New Bunko Scheme Targets Small City Postmasters
A clever swindle by green goods men shifts from farmers to postmasters in towns with 8,000 to 30,000 people. Circulars claim genuine stamps are for sale at bargain prices, with the postmaster lured to New York where a hidden panel swaps real stamps for paper. The ruse uses a matching carriage mechanism to hide the fake bundle. Postmasters are warned inspectors will not issue warnings. some have been victimized as the scheme adapts to modern methods.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Sam
Green Goods
Bunko
Green
New York
Treasury Department
Horace H. Smite
May limit pastorates present plan unsatisfactory to many Methodists
The article notes turmoil within the Methodist Church over potential limits on pastorates and signals discussion at the next General Conference. It mentions candidates for bishoprics and highlights Agnes Weston's thirty years of blue jacket labor, praising her YMCA influence on sailors and related hotel work at Fortress Monroe and other yards. An extensive summer campaign includes outdoor tent meetings and about four hundred professional evangelists.
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Ers
Agnes Weston
Young Men's Christian Association
Fortress Monroe
Indianapolis Journal
New York
General Conference of
Chicago
Chancellor Day
Syracuse University
Mills
W. F. McDowell
Educational Society
J. M. King
A. B. Leonard
The
Missionary Society
J. W. Bashford
America
England
Britain
London
British and Foreign Bible Society
Ragged School Union
Church Missionary Society
Salvation Army
Church Army
International Bible Reading Association
Home of the Washing tions. Washingtons celebrated in English village
In Bedford England a correspondent visits Althorpe Park and Great Brington Church, describing Washington family monuments and the Virginia connection. He tours Washington House and Little Brington while praising the English countryside and colonial ties, ending with reflections on American kinship with Old England.
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Indianapolis Journal
Bedford
England
Northampton
Chapel Brampton
Church Brampton
Harlestone
Althorpe Park
Earl Spencer
Great Brington Church
Washington
Old England
Rome
Little Brington
Lebanon
Washington House
John Hamson
Answer to admission questions in New York exams
An old New York exam question asks applicants about intoxicating beverages. Responses vary from no drinks to mild, moderate, and “almost temperate.” Nationalities differ in anecdotes, with a Yankee saying no but one drink in ten days and a Swede measuring “one glass of beer in ten days.”
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A. M. Jones
McClure
City of
New York
Stat
Saeeage
Paris Shakes Hands With Fedor Machnoff World’s Tallest Man
Paris report details Fedor Machnoff born to Russian peasants in Wittebsk now 22, standing 8 ft 9 in with 13 inch gloves and 18 to 20 shoe sizes. His growth started on his seventh birthday, and he travels in special train accommodations while giants of Germany and history are compared.
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Indianapolis Journal
Paris
Fedor Machnoff
Rome
Fedor
Wittebsk
Berlin
Wilhelm Ehmke
Jugieman
First Guards
Potsdam
Fritz Conrad
Garde du Corps
Conrad
Ehmke
Grunewald
Germany
von Pluskow
Charlotte
William
von Lesnow
Bavarian Field Artillery
Balling
Munich
Frederick
William the First
Frederick the Great
Sie
Frederick William
Grosse
James Kirkland
Groose
Macinoff
Canon Berb
Canon- Berg
M. Canon-Berg
Canon-Berg
Holland
Anton Mochty
Anton
Wilkelman
Crusal
Wilkens
Goliath
David
Rollo
Normandy
Charles the Third
France
Charles
Tony Payne
Stratton
Cornelius McGrath
Tipperary
Fedor Macinoff
Cotter
Man Mountain
Chang Woo Gow
King Foo
Chang
Prince of Wales
King Edward
London
Austria
Kishineff Horror Details Massacre of Jews in Russia
An American correspondent recounts the Kishineff massacre of Jews in Bessarabia, describing police inaction, Governor Von Randen’s controversial role, and a rabbi’s eyewitness account. He notes over 120 Jews killed, 26 fatally wounded, many injured, and thousands left homeless with 90 widows and 600 orphans. A women’s charity committee raises funds abroad to aid the destitute, while mobs destroy Jewish shops and tools.
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Indianapolis Journal
Kishineff
Bessarabia
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Russia
Kishineft
Friends of Humanity
Commerce and Disconto Bank
Depositen- Kasse
Berlin
Germany
von Raaben
Troika
Oxen Wisdom From Old Days Echoes On The Farm
In a nostalgic reflection the speaker recalls the intelligence and steadiness of oxen. An elderly farmer praises ox teams for their reliability and calm nature, sharing stories of an ox named Ben who guided a wagon with grain, turning aside for other teams and never reacting to a rider on horseback.
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Old John
Ol’ Kaintucky
Ben
Gran
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