Shipwrecked Galley crew survives on isolated Maine isle
In December 1710 the Nottingham Galley bound for New England wrecked on Boon Island off Cape Ann after guiding stars and a compass failed. Eleven men endured hunger and cold on a one acre ledge, rationing mussels and kelp for days before a nearby fishing sloop spotted signals and rescued the survivors.
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Nottingham
Ireland
England
New England
Jane Deane
Newfoundland
Richard Endel
Mate Endel
Maine
Portland Harbor
Deane
Boston
Boon Island
Isles of Shoals
Cape Ann
Endel
Ld Herring
Peter Salter
Portsmouth Harbor
Paris Gibson founder of Great Falls and state pillar in Montana
Paris Gibson Democrat elected U S senator for a short term by the Montana legislature founded Great Falls Montana. He built mills in Minneapolis and led early sheep raising in Fort Benton. Gibson co founded town and coal lands with James J Hill and helped create the citys park system and water power ventures. He served at the Montana constitutional convention 1889 and urged a unified liberal education system as University of Montana.
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Paris Gibson
United States
Montana
Great Falls
Mont
Brownfield
Bowdoin College
Maine
Minneapolis
Minn
James J. Hill
St. Paul
Minneapolis & Manitoba
Gibson
Northwest
Cascade County
University of Montana
Farming in Western Canada Comes Welcome Opportunities
Premier Greenway urges diversification beyond wheat in Manitoba citing 22 years of farming in the province. He warns against overreliance on wheat, advocates mixed farming with horses cattle sheep hogs and poultry, and promotes use of fodder as fertilizer. Free homestead lands and government agents invite new settlers to Come and See.
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Thomas Greenway
Manitoba
Canada
Ontario
Taft cited as Philippines governor prospects praised by state
Judge William H Taft, slated as first civil governor of the Philippines, earns high marks from the state department as president of the mission in the islands. Taft, a Cincinnati native 54, Yale and Cincinnati Law School graduate, traces public service from assistant prosecuting attorney to collector, judge, solicitor general, and federal judge before this post.
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William H Taft
The
Philippines
Department of State
Islands
Luzon
Alphonso Tait
United States
Russia
Grant
Cincinnati
Yale University
Cincinnati Law School
Department of Justice
Federal Bench
William H. Taft
Good Country for Bakers Finds Fast Gold in Tough Times
A Klondike baker once burned out three times and losing a coal cargo still cleared $30,000 in three years. The bun seems to walk off with itself in the gold diggings.
The Bath Ain't So Bad Says a Little Feller
A playful poem recounts a boy’s dread of baths and his mother’s persistent scrubbing. He endures the cold waters and rough towels, but after the bath he feels clean warm and happy. The piece ends with the boy noting dirtied fun should yield to cleanliness and parent care.
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Johnnie
H. C. Dodge
Chicago Daily Sun
Australia Debates National Flag Design
Australians debate a national flag as Melbourne and Sydney prizes highlight a favored design. The drawing features six red stripes for five states and Tasmania, a Union Jack symbol, and the Southern Cross stars. The banner signifies the United States of Australia under Great Britain with the Southern Cross lit. The contest closed February 1 and adoption rests with the Australian congress.
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United States
Australia
Melbourne
Sydney
Tasmania
Great Britain
Australian Congress
Dragon myth tied to China and ancient writing tale
A Chicago Record piece notes that the dragon myth likely stems from prehistoric memory and praises Chinese reverence for the beast. It recounts Fu Hsi receiving writing from a river dragon near the River Lo, the dragon as sovereign symbol, and describes a Tacoma commission drawing of the beast with the "pearl of mystic virtues" in its claws.
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Earth Ball
China
St. George
England
Richard H. Geoghegan
Tacoma
Fu-hsi
Lungwei
Lung-Yen
Cheap California rates offered via Southern Pacific routes
Special low rate colonist tickets are offered from Chicago 30.00, from St. Louis Memphis and New Orleans 27.50, from Omaha and Kansas City 25.00, with other east and north points similarly discounted. Tickets valid February 22 and each Tuesday through April 30. Contact SP agents in Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburg St. Louis or Kansas City for details. Pride is the fog that surrounds insignificance.
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Southern Pacific
Ogden
California
Chicago
St. Louis
Memphis
New Orleans
Omaha
Kansas City
Southern Pacific Company
W. G. Neimyer
P. Co
Clark St
W. H. Connor
C. A
Chamber of Commerce Bidg
Cincinnati
Ohio
G. G. Herring
8. P. Co
Park Bidg
Pittsburg
L. E. Townsley
Olive St
C. C. Cary
S. P. Co
Sheidley Ridg
Lackawanna Limited praised for luxury and cleanliness
Marie Jarboe writes that a ten hour New York to Buffalo trip at sixty miles an hour with minimal dust proves the Lackawanna line offers luxury, cleanliness, and security. She says the Lackawanna Limited will appeal to ladies visiting the Pan American Exposition and remains as clean after arrival as before departure.
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New York
Buffalo
Hoboken
Lackawanna
Lackawanna Limited
Marie Jarboe
United in life and death Buck and Brandy the legendary brindled oxen
Buck and Brandy, famed oxen of the countryside, were inseparable since youth. Brandy was laid up by lame, but the two remained united even in death, with Brandy later breaking free to join Buck and leaving their owner with two stall-fed oxen instead of one.
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Buck
Brandy
Grain-O beverage offers coffee substitute for all ages
Grain-O is advertised as a coffee replacement made from pure grains with the rich color of Mocha or Java. It claims to suit delicate stomachs and be affordable, priced at 3? or 25 cents per package, sold by grocers nationwide. The ad notes children may drink it without injury.
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Java
Hoxsie's Cough Cure Sold For Croup Sufferers
Advertises Hoxsie's Cough Cure as a quick remedy for children with croup coughs colds and bronchitis. Claims no opium and no nausea with a 50 cent price.
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Hoxsie
Napoleon Surpasses Critic Generals by Quick Strategic Insight
The passage notes that many generals opposed to Napoleon understood military science, yet Napoleon won because he had science transfused into his mind while others treated it as a mere attachment. He excelled at decisive movements made in a moment of thought, unlike his adversaries.
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Endel
Boon Island
Napoleon
Sleep postures of grassland butterflies and moths observed
The article describes how butterflies and the blues in particular sleep head downward on grass stems, folding wings to blend with seed heads. It contrasts blues with brown heaths, notes color and shape aid concealment, and explains moths and butterflies differ in resting wing positions. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Why Mamie Felt Offended
A pupil endures a strict school rule to sit straight as the teacher repeats commands. A first day returns home with tears as a girl claims the teacher wrongly calls out cigarette rather than sit erect.
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Herring
Mate Endree
Western
Assiniboia
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Premier Greenway
William Taft
McKinley
Philippine Islands
Mother
Chicago Daily News
Atchison Globe
Mamie
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