Royalty In A Rail Car A Meeting With A Princess
A Great Man on a delayed train meets a pale girl who claims to be Princess Iris of the Golden Crown company. She reveals the Queen faces disbandment and a two hour delay threatens a Saturday show. He resolves to help by arranging a special train to Washita and plans a future audience with the Queen.
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Priscilla
Mayville
Evans
Indiana Prairie
Iere
A. M
Great Lakes
Priscilla’s
Middle West
Alice In Derland
Laaughed
Iria
Washita
Hardihood
Ashe
New York
Newport
Alice
Wishita
Golden Crown Opera Company
Casstown
Why Soldiers Leave the Army
A Washington cafe luncheon among four army officers discusses heavy annual desertions. They cite 4651 men deserting in one year and recount examples of parades and discharges. One officer notes 70 men discharged in the middle west with 66 now employed earning 75 to 220 dollars per month.
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Washington
Middle West
van Norden Micazine
Suspicious Exchange References Public Servant Image
In a terse dialogue a character warns that a pul i official serves the country while another compares officials to a market basket bearing servant. The exchange hints at mistrust of authorities and parallels a former household servant’s routine.
Jealous Wife Invades Dentist Office in Main Street Row
Mrs Bessie Burrows, wife of Dr George C Burrows, storms into the Painless Dentistry office on Main Street with a whip. The dentist says the office girl was not struck, though a tense confrontation followed as arguments raged for hours.
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Kansas City
Bessie Burrows
George C. Burrows
Burrows
Physician Foresees Wonders in Surgery and Growth
Dr. John B. Murphy of Chicago predicts a future where surgery cures diabetes and promotes growth. He cites thyroid and pituitary roles in height and bone development, notes pancreatic sugar conversion, and mentions using sheep thyroid to enlarge an English boy, calling it not unusual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Murphy
Chicago
British lions spark debate over modern museum statue
The public derides two British Museum lions guarding the King Edward VII galleries for appearing foreign in style and wearing an Egyptian nemes headdress. Critics contrast them with Britain's Trafalgar Square lion and note a broader shift toward archaizing, grim, powerful sculpture in London, including hospital reliefs and Oscar Wilde tomb.
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Britain
Trafalgar Square
Strand
London
Oscar Wilde
Railroad Schedule Fragments Show Arrivals Departures
An OCR readout lists multiple train numbers times and branches with notes that Wrington Branch and local freights run daily except Sundays. Agents H W Russel and E Kuna provide schedule details and departures for No 8 to No 92 accommodations and local passenger trains.
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Wrington
H. W. Russel
Eran
Pasenger
D. E. Kuna
Steel inquiry costs described for several investigations
The article lists investigation costs by committees in the house. Stanley steel inquiry cost 39000 dollars. Sugar trust inquiry cheaper. Money trust and shipping trust probes budgeted at 25000 dollars each. Two impeachment inquiries included. Hanford case ended with his resignation.
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House
Stanley Steel
Sugar Trust
Money Trust
Shipping Trust
Hanford
College to Offer Aeronautics Course at MIT
MIT will become the first U S educational institution to teach aeronautics. A new course will be added in the mechanical engineering department for the coming college year with Albert Adams Merrill, former Boston Scientific Society secretary, as lecturer. The program aims to advance safe aviation science.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Albert Adams Merrill
Boston Scientific Society
Train timetable fragment shows westbound and eastbound routes
OCR fragment lists multiple rail lines and train numbers with limited times and destinations. Mentions No 6 Passenger Westbound at 12 44 am and No 8 Passenger, Chicago Milwaukee services with times 2 07 am and 12 15 pm. Also notes No 12 Passenger Westbound 1 31 am and No 8 Passenger 7 18 pm and No 98 Local. FL Broadpath agent.
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So'west Lim
Gogal Ssesadee Seeevsneee
Chicago Moise
Milwaukee
Pasenger
Broadgath, Agont
Bank debt dodger hides $700 to pay arrest
John Yann of Mount Pleasant was jailed in Pottsville for nonpayment of a debt and to be sent to prison. He told officers he would settle the bill and then dug up $700 from an old jar behind his home in the mountainside. The debtor paid the bill and was released claiming others hid money similarly to avoid capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottsville
John Yann
Mount Pleasant
Yann
Yunn
Big Gain in Trade With South America
The twelve months ended June 1912 show a sharp rise in U S trade with South America over the prior year. Total U S trade with Argentina Brazil Chile and Uruguay climbed from 201 million to 347 million dollars. Exports to these countries rose 22 to 20 percent, reflecting a strong fiscal year performance.
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South America
United States
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Uruguay
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Towa
Charles A. Dewey
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Washington County Savings Bank
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Ficher
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Iowa
Edmund Db. Morrison Lawyer
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Steel Report
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W. M. Keeley
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Special Collection Department
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Stote
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Gentilist
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Cook & Sherman
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