Tiny 18 Perfect In Every Respect And Runs Smoothly
Popular 121 M. G. Tretet a French mechanic recently constructed at Bellevug an electrical motor smaller than any industrial unit. The Gramme ring, induction shaft, armature and brushes are all minutely designed with parts under half a centimeter in size. The motor weighs 0.014 pound and consumes 0.7 watt at full operation.
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M. G. Tretet
Bellevug
French Academy of Sciences
Coutfierty
Guerin Career Told As Crook Turned Author
A lengthy expose claims Roddie Guerin the famed bank robber is writing a book. It traces Guerin from Chicago roots to British exile, his wife Emelle and lover May, the American Express robbery, capture in London, and a later escape, then notes Guerin’s life after release as a literary figure amid lingering notoriety.
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London
Aetlih
Guerin
Westerner
Devil's Island
France
American Express Company
Chicago
May
May Churchill
Charley Miller
Ins
American Express
McManus
Muke
Emelle
Skinner
Emilie
Andl Jaha
Ous
Inj
Abd
Guerinj
Bulldhain
Eddie Guerin
Miller
Tvere
Pat Sheedy
Gainsborough
Calais
McMannon
Tngm
Erin
Ih Ut Guerin
Pat Sheed
Nusbahdas
Paris
Sheedy
Dutch Guiana
Haven of Refuge
Pat Cme
America
New York
Emelie
Smitty
Gueri
Josiah Flynts
Ceeded
Mme. Clairon
Booth
John McCullough
Thomas Keene
Shakespeare
Cervantes
Europe
Raphael and
Sobieski
Plato
Attalus Iso
Pompey
Plutarch
James Barry
George Washington
Patrick Henry
Charles Dickens
Alexander Dumas
John Adama
Thomas Jefferson
Adams
James Monroe
United States
George Bancroft
T. Babington Macaulay
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hogg and Burns
Pope
Voltaire
Twickenham
Chatenal
Rubens
Wlso
Charles IX
Sir John van Brugh
Mansard
Sir J. Wyattville and
Weinbrunner
Gluck
Jomelli
Theil
Fol
Henry II
St. Germaine
Francis 1
Flance
Count de Montgomery
William II of
England
Henry IV
Anne
George I
Thirteenth Street
Animal Instinct in Edgewater Riding Club Showdown
Captain Walter du Brock led Edgewater Riding Club members along the Des Plaines River near Glenview to recover a wounded lost hound after ten days. The dog, shot and with a broken foreleg, had prepared a cave with leaves, branches, and rations of meat, pie, and bones, as the pack guarded its wounded comrade.
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Chicago
New York Times
Walter du Brock
Edgewater Riding Club
Des Plaines River
Glenview
du Brock
Rat Skin Gloves Abroad Stir Continent and Market
New York Press notes English coast towns produce the world’s finest rat skin gloves with rats from Swiss and Italian borders competing against established glove makers. The flea plague era threatens a black eye for continental rat skins, while British fish-eating rats impact supplies. Anthrax can survive tanning and boiling, with deaths linked to new shoes and gloves. no suspicion against American gloves.
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New York
England
Switzerland
Italy
Tip
Ain Interrupted Poker Game
Boston Globe recounts a long whimsical tale of a Boston lawyer and his wife amidst a festive card game. A green folding table with hidden compartments becomes the stage for flirtations, a minister, charity, and a farcical “Devil's Book” card tradition.
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Boston Globe
Boston
Massachusetts
Flyes
Ghosts and Spirits Spark Odd Tales at Christmas Gatherings
A lively Globe-Democrat reminiscence recounts matter-of-fact hauntings and eerie lore shared by journalists and locals. Tales range from a house’s window tapping blamed on a wind instrument to a Celtic china bequest and a devilish Christmas card game, each told with cautious belief and humor.
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Scotland
Yuletide
Charlie Robertson
Charlie
Paddy
Cork
Dublin
England
Belfast
May
County Tyrone
Trew
Home
Patrick
China
Bie
Ilma
Aimeel T. Hey
James
Washington Irving
The Printer's Off Day and Superstition Echoes
A fragment from a New York Herald piece recalls a Gyanyville Sunday School event and La Salle church entertainment, then shifts to a broad meditation on superstition. It cites Jay Gould Napoleon Bonaparte and British monarchs, noting uncanny coincidences, deaths in foreign lands, and the persistent hold of superstition on actors and daily life.
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Minis
Schurch
Gyanyville
Zion's Church
la Salle
Rander
Granville
Hight
Joliet Strees
Lvek
Evi
Jay Gould
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon
Ajaccio
Corsica
St. Helena
Wellington
Waterloo
Marshal Ney
Northumberland
Murat
Naples
Pizzo
Calabria
Desaix
Marengo
Kleber
Grand Cairo
Marshal Mortier
Treviso
Russia
Kremlin
Mortier
Paris
Fresséel
France
Napoleon III
Prince Imperial
Zululand
James I
Scotland
England
James 11
Roxburgh
James Til
James IV
Flodden Field
Jamesv
Mary
Charles I
James
Windsor Castle
George HI
George IV
Anne
George II
George III
Edwards
Georges
Edward I
Edward III
Pliny
Moliere
Flashlight attachment aids hunters in dark game pursuit
Popular Electricity notes hunters attach an electric searchlight to the gun barrel to locate deer in darkness. A Cassell Germany lamp attachment reportedly works at 75 to 200 feet. Some prefer below the barrel with a telescopic sight, others above. Hunters carry extra batteries and a spare lamp on long trips.
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Cassell
Germany
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Manwad
Express Company
Henry
Guerfr
Anerin
Ain
Louis Globe-Democrat
New York Herald
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