Night in Cicero's Villa Ends in Escape by Telegraph Code
An American traveler recounts wandering to Cicero's villa site near the Campagna. He stays in a poorly housed Italian dwelling where a French archaeologist prisoner plots a ransom. They escape at night using a pistol and a hidden gun, aided by a screwdriver-made exit and a skirmish with a sleeping guard.
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Italy
America
Rome
Cicero
General Washington
Campagna
Night Battle Off Santo Domingo Aboard a Yacht
A lone yacht anchored near the Yaqui River mouth in Santo Domingo faces an attack by black raiders. The narrator and Erickson defend with rifles and grenades, wrecking one raiding party, while crewmen flee in small boats as dawn approaches and they sail away.
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Santo Domingo
Haiti
Erickson
Facbt
Hind
Alnce
Cameos Capture New York Fashion Craze
A bustling fashion craze in New York centers on cameos in rings bracelets earrings and brooches. White elite pendants with ebony settings highlight ornate pearl backgrounds while wedgewood blue cameos glow in pearl settings. Coral pink cameos suit pale filigree gold and brown white cameos brighten velvet neckbands. Even high back combs feature cameos with Grecian gowns completing the look.
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New York
Pearls of Scotland and Curious Ancient Uses Emergence
The article notes Scotland still produces freshwater pearls and compares England's potential profitability. It recalls Cleopatra swallowing dissolved pearl and cites traditional medicinal uses in the west. A Chinese authority describes pearls treated with pumice and honeycomb and snake gall stretched into long pills claimed to render food unnecessary for life.
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Scotland
England
Cleopatra
Materia Medica
China
Eternal Seas water and salt split by imaginative scientist
A London Chronicle writer imagines tapping the oceans for a perpetual water supply by separating salt from water. He suggests a genius could profit by providing water and salt as separate inexpensive commodities. Also notes Chinese women students arriving in America under Boxer indemnity fund and others studying in the west.
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London Chronicle
America
West
New York
City
Canton
Canton Christian College
How About It It May Also Be True
Fragmentary text hints at a discussion or note about a red jug moss gatherers or collectors, with unclear wording and missing specifics. The readable words suggest a casual query or aside, lacking concrete facts, dates, or named entities.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Offered with Promise of Cure
The advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure, claiming it treats catarrh as a constitutional disease via internal use. It bets $100 to any case it cannot cure and invites readers to send for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Take 'S
Just Between Ourselves and The Lamppost
Advertising guidance urges business readers to engage the buyer with direct, punchy copy. Emphasizing thought before action, the piece promotes turning the family circle into a shopping center and focusing on detailed, persuasive storytelling to move customers to purchase.
Fate of Majority and Patent Suits Plague Inventors
A Chicago Tribune summary notes that about a million patents have been sued over in this country with most serving little purpose beyond draining inventors' funds.
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Chicago Tribune
Understanding Newspaper Subscriptions Law and Duties
The article outlines U S decisions on subscription renewals and nonpayment. Readers who do not object are assumed to renew. If a subscriber discontinues a paper the publisher may still bill. Moving without notice leaves the reader liable. Prepaid subscribers must announce termination to avoid further charges. Pay now and get a 104 page dictionary for 2.
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United States
Two Fine Lots for Sale in Carrick Grove
I offer two fine lots 50 by 150 in Carrick Grove on the knoll facing High Point four blocks nearer the city than Roland Park. Sell for half the Ro land Park price. If you want a bargain come quick. Apply at this office or Box 333 city.
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Carrick Grove
High Point
Roland Park
City
North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College Ad
The North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College maintained by the state for the women of North Carolina offers five regular degree courses and special courses for teachers. Free tuition to those who commit to teaching in the state. Fall session begins September 16, 1914. For catalogue and information address Julius I L Faust, President, Greensboro, NC.
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North Carolina
Julius IL. Faust
Greensboro
N. C
Seaboard Air Line offers fastest routes in South
Seaboard Air Line Railway promotes fastest routes from Richmond and Norfolk to the Northwest via Washington and the Southwest via Atlanta and Birmingham. It touts all steel, electrically lighted trains with dining cars and la carte meals. The Florida Limited is highlighted for January to April. Rates and schedules available through local agents Charles B. Ryan John T. West and Charles R. Capps with Norfolk and Raleigh offices.
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Seaboard Air Line Railway
Progressive Railway of the
Richmond
Norfolk-Portsmouth
Nouthwest
Washington
D. C
Atlanta
Birmingham
Seaboard Florida Limited
Florida
Charles B. Ryan
Cerral Pass
Norfolk
John T. West
Division Pass
CHAS
Amos Furniture Company Certificate of Dissolution 1914
State of North Carolina certifies Amos Furniture Company dissolved by unanimous stockholder consent filed May 29 1914. Principal office 119 S Main St High Point Guilford with R T Amos as agent in charge. Secretary J Bryan Grimes signs official seal in Raleigh.
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Amos Furniture Company
S. Main Street
High Point
County of
Guilford
State of North Carolina
R. T.amos
I.J. Bryan Grimes
State of
North Carolina
Raleigh
A. D
J. Bryang
Farm loan funds from national banks reach $500 million
Comptroller Williams says about 500 million dollars in national banks are available for farm mortgage loans under the Farm Loan clause of the Federal Reserve Act. Based on bank capital stock and surplus of 1.777 billion, 25 percent equates to 444.25 million, with up to 33 percent of time deposits allowable. Loans limited to five years and 50 percent of farm value.
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Washington
D.C
Comptroller of the Currency
Williams
United States
Treasury Department
Federal Reserve Board
Norfolk Southern Railroad Schedule Feb 19 1914
Norfolk Southern Rail Road publishes a short line timetable for Raleigh Fayetteville Charlotte Star Asheboro and intermediates. Arrivals at Raleigh 10:00 and 4:50 daily from Fayetteville and 3:45 daily from Charlotte Star and intermediates. Departures from Raleigh 7:40 and 5:50 daily for Varina Lillington Fayetteville and 7:30 and 4:25 daily for Varina Duncan Star Mt Gilad Charlotte. Fayetteville departures 7:00 and 1:50 for Lillington Varina Raleigh. Charlotte departures 6:30 and 9:00 for Star Duncan Varina Raleigh. Contact agents H S Leard and J F Mitchell for information.
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Norfolk ~ Southern Railroad Company
Raleigh
Fayetteville
Charlotte, Star
Asheboro
N.C
Charlotte
Star
Varina
Lillington
Duncan
Mt. Giléad
H. S. Leard
GPA
Norfolk, Va
J. F. Mitchell
TPA
N. C
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McCall's Magazine
McCall
McCall’s Magazine
White Sulphur Springs
Mt. Airy
James Cannon, JR
Ereoe
Virginia
Wits
Etic
GEO. P
ADAMS
Blackstone
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