Remembering Aaron Smith a feisty Arkansas editor and writer
The fragment sketches Aaron Smith a determined editor and self taught writer from Miller County Arkansas. It depicts his early life of poverty and disability, his rise in the newspaper business with the Times-Review, and his durable perseverance. It mentions his skills with a typewriter, writing by toes, and his varied interests from sports to law study. It also includes anecdotes about prominent figures like B Gladstone and a Sunderland shipowner in a framing of his era.
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United States
Miller County
Ark
Aaron
Tex
Ely
Mt. Pleasant
Pimes Review
Times-Review
Dellever
Mr. Smith
B. Gladstone
The
Gov
Sunderland
Lindsey
Mr. Glade
Glade
Lindhen
Gladstone
Anyetter
New Oranges Train Scheme Promises Winter Boost
An audacious New Orleans promoter touts moving orange trees by special twentycar trains from Florida to the far south to ensure winter crops thrive. He predicts doubled yields and direct sale from the trees once maturity is reached, claiming a flashy boom for oranges and a fashion trend in fruit.
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Hull
Pepe Te Tek Phen Wight
New York
New Orleans
Treva
Nell Gwynne
New Orleans Titmes-Democrat
Eyelids Pricked in Belgian Ironworks Torture Case
A Chicago Tribune report describes a Belgian ironworks drill that tortured boys to force a confession after money vanished from a safe. Directors, avoiding police, imprisoned lads three days without food then beat them, pried eyelids, pricked with needles, and used restraints and stones before the victims admitted theft. Police have opened an inquiry.
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Iture
Eade
Caucasus
Chicago Tribune
Herlin
No Caucus Called in Sunflower State Proposal
A prominent Sunflower State politician proposes for a woman’s hand, jokingly entering a race with her consent. He asks for a caucus with her mother as temporary chair and plans a convention if approved. The reply: caucus unnecessary, nomination unanimous, come at once to fix ratification date.
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Annas Romticni
Miss
High Speed Trains Set Record Speeds on French Rails
The Pittsburg Post reports French rail service has set high speed marks with an average of 545 miles per hour including stops. Four cylinder compound locomotives are used exclusively for these espress trains.
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Esprese
Pittsburg
Great Britain's Vast Marine Halt Ships Converted in 48 Hours
A terse report notes Britain's merchant fleet can be converted into war ships within forty eight hours, showcasing rapid mobilization capability and military readiness. The statement emphasizes adaptability of Britain's maritime assets to wartime needs.
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Great Britain
Greenland Faces Serious Infectious Disease
Officials report an unidentified infectious disease affecting Greenland, prompting health alerts and investigation. The advisory cites potential spread risks and urges monitoring for new cases and protective measures amid harsh winter conditions.
Blanche Walsh Returns to Stage as Davenport Successor
Miss Blanche Walsh resumes starring career with Melbourne MacDowell in Fedora and Gismonda. After rapid progress last season in Chicago at the Columbia Theatre she is seen as the legitimate successor to the late Fanny Davenport and will continue the Davenport Sardou repertoire in the coming season.
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Blanche Walsh
Melbourne MacDowell
Fedora
Gismonda
Chicago
Columbia Theater
Miss Walsh
Fanny Davenport
Theatrical Topics and Actors in Review
Absurd miscue by a junior actor during a Richard scene prompts backstage chorus on memory lapses. Sydney Grundy’s Musketeers tour, La Reine Flamette rights, Mrs Fiske Beck y Sharp scene design, and Kronkowski’sareer in drama and Dumas gal leonial collaboration are noted alongside ele phants aiding bullocks in Indian artillery tasks and a lively look at stage craft.
The Madeline Poems and the Island Eggers Chronicle
A fragmentary piece blends verse about Madeleine with a tale of a geule-mechanism inventor and an island vanishing. It describes a litany of romantic imagery, a Bentleyman’s room filled with models, and the perilous cliffside eggers aided by rope work, signaling a hybrid prose poem and natural history vignette.
Curious Inhabitant John Wilcox Ejected From City Room
Curiosities of a Genius reports John Wilcox an old pensioner and inventor ejected from his Second and Laidlaw Street room after three years. Police Sgt Grimm acted for the premises with a rent default and secrecy about his devices. The building, tied to Grimm’s relatives, housed Wilcox’s collection of invention models as years of life and marriage in Chicago are noted.
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Grimm
Silver Moon
New York Exchange
John Wilcox
Second
Laidlaw Streets
John
Wilcox
Chicago
Grimm Staves
Pst Wilcox
Whalely Fights Grizzly Near Cooke City Mont
A Harper's Weekly tale recounts Whalely’s eerie mountain prospecting near Cooke City Montana. While sleeping amid warm weather and soft grass, he awoke to a grizzly bear over him and, desperate, struck the animal in the stomach with fists and feet, escaping into Cooke City in the dark.
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Harper's Weekly
Whalely
Cooke Tiiy
Mont
Whately
Cooke City
Island on Mekong vanishes in sudden land shift near Kumpharaph
Antaland reports a large land island near Nonghan on the Mekong vanished completely. The six by fourteen son island had ten foot trees and was partly cultivated. Owners searched for days without finding it, raising fears such land shifts may relocate or reappear later, unsettling landowners along the river.
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Antaland
Nonghan
Kumpharaph
Mekong
Urot Thia
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Attess Editor
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Greenland
J. E. Dodson
Barry Sullvan
Mr. Dodson
Richard
Sullivan
Richmond
Bursby
Gloucester
Eice
Comedietta
Mr. Grundy
Mr. O'Neill
Julia Marlowe
Calottes Mandes
Charles Frohman
Mina Marlowe
America
Miss Marlowe
Sydney Grundy
Grinity
Honor Bullad
Kronkowski
France
Asmores
Alexander Dumas
Pierre Newski
Danfcheffs
Damas
Dumas
Odeon
Dumar
India
Michigan
McClure
Sim
Madeleine
Madaleine
Tormtelsine
Hugo
Geo T
Vnnie Egex
Wight
Sercely
Nolay
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