Seaside Ducking Cruise Ends in Narrow Sea Rescue
Harry Weekit and Flora Veskit sail from Staten Island in a small yacht with Toby Ditson aboard. A sudden gale drives the craft to sea after Flora dozes. Harry spots the adrift yacht, braves rough waters, and recovers the vessel by dawn as Flora keeps watch and ferries coffee, bringing them safely home to the Highlands of Nave rvik.
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Harry Weekit
Staten Island
Toby Ditson
Harry
Flora Veskit
Flora
Flo
Toby
Atlantic
Tam
Toby Ditton
Marty
Aml
Navervik
Fateful Ring Fight Tale From Washington Herald
A Washington Herald excerpt describes a disreputable boxing scene in a country town. A pure villainous ringer is taken from a coach and fought a country boy, who knocks him out in the first round. The crowd frets over danger, even as the ringer’s supposed doom is debated.
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Hayseed
Hackman
Bill
Washington Herald
China’s new anthem likely to be accepted by Beijing
National song updates describe china’s unity under five tribes and Confucian ideals while praising wealth development and education. A separate note reports an enormous albatross brought to New York from Salina Cruz aboard the Annie, weighing 14 pounds with a 16 foot wingspan. Another anecdote recounts a New Yorker teasing a Arkansas visitor on his first view of the ocean, remarking it exceeded expectations in modest size.
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China
Belgium
Wang Yan Pao
Chang Tsien
Mengtse
Confucius
Mongtse
New York
Brooklyn
Salina Cruz
Mexico
Salute of the Flag: A Longstanding Naval Greeting
The salutation given when a vessel lowers its flag is one of the oldest forms of marine greeting. Salutes, demanded in foreign ports, are a matters of naval etiquette with an elaborate code fixed by maritime powers, prescribing the number of guns to be fired in all circumstances.
Dialogue Friction Over Rent Sparks Housing Grievances
A pair of quotes shows a terse exchange about seeking better living conditions as one man complains he cannot afford rent on a miserable hole while the other suggests moving to more comfortable quarters, highlighting housing strain and stubborn disagreement.
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Hunt
Otneo
The Chin as a Key to Speech and Progress
A North American Review essay argues the chin develops with intellect and society, proposing the chin aids articulate speech. It speculates early humans shifted from lethal weapons to speech and arbitration, viewing this as part of cosmic evolutionary progress.
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North American Review
Grove's The Old Standard General Tonic Claim
The advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a universal tonic with quinine and iron. It claims to act on the liver drive out malaria enrich the blood and build up the whole system, presenting itself as equally valuable as a general tonic.
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Grove
Seaboard Schedule April 12 1914 Monroe Line Details
Seaboard Travel announces rail connections via Monroe North Carolina with chair cars between Charlotte and Wilmington and an observe sleeper from New York to Birmingham. The April 12 1914 timetable lists arrival and departure trains at Monroe with multiple local and long distance services and contacts for more information.
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Monroe
N. C
Seaboard Air Line
Charlotte
Wilmington
New York
Birmingham
Portsmouth
Atlanta
Porto
Rutherfordton
Raleigh
Ports
Nw York
New York Porta
Birmingham - Atlanta
Therford
Riton
Wi'lmington
Bulford
J. Brigman
Ticket Agt
John T. West
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the Ringer
Coney Island
Arkansas
Southwest
Chari
Piidmont Plent Co. Than, Cay Dod Gravrelidey FS
Seaboard
AIR Line Railway
M. Waller
Live and Let Live Grocer
H. B. Havely
C. E
Belk-Bunday Bldg
Monroe, N. C
B. C. Redfearn
Bruner
Marshville
Matthews
W. B. Houston
Fitzgerald Building
Court House
Monroe, N.C
R. L
Monroe, N
Postoffice
F. 8. Scharfenberg
Spokane and Orchestra
Spokane
Wash
W. T. Waller
First National Bank
Tryon St. Charlotte
W. C. Lemmond
Leone
John Griffith
Fel
T. J. Crowell
Gordon Invesment CO
Baker’s
Ranga Fen
Monroe Insurance & Investment Company
G. B. Caliawell
Bank of Union Building
BANK
The
Bank of Union
Bank of Sympathy
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