Goulding Exits as Denmark’s V E Gylke Tops in Walks
George Goulding the champion heel walker now in Toronto believes Denmark’s V. E. Gylke will eventually become champion. Gylke competed in the 10,000 meter walk at Stockholm, showing a smooth finished style and natural ability. Goulding plans to quit and remains regarded as the greatest walker with many world records.
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George Goulding
Toronto
Denmark
V. E. Gylke
Stockholm
Goulding
Universal Rowing Stroke Proposed by National Oarsmen Chief
James Pilkington president of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen advocates a universal scientific stroke modeled on English practice. He urges adoption by leading schools and universities with professional coaches to standardize the Courtney stroke across the United States.
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James Pilkington
National Association of Amateur Oarsmen
United States
Pilkington
England
Oxford
Cambridge
German Imperial Olympic Games Title Offered for 125
The Olympic committee seeks donations to fund Germany’s games. It claims the event will showcase the nation’s organization, beauty, industry, economy, and military power. Donors can obtain the title promoter of the German imperial committee of Olympic games for 125 dollars.
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Germany
Milwaukee Bans Further Boxing After Warrant Issuance
District Attorney Yockey announced no more boxing bouts will be allowed in Milwaukee after warrants were issued for the arrest of Jack Redmond and Joe Welling on charges of participating in a prize fight. He acted following a conference with ministers who argued the event was a prize fight not a boxing exhibition and thus prohibited by Wisconsin law.
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Milwaukee
Yockey
Jack Redmond
Joe Welling
Wisconsin
Speed Horses Face Disappearance Warns New York Panel
The New York State Racing Commission warned that prolonged conditions could halt thoroughbred breeding and development in the United States. It urged race tracks as essential to maintaining a horse's peak condition.
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United States
New York State Racing Commission
The Art of Graciousness Payoff in Business
A study of courteous behavior boosting business success across cases in a firm, a president’s secretary role, and two manicure shop rivals. Politeness wins customer goodwill, sustains deposits, and expands opportunities, while rudeness loses patrons and growth potential.
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New York
Mystery of the dice explained in Julesburg gambling den
An American civil engineer visiting Julesburg recounts a gambling den where a pair of dice were rigged with a hidden telegraphic device and magnet under a walnut table. He demonstrates the trick using a compass that points east, reveals a battery and switches, and notes the pockmarked man’s role. The plainsman exposes the fraud, recovers the winnings, and offers a reward for the secret.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Julesburg
Jonah
Sodom
Laramie
North Pole
Changing Rules for Mourning Dress Mark Social Reform
The article argues mourning customs have simplified and modernized removing costly crape and elaborate jewelry. It prescribes severe simplicity, banning colored underskirts and gold or colored stones, allowing only black wear, minimal jewelry, and practical outerwear like a black or dark gray mackintosh, with no armband symbols unless in uniform.
Public Courtesy Rules for Street Etiquette
The text urges discretion and courteous conduct in public spaces. It condemns talking loudly for introductions in streets and argues for keeping to the right on sidewalks. It also criticizes rushing through doors and pushing at box offices and smoking in public with women present.
Etiquette Rules Ban Debutante Invitations to Men
A guideline states a debutante may not issue invitations to men. A written note signed by her and her mother is permissible. however, engraved invitations must not be sent by unmarried women to their male friends.
Unseasonably warm winter pleases grownups, irks children
The mild weather spoils winter fun as thousands of children miss frosty days for skating and sledding. A girl in a picture skates with a doll, while anticipation grows for proper ice and snow despite the warm trend.
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Jack Frost
Dolly
Tigers Caught by Pit Traps and Clever Traps
Tigers are captured as cubs or adults by native hunters using large pits and wooden traps. A tangle of nets and mesh ensures the animal falls into a secure trap. Some pits trap the tiger as it falls, requiring downstream securing of the animal.
Tiger driven to market by rope collar method
Describes a method used in parts of India where a tiger is restrained by a collar with multiple twenty foot ropes. Men hold the rope ends and pull in unison to guide the tiger along a path to a destination, effectively walking the tiger to market.
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India
Willie Jones and the Endless Rope Folly
One day Willie Jones finds a rope over the alley fence and keeps pulling it until a yard full of rope piles up and falls on him. He pulls so hard he seems to uncover an endless rope and realizes he would never finish, so he stops and goes to breakfast.
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Willie Jones
Chicago News
Game of Fly Away Children’s classroom tag game rules
Five or more children can play in school or yard. Players sit with hands in lap and raise hands when the leader says Fly away followed by a flying creature. If the following word is a non flying animal players must not raise hands. a miss makes that player it.
Dorothy Learns 6 Times 9 in Class Humble Tale
A learner struggles with multiplication and names, using a child named Mary Ann as a memory aid. The sister suggests calling the girl Fifty Four to memorize answers. Elizabeth Wiegiesworth states 6 times 9 is 52, prompting a tense classroom moment before the narrator blurts out Mary Ann.
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Mary Ann
Elizabeth Wiegiesworth
Dorothy
Writ Issued for Editor S B Kauffman in Larceny Charge
A warrant for the arrest of Samuel BKauffman publisher of the Daily Union suspending publication was issued at the request of Dr George R Spratt. The charge is larceny as bailee over a linotype machine pledged as loan collateral later allegedly sold and moved to Philadelphia.
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Coatesville
Samuel B. Kauffman
Daily Union
George R. Spratt
Spratt
Kauffman
Philadelphia
Rector Rebukes Singer Over Choir Dispute in Birdsboro
Reading Pennsylvania February 6. Evidence shows rector Rev Harry Howe Bogert of St Michael s Episcopal Church Birdsboro County takes a firm stance in a feud with the church choir. The bass soloist Brandt S Duddy received a letter demanding loyalty and pledges of support before he can sing again.
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Reading
Harry Howe Bogert
St. Michael's Episcopal Church
Birdsboro
Brandt S. Duddy
St. Michael’s Choir
Fire Without Flame Invention By English Engineer
English engineer Bode claims a device that produces fire without flame by a porous plate of fire resisting fragments where inflammable gas and air are mixed. When lit a flame appears at the surface, but once air is supplied the flame vanishes while heat rises to about 3,200 degrees.
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Bode
My Garden Poem About Planting Odd Seeds
A child describes digging a small garden and planting a penny a bean and a green button in three holes. The piece records slow growth hopes and a request for clues about why nothing is sprouting, noting patience and inquiry. The tone resembles a child’s diary in a New York Herald column.
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American Press Association
Green & Davidson
Green @ Blair
Warren
Pennsylvania
S. B. Kauffman
New York Herald
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