Elston
Clare
Biston
Costa
Miss Histon
Miss Bigtoo
Pather
Baga
Government
Artaoha
R. Ray Baker
Ottineau Courant, Bottinbal
Indianapolis
Wichita
Kansas
Lodisnapols
Lees
Sachleer
The
Oldfield Tire Company
Akron, Ohio
Dwes
John Muse
Democrats
Republcnia
Federa States
Frank
Bellstrota
Piuten
Norway
North Dakota
Democrate of
North Dakerty
Aasistt
Tweh
United Tates
Atorney
Kevenbar
Cartamestown
Thorwald Mostad
State Senate
Mestad
Samuel Luuchols
Candiate
Ger
Werbert
Dane Ter
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