Della Delivers Daring Bananas Rescue Train Run
In New Orleans an unauthorized substitute, Miss Della, takes charge of a fruit train after Ben falters from a drink and a coworker Timson’s ruse. She safeguards the cargo by adjusting ventilators across 20 cars, ensuring prime market fruit at destination. Aiding Ben’s cover story, she reveals the truth to the manager and earns cautious praise and a partial pardon for the suspended messenger.
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Honduras
Messenger
Ben
Timson
Juat
Delia
Drayman
Rue Citronelle
Rayman
Messenger 20
Mies Della
Deia
Wat
Memphis
Jefferson City
Columbus
Deila
New Orleans
Della
Fea
Galveston
Flella
Migs
Monumented wood column near Catoree marks tropics line
The Mexican Railroad company set a 12 by 24 foot wooden monument on a desert spot south of Catoree where the Tropic of Cancer crosses the globe. Atop the monument two hands point to the two zones. Cadiz is built of gleaming pure white stone that appears snowy from a distance.
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The
Mexican Railroad Company
Catoree
Cadiz
Rise in personal crisis reports warns of rising suicides
The census bulletin notes a large total of personal crisis reports across the United States, with higher figures in major cities like San Francisco, St. Louis, Chicago, and New York. It highlights more male deaths by own action, a shift toward carbolic acid, and the potential antidote role of promptly applied alcohol, urging awareness and prevention.
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Chicago Chronicle
San Francisco
St. Louis
Chicago
New York
Europe
Sublime Turkish Porte Explained as Historic Gate
The San Francisco Call explains that the Sublime Porte is not a grand title but the main gateway to the old seraglio. Once the entrance to the sultan’s palace, it now stands decayed yet houses chambers, a mint, a treasury, an armory, a library, tiles, and prison cells, with views over the Bosphorus and Marmora.
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Turkey
San Francisco
Foreign Department
Sublime Porte
Seragno
Turka
Bay-i-Humayun
Seragio
Mahmud
Marmora
Seragilo Point
A Gentle Reminder From a Duty Call
A young minister notes nature carries many sermons in each blade of grass and a strenuous flock member adds that grass, as a rule, is cut very short, reflecting a humorous exchange from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Engagements in war and love differ not much
A quotation from The Statesman contrasts engagements of armies with engagements of a man and woman. It notes that both sides claim to face hardship, reflecting on the shared notion of commitment and struggle across contexts.
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Patrice
Youkarx Statesman
Dreamland Visit in a Nursery Tale
A child describes a whimsical scene in a nursery with toy figures dancing as a toy boy invites the toy girl to play. The dog and donkey join the playful moment, then mysteriously retreat when a voice is heard. The child asks the nurse about the magical sight, who simply smiles and calls them to tea.
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Susan
Nurse
Catherine Spoors
Fun for Boys and Girls Living Pictures Toy
Instructions for a simple handmade toy using a cardboard disc and spool. Create a seven inch circle, cut carefully, and draw concentric circles with divisions connected to the center. A third circle is added near the edge, with lines from the center to the inner circle, forming a rotating or segmented display for living pictures.
Living Picture Diagram and Spool Clockwork Inventions
Instructions describe making moving picture devices using a circle on a spool with square windows six inch circles and a seven spoke wheel. Attach with wax and view through mirror to see the wheel spin opposite to the circle and a pendulum motion and a ball through a ring as a demonstration described in Cincinnati Enquirer report.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Funeral in Beetledom Aunt Lu recounts beetle burial
In a garden path a dead beetle is buried by fellow beetles. Dozens arrive as if guided by wireless signals to dig, cover the body, and vanish in an instant, leaving no trace of the burial. The observer notes the beetles’ swift, purposeful movement and contrasts it with their slow gait remarks.
Cobweb party creates tangled birthday fun
A Boston Herald tale describes a girl and siblings hosting a unique birthday party. Souvenirs hidden around the house are linked by tangled thread trails, turning the room into a vast cobweb. Guests follow threads to prize ends, yielding a chaotic, merry hunt ending with ice cream.
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Boeton Herald
Rats Outsmart Traps In City Barrel Scheme
A manager tests a floating cheese in a water barrel to trap rats. several drownings occur before a clever rat learns the method and finally outsmarts them, prompting doubts about salary limits for those who might beat such pests. Japanese postmen in rural routes ride bicycles with mixed patent influences. Morocco stands as a country without a newspaper.
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N. Y. Tribune
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Reader
A letter from Mrs. Max Pampanns of Minneapolis credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing headaches organic pains and weariness after ignoring early warnings. She urges other sick women to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham and notes the product helped numerous friends and her own health.
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Prvezan
Lydia E. Pinkham
Max Pampanns
South 7Th Bt
Minneapolis
Minn
Fairbanks
West
Hester Pibg Phan Amet
GIE TINGS OF SCIENCE AND NEW INNOVATIONS
A mix of science notes reports coral reefs formed by animal and algae skeletons shown by deep borings in Funafuti. England introduces a new cheap spirit unlike petrol or alcohol that could replace gasoline. The chromophone blends cinema and gramophone with synchronized music and moving figures. Psychological views on how thought is represented lack consensus, and Edouard Meyer notes N rays from both plants and animals, strongest in green plant parts, with reduced indications when tissues are dehydrated with chloroform vapor.
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Pacific
Funafuti
England
London
Edouard Meyer
World’s Fair Features Exhibit Highlights
More than a hundred buildings occupy the 40 acre Pilipino reservation at the world’s fair. Automobiles collect mail from 84 mail and package boxes across the fair grounds. A boomerang collection from Australia joins the exhibits. A Vienna lighting plant model, among the most present in the world, is shown in the Model Street area of the fair.
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Australia
Vienna
Recipe for Grape-Nuts promoted by Rome physician
A Rome Georgia physician recounts personal recovery after switching to Grape-Nuts and endorses it for convalescents and weak patients. He credits the food with rebuilding digestion strength and muscle, noting rapid weight gain and renewed capacity for work. The ad cites Postum Co. and urges a 10 day trial.
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Rome
Georgia
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellvilla
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Frank H. Sweet
America
Sublime
Empire of
Morocco
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