Amusing Anecdotes and City Gossip From New York
Reporter recalls a patchwork of vignettes from New York society and crime lore, including amateur theater quips, a prosy missionary tale, police lore about Thomas Byrnes, and hotel price jests centered on the Broadway Hotel and the Fifth Avenue hôtel. Names like Israel Zangwill and Michael Murphy appear in quick sketches of public life and wit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue
Israel Zangwill
Tle
Saul
Canwiford
Opay
Accent and Voice Control Highlighted by Dr Canfield
Dr Jamon Canfield of Columbia University states that most false impressions come from how a sentence is spoken. He notes that accent and cadence shape perception and that some people misread money and purse when voices are mismodulated.
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Jamon Canfield
Columbia University
Telegraph time signals linked continents in midnight dawn
The article describes a worldwide display of time signals sent from Washington Naval Observatory via telegraph and cable at midnight. Signals traveled to North, South and Central America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific, with observatories in Lick, Green Bank, Sydney, and Wellington reporting reception times.
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We Naval Observatory
Washington
Central America
Europe
Alaska
Australia
Philippine Islands
Ciréule
Lick Observatory
Observaton
Rugland
National Observatory of Mesics
Sydney Observatory
Anustralia
Wellington
New Zealand
Hayden
Dawson
Skagway
Juneau
SttWa
Panama
Valparaiso
Buenos Ayres
Honolulu
Guam
Matila
Is the World Growing Better A Quaker Debate
The piece explores a Pennsylvanian football rivalry between Swarthmore and Haverford and a broader question from Henry van Dyke in Everybody's Magazine about whether the world is improving. It frames bets among alumni as a mirror of hope, urging a modest faith in progress and the Christmas spirit fostering good will.
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Pennsylvania
Traverford
Swarthmore Colleges
Philadelphia
Haverford
Swarthwere
Reuterss
Swarthmore- Haverford
Swarth
Henry van Dyke
Everybody's
the Questio
No Friend of His Breaks Ties Over Brick Threat
A Baltimore magistrate, Justice Friedel, hears a case after a man named Charles Sewell seeks a warrant for a man named Thomas Kane for striking him with a brick. The complainant insists the attack was unprovoked and calls the presumed assailant Fren’ Fren’, insisting the two are not friends.
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Brick
Friedel
Charles /Sewell
Honah
Thomas ‘Kane
Ormond Beach Sand Makes an Ideal Auto Track
The Ormond-Daytona Beach area in Florida is praised as the finest automobile track on earth. Locals note the winter scene is superb, with shell-based coquina sand forming a hard cementlike surface that resists mud and dust, offering safer, mud-free racing conditions and no tire blowouts.
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Ormond
Daytona Beach
Florida
Daytona Beach Motors Boost At Club Meet
The article notes a surge of auto enthusiasm in Daytona with many cars on the beach route. C G Burgoyne resigns for health, Ed ward Steck buys a winter home and enters an eighty horsepower Darrac. The Florida coast Auto association built a beachside clubhouse opposite the halfway post of the twenty mile courses.
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Utes
Daytona
Darrac
Any
Florida Ast Cost Automobile Association
Florida Beach Racing Pioneers and Daytona Developments
The article recounts financier Gage urging Lyon to pay a large note, notes on auto racing on Florida beaches, and Hathaway the father of Florida beach racing organizing the Florida East Coast Automobile Association. It describes Daytona Beach developments, Flagler Vanderbilt Gould Astor connections, new hotels, railroad bridge, and a large garage and chauffeur clubhouse amid preparations for races.
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Hathaway
Florida East Coast Automobile Association
Ormand
Daytona Beach
Florida
H.M. Flagler
Leiter
W.ok. Vanderbilt
He. M. Flagler
Howard , Gould
Yohi
Jacob Astor
Imny
Daytona
Ormond
A. New
Halifax
Literature and the Beast in Contemporary Writing
Editorial notes that modern literature shifts from romance to blood letting and anthropology. It cites the World To-Day critique on animalism, discusses romance’s decline, and observes how young authors rewrite love with modern social dynamics.
Secretaries Recognize Voices With Unfailing Accuracy
A description of private secretaries to busy men who identify visitors by voice and greet them by name, even when unseen, noting Col. Duval nicknamed the Cerberus of Senator Depew’s office at Grand Central Station.
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Ward
Depew
Vans
West
Sauppore
Amateu
Thomas Ochilitree
Olones
Senator Depew
Col. Duval
Cerberus Ih
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Reediagron
Aid
Henry W Savage
Pather
Aithong
A. Ory
Police
Thomas Byrnes
Mutherry
Fles
Kvines
Baureau
Broadway
Lowell
Simeon Ford Worches
James
Michael
Murphy
New York Herald
India
Bombay
Hong Kong
Uncle Sam
Hawaii
Manila
Gage
Mr. Lyon
Mr. Gage
Lyon
Daytona Beach, Florida
Literature and the Beast
Mr. Blank
Plunkitts
Scott
Plunkitt
New York Times
Ray
Beach
Hatham
Parison
Lyman J. Gage
Secretary of the Treasury
First National Bank
Ormond-Daytona Beach, Florida
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