Wireless Message Saves Bank Vault Lock In Crisis
A New York bank faced a vault crisis when the president, at sea, could not provide the change code in time. Wireless aerograms relayed a decipherable code within minutes, enabling opening at 9:16 and the vault doors to swing open at 10. The incident highlights wireless telegraphy as a vital, rapid aid to financial operations.
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Francis A. Collins
Atlantic
New York
E Bank
Sea Gate
Nantucketallons
Long Island
New York Afloat Battleship 62 Percent Complete
Photograph shows the battleship New York at 62 percent completion at the New York navy yard. It will take about six months to ready for service and will be the fastest dreadnought aside from its sister Texas. The ship measures 505 feet in length and 95 feet beam with a 28 857 ton displacement. It carries ten 14 inch main guns, 21 five inch rapid fire guns, four torpedo tubes, and twenty one inch torpedoes. Power comes from triple expansion engines producing 28 100 horsepower with fourteen Babcock Wilcox boilers and heavy armor plating.
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New York
New York Navy Yard
The
Texas
Babcock & Wilcox
Ironclad rules tested by a bank book tale of care
A New York banker argues rules may harm as much as help in business. He cites a depositor whose torn old bank book held decades of savings and hopes, yet the bank refused to keep it and forced a transfer. The banker later notes a bulletin urging flexible diplomacy with customers.
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New York
Ife
New York World
Witnesses Describe Door Entry In Precision Tax Court
A London Globe report notes a court scene where a senatorial figure questions a witness about whether he saw the man entering through the doorway. The witness replies the man passed through the doorway, highlighting a clash over perception in a precision driven tax case.
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Ystrad
Soenitor
London Globe
Very Conservative. Tailor-You have inherited a lot of espney.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a tailor and Roston Tran ript debating settlement of a bill. The man insists wealth did not alter his simple habits while the other presses payment.
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Yvens
Roston Tran Ript
Misprint Fragment Reflects on Misfortunes
An OCR fragment quotes a sentiment by A Dumas about misfortunes and the limits of human comments, reflecting on resilience and interpretation in difficult times.
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A. Dumas
Debs' Speaking Face: Socialist Candidate in vigorous campaign
Eugene V. Debs, renowned nationwide as an orator, closed a speechmaking tour that stretched across the country. He condemned capital as a tyrant and portrayed workers as pawns of moneyed interests while engaging audiences with forceful eloquence on industrial conditions.
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Eugene V. Debs
Mr. Debs
Workers of America
Women of France Backbones of a Nation in Shops
The essay describes French middle class women as the nation’s backbone, tending shops, handling money, and guiding purchases while husbands run errands. It highlights shopkeepers and clerks, from Paris kiosks to grocers, gears of daily life governed by Madame at the desk and in the till. Courteous greetings and manners affect foreigners’ fortunes.
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France
Paris
Rue de Rivoli
London Spectator
The Human Voice and Its Vast Sound Variations
An authority explains that only nine perfect tones exist in speech yet the human voice can produce 17 592 186 044 415 distinct sounds. Fourteen direct muscles yield 16 383 tones and thirty indirect muscles yield 173 741 828, with all muscles combined creating the enormous total.
Soundproof attic room impresses visiting friend
A Scotch visitor to the Carlyles in Cheyne Row notes the sage’s soundproof attic chamber lit from above. He jokes with unconscious sarcasm that one could write poetry there for a lifetime without anyone outside noticing.
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Carlyles
Cheyne Row
Not to Be Bitten: Actor Andrew Cherry Refuses Repeated Slights
The London Telegraph quotes actor Andrew Cherry recalling a manager who offered him a future engagement after previously mistreating him. Cherry writes that he has learned from that bite and will not endure a second bite from the same manager.
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Andrew Cherry
A. Cherry
London Telegraph
Silly Conduct of a Big Fellow Cited by Baltimore American
The Baltimore American quotes a spectator remark about a large man acting in a foolish manner and suggests his stoutness may spur a belief his behavior should be the same or fit the act.
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Baltimore American
Mrs Cleveland Plans Marriage to Wells College Professor
Mrs. Grover Cleveland widow of the former president will marry Professor Thomas J. Preston. The couple met at Princeton in 1906 amid his rise in archaeology at Wells College Aurora New York. No marriage date has been announced.
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Preston
Grover Cleveland
Thomas J. Preston
Princeton
University Town
Wells College
Aurora
N. Y
Cleveland
White House
Miss Folsom
Phi Beta Kappa Society
American School of Classic Study
Rome
United States
Archaeological Institute of America
Hsther
Marion
Gray Gables
Buzzards Bay
Mass
Richard Fols
Auto Speed Marvel Catches Oldfield in Mile Sprint
Barney Oldfield, noted speed king, set a new half mile world record at Fort Smith Arkansas, lowering his own mark and nearing a mile in a fraction of a minute. A photo shows the car and driver clearly, while the eye sees only a streak.
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Barney Oldfield
Fort Smith
Ark
Circle Christmas bonus offer on piano circle membership
A local piano dealer touts a Christmas bonus: deposits up to 100 dollars earn 50 cents per dollar plus 10 percent over 100, with a 1.00 joining fee. Members receive pricing cuts on pianos and players and a guaranteed return of the joining fee if no purchase is made, plus literature.
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Uncle Sam
American Press Association
Taft
Debs
Women OF France
Mrs. Cleveland
Professor Preston
Auto Speed Marvel
Oldfield
Pyg
W.W. F. Frederick Piano Company
W. F. Frederick Piano CO
Kaabe and
Hardman Pianos
Angeus, Kaabe-Angelus and
Autotene Players
Victrolas
Salvation Army Bidg
Warren, Pa
Bell Telephone
Bell
Bell Tel. CO
Penn
U. S
Warren
H. L
Greenland
Penn’n Ave
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