Piano Player Plan Enters Everyday Life
In a domestic scene Mr and Mrs Everyman debate entertainment as numbers play out their finances. They consider trading their piano for a Pianola, with Grace and Will’s example prompting a sales pitch from DeMoll & Co. sales staff. They explore models from $285 to $850, partial payments, and old-instrument trade-ins as they plan a Sunday delivery.
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Alice
Grace
Will
Mr. B
O. J. DeMoll & Co
Piancia Player-Planos
Victor Herbert
Mrs. Everyman
Mr. E
Enduring Ragtime Dream Between Mrs and Mr E
Mrs E and her husband celebrate a late night piano session that blends ragtime with classics. He praises his impromptu performance while she marvels at his sudden talent despite no formal training. They sense a dreamlike start to more music filled nights ahead.
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Mr. E
Mrs. E
Dearie Camel Debate Highlights Telephone Frustrations
Janet Baer wins the New York Evening Telegram contest as a lengthy discussion unfolds about why a telephone strike is likened to a camel. The piece contrasts German and American attitudes toward operators and calls, quoting exchanges with Central and frustration over busy lines.
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Central
Lsten
German Names for the Phone Girl Stir Debate in Court
A German doctor was fined 260 marks or 26 days in jail for calling a telephone girl a camel. The piece notes American phrases heard over the wire and discusses courtesy, profanity, and how the New York Telephone Company enforces conduct rules to protect operators.
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New York Telephone Company
America
Dol
Bonehead
Leaps 200 Feet to Death In City Hall
Oakland in shock as Harold E Magill city clerk ends his life by leaping 200 feet from the fourteenth story of the new city hall. He had a roof permit and told an assistant he had not slept for three weeks and walked miles to tire himself for rest.
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Cal
Harold E Magill
New
City Hall
Magill
Clerks Strike in Buffalo Settled With Wage Pact
The Buffalo strike involving 2500 department store clerks ended this afternoon. Workers return to work by morning under a plan setting women’s minimum wage at 3% dollars and men at 12 dollars, a 3% hour workday from 9 am to 5 pm, and Saturday noon closings in July and August. The agreement omits union recognition originally sought.
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Buffalo
M Y
Hudson Bay Railway Construction Starts at Lepas Manitoba
Winnipeg May 17 after 37 years of agitation steel laying began north of the Saskatchewan River at Lepas Manitoba. Contractors say half the distance to the bay will be completed this year.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Hudson Bay Railway
Saskatchewan River
Lepas
Sleeping sickness expert recalls wartime African outbreak
Dr. McConnell, after years in Uganda and Southend East Africa, describes trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness spread by Glossina palpal is tsetse flies. He notes the disease’s chronic course, central nervous system impact, and historical depopulation efforts around infested lake shores, with Stanley era introductions and government measures to curb transmission.
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Southend East Africa
Uganda
McConnell
Providence
R. I. Mra
Elizabeth B. Ladd
Herbert W. Ladd
Central Africa
Videna Nyanza
Congo
West Africa
Africa
Arabian
Peninawia
Aden
Stanley
Albert Nyanza
Glossina Palpalia
Victoria Nyanza
Disease control efforts map outbreaks in protectorate camps
Officials report most sick were housed in camps with meals and care. Treatment used the newer organic arsenical compound with limited success. Researchers are surveying lesser known areas to locate hidden foci and chart distribution to halt spread to uninfected districts.
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Protectorate
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