The Millionaire Marauder Comedy of Umbrellas and Love
Dick exchanges umbrellas with others causing a comic tangle. A stung passenger accuses him of theft in the streetcar. At a dance Milly Wells seeks his help and a locked room reveal an embarrassing mistaken identity ending in a new romance.
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Joe
Toe Dart
North Street
Mildred Wells
Bradstreet
Milly
Carrie
Mamma
Mildred
Bridget
Mother
Daniel
Providence
Brown
Richard Jones-Brown
Boomville
Beckoning Corpse Haunts Delhi Battle Scene
A veteran recalls a grim episode from the siege of Delhi after its fall. While patrolling with a comrade they notice a coffin pile and a pivotal haunting arm that rises to beckon, only to be revealed as the pariah dog manipulating a slain soldier’s body.
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Almere
Iteaven
Disorder In the Commons and Lords The Chambers Turmoil
The London Chronicle notes house tumult when the reform bill clears its third reading with cheers and tears in parliament. It contrasts Commons policing by police and the Lords reliance on a centuries old standing order from 1626 to quell uproar.
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Commons
House of Commons
Macaulay
Charing Cross
Duncannon
London Chronicle
Old Medical Fakes On Display At Dresden Exhibit
At the international hygiene show in Dresden a department exposes how fear of disease once fueled quackery with so called preventives. A life sized figure of a cholera guard wears a wool abdomen belt, elastic bodice, brick adorned belt, and waxed ribbon. Sleeves hold brushes and sand bags to absorb poison, while vinegar tubes chalk boxes hide under hair puffs and a pinwheel atop the hat spins to keep air around the wearer.
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Dresden
How Gorillas Make Battle
A traveler rejects the idea that gorillas use clubs in fights. He explains gorillas rely on their razor sharp teeth and powerful arms to attack faces and limbs, noting they are clumsy on their feet but strong overall. He cites observations from long stays in Africa and a hunting trip in Borneo.
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Borneo
Wonderfully Enabling Niagara Furnaces Shine With Power
A writer extols Niagara as home to the world’s hottest furnaces. Electric power from falling water drives heat and light as electricity becomes heat. Niagara’s 20 year evolution with electrical furnaces could, in one giant setup, emit a glow visible from the moon.
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Niagara
Niagara Falls
Swindlers Cash In On Fake National Banknotes Scam
An editor recalls a Washington swindle where con artists touted a supposed massive issue of national banknotes to gullible investors. The scheme promised easy profits from government money, but authorities intervened, stopping the fraud and sparing the public from further loss.
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Washington
United States
Uncle Sam
Cincinnati Times-Star
Through the Panama Canal to the Pacific
A ship traverses the canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific entering a 500 foot wide Atlantic channel for seven miles to Gatun. Locks raise eighty five feet to Lake Gatun then twenty four miles to Bas Obispo. It proceeds through the Culebra cut nine miles wide 300 feet bottom. Pedro Miguel lock lowers thirty feet to a small lake then two more locks lower to sea level and exits via an eight mile Pacific channel 500 feet wide.
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Panama Canal
Atlantic
Pacific
Gatun
Lake Gatun
Bas Obispo
Culebra
Pedro Miguel
Multilingual Press Scene in New York and U S
Harper's Weekly notes New York City hosts twenty eight prosperous foreign language newspapers including German French Italian Spanish Portuguese Russian Finnish Hungarian and others with an Austrian and Swiss German paper. In the United States a total of 465 foreign language periodicals are printed comprising 53 dailies 6 triweeklies 34 semiweeklies 324 weeklies 10 semi monthlies and 28 monthlies.
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Polyglot Press
New York City
United States
Harper’s Weekly
Gazeka Discovered in Dutch New Guinea by Coast Explorers
An unknown giant carnivorous mammal, named gazeka, was found by English naturalists in Dutch New Guinea during coast explorations. It lives at about 650 yards altitude near a tribe of black dwarfs, resembles a striped zebra tapir, and appears ferocious with protruding teeth suggesting ancient lineage.
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Dutch New Guinea
Harper's
Cardinals Shrink as Death Reduces College to Forty-Nine
The Catholic College of Cardinals now has the smallest membership in centuries and the lowest proportion of Italians. Traditionally seventy, it falls to forty nine after Cardinal Cavicchioli's death. No new cardinals have been created for 3.5 years and a consistory may not occur for another year.
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Gallege of Cardinals
Catholic College of Cardinals
Cavicchioni
Public Farm Sale Near Washington and Coppock in Iowa
Marcus Kuhn announces a public sale at his farm 5 miles south of Washington and 5 miles north of Coppock near Eureka church on Tuesday October 3 1911 starting at 10 am. Offering 12 horses and mules 3 cattle 115 hogs 10 tons of straw assorted machinery livestock and farm gear plus a Studebaker wagon team and several John Deere implements. Terms include 10 month credit on sums over 10 dollars and cash for 10 dollars and under. Auctioneer D Macon and clerk Ralph Dougherty oversee the sale.
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Illinois
Washington
Coppock
Eureka Church
Arlo
Studebaker
John Deere Gang
John Deere
McCormick
Fairbanks & Morse
Deere
Endgate
New
Plymouth Rock
Marcus Kuhn
D. F. Macon
Iowa
Ralph Dougherty
T-F-S
Meritol Snow White Liniment Promoted by Lemmon’s Pharmacy
An advertisement urges Washington readers to try Meritol Snow White Liniment claiming it relieves pains from rheumatism to sprains and endorses the product as the pharmacy’s strongest recommendation.
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Washington
Meritol
Lemmon
J. G. White Post 108 Meeting Schedule Noted
J. G. White Post No. 108 meets on the first and eighth Tuesday each month in their Post rooms at the Temple. Commander J. W. Scott and Adjutant J. J. Kellogg are listed.
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J. G. White
Valley Forge Camp Meets Thursdays at North Side Hall
Valley Forge Camp No. 868 holds weekly meetings Thursday evenings in the hall on North Side Square. Neighbors are welcome to attend.
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Valley Forge Camp
Hall
North Side Square
Masonic Lodges Schedule Regular Meetings
Washington Lodge No 26 A F and A M holds regular meetings on the first Friday each month. Cycus Chapter No 18 meets on the second Friday. Bethlehem Commandery No 45 K T meets on the third Friday. Washington Chapter No 98 O E S meets on the second Thursday. Visiting fraters welcome.
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Washington Lodge
A. F
A. M
J. BE. Kunath
W. M
J. W. Morton
Sec
Cycus
BR. A. Me
James D. Glasgow
H. P
Bethlehem Commandery
K. T
Wyatt B. Marbourg
Washington
E. S
J. E. Kunath
Myrtle Bragg
Merital Pile Remedy Sold At Lemmon's Pharmacy
A new preparation Merital Pile Remedy is promoted as a world beater available at Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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Lemmon’s Pharmacy
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Washington, Lowa
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