Yale professor leads Peru Inca city expedition
Dr. Hiram Bingham of Yale heads a six month expedition sailing to Panama and Peru to explore lost Inca cities. The team includes a geographer, naturalist, surgeon and archaeologist. They plan to trek to Choqquequira and Mount Coropuna, aiming to add to knowledge of pre Spanish South America without seeking treasure.
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York
Newak
Panama
South Sea
Hiram Bingham
Yale
Nam
Pero
Peru
Bingham
Choqquequira
South America
Cusco
Wieh
Mollendo
Arequipa
Harvard
Urubamba
Coropuna
Handelier
New World
Washington eight hour workday law for women
Seattle announces a new rule effective today limiting all women and girls in mercantile and mechanical establishments to eight working hours per day. The state labor commissioner says the law is clear and will be strictly enforced, and it covers office girls, stenographers, and bookkeepers.
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Seattle
Wash
Washington
Lands Opened for Settlement Near Lassen National Forest
Unappropriated and withdrawn lands totaling 77 074 acres near the Modoc and Lassen national forests and 173 878 acres of vacant public lands near Lassen in northern California were opened to settlement today after previously being excluded or withdrawn.
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Washington
Modoc
Lassen National Forests
Lassen Forest
California
Hall's Catarrh Cure Offered for Deafness Claim
An advertisement claims deafness is curable by constitutional remedies. It explains deafness as an inflamed condition of the Eustachian tube caused by catarrh and promises one hundred dollars for a cure it cannot achieve. The notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills distributed by Cheney & Co of Toledo.
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Hall
F. J, Cheney & CO
Toledo
Taft reviews 100000 children in Brooklyn parade
President Taft viewed more than 100,000 children as the Brooklyn Sunday School Union held its eighty second annual parade in New York. The procession set a new record for size and enthusiasm as part of a day embraced by the president. That evening he attends a banquet by the New York Produce Exchange honoring South cottonseed crushers visiting for their convention.
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Brooklyn Sunday School Union
United States
Grant
Taft
Hsm
New York Produce Exchange
South
MI-O-NA Stomach Ailments Remedy Ad
An advertisement touts MI-O-NA as a prescription for quick relief and permanent care of stomach ailments. It claims to strengthen the stomach, improve blood, and boost vitality, listing symptoms and promising a money back guarantee at Lemmon's Pharmacy for a fifty cent box. For chronic cases it notes more may be required.
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Lemmon’s
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta
Women and Physical Fitness Rule
The text urges women to match men in labor by maintaining fitness. It argues women, who have long cared for others through good fare, should also adopt self care for themselves and for each other, adopting male workers’ standards of fitness and provisioning.
Subterranean Gallery of Ancient Statues Found Near Lake Nemi
A hidden subterranean gallery near Genzano, Italy, contains ancient statues still on their original pedestals. Debris fills parts of the passage, and the statues have not yet been identified. The find appears to be part of a Roman villa or temple complex.
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Genzano
Lake Nemi
Italy
Getting to Like Aged Cigars Gains Among Americans
An authority at the Waldorf notes a rapid rise in Americans who value aged cigars like wine. A vast vault under 34th Street stores cigars, including a lot kept since 1898 in a large room.
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the Waldorf
Thirty-fourth Street
New York Sun
Post Office Mail Totals for May in Washington
Postmaster J Lytle reports May mail figures for Washington with 283 195 pieces handled in thirty days. Incoming 182 427 and outgoing 100 558 pieces, broken down by first to fourth classes. city carriers delivered 71 496 pieces and collected 14 148 pieces.
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Lytle
Aacistante
Washington Post Office
Borrowed Smiles and Wit Across a Daily Table
A collection of light anecdotes and snippets about marriage, suspicion of burglars, and social satire. The pieces explore spousal dynamics at night, a car theft misprint, a child’s witty hoot, and humorous exchanges about phrases and baldness.
Barnard Graduates Expect Many Marriages Among Class
Barnard College graduates from New York expect about 30 percent to marry or become engaged within the year. About half of the 1911 class plan to teach or pursue research, with several already engaged or married, challenging Chicago statistics and defending college women’s domestic inclination.
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New York
Barnard College
Columbia University
Barnard
University of Chicago
Caucel
Judson
Chicago
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Promises Quick Wound Healing
An old advertisement touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the fastest healer for wounds from knives and other objects, burns, boils, sores, eczema, chapped hands, and piles. It claims prevention of blood poisoning with Lemmon’s Pharmacy offering it for 25 cents.
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Buckien
Arnica Salyy
Lemmon’s
Citizen objects to out of town policeman in Shirley
A Shirley citizen denounces the town vote to hire an out of town officer, arguing six churches prove lack of public spirit and suggesting missionaries would be more useful. The remark implies a local tension between church influence and policing.
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Shirley
Lowell Courier
City Bus Line Phone Order Service Cited
Call up Phone No. 589 Black and leave orders. Frank Rogers will promptly attend. Provide street and number for delivery or pickup according to the notice.
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Frank Rogers
Berlin Life Centered In Three Streets
Berlin’s life concentrates in Friedrich Strasse Liepsiger Strasse and Unter den Linden. Beyond these grand avenues, nights blaze with crowds and activity, while darkness falls elsewhere, and merry Berlin begins and ends within these famous streets as described by National Magazine.
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Berlin
Friedrich Strasse
Liepsiger Strasse
Unter den Linden
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