Minnie Henderson Chooses Joel Davis at Last
In a rural dispute over propriety, Minnie Henderson finally agrees to marry Joel Davis after Aunt Judith pushes the match and Minnie receives a note from a farmer’s daughter. Joel confronts fear, Minnie contends with hesitation, and the couple elopes to wed before dawn.
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Minnie
Joe
Henderson
Joel
Elisha Hy
Mr. Henderson
Denderson Homestead
Judith
Aus
Mike
Hickory Grove
Aunt Judith
Elisha
Hannah
Hannah Henderson
Heat Storing Lake Como Warms Italian Shores
Scientist Vercelli estimates Lake Como covers 136 square kilometers with an average depth near 600 feet, twice that in places. In midsummer it stores heat equivalent to burning 34,000 tons of coal daily, absorbing from late February to August and easing into spring with heat released to stone and soil.
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Vercelli
Lake
Como
Why She Cried At School Over Birth Excuse
A Delineator item describes Katie Barnes crying at school because she forgot her birth excuse form. The narrator notes children must bring filled application blanks with parent names address date and place of birth. The incident centers on a missing birth excuse and a teary reconciliation with Miss Green.
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Katie Barnes
Miss Green
New York Fear Amid Salt and Pepper Strike Talk
Reports trace the New York waiter and garment workers strike to leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, recent Lawrence mill strike figures. They ignite fear with talk of poison and subtle seasoning as tactics, while Elizabeth Gurley Flynn advises affidavits on kitchen sanitation.
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Joseph J. Ettor
Arturo Giovannitti
Lawrence
Mass.) Mills
New York
Ettor
Giovannitti
Paris
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Industrial Workers of the World
Italy
Montreal
Halifax
America
Union Theologieal Seminary
Columbia University
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Il Proletario
Swedish Count Plays Bold Host in Polish King’s Banquet
In a royal chamber at a castle, Count Gustaf Bertelskold challenges a boastful Polish captain. King Augustus presides as athletes test strength by bending a silver plate and breaking a horseshoe. The count defuses a duel, toasts King Stanislaus, and then in a display lifts two Polish nobles and seats them at the king’s feet. Kansas City Steer.
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Poland
Augustus
Charles of
Sweden
Charles
Gustaf Bertelskold
King August
Count Bertelskold
Stanislaus
King Augustus
Bertelskold
Kansas City
Germany to Mark Jubilee Year With Grand Berlin Festivities
Berlin plans a year of jubilee in 1913 marking Prussia’s 100th Napoleonic War anniversary and 25th Kaiser reign. March 10 opens religious and military ceremonies across garrisons, with royal services in Berlin and a laurel decorated, flag-draped capital. A silver jubilee on June 15 centers on a two to three week foreign visitor phase and the dedication of the new Olympic Stadium to host the 1916 games.
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Kaiser
Olympic Stadium
Berlin
Prussia
Frederick William III
Royal
London
Baron von Gersdorff
Max Reinhardt
Wallace Begins Book at Ninety on Labor Fight Poverty
On his ninetieth birthday Dr Alfred Russel Wallace announces starting a book proposing essential Labor party work to combat poverty. He aims to set fundamental principles and methods to secure ongoing progress in community well being.
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London
Alfred Russel Wallace
England
Labor Party
Grosvenor Thomas Stained Glass Collection Sent to New York
The Grosvenor Thomas stained glass collection, regarded as the finest private collection, has been sent to New York for exhibition. The 300 panels span from early Gothic times to the modern era.
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London
Grosvenor Thomas
New York
American Society of Mechanical Engineers to Meet in Berlin
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers plans its 1918 annual meeting in Berlin with final proceedings at the German National Museum in Munich. Delegates will tour major German industrial centers under the guidance of the German Engineers' Association which is arranging a lavish program of entertainment.
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Berlin
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Munich
Gertoan Engineers’ Association
Old Woman Gifts Village Clock After Fifty Years Of Saving
In Bremgar ten Switzerland a clock costing 4100 francs is placed in the church steeple as a memorial to a husband. The 76 year old donor toiled for half a century to fund the gift, drawing praise from villagers who now call her a heroine.
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Husband
Geneva
Bremgarten
Argovis
Abdul Hamid's Queer Prize Prompts Suit and Question
In Berlin Abdul Hamid ex sultan of Turkey inherits 26000 dollars from a Leipzig donor who wished a temple of peace in Constantinople. A niece in poverty challenged the will but the Leipzig supreme court upheld the bequest. The ex sultan now possesses the funds and public interest asks when the temple will be begun.
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Berlin
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Constantinople
Abdul
Leipzig
Zoehner
Exsultan
Supreme Court of
Plowing the World A World Tour by Plows
Mr and Mrs G H Smith formerly of the Imperial Valley travel the globe with cook and bank wagons two traction engines and gang plows turning over 100 acres daily. They seek contracts in each agricultural community then move on to the next region.
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Bluff
Cal
G. H. Smith
Imperial Valley
Navy Pets to Return Aboard After Banishment
Norfolk navy yard restores goats, monkeys, cats, dogs, parrots and other mascots to ships after initial removal following an incident on the New Hampshire. Assistant Secretary Winthrop and Admiral Doyle clashed over the banishment but orders now allow pets to rejoin sailors once disease fears ease.
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Norfolk
Uncle Sam
Norfolk Navy Yard
R. M. Doyle
New Hampshire
Winthrop
Navy Department
Admiral Doyle
Marine Barracks
Dream of Dying Kills Mrs Cleveland in Dream
Mrs. K E Cleveland wife of a Burlington official in Lincoln Nebraska died from brain hemorrhage after dreaming she had been poisoned. Her stepdaughter had died in convulsions two weeks earlier from poisoning. After the funeral Mrs Cleveland dreamed she would die in the same way and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage becoming unconscious.
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Lincoln, Neb
K. E. Cleveland
Burlington
Danish Professor Claims Tears Kill Germs
Copenhagen reports Dr. Lindahl a Danish professor says tears are antiseptic and destroy microbes. He notes crying clears nasal ducts and experiments show tears hasten healing when applied to injuries.
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Copenhagen
Lindahl
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Kaiser Wilhelm Iti
Peace Temple
NAVY
Admiral
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