Ailing President Pettyjohn Faces Factory Turmoil
President Pettyjohn of the International Air Engine company battles a looming strike as rivals copy engines, a Paris loss, and Yale scandal rumors swirl. He hustles between talks with lawyers, managers, and investors, seeking time and a compromise with workers while facing pressure from lenders and a looming court decision.
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Pettyjohn
International Air Engine Company
The
Air Engine Company
Paris
Frances
Yale University
Paul Pettyjohn, Jr
Supreme Court
Os *Eisek
Pettisjohns
Anthony
President Pettyjohn
Larkin
International Air Company
Starkey
Trescott
Corporation
la Salle Street
Paul
Bank of
Pettijohn
New Haven
Yale
Potter
Potetr
Acrook
Lussonth
Gare
Brownell Peterson
Brownell-Peterson
Spirit Island and the Great Gull Colony Legend
North shore lake story recalls Spirit Island named by Indians where thousands of gulls reside. Locals say paths near the shore are created by spirits of the dead, a belief unchanged across generations, keeping people from landing on the mysterious shore.
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Spirit Island
W. S. Harwood
St. Nicholas
Flourishing University in Chili Serves Many Students
The University of Santiago, head of Chile’s education system, maintains 1200 to 1500 students with well kept and well attended professional schools.
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Chili
University of Santiago
Ignorance Bliss in Theater Matinee Betrayal
A Chicago Tribune report recounts a Wednesday matinee where a middle aged husband arranges two prime theater seats and passes for a young woman in a hidden arrangement. The wife remains in blissful ignorance as her husband meets the other woman, then dines with her while the wife returns home unaware.
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Chicago Tribune
The Real Danger of Patrols on the Boer War Kopjes
London Mail recalls patrols around kopjes in the veldt during the Boer War. Mounted men ride between rocks while Boers lurk unseen, often firing at close range. The author notes the fear, nerve, and peril of patrolling versus charging in battle, stressing there is no glory in a patrol’s casualties.
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London Mail
A Lanse of Memory. Wife Questions Return Home
A brief quoted exchange shows a wife confronting her husband about his return home in a troubled condition. He claims to have a good excuse but says he cannot recall it, reflecting a scene of memory loss and marital tension reported by the New York World.
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M'mia
N. Y
Cascarets
Fred Wartman
Germantown Ave
Philadelphia
A Boer Patrol Theme in 1900s Prizes and Pasts
A Boer patrol comprises three men—one veteran and two youngsters—typically an uncle and two nephews or a father and two sons. The note blends a World item urging happiness through helping others with a Chicago Daily News maxim about filling one’s cup by making others happy.
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World
Chicago Daily News
Early American Giants Claim Giants Lived in Grand Canyon
Prescott Prospect recounts belief in a race of 12 to 20 foot tall giants in North America. It cites footprints measuring 20 inches, a petrified body found in Grand Canyon red sandstone, and regional Mexican and Teco traditions as supporting evidence. The tale includes a tour story of Hull and Lavelle who reportedly found a nude stone-slab body about 18 to 20 feet tall, with limbs damaged, and notes alleged tracks of humans and animals nearby.
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United States of America
Grand
Grand Canyon
Mexico
Teru
Atlantic and Pacific
Flagstaff
Mies
Hull
Prescott
Million Dollar Music and Opera Salaries
Ainslee's Magazine notes high costs at the Maurice Grau Opera Company with weekly expenses around 44,000 to 45,000 and annual near one million. It details principal singers’ salaries totaling 532,800 last season, the public’s willingness to pay for costlier productions, and profits from parterre box ownership, with boxes valued at about 100 per night and stockholders paying half.
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Grau
Tomas
Mela
Nordica
Jean
Maurice Grau
Ainslee
Woman's Spring Wardrobe Shapes the Season
Edith Lawrence notes in Ladies' Home Journal that gowns will be made in one material without separate waists, with light silks and muslins for waists. Skirts trail less, trains fade, and the bustle returns small. Sleeves stay long and tight with pointed cuffs, collars rise high, and hats feature fancy braids, tulle, or silk nets. A white season favors pastels with bright accents.
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Edith Lawrence
Ladies' S Home Journal
Hoodoo Whistling Passenger Delays Jersey City Train
A Jersey City bound train detours through Philadelphia and Baltimore after a conductor declines to punch a whistling passenger’s ticket. The crew cites superstition about bad luck, a snowstorm, and a three hour delay as the storm worsens and cabs rise in price. The bald headed man’s quips frame the odd superstition in a bustling city transit scene.
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Jersey City
Trenton
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Wilmington
N. Y
The Teeming West A Burst Of Western Growth And Hope
A sweeping overview of the Canadian West notes intense activity across districts from Winnipeg east to the Rockies. It highlights rapid construction, farm improvements, rapid school expansion, rising bank activity, growing land sales, and large-scale settler influx, signaling a resilient, hopeful transformation. The piece emphasizes responsible growth across business, churches, government, and education as the West enters a vigorous development era.
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Canadian
Winnipeg
Red River Valley
Dauphin
Great Central
Rockies
Prince Alberta
Edmonton
Mcleod and Lethbridge
Canadian West
Samson
Union
Manitoba
Territories
West
Dominion
C. P R
Canada Northwest
United States
Indians in Medicine Dance at Toppenish Reserve
Yakima Indians near Toppenish Washington held a medicine dance as two hundred tribe members gathered. Chief White Swan is said to be civilized while old rites were abandoned. Seven candidates endured seven days of self torture to win the medicine man post. One runner, Runming Coy ote, is nearly dead from exertion. others receive little care.
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Larkin
Pettyjohn
Chicago ‘Tribune
Toppenish
Wash
White Swan
Coyote
Schiller
Sparta
Plutarch
Carlyle
Shrewa Photographer Exchange Cited by Ohio State Journal
A photographer flatters a young lady, saying her face can only be pleasant. She replies with a witty retort offering two dozen instead of one, as reported by the Ohio State Journal.
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Ohio State Journal
Philippine curios bring home collection valued highly
Gen Wheeler has brought home a collection of Philippine curios valued at a considerable sum. The item reflects a notable military procurement and adds to the postwar memorabilia of the organization.
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Wheeler
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advised Against Mercury Use
Warning against mercurial ointments for catarrh and praising Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo. Claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, urges prescription from reputable physicians, notes genuine product and price per bottle. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills as best.
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F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hall
Ohio
A. Hall
Amused by Klondiker Lawer Joke From Cleveland
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote recalls a Klondike tale about gold miners sharing a ghanty. Men slept in a row like spoons. when tired, a call of Lawyer caused all to turn to lie on the other side. A judge asks about an ancestor at Bunkerkopje.
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Cawher
Cumso
Washington family credits Sarsaparilla cure for neck illness
Mrs. Nettie Chase of 47 K St NE recounts her 16 month old boy's illness misdiagnosed as measles mumps and scrofula. After four months and two ruptured sores, Hood s Sarsaparilla was tried with lasting improvement and complete recovery, following doctors' prescriptions for blood medicine.
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Washington, D. C
Hood
Nettie Chase
K St
N. EL
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Great West
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Treasury
Transvaal
Arizona
Million Dollar Music
Ladies’ Home Journal
Hoodoos
Westerm Canaan
Medicine
Toppenish,Wash
Shrewa Photographer
Practical Philosophy
Bunkerkopje
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Washington
Merting Remedy Company
Chicago
Nontreat
Kemp
Oomsum
W. L. Douglas
Lai
W.L Douglas Shoe CO
Brockton
Masa
Madison Smith
Fort Puain
Atlanta
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