Service Marathon Proposed for Navy and Marine Athletes
The Washington Post outlines a plan for a Navy and Marine Corps service marathon featuring cycling, horseback, swimming, cliff scaling, and a race along Pennsylvania Avenue. It envisions a quadrennial event in Washington near Rock Creek Park, promoting rivalry between services and showcasing elite fitness and national prestige.
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Rock Creek Park
Pennsylvania Evenue
Fentidls
United States
Farewell reception idea praised for the President
A letter in the Post urges a public New Year’s event for the President to meet thousands of strangers in Washington instead of the private New Year’s reception. The writer argues the public option suits the season and allows many who travel great distances to see the President, especially bachelors and visitors in the Canal Zone.
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Walt Homs
Washington
A Farewell to the Gun and the Western Cowboy
The article argues against carrying firearms, praising self restraint and modernization. It notes few contexts still require guns, cites rising use of industrial packing and safety measures, and laments salaries not covering both guns and ammo. It concludes the purse of security now favors the personnel and tools of nonviolent work.
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Hough
Canorte
Harvard
Pennsylvania Fur Trade in Decline Debunked
A Pennsylvania fur trader from Columbia county sent 20 mink skins to New York after two shipments of six bales of assorted furs. Despite the common view that relations with Indians ended the trade, the article notes ongoing activity with fox, coon, skunk, mink, weasel, and muskrat across the state’s counties.
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Pennsylvania
Columbia County
New York
Turkey to Grow Great Says Prof Ferraro
Prof Ferraro warned of future conflict with European powers as Turkey adopts a new constitution. Speaking at the Hotel Astor before the Judeans he argued a strong national government would emerge, with foreign influence fading under a Turkish parliament.
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Europe
New York Times
Turkey
Hotel Astor
Balkan
R J EL Gott
Young Turk Party
Berlin
Nothng
Povera
New York Lawyer Profits From Supreme Court Gas Case
A seasoned New York lawyer used his study of Supreme Court justices to predict outcomes and bet on Consolidated Gas. He anticipated Moody's Knoxville decision would harm public service interests and bought 100 shares, riding the market down 17 points to net about 317000 by day’s end.
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Landis
Supreme Cart
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
Royalty and unrest swirl amid Cuba and global alarms
A fragmented 1920s style column rails at royal crises, U.S. troop withdrawals from Cuba, and corporate evasion. It cites Lipari Islands sinking rumors, Latin America travel, and critiques of lawyers guiding corporation power, while mocking a wife’s court complaint about indigestion.
Veiled Ardlamont Murder Tales Reach London Again
A long account recalls the Ardlamont murder case involving Cecil Hambrough and Alfred Monson. It details alleged life insurance schemes, a contested will, and court outcomes, noting Monson’s escape from conviction while the inquiry spurred broader scrutiny of financial intrigue and notorious figures linked to the affair.
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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 praised for moral impact
Prof Charles W Larned of West Point praised the Public Schools Athletic League for its physical culture program and moral influence on New York City’s 600000 public school children. He highlighted its discipline mottoes 1905 to 1909 and the positive shift in behavior through athletic activity.
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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 To Ease Neuralgia
James Barker a 72 year old man from Windom St Louis County carried a snake in his hat as a supposed cure for violent neuralgia. At Clayton courthouse he removed his hat revealing the snake which caused fright among officials. He claims the serpent offers relief from agony, preferring the writhing in his head to continued pain.
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St Louis Republic
James Barker
Windom
St Lows County
Barker
Clayton
Thut
Hhe
Meele
New Surgical Invention Projectoscope for Absent Students
The New York World reports Dr Charles I Duncan's photo optical Projectoscope tested in New York. It transmits live operations to a large screen, letting students and the public observe without touching the patient. The device eliminates septic risk from spectators and records the procedure for future instruction.
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New York
Charles I. Duncan
Love and a wreck reunite lovers on the North Coast line
An Iowa tale from Bramarck Tribone tells how a Des Moines beauty parlor owner bids farewell to a faithful lover and tests him by a year apart. After a crash caused by Capra’s alleged instigation, she suffers a broken ankle yet returns home to reunite with him. Passengers hurt find some consolation in the accident drawing them back together. The moral warns against tests of affection and wild goose chases.
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North Coast Limited
McKenzie
Des Moines
Capra
Cupid
Tas
Canned Music for the Kiowa Chief Lone Wolf Buys Records
Chief Lone Wolf of the Kiowa tribe shifts from white made records to a phonograph session. Vern Lovett attaches a recording setup at the allotment south of Hobart where red men gathered. Indians lecture and sing into the instrument as the machine runs off the newly made records amid dancing.
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Hobart Republican
Lone Wolf
Vern Lovett
Vern
Foibles of the Wife in a Wry Chicago Journal Feature
A humorous column sketches married life with a voracious wife who boasts of her husband’s cold tub habit while he is a Saturday night swimmer. It riffs on female vanity, taste in poetry and music, gift givers, and the mismatches between public airs and private habits.
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Chicago Journal
Wagner
Poocheeney
Maswanay
Narcissus
Owen Meredith
Lucie
Acquired Generalship and Railroad Ties in 1907
A fragmentary amalgam of sports reminiscence and technical rail commentary. The piece recalls a halfback turned football general and notes stubborn moral trials, then shifts to Utica and railroad reporting about cross ties, their costs, and the search for substitutes in 1906 07. It highlights rising costs and the potential of growing trees on railroad lands to meet future needs.
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Strate
Lo Vease
Loum
Utica
Boressia
Giant Sleep Disturber Cats Lead Tour rat War of 21 Pound Pet
In Kennebec era notes a Boston born cat named Charles Jewiz’s pet claims a 21 pound weight. The feline, with a pedigree, traces to a Filipino mother raised in Ma ria and arrived as a mascot for a US infantry unit. A discharged soldier from that unit acquired one of the kittens as a youngster weighing about 1 pound at birth and growing.
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China
Devad
Toyer
Theo Milion
Sot Yuan Ltd
GS Feu
Yuen An Wei
Kennebes Tourrat
Slat Port Jan
Charles Jewiz
Maria
First
United States Infantry
Mr Lewis
Pointed Paragraphs From the Chicago News
The excerpt satirizes self restraint and appearance versus reality in early Chicago life. It notes misjudging others by looks, with lines on swearing, old fashion clothes, and women’s perceived straitlaced tendencies when first met, hinting at social judgments.
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Chicago News
Reflections of 4 Bachelor From the New York Presa
A fragmentary piece reflects on grand opera and social scandal. It notes that opera enjoys brief moments, a man’s shame when caught lying, and a wary admiration of angels from afar. It hints at women’s indignation over scandals and a girl’s interest signaling influence over a man.
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New York
Washington visit yields views on German army and U S
Count Max Montgelas, a German general, visits New Willard in Washington during his brother Count Adolf Montgelas' wedding. He admires Kaiser Wilhelm, discusses German military service, and notes American army impressions amid a gloomy day. He also praises Washington’s architecture and shares thoughts on the cotton crop, U S manufacturing, and southern mills.
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Willard
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America
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Chin
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