Diamond Dick Found in Norfolk as Doctor Tanner Reveals Skill
Norfolk residents discover Dr. Richard J. Tanner, longtime Madison County physician, to be the famed frontier marksman Diamond Dick. His dramatic rodeo shooting demonstrates unchanged nerve and accuracy with pearl-handled revolvers and a rifle.
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Norfolk, Net
Diamond, Dick
Norfolk
Richard J. Tanner
Madison County
Tater
Diamond Dick
Viamond
Wade
American Legion
Tanner
America
Black Hills
trans-Missouri
Conner College
Nebraska
Nebraska Wesleyan
Kansas
West
Wild Bill Hickok
California Joe
Calamity Jane
Deadwood Dick
Texas Jack
Buffalo Bal
Platte
Belle Fourche
Teenager Trapped in Fridge Survives Freezing Ordeal
Sixteen year old Nick Cormoose crawled into the refrigerator at Royal Confectionery in Millville New Jersey to fetch ice cream. The door sealed shut trapping him for more than two hours. He was found unconscious and nearly frozen but revived.
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Millville, N. J
Nick Cormoose
Royal Confectionery Company
Tokyo Lad Honored for Remarkable Generosity
Genichiro Yamen for Tokyo lad received praise from John Barton Payne chair of the Red Cross for a notable act of self denial and generosity. After a $1.50 allowance from his parents he sent the money to aid Red Cross relief work following a Santa Barbara earthquake, recalling U S aid after a Tokyo disaster.
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Genichiro Yamenén
Tokyo Bey
John Barton Payne
Red Cross
United States
Tokyo
Margret Anderson Seeks Missing Son World War Veteran
Mrs. Margaret Anderson, sixty seven, travels by carriage to penal institutions and asylums in Marquette and beyond seeking traces of her son Joe Anderson, a World War I veteran who disappeared from Detroit in 1924 after being paroled from Leavenworth. She notes he used the name John Z Jotsin and listed Stevens Point Wisconsin as his address.
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Marquette
Mich
Joe Anderson
Detroit
Margaret Anderson
Company K
One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Infantry
Leavenworth
Slowx Falls
Washington
Harding
Joe
John Z. Jotsin
Stevens Point
Wis
Chicago
Say They Get Gold by Alchemy of Old
A historic claim from France states that alchemists there have turned mercury into gold using methods older than modern electronics. The note contrasts this with earlier reports from Japan and Germany where Nagaoka and Miethe reportedly achieved transmutation, though not yet commercially viable.
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New York
Nagaoka
Japan
Miethe
Germany
France
Erith Tiede
Arthur Schleede
Frieda Goldschmidt
Doctor Aston
Cavendish Laboratory
Cambridge
England
Alchemy Claim Sparks Gold From Mercury Experiments
The article reports on Miethe’s recipe to transmute metals into gold using arsenic compounds, arsenic and antimony sulfides, and heat. It notes mixed results with other scientists failing to reproduce gold from mercury and cites Aston’s view on the weight of such claimed gold.
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AL Joliiiet
Castelot
French Society of Alchemists
Francis Bacon
Robert Boyle
Ioyal Society
Charles 11
Europe
Golfing sea captain Latta leads world cruise golf match quest
News of Captain Latta the famed Atlantic skipper who plays golf at every port and may command the 128 day cruisetour world voyage of the steamship Express of Scotland. The voyage takes Rowd the World Golf Club tourists to Naples Calo Batavia Manila Honolulu and more with Latta guiding the expedition.
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New York
G. Latta
Atlantic
Scotland
Scotland. Captain Lattat
Canadian Pacife Railway
Archangel
Cape Horn
Erpress
World Golf Club
Akill
Latta
Seven Seas
Naples
Vesuvius
Calo
India
Batavia
Java
Joseph Conrad
Manila
China
Japan
Ricks
Earth Round and Mont Seid Long Before Columbus
A fragmentary discussion cites Oxford libraries and a thirteenth century source claiming the earth is round. It imagines how Columbus might have used monastic writings to argue globe facts and astronomy, noting the moon shines dimly and the sun’s size relative to Earth.
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Oxford
Hkagland
Chretopher Columbus
Bagich
Vendetta land island of contrasts and mystery
A National Geographic Society communication portrays Corsica as Vendetta land, a Mediterranean island near the Côte dAzur famed for beauty and paradox. It notes banditry, guarded streets, gendarmes in pairs, ancient bridges, rugged transport, and a scented, storied culture attracting visitors away from the continental rush.
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Washington
Corsica
France
National Geographic Society
Cote d'Azur
Venditta
Boswell
Corsicana
Michigan Breeds Herd of Pure Albino Deer
A report from Lake Superior notes a herd on Grand Island bred for albinism, the first large mammal selective breeding attempt. Cautions that albino deer face hunting threats, with past reports in Oregon and inevitable white coat vulnerability.
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Detroit
Grand Island
Lake Superior
Oregon
Sheldon couple claims family honor records in Attleboro
Mr and Mrs Joseph Sheldon of Braggs Corner district claim a family honor record. Married when he was sixteen and she fifteen, they have ten children aged forty two and forty one. None of the children has ever had a day ill and doctors were called only once for a theater accident involving eldest son Joseph Jr
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Attleboro
Masa
Joseph Sheldon
Braggs Corner
Sheldon
Josephs Ir
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Famous Shot
Kaga
Friend
Sam
Interior
Arno B. Cammerer
We Ee
RAY Legear
Ina Young B. Tarmom
SAT Yeane
Ortelaat
Rushey
West Indies
Garry
Hidaolulu
California
Panama
Havasu
Delhi
Monk Seid
Columbue
Vendettaland Island
Michigan
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