Vanderbilt Cup Race In Progress At Long Island
New York October 1 Vanderbilt Cup race activities began at 6 o clock with 46 entrants from the United States and Europe lined up at Long Island Motor Parkway. The Vanderbilt cup cars run 22 laps totaling 278.08 miles with staged starts every fifteen minutes.
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New York
Hempstead Plains
Long Island Motor Parkway
United States
Europe
William K. Vanderbilt Jr
Wagner
Wheatly Hills
W. K. Vanderbilt
Wheatly Mills
Massaquepa
Eagle Attacks Boys. Brother Defends With Dinner Pail
In Huntington Indiana on October 1 George Pflenger, 11, escaped an eagle attempting to carry him off as he walked home from school. His 8 year old brother Walter beat the bird away with a dinner pail, sustaining a torn left thumb in the fifteen minute struggle.
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Huntington
Ind
George Pflenger
Walter
Meyers Starts Five Weeks Naval Tour
Secretary of the Navy Meyer began a five weeks inspection tour of U S naval defenses. He will visit Chicago and then travel to Cuba before returning to Washington.
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Secretary of Navy
Washington
Meyer
Chicago
Cuba
Railroad shops ordered closed in Dennison Texas
All motive shops of the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad were ordered shut as the present appropriation for maintenance is exhausted. The move affects several thousand workers across the Texas system.
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Dennison
Tex
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Texas
Sothern Faces Divorce Suit Over Desertion
Virginia Harned Sothern filed for divorce from Edward H. Sothern the actor in Reno citing failure to provide and desertion for more than a year as the grounds for the suit filed October 1.
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Reno
Virginia Harned Sothern
Edward H. Sothern
Baked Apple Pudding Recipe
A recipe instructs lining a small bake sheet with rich biscuit dough then filling with sliced apples. Add one cup sugar, dotted butter, and spices. Bake one hour in a slow oven.
Nevada Bans Gambling Doors Close After Fifty Years
Carson City Nevada October 1 Gambling houses in Nevada barred by new law effective today. The Attorney General declares card games for money and all forms of gaming including slot machines illegal. The historic gambling culture in the state ends as doors are closed and tables stored away.
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Carson City
Nev
Nevada
Bret Harte
Mark Twain
Stoddard
Prisoners of Self in the Rocky Mountains
In the solitary Rocky mountains some people flee fortune health or heartache. Many seek renewal yet remain prisoners of self as the author notes that life is not where you are but how you are and you cannot escape your inner self.
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Milton
Satan
Hell
Count of Monte Cristo Romance Heals a Bachelor
Mme. Benardier fears her son Gaston remains unmarried until a nurse reads to him The Count of Monte Cristo in a hospital room The nurse turns out to be Antoinette du Pierris a neighbor’s daughter. The doctor and mother engineer a match to unite them.
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Mme. Benardier
Gaston
Paris
Antoine
Monsieur
Antoinette
Count of Monte Cristo
Antoinette du Pierris
Count du Pierris
Palmistry and Poker Banter Between Jinks and Blinks
The fragment shows Jinks claiming three jacks and a raise to a man with a flush while discussing palmistry and study. Blinks questions the Walfer and the exchange hints at a casual gambling or card game conversation.
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Jinks
Walfer
Jack Widows and Matds Wise Riddle Exchange
A Chicago News item notes a quip about Jack people being wary of missing chances. It contrasts Jack widows with matds by saying the former never miss a chance, assuming a better one will come.
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Jack
Tom
Chicago News
Typhoon Destroys Four Towns in Luzon Valley
A severe typhoon swept over the Cayagae river valley in northern Luzon on October 1 damaging four towns including Ilagan the provincial capital. The storm leveled much of the area causing near total destruction in the affected communities.
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Manila
Cayagai River
Luzon
Ilagan
Parisian Sage Hair Tonic Promises Dandruff Cure
A Parisian Sage advertisement touts the hair tonic as a superior modern product that kills dandruff germs and eliminates dandruff within two weeks with a money back guarantee. It claims to halt hair loss and itching, adds lustre, and promotes growth without grease, selling a large bottle for 50 cents at Lemmon's Pharmacy and druggists.
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America
Lemmon’s
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Cravenette
Frank L. Wilson & CO
the House OF Good Shoes
JS Earship
the Sanitary Grocery
Selden L. Stewart
Himston National Bank
Iowa Gas & Electric CO
Eagle
Small Boy
Brother
Bird
Meyers
Sothern
George von L. Meyer
LIDON
Usygoy
Prisoners OF
Rocky Mountains
Lemmon
Chienamare
Cook & Sherman
Harwood
J. A. Harwood
Keck Floral CO
Pacific Northwest
Rock Island Limited
el Paso
New Mexico
Roch
Colorado
Salt Lake
S. F. Boyd
Davenport
Iowa
H. W.2russeli
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