Mysterious helper turns up for late night marriage plan
Harry Crenshaw vows to marry Alice after a confrontation with rivals ends in intervention by a masked savior who proves to be Alice's father. A license is secured and a minister arrives as the couple faces a wedding that evening. The father hints at a future in his business.
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Harry Crenshaw
Harry
Alice
Father
Mr. Richards
Richards
Alie
Mr. Jones
Wooden gas mains last lasting display in Canandaigua
A 1800 foot six inch wooden gas trunk laid over seventy years ago in Canandaigua proved surprisingly durable when surveyed. The log remained sound though submerged and showed solid fiber with no odor. a bore revealed a two and a half inch thick wall and only a thin inner film. Joint bands rusted and were replaced as needed.
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Canandaigua
Utility Bulletin
Father and son debate wisdom in vacation chat
The oldest son, home on vacation after becoming class president, tells his father he hopes to know more than him when older. The father replies he only hopes the son will know as much as he thinks he does now. Chicago Tribune.
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Chicago Tribune
Bielaski Cleared in Cuernavaca Kidnapping Case
A. Bruce Bielaski is formally absolved of guilt in the kidnaping case in Cuernavaca after Judge Quiros signs clearance papers. Bielaski agrees to stay several days to finish testimony while Francisco Montes de Oca and Colonel Padilla remain in custody on related charges.
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A. Bruce Bielaski
Department of Justice
Mexico
Cuernavaca
Quiros
Bielaski
Francisco Montes de Oca
Padilla
Monaco’s Louis II narrowly escaped tainted succession plan
Louis II of Monaco, just ascended after Prince Albert’s death in Paris, survived a German-backed bid to dethrone him ten years earlier. France opposed any German on Monaco’s throne, noting Louis’s thirty years of service under the French flag and his wartime cavalry leadership in Africa and Europe.
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Louis II
Monaco
Paris
Prince Albert
Urach
France
Prince Louis
Silesia
Africa
Morocco
Tunis
Algeria
Davis Named Adjutant General of the U S A
Robert Courtney Davis former adjutant general of the A E F was nominated by President Harding to be adjutant general of the U S A He will succeed Maj Gen P C Harris who retires Davis born October 12 1876 in Pennsylvania is described as the youngest general in the army His career includes West Point 1898 Spanish American War service in the Philippine Islands Cuba Pacification Army and AEF duties and marriage to Ruby Caroline Hale in Lancaster Pa
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Robert Courtney Davis
Harding
P. C. Harris
Davis
Pennsylvania
U. S. Military Academy
N. A
Philippines
Army of Cuban Pacification
Barry
Philippine Scouts
France
Ruby Caroline Hale
Lancaster
Creel Leads Fight Against Censorship in Joint Committee
The Joint Committee for the Promotion and Protection of Art and Literature targets censorship with George Creel as its literary St George. Nine organizations including Equity, the American dramatists, and the Screen Writers' guild back a plan to smash censorship, aiming to expose absurd limits on creative works.
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Joint Committee For the Promotion and Protection of Art and Literature
St. George
George Creel
Joint Committee For
American Dramatists
American Federation of Musicians
The
Authors’ League
Motion Picture Directors’ Association
Printing Trades Unions
Screen Writers’ Guild
Creel
Oreel
Seeing Power of Insects
A Washington Star summary notes that humans see minute details at a distance beyond 14% feet, while insects with compound eyes have poorer resolution. A dragonfly cannot separate two coins closer than one degree, a fly at most seven feet, and antennas can be seen by humans from two feet or more even when the insect cannot.
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Washington Star
King Midas Learns Avarice Curse From Bacchus Tale
The myth explains how Midas received the gold touch after aiding a drunken friend of Bacchus. Initially joyful, the king turns objects and finally his daughter into gold. Bacchus directs a cleansing bath in the Pactolus River, whose sands stay golden.
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Midas
Bacchus
Ovid
Blessing
Pactolus
Peculiar Deep Sea Lighting by Inky Prawn and Lampfish
The Aristeus, a deep sea prawn, emits luminescent clouds by expelling respiratory water that carries luciferin to create smoke like rings. Photoblephron fish burn with a dimmer internal light controlled by a sliding pigment curtain, remaining luminous even when light organs are removed and used as night fishing bait near Banda Islands.
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Nature
Banda
Philippines
The Singer and the Song
The quote discusses the singer's power over a song, noting how fame persists beyond success and how royalties now color the singer’s status. It contrasts ancient muses with modern royalties, and stresses that a singer’s personality resists canonization or cash, while urging readers to explore poetry and music beyond the voice.
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Thamyris
Narada
A. H. Fox Strangways
It Sometimes Happens
A humorous take on dating and money in social interactions. The piece notes men may be sick sleepy or sore when rejected and jokes that clever women can hide a man’s cash at the restaurant. It mentions that men learn women give only what they intend.
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New York Sun
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Martha
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Stearns
Smith—“Brown
Jones
Bright
Dean
Ohio
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Prop
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Foster-Milburn CO
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