Motors instead of dogs trip across Cascades in gasoline sleigh
A spectacular trial trip across the Cascades in a motor sleigh is featured in Popular Mechanics with photos at various stages. The vehicle navigated snowfalls, primeval passes, and even rescued a stalled automobile in Snoqualmie pass, suggesting gasoline sleighs may replace dog sledges in Alaska, reflecting on hardship and canine inefficiency. The report compares its impact to early tanks and notes the broader benefits for Alaska.
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Cascades
First Army
Snoquahule Pass
Ita
Alaska
Jack London
Detroit's hustling city life and changing fortunes
A reflective poem recounts Detroit's rapid growth and wealth from hard work, depicting gleaming buildings, social functions, and the strain of debt as money flows to repair and support the expanding metropolis. The piece contrasts pride in progress with personal financial peril.
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Detroit
Akrom
Mich
Detroit Ward
Kiddie Guest
Silver Soars On The Price Of Coins In Circulation
From the Hartford Courant. The piece notes rising silver prices with bullion value surpassing face value, suggesting silver coins may vanish as a result. It cites an ounce price around 1,235 and warns a rise toward 1,2929 could erase silver coinage and trigger broader monetary shifts. The piece references the Gresham law.
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Hartford Courant
Dave
Gresham
Air mails and looking glass curtain unfold in era echoes
A Daily Mail notice on photographing small letters for air mail across the Atlantic recalls 1870 siege Paris pigeons carrying tiny collodion films of messages. Also, London Times notes Mr de Courville plans a giant mirror drop curtain for the Adelphi Looking Glass theater, echoing Old Vic precedents and reflections of interior boxes in a circular illusion.
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London Daily Mail
Daily Mail
Atlantic
Paris
Pal AR
London Times
de Courville
Adelphi
Looking Glass
Fe Courville
Old Vic
Royal Coburg Theater
Institution Maya
Coca Cola to Christen Nashville Engine with Suffrage Ties
Prom Nashville Tennesesnos 2 Ann Dallas Dudley will christen the Waverly Belmont fire engine on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with exercises. Mrs. Guilford Dudley and Mrs. Milea Williams are pioneer suffragists, with Judaith Winston Folk named sponsor and a group of daughters of suffrage leaders as maids. The event features a Coke bottle a champagne substitute, yellow flowers, and speeches by Mayor Gupton Commissioner Tompkins and Chief Rosetta.
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Prom
Nashville
Ann Dallas Dudley
Waverly
Belmont
Guilford Dudley
Tennessee
Milea Williams
Twenty-First Ward
Winston Folk
Beau Folk
Nashville Organisation
Miss Folk
Treyanila Dudley
Lenore Kenny
Kate Barksdale
Harriet Ingram
Mary Sue Cantrell
Jane Davis
Elizabeth Smith
William Gupton
Gom
Missioner
Tompkins
A. A. Rosetta
Dudley
National Suffrage Organization
Adv
Fragmentary note on Babe Malmont move and pledge
Eqs include garbled lines about Babe Malmont and a place named Grodge with a mention of moving to a new location. Text is incomplete and unclear but suggests a note about relocation timing and conditions. No firm names or dates clearly readable.
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Indlard
In-Kannan Utty Siar Theme Faces Hard Facts
A compact note reflects on how hard facts often fail to persuade soft minds. It references figures like Bog and Shem in a provocative, concise meditation on perception and truth.
Not Your Heart It Is Your Kidneys Claim
A scrambled ad style piece argues kidney disease as the real danger behind many illnesses. It touts GOLD MEDAL kidney pills claiming rapid sugar and vitality return within a day and promises refunds if ineffective. The piece also includes a stray joke about wedding gifts and a line about Americans belonging to many organizations.
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Gs Belltastool
Ateta Fem
Ules
Ruth Clifford Inconclusive Wounding Report
Moving picture star Ruth Clifford is linked to a casualty note with conflicting details. A director says she was wounded but not seriously and a regime surgeon provides unclear wording suggesting an anatomy term or a French village as the location. Gerard asks for clarification as to the wound site.
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Ruth Cliford
Moving Picture Star
Miss Clifford
Gerard
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