Week of Sensation in New York City headlines
New York prep for a sensational week as investigations expand from the Rosenthal murder to police methods and gambling links led by Justice John W. Goff. Aldrich plans a Park Avenue apartment near Rockefeller Jr with a $10 000 monthly rental while Dr. Arnold Knapp plots a major eye hospital.
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New York City
New York
Herman Rosenthal
Rosenthal
Charles Becker
Supreme Court
John W. Goff
Whitman
Goff
Lexow
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
Park Avenue
Aldrich
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Arnold Knapp
The Cow and the Moon Comes to Graham Tonight
Amusements note the new musical extravaganza The Cow and the Moon by Chas. A. Sellon to open at the Graham. The lively show follows a humorous tale from Not Much Ville Indiana to the Moon with scenic effects, comedy, and tuneful numbers by Carleton Lee Colby plus a clever cast and chorus.
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Chas. A. Sellon
Ville
Indiana
Carleton Lee Colby
Ingenious Y shaped device aids spinning top
A Colorado inventor designs a Y shaped wire frame top spinner with a spike receptacle and a spindle. The cord wraps around a circular groove and, when pulled, spins the top until it gains momentum and flies from the handle to spin on the pavement.
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Colorado
Chamberlain's Tablets Promise Digestive Relief
A health note claims ill health stems from poor digestion and says Chamberlain's Tablets strengthen digestion, invigorate the liver, and regulate the bowels to end the misery of faulty digestion. Many users report permanent cures and urge readers to try the remedy.
Best To Prove All Things Before Sharing Beliefs
An article urges readers to test claims before spreading them and cites a past circulating snippet about cutting glass with scissors underwater. It notes such experiments rely on cracking methods, not vibration, and urges confirmation by simple trials to avoid misinformation.
Odd Study in Perspective
A discussion on perspective notes how perspective errors arise in drawings. It cites an optical illusion caused by the further figure’s head being out of perspective, though the two men are actually equal height. It explains that misplacement makes the distant figure appear over eight feet tall.
Making a Horse Scene at the Blacksmith Shop
A child reports seeing a man working on a horse at the blacksmith shop. The mother questions the claim while the child insists the horse was nearly finished and the smith was shaping the feet.
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Mamma
Elmer
Pearly
A Wise Little Mouse Fearing A Tom Cat
A small mouse peeks from a hole seeking cheese and hides when a large tom cat appears. The cat roams, but the mouse slips back to safety behind a big kettle and returns to her hole well fed and content.
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Mousie
Fishing Stringer for Camping Use
A practical stringer fashioned from hay bale wire provides a hand hold and a concealed sharp end. The wire should be annealed to ease bending, then used to carry pan fish home or for larger fish with heavier wire. The American Boy notes it takes minutes to make and proves a useful camp accessory.
Riddle Compendium From A Curious Collection
A series of wordplay questions and quirky answers with puns and lateral thinking. Topics range from puns about letters and animals to cheeky logic puzzles and playful misdirections.
What Bothered Bobby What is legal life
A joke spreads in which Bobby asks his father about life and a chick breaking free from its shell. The punchline centers on Bobby wondering how legal life works as a curious child poses the question to his father who owns an incubator.
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Milwaukee
New York
Bobby
Johnny Breaks Hoodoo Over Thirteen Cakes
A child questions if thirteen is unlucky after thirteen cakes appear in a box and Johnny admits he ate one to break the hoodoo. His mother replies that the superstition exists for some people and asks why he wonders.
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Johnny
Where Peaches Come From
The note asks if Allee-Do peaches grow on trees or bushes and replies that they do not grow on Bellber, with a curious misheard remark about a Cana fruit.
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Tommy
Government replaces weighers with fixed twelve pound salmon standard
In Maine the government ends a long practice of using a veteran fisherman to guess salmon weights for breeding purchases. Going forward all salmon are paid on a fixed twelve pound basis, regardless of actual weight, with buyers choosing to send larger fish to market. About 1,900 fish will be purchased this year at three to three fifty per fish.
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City Hall
Justice
Tion
Manhattan
Fanger
United States
Bucksport
Verona
Orland
Penobscot
Washington
Bandit's Gold Found in Missouri Manor Room
Ten thousand dollars in gold tied to bandit William Anderson, who terrorized central Missouri after the Civil War, was found in the old manor house on the Burch plantation in Howard County. The discovery was reported to Liberty’s C. E. Yancey by remodeling workers. Anderson died days after a bank robbery, supposedly in that manor room.
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Liberty
William Anderson
Missouri
William Bureh
Howard County
C. E. Yancey
Yancey
Anderson
Central Missouri
Burch Plantation
Lawyers find Judge Pollock clothes at fishing resort
Seven Kansas City lawyers went to a fishing resort for a weekend and swam in the lake with no clothes on. When they returned to camp they found Judge John C Pollock of the Kansas federal court missing a suit of clothes.
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Kansas City
John C Pollock
Kansas Federal Court
Plan to Reform Newport Seeks Wide Law Violations Survey
Private detectives have searched Newport for days to investigate gambling illegal liquor and disorderly resorts. They will report findings to Governor Pothier and the millionaire’s colony.
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Newport
Pothier
Treenwich Pat's hill to be leveled over grade complaints
The famous hill in Treenwich Conn linked to General Israel Putnam's Revolutionary War ride faces leveling after automobileists complain about its steep grades and traffic impact.
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Treenwich
Conn Pat’s Hill
Israel Putnam
Doctors Gave Her Up by Lydia E Pinkham Ad
Elmo Missouri patient Mrs Saran J Stuart credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her serious female troubles and enabling her to have a healthy baby. The ad touts the product as a standard remedy for displacements inflammation ulcers and related symptoms and invites women to write for confidential advice.
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Stuart
Lydia E. Pinkham
Elmo, Mo
Saran J. Stuart
R.P.D
Elmo
Lydia E. Pinkharm
Lydia BE
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynp
Mass
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