Farewell Reception for Epworth League Teachers
About one hundred Leaguers and friends gathered at the First E church parlors for a farewell reception to the school teachers who are Leaguers. The evening featured social greetings, piano duet by Miss Lou Bushee and Miss Flora Avion, a male quartet, refreshments, toasts by E. D. Johnson and Rev. Brendy, and songs including Obituaries. the event closed around 10 30 with high praise for the season.
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Epworth
Firs
Lou Bushee
Flora Avion
Gray
Allen
Wilsay
Warner
Wes
Bates
E. D. Johnson
Brendy
Roxburgh
G. A. Johnson
Scott
Whitman
Warden and companion pursue violators on Long Lake
Mrs Warren Neal, the ish warden, with another woman, searched Long Lake last night for fish law violators. They found a jack light but fled when spotted. The suspects escaped into the woods and have not been arrested. Neal recovered their boat jack and spear.
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Warren Neal
Long Lake
Runaway Wagon Wrecks on Union Street
On Union Street Monday a wagon driven by Dave Mason of Inland swung wildly when frightened by bicyclists. His brother was thrown out, Miss Depew flew into a nearby lot, the tongue broke, Mr Mason was dragged and injured, one horse cut, and the team finally halted after colliding with a telegraph pole. Miss Kent remained unharmed.
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Union Street
Dave Mason
Inland
Miss Depew
Miss Kent
Theorses
Mr. Mason
Wind River tragedy and U S actions against Indians
A quoted letter recalls the Wind River massacre and US policy toward Native Americans, describing entr appalling starvation and deaths of 3000 at a camp, with 1090 escaping, and a fat child spared from massacre by a general's orders.
Twain anecdote on writer's cramp at London party
An evening gathering in London features Mark Twain humorously describing his writer's cramp. A young woman asks for a cure and he claims beefsteak as a treatment, noting it helped his cramps though not as a panacea. The playful exchange appears in a Criterion-clipped exchange.
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London
Mark Twain
Mr. Clemens
Clemens
The Great Lakes as One Ancient River System
W S Harwood discusses J Nicholas and geologists note the Great Lakes were once merged into a single basin draining toward the gulf. They have shrunk over time as Niagara’s barrier erodes, with levels dropping hundreds of feet and cities along their shores facing rise and decline while sediments hold relics of life.
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Cee
Great Lakes
W. S. Harwood
S J. Nicholas
Mr. Harwood
Mississippi River
Gulf
Niagara
Great Far West
St. Mary’s River
Superior
Huron
Clergyman Questions Phillips on North South Agitation
In Boston a group of ministers confronted Wendell Phillips on a street car asking why he stirs unrest over an easternly evil. Phillips calmly replied that he is a gospel minister and urged the man to focus on saving souls. The exchange, reported by the San Francisco Argonaut, shows a polite clash over reform rhetoric.
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Boston
Wendell Phillips
Mr. Phillips
San Francisco
The Chain Gang in Washington's History
An old Washingtonian recalls the city chain gang founded with the 1821 asylum. In 1523 men were ordered to street labor on the square near M and N streets, earlier small in number and unseen until later decades.
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Corporation of Washington
Asylum
Penitentiary Department
M, N. Sixth
Seventh Streets
Anacostia
Washington Star
Clergyman Rejects Political Advocacy in Heaven Debate
The clergyman refuses to advocate on any side of a current question, stating his mission is to prepare people for life in the next world. He asserts there is no politics in heaven, despite public expectations.
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Detroit Free Press
The Earth Not Enough Airship Toll Claim
A London Tit-Bits quip imagines Old Scrooge raising a tollgate to collect from balloonists who trespass in the sky, joking whether a title to real estate extends to the heavens. The exchange riffs on property rights and air travel in a satirical tone.
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Scrooge
London
Will her hat? progress path echoed in crowd says Enquirer
A Cincinnati Enquirer line quotes an orator proclaiming a woman’s will to move straight on toward progress. The crowd’s unspoken thought question asks whether she will wear her hat as she advances, capturing public sentiment on women’s advancing role.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Haircut Vandalism Allegedly Occurred in Park
An unknown person cut the narrator’s hair while resting in a park and warns others not to buy it. Hans Adelar, identified as a poet and composer, is cited in the Fliegende Blätter.
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Hans Adelar
Mystery of the Mist: Charles Marone vanishes on lonely Moor
Charles Marone, famed novelist of forty, wanders into the mist near Lowstead seeking quiet work. A veiled young woman guides him and claims they met twenty years before as Antoinette, with memory revived by scent. He follows and dies near the river as the moor seals the fate.
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Charles Marone
London
Lowstead
Arnmore
Oxford
Antoinette
Tam Antoinette
Barry Pain
Ship and city appear in stage sketch misread by viewer
A vaudeville sketch shows a French dancer drawing a ship at sea with an Oriental town in the background under a full moon. A front-row woman misreads the scene until her husband insists she sees the ship and city. she finally concedes and they exit, emotionally apart.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Singular coincidence tale from a graveyard dig
Mr. Felix Mahoney, a pension examiner, and a temporary worker discuss a graveyard scene in Connecticut. A gravedigger emerges from a grave and, after miscommunication with the deaf worker, directs them to Jim Smith’s house where the gravedigger will soon be digging.
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Felix Mahoney
Connecticut
Mahoney
Jim Smith
Mr. Mahoney
Fortissimo
Washington Star
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Our Ben
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New York Press
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Marone
the Homes
the Journal
the Detroit Journal
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Sapolio
Hobbs
the Hardware
Connection
W. J. Hobbs
Loudon
ING Establishment
Union St
McCormick
Empire
Ming & Champney
State Street
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