Gossip from the Capital Strange Monster Spurs Washington Society
Washington society reels as Baron des Planches, Italian ambassador, returns after retirement rumors unsettling officials and socialites alike. Post office wage talks ignite congress as clerks seek higher pay amid clerical shortages and rising demand. In Delaware County, fear of a gorilla like wild animal drives locals to traps and armed precautions amid disputed sightings.
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Washington
Baron Des Planches
Baron Mayor Des Planches
Haut Monde
Baron Hengelmueller
Austria-Hungary
Ccenfreres
Austria
Whce
Baron Fava
New York City
Italy
Uncle Sam
Hearst
New York
Mayor Des Planches
Fava
Des Planches
Darby
Delaware County
Wayfarers
Zoological Gardens of
Philadelphia
Ture
Woman teacher braves snowstorm to reach Laramie
Miss May Hunt, a schoolteacher from Horse Creek, crossed deep drifts near the summit in a fierce snowstorm. After her horse balked and was abandoned, she pressed on on foot through cold, wet gear, fear of coyotes, and freezing wind toward town, reaching the stone quarries two miles from Laramie where relatives planned to fetch a carriage. Her survival came with severe swelling but no lasting injuries.
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Laramie
Wyo
Miss May Hunt
Horse Creek
Nas
Miss Hunt
OMAN PASSES AS A MAN AT AGE THIRTY YEARS
An elderly policeman in a town for three decades was found to be a woman disguised as a man named Fernando Mackenzie. She served seven governors, worked as a cook and orderly at a governor’s palace, and married in Madrid. Her sex discovery ends her police service and leaves her in distress, with only a cherished image of Christ as solace. The Mikado of Japan enjoys outdoor sports and promotes football, hunting, fishing, and lawn tennis.
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Peville
Accid
Fernando ‘Kenzie
Fernando Mackenzie
France
Spain
Madrid
Seville
San Pablo
Christ
Fernando
Mackenzie
Japan
England
Not Happily Put
A dialogue excerpt shows a gloomily tainted man admitting past temptations toward self harm while another character urges acceptance and moving on from past mistakes. The exchange hints at melancholy reflection without resolution.
Government Study Of Indians Completed
The Bureau of American Ethnology finishes a 25 year project on Indian history and languages. Findings challenge biblical creation and support long human presence in North America. The study suggests no clear links to Africans or Mongoloids and argues against Siberian to Alaska migration. Lemon grafting surprise ends with sour fruit tale.
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Bureau of American Ethnology
Garden of Eden
North Pole
Bureau of Ethnology
Kamschatkan Peninsula
Siberia
Alaska
Girl Serves Dinner on Lofty Smokestack
In Bloomington Illinois on a 200 foot concrete smokestack Miss Marguerite Richey served an eight course banquet to eight guests as a prank for the Danville traction system project. The ascent used a nine inch interior ladder with a rope waist tether and required multiple rests as dizziness struck. Lake Erie fish claim noted without context.
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Illinois Traction System
Danville
Marguerite Richey
Richey
Mr. Gorsuch
Night in rattlesnake den at Holy Cross hut
St Paul writer John C. Busby recounts a storm bound night near Buena Vista as he hid in a derelict cabin. A rattlesnake brushed his chest and he leaped out to safety. Inside the hut the room seemed haunted with candle light, shadows, a ticking candlestick, and a frightened group of investigators.
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St. Paul
John C. Busby
Holy Cross
Dubuque County
Mr. Busby
Jefe Farley
Iowa
Buena Vista
Tick
Spook
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Congress
Post Office Department
Chambers of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Everett
Wash
Springfield Township
Frank Carr
Crea
May Hunt
Oman
Jong
Paris
Department of Agriculture
B. T. Galloway
Bureau of Plant Industry
Herbert W. Webber
Prof. Galloway
Wilson
Girl
Bloomington
Lake Erie
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