A Rich Girl's Whim
Mabel Waring, traveling from New York to Palm Beach, lands among strangers while pursuing a public school post. She hides debt and drafts, survives on a hotel life, and discovers the missing leather case with her drafts after an emotional wake set off by need and secrecy.
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New York
St Augustine
Mabel Waring
Palm Beach
Mabel
Florista
West Palm Beach
Bessie
Walter
St. Augustine
Lucy
Miss Waring
Berlin
Jacksonville
Mantanzas
The Sacred Camel's Journey Across Lands to Mecca
Devout Mohammedans renew the time honored camel pilgrimage from Constantinople to Mecca with modern transport part of the way. The journey starts at Scutari with cannon salutes and officials guarding richly laden camels and pilgrims. By Beyrut thousands join the caravan as it advances toward Mecca amid guardians and ceremonial splendor.
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Constantinople
Meccan
Scutari
Beyrut
Mecca
Judicial Praise and Public School The Bible in Schools
Editorial praises Judge Hazen of Kansas for upholding citizenship rights while allowing Bible reading in public schools and Sabbath entertainment in theaters. The piece notes potential backlash from both Christians and pagans, and recalls Socrates on superstition as a judge of belief. A second fragment laments a graveyard scene and a wedding boot knitting vignette, ending with a bleak verse about a cottage and a sitter beside a grave.
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Hazen
Kansas
Socrates
Roswell Field
Chicago Evening Post
Fire at Rock Island Arsenal Destroys Major Storehouse
A vast Fire at Rock Island Arsenal Illinois consumed Shop A the principal issue storehouse and its contents including cavalry and infantry equipment and a million rounds of Krag. Loss estimated at 1 765 000 dollars though most factory capacity remains intact. The blaze burned for hours as crowds watched from the river bluffs. Maj S E Blunt put the cost and cause at mystery with no active spark found before alarms.
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United States Arsenal
Rock Island, Ill
Mississippi
Arsenal
War Department
S. E. Blunt
Fort Armstrong Avenue
Gen. Crozier
Ordnance
Washington
Use of His Eyes
A Havana doctor claims X ray treatment partially restored sight in a man who had been blind for twelve years. The Madrid native traveled to Cuba after the cure enabled him to distinguish light from dark and observe machinery and lamp flashes in Dr. Astudillo's study.
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Astudillo
Havana
Madrid
Cuba
Value of Presence of Mind on Delaware Disaster
Many years ago the American warship Delaware nearly foundered off Sardinia in a heavy squall. An unauthorized letting go of the fore sheet saved the ship and 1,100 souls aboard. First lieutenant, later Commodore Thomas W. Wyman, climbed to the quarter deck and ordered Keep clear of the paint. This command calmed hundreds crowded in the scuppers and a panic was averted as the battle line ship rode on.
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Delaware
Sardinia
Thomas W. Wyman
Difcult
Story With a Moral From Philadelphia Clover Club
John Mitchell spoke at the Clover club in Philadelphia telling a grimly humorous tale about two seamstress sisters living in a cramped room. Both work hard, but the younger wishes they were dead while the older urges stillness and reflection on life.
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John Mitchell
Clover Club
Philadelphia
Mr. Mitchell
Roosevelt Markemanship and a Moose Hunt Tale
A tale recalls President Roosevelt with Maine guide Bill Sewall during a moose hunt near camp. Roosevelt shot at a moose and Sewall asked how it happened. the president said he aimed at the breast and hit the spot, but Sewall joked he shot the moose in the eye.
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Roosevelt
Bill
Tolman Slams New York Public Action In Lecture
Dr William H Tolman director of the American Institute of Social Bef ence says New York lags behind Chicago and other cities in public battles. He spoke at Miss Halen Goulds residence in New York and warned that New York which needs necessities very much talks while others act.
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New
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Daily Story Publishing Company
Europe
Dalutes
Crozier
Frankfort
Rock Island
George F. Saysour
Hoboken
Richard Mansfield
Giame
Adams
Subri
George Gordon
Alarie Antoinette
Vint
Ubeling
Stanley
Sir Henry M. Stanley
Livingstone
Utica
New Orleans
New York Herald
Bennet
Stanmope E. Blount
USA
Pierpont Morgan
McCabe
Methodist Episcopal Church
Morgan
Buckley
Bat
Wallace MacMullen
East
Spiding
Tlain Storerkerme
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