Local residents and visitors sway through a busy city day
People from Los Angeles to Davenport visit, marry, travel, and shop while townsfolk hear church plans, funerals, and new business moves. Notables include Mrs. Nora Small and children, Miss Mabel Mc Caleb, Miss Lou Vogt, and J. R. Maxwell hosts. Home repairs, seed house specials, and a car tire demo also headline the scene.
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Nora Small
Helen and
Loraine
Mabel McCaleb
Los Angeles
Calif
J. R. Maxwell
Mallada Probes Vesuvius Crater Depths In Bold Descent
Professor Mallada of the Royal Observatory and Signor Varavezza descended 130 yards into the crater after securing ropes and cables. They studied lava, fumaroles, and vapors, planted a red flag, and spent two hours at the bottom before a perilous five hour ascent.
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Mallada
Royal Observatory
Mount Vesuvius
New York World
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Vesuvius
Signor Varavezza
A Rainfall Boost for Washington Crops
An inch of rain fell in Washington yesterday delivering much needed moisture for crops and berries. Measured at .60 inches by W A Cook, the rain follows a dry period since May 28 with May totaling about 1.58 inches versus 2.40 inches in May 1911. Daytime highs reached 75 to 86 while nights fell to 48 to 50.
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Washington
W. A. Cook
The Spendthrift’s Retort
A wry adage suggests frugality in rainy weather. The narrator mocks wasteful spending with a quip about umbrellas losing value only when used.
Bridge Twilight Thought as Game End Near
A reflective line from the Washington Herald places a figure on a bridge at twilight as a crucial game nears its end, mingling solemn mood with sports drama and a playful misquote about a halfback.
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Washington Herald
Morning Malaise Leads to Domestic Strife Caution
A columnist warns against venting morning irritability on family, advising against quarrels with a wife or harsh treatment of children when a person wakes with a bad taste in the mouth. The piece urges restraint and better coping habits to avoid domestic conflict.
Parents get little credit for their efforts in sales
A brief observation notes that many newspaper sellers, even brief workers, describe themselves as self-made, highlighting a common bias in recognizing parental effort and early work. The remark underscores how labor roots and parental support are often underappreciated in success narratives.
Executors' account shows $98,100.72 for Marlow in Marsh estate
In New Haven probate court Eliot Watrous and Ernest W. Marlow filed an estate account for Helen Amelia Marsh. Marlow received $98,100.72 as residuary legatee after gifting his train berth years ago, a deed that led to support for his Harvard education.
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New Haven
Conn
Eliot Watrous
Ernest W. Marlow
Helen Amelia Marsh
Marlow
Carpathia Crew Receives One Month Extra Pay
Cunard Steamship Company grants each Carpathia crew member one additional month's pay for services during the Titanate disaster. The reward recognises collective effort aboard the rescue ship after the calamity.
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Carpathia
Cunard Steamship Company
Card of Thanks for kindness after mother's illness and death
The family of J. W. White expresses sincere appreciation to friends and neighbors for kindness during the illness and at the time of their mother's death. The many tender attentions provided comfort to the family.
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J. W. White
World owes him nothing says cynical complainer
A sharp line portrays a man who resents lack of credit or reward. The quote frames him as a perennial resenter who would feel regret if the world finally granted him due treatment.
Quote on progress from Wendell Phillips
The speaker urges improved effort to match fathers, noting a cracked plate sent to China to be remade resulted in every piece cracking, Wendell Phillips remarks.
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China
Paper bag roast and side dishes from old kitchen guide
The guide explains bag cooking for roasts with salt seared meat inside a greased bag and gravy thickened by browned flour or kitchen bouquet. It covers onions celery and potatoes cooked in bags, baked puddings and pies, and serving hot chops in individual bags. Hotels and restaurants adopting bag cooking would end cold chops.
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Ohne
Funerals for Ackley Grinter Woodburn Held Across Cities
The Ackley family mourns Robert M. Ackley whose San Jose death prompted his funeral in Miller parlors with pallbearers named. Louesa Grinter’s service took place at the Heights home with Presbyterian musicians and six pallbearers. Dr. F. L. Woodburn’s double ceremony began at his home, proceeded to Ainsworth United Presbyterian church, with six county medical society pallbearers and interment in Ainsworth cemetery.
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Everette Shearer
Hugh Hall
Alcorn
Grover Neiswanger
Howard Crawford
Charles Jackson
Ainsworth Cemetery
Notice to present bills for Decoration Day fund
All persons holding bills against the Decoration Day fund are asked to present them to B. Dewey at the Fox & Dewey crank, ed 8.
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Decoration Day Fund
Fox & Dewey
City notices target speeding and pole signs in 1920s action
Mayor Glasgow announces two ordinances: curb speeding penalties and a crackdown on attaching signs to telephone and electric light poles. Residents along the pavement will report fast drivers, while a workman’s pole-fall injury prompts enforcement of ordinance 66 banning papers or signs on poles.
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Glasgow
J. D. Glasgow
Mr. Lewis
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