Service Marathon concept for Navy Marine corps athletes
The piece advocates a Navy and Marine Corps service marathon near Washington DC with cross branch competition and spectacle. It envisions endurance tests, cliff swimming, handicap runs along Pennsylvania Avenue, parachute jumps, swivel chair races, and novelty events to boost service prestige and national morale. It also notes talk of bringing in the Pittsburgh baseball team the Grafters.
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Washiglun
Rock Creek Park
Pennsylvania Evenue
Fentidls
United States
Farewell reception for President sparks public viewing idea
In a Washington Post letter a reader urges a public New Year event to let ordinary people see the President. The writer argues the traditional private reception excludes thousands of strangers and calls for a designated day when the public can attend, noting many visitors stay far away from the city.
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Canal Zone
Washington
Walt Homs
A Farewell to the Gun In Modern Days And Salaries
The author argues against carrying a gun, noting societal shifts and the high costs of weaponry. He cites industrial waste measures, wildlife control, and humane treatment of cattle, suggesting that salaries today may not cover both chuck and ammunition. The essay contrasts gun culture with economic realities from East to West.
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Hough
Canorte
Harvard
Pennsylvania Fur Trade Resumes After Indian Departure
A Columbia County fur dealer shipped 20 mink skins to New York after two prior shipments of six bales of furs. The haul included fox, raccoon, skunk, mink, weasel, and muskrat as authorities note the trade’s persistence across Pennsylvania’s counties amid frontier changes.
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Pennsylvania
Columbia County
New York
Turkey to Grow Great Says Prof Ferraro
Prof Ferraro warned in New York that Turkey’s new constitution signals a strong, assertive nation likely to clash with European powers. Speaking at Hotel Astor, he argued foreign influence plagues the empire and that a robust Turkish parliament will challenge old borders and interests.
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Europe
New York Times
Turkey
Hotel Astor
Balkan
R J EL Gott
Young Turk Party
Berlin
Nothng
Povera
Lawyer bets on Supreme Court gambit wins 17000
A prominent New York lawyer, expert in predicting justices’ reasoning from opening paragraphs, spent Saturday in Washington. He placed 1000 with his broker and watched as Consolidated Gas fell 17 points, netting him 17000 when he covered. He had anticipated Moody's Knoxville ruling signaling a gas company loss.
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Washington
New York Times
Supreme Court of the
United States
New York City
Supreme Court
Consolidated Gas
Tennessee
Knoxville
Knoxville Water Company
Consolidates Gas
Moody Decsion
Puotic Service Corporation
New York
Complex mix of royal, political, and scandal chatter in era text
The piece surveys global tension and domestic criticism, noting Italian royalty amid crisis, U S troop withdrawals from Cuba, and alleged Swiss or Shanghai base shifts. It criticizes corporate evasion, lawyers, and cabinet speculation while recounting a domestic court dispute over a quarrel about cooking.
Ardlamont tragedy and Hambrough insurance scandal
The Ardlamont case recounted shows Cecil Hambrough shot dead during a hunting trip linked to life insurance schemes and wealth entanglements. Alfred Monson fled and faced trial. settlement schemes and a family legacy collapsed as insurance fraud and alleged murder surfaced in late 19th century Scotland.
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Ardlamont
Times
Dudley Hambrough
Cecil Hambrough
Alfred Monson
Las
Lord Oxenbridge
Monson
Scotland
Manson
Mansons
Hambroughad
Hambrough
Scott
Aronson
America
Wivill IL
Birds of Prey
London
Public Schools Athletic League. moral impact praised at convention
Prof. Charles W. Larned of West Point lauds the Public Schools Athletic League for improving physical culture and morals among New York City children. He notes 600,000 public school pupils, many from impoverished backgrounds, benefit from disciplined sport. cites mottoes like Duty, Thoroughness, Patriotism, Honor, and Obedience as guiding factors.
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New York Times
Charles W. Larned
West Point
Tatercilestate Athletic Association
United States
Public Schools Athletic League
New York City
New York
Military Academy
League
Man keeps snake in hat as cure for neuralgia
James Barker, 72, of Windom in St Louis County, says a snake in his hat relieves violent neuralgia. He visited Clayton courthouse to file pauper papers, inspected by a county janitor, and explained the snake’s presence was to ease pain rather than threaten. He claims the reptile now writhes harmlessly in his hat, ending his neuralgia.
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St Louis Republic
James Barker
Windom
St Lows County
Barker
Clayton
Thut
Hhe
Meele
New Surgical Invention Lets Absent Students View Operations
The New York World reports Dr Charles I Duncan's photo optical Projectoscope tested in New York. The device uses mirror and camera bellows to project a vivid, full color operation onto large screens in an amphitheater. Patients remain unaware of observation while surgeons and nurses are unseen by spectators.
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New York
Charles I. Duncan
An Iowa Love Test After a Railroad Wreck
A Des Moines beauty parlor owner bids farewell to a persistent lover and travels west for a year to test his faith. After the North Coast Limited wreck near McKenzie, she returns to Des Moines with a broken ankle, and the couple reunites. The tale ends with Cupid triumph and a moral to take a man's offer rather than chase a wild test.
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Iowa
North Coast Limited
McKenzie
Des Moines
Capra
Cupid
Tas
Canned Music for the Kiowa Chiefs New Record Session
Chief Lone Wolf of the Kiowa tribe wins a new turn in phonograph use by hiring Vern Lovett to record songs at his allotment south of Hobart. Vern operated the machine as Kiowa men and women lectured and sang into the instrument, then listened to the produced records with delight as they danced around the phonograph.
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Hobart Republican
Lone Wolf
Vern Lovett
Vern
Foibles of the Wife in a Chicago Journal sketch
A humorous Chicago Journal passage pokes at married women and their pretended cultural tastes. It contrasts a wife who boasts of morning cold baths with her nightly swimming, mocks pretended literary and musical ideals, and notes the ritual of gifting Owen Meredith poetry to younger relatives while revealing the gap between public affectations and private habits.
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The
Chicago Journal
Wagner
Poocheeney
Maswanay
Narcissus
Owen Meredith
Lucie
Acquired Generalship and Railroad Tie Trade Notes
A collage of excerpts recounts a football halfback dubbed a general for bold play and school loyalty, a philosopher statesman resisting vice, and a Utica Press note on railroads seeking crocs ties amid rising costs. It also cites 1906 1907 cross tie costs and explores redwood ties and metal substitutes as railroads seek future supplies.
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Utica
Boressia
Giant Sleep Disturber Cat Tops Weight Contest
A tale from Kennebes tourrat describes a heavyweight feline captured by local residents. Boston born cat Charles Jewiz owns weighs 21 pounds, with a pedigree linked to a Filipina mother raised in Ma ria and brought to the States as a mascot for a First United States Infantry unit.
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Kennebes Tourrat
Slat Port Jan
Charles Jewiz
Maria
First
United States Infantry
Mr Lewis
Pointed Paragraphs from the Chicago News
A fragment from the Chicago News reflects on restraint and perception in social behavior. It jokes that appearances mislead, noting men’s self-control and women’s becoming involved after first meetings. The piece uses witty observations about respectability and college influence.
Reflections of 4 Bachelor from the New York Presa
A fragment from a publication presents reflections on grand opera and social ideas. It notes opera seasons, honesty under scrutiny, distant admiration for angels, and a woman's indulgence in scandal. The text ends with a transient remark about a girl’s interest signaling influence over a man.
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New York
Views of visitors in Washington
Count Max Montgelas, major general of the Seventh Infantry, visits the New Willard to attend his brother Count Adolf Montgelas wedding in Rapids. He praises the Kaiser and German army, and comments on American military life, Washington sights, and the Capitol. He notes education and cultural progress, the Library of Congress, and remarks on cotton crop reporting and southern manufacturing growth.
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Wursburg
Bavaria
Willard
Count Montgelas
America
Adolf Montgelas
G Rapids
Germany
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Alsace-Lorraine
Chin
United States
Washington
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