Desert Stand: Old Man Murphy Sends First Cable
In the Nevada desert Old Man Murphy guards his claim as a bustling new camp rises. When a construction crew arrives he trails the line workers and finally sends the first message from the new telegraph, recalling a vanished era and his own Cable Street past. He reveals a lifelong wish to be counted again among the best operators before collapsing in paralysis.
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Murphy
Nevada Desert
Nova Scotia
Excelsior Range
Queen Victoria
Travel Wardrobe and Garden Square Fountains Feature
The article notes summer fashion emphasizes color management in costume flowers and scarves with hand painted borders and jabot lace sets. It also describes travelers favoring plain tailored suits and compact luggage friendly outfits for trips, plus a town square with a central round flower bed surrounded by fountains that residents cherish and admire.
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Globe
Europe
Jersey
Sleep Machine Aims to Cure Insomnia in England
An inventor in Macclesfield England has developed a device placed beside the bed that emits twelve colored light flashes at set intervals. The inventor claims the color periodicity soothes the eye and induces sleep though details remain partly uncertain.
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Maclesfield
England
Sammie Chats About Electricity in Hair Muddle
A child named Sammie watches his mother comb her hair and jokes about electricity in hair, a humorous domestic moment captured in a rustic, candid scene. The fragment hints at playful family dialogue and everyday life.
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Sammie
Wwe
Grandwia Bas
Loquacity Not Fault of Barrie
Jerome K. Jerome recalls Sir J M Barrie as the most silent man he met. In Strand Magazine he recounts a dinner with a nervous young lady under Barrie’s care. Barrie disrupts the quiet with a simple Egypt question and later yields no further commentary.
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Jerome K. Jerome
J. M. Barrie
Strand
Barrie
Egypt
Flytica: Air Champion Macready Jests on Flying Mania
Skylarks Lieutenant J A Macready, famed air champion, spoke at a Dayton dinner predicting air fever will rise as flying becomes common. He proposes playful names for the mania, musing over afrosipelas flyphoid influenenza and finally Flyatica.
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J. A. Macready
Dayton
Waterways and Dams Demonstrated at Basle Exposition
At an international exposition in Basle this summer, new and old methods of hydroelectric power generation will be shown. The display highlights converting natural watercourses into navigable waterways through dam and lock construction.
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Basle
Switzerland
Islands Not Popular in Japan for South Seas Colonization
The people of Japan ignore government urging to settle the South sea islands assigned to Nippon by the Versailles treaty mandate.
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Japan
South-sea Islands
Nippon
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