Sam Lamb and the Runaway Boys in Memphis Excursion
Jimmy and Billy plot a prank by trading for a dog and plan a trip on Sam Lamb's excursion train to Memphis. The scheme backfires as Miss Minerva and the major confront misbehavior, culminating in an engagement announcement and a turn toward guardian care.
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Billy
Sam Lamb
Sam
Peruny
Mr. Garner
Minerva
William
Memphis
Jimmy
Sarah Jane
Bennie Dick
Knights of Pythi
Marie
Lina
Frances
Mrs. Garner
Tel Shones
Weckly
Duchess Goes to the Front in Nurse Form
Rome Italy the duchess of Aosta leaves luxury for Tri Poli to nurse the sick and wounded along with other noble women She will be known as nurse No 3 of the Naples Red Cross resisting royal disapproval and willfully abandoning her title Princess Elena d Orleans daughter of the late Count de Paris is her prior identity
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Frances
Jimmy
Rome
Italy
Aosta
Tripoli
Naples Red Cross
Duke of
Elena d’Orleans
Count de Paris
Reikin: A New Japanese Stringed Instrument Debuts
A Nagoya violinmaker devises the reikin a guitar shaped stringed instrument with four strings. By keyboard action it can replace several samisen and has impressed an orchestra of Japanese musicians. The inventor conceived the idea during a European tour last year.
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Nagoya
Europe
Salt Paint and Ocean Taste Hearten Paris Artist Duel
Two Paris artists debate a marine painting method as one adds salt to the paint. The other praises the salty effect and urges buyers to purchase, claiming the result captures the ocean’s flavor.
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Paris
Englishman praised by American at Smithsonian jab
An exchange depicted in Vogue contrasts an Englishman complimenting American faculties with a sharp rebuttal about the Smithsonian Institution and the idea of a grand building to educate the Smiths. The dialogue satirizes cultural prestige and patronizing attitudes.
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Smithsonian Institution
Clock Made From Old Junk In Wootton Rivers
A village clock for Wootton Rivers church was funded by Mr. Spratt who built it at no charge using scrapped iron steel brass and lead. Parts came from agricultural gear fire irons bedsteads old bicycles milk separators and a steam governor ball to strike the hours. One dial bears Glory Be to God instead of numerals.
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Minerva
Frances
Billy
Jimmy
Hetecher
Johnny Johnson
Baltzer
Oman
Lina
London
George
Wootton Rivers
Spratt
Women Smokers Barred in Chicago Hotels
Chicago hotel managers declare women may not smoke in public dining rooms or cafes. If a woman refuses a waiter’s request to stop, she will be asked to leave the premises.
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Chicago
Needle in Foot Removed After Twenty Years
In Watrensburg Missouri an operation removed a quarter inch metal needle from Miss Mattie Johnston a milliner who had a needle lodge in her foot for two decades.
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Watrensburg
Mattie Johnston
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Miss Minerva
William Green Hill
Frances Boyd Calhoun
Reilly & Britton Co
Tabbermele
Sehanol
Ile
Waich
Paducah
Woodstock
Self
Lina Hamilton
Frances Black
Willian Hi
Jimmy Gamer
Anid Grandfather
Daele
Peother Johnson
Alfred Gage
Willine
Alfred
Joseph
Domall
Duchess
the Duchess of
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