St Pierres Prisoner Describes Hell Vision After Eruption
Frank B R Robertson of Walden New York recounts his two days in St Pierre ruins and his meeting with a sole survivor a condemned murderer once kept in solitary and doomed to guillotine. The man claimed to be in hell as rescuers found him and later died in a Fort de France sanitarium.
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Frank BR. Robertson
Walden
N. Y
St. Pierre
Mont Pelee
Union Depot
Kansas City
Mr. Robertson
New York
Dixie
Chicago
Kansas City Journal
Fort de France
Hell
Manila night schools expand civil service scope
Hon. W. Leon Pepperman says the Philippine civil service commission now covers 6000 positions with salaries from $15 a month to $7509 yearly. He notes shifts from Spanish era education to practical business training and that 19000 adults attend night school in Manila. 400 of the 6000 posts are held by natives with policy to replace Americans by Filipinos.
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W. Leon Pepperman
Philippine Civil Service Commission
Washingtonf
Manila
Washington Post
Pepperman
Philippines
Commission
America
Mark Twain on Chills and a Grim Philosophy
The New York Times quotes Mark Twain asserting a malarial chill has one advantage it lets a person exercise without exertion. He is described as occasionally striving to gain a philosopher's reputation through such grim dicta.
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Mark Twain
New York Times
The Prevailing Color
The poem praises a woman encountered in parks and streets, noted for her beauty and variety of hats. It highlights summer hats as the focal point, praising Iween color shifts and a green detail, attributed to W. J. Lampton in the New York Herald.
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W. J. Lampton
New York Herald
Mindanao described as fertile future American frontier
A Manila Freedom correspondent portrays Mindanao as exceptionally fertile with sugar coffee hemp and cocoanuts possible in abundance. He notes 500000 Moros governed by sultans and many small dattos, warns of barriers to education and safety, and predicts rapid American settlement and development aided by capital within three years.
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Philippine Islands
Manila
Lake Region
Datto
Remington
Mauser
Lake
United States
America
Philippine Archipelago
Lake Lanao
Orient
Java
Lake Depao
Lake Lauao
Pacific Ocean
Parang Parang
Hypno Suggestion and Reform Claims by Columbia Professor
Columbia University lecturer Professor John D. Quackenbos reports treating 8,000 hypnotized cases. He says hypno suggestion can reform thieves, gamblers, drunks, liars, and moral failures, with 80 percent of Dipsomania cure claims and potential uses in population control and telepathy. The address was given at the Lenox Avenue Unitarian church in New York before the Men's club.
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John D. Quackenbos
Columbia University
New York Herald
Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church
New York
Professor Quackenbos
Bernhardt
Father in the Garden Amid Hen Noise
A Minneapolis Journal poem depicts a suburban father tending lettuce beans and vines, proud of his work. Neighbors’ noisy hens disrupt the scene as mischief and cackling hens threaten his serene garden. The father endures the intrusion with quiet grace while his daughter Andra notes his mellowing with age.
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Father
Andra
Minneapolis Journal
Season 1902 Steamer Mary Scott Run Schedule
The Mary Scott steamer operates at 4:00 and 5:20 pm with trips limited to mill ducks on return from Washburn. The boat also connects with the Northern Pacific morning and afternoon trains.
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Mary Scott
Washburn
Northern Pacific
Steamer Schedules From Washburn and Surrounding Ports
The notice lists steamer services including PLOW BOY calling at Madeline Island with contact Mrs. F A Bischoff, 217 Third Ave East, and details on charters. BARKER sails to Duluth and intermediate points on Mon Wed Fri mornings and returns Tue Sat mornings. BON AMI runs Washburn to Duluth with morning departures on Mon and Thu and returns Tue and Fri. ARGO departs Washburn for Duluth on Wed and Sat, returns Mon and Thu, and also runs Washburn to Ontonagon Houghton and Hancock Mon and Thu evenings.
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Madeline Island
F. A. Bischoff
Third Avenue East
Passenger train schedule for South Nor and connections
The notice lists daily and Sunday passenger train times for South Nor 3 8:80 a m and several connecting services at Ashland Junction for St Paul Chicago and connections to Northwestern for Chicago. It also mentions Wisconsin Central through mail and express daily and the Wisconsin Limited daily from Ashland.
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Ashland Junction
St. Paul
Chicago
Ashland
Mail and Express
Wias Limited
Northern Pacific Washburn Lake Superior timetable snippet
A timetable excerpt from the Northern Pacific Railway shows departures on the Washburn Branch Lake Superior Division with multiple times listed such as 7:00 a.m and 3:05 along with other arrival and departure figures. The fragmentary data indicates a schedule sequence but lacks full routing context or complete entries.
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Tenerife
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Ie Head
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Rae Ae Pepe Yen
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Sincone Googel
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SOM Medicine Co
CHITA
Dr. Gossom
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Sowray
Wisconsin
Siraples
Foley
Frost & Spies
Fox Bros Washburn, Wistf
Johnson
Hotographer
Qome
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Elf Drug Stores
E. C. DeWitr & Co
Chica
J. W. Woodcock
Portland, Inc
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M. A. Birdsall
Watkins
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Dr. Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Gant
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Omar
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