Paris Museum Displays Revolutionary Warrants and Criminology
The Paris police museum showcases historic warrants from the revolution era, including Lavoisier and Madame du Barry, actors of the Theatre Francais, Girondins, Damien, and Brinvilliers. It notes plans to classify the Grande Char treuse as a historical monument, with restoration funding and possible science museum use.
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Paris
Louis Lepine
Lavoisier
Madame du Barry
Theater Francais
Lange and
Raucourt
Scott’s Autobiographical Heart Shines in His Writings
The author argues Scott’s genius lies in his humanity and self-revealing nature. Unlike critics who dismiss him, Scott’s romance and beauty reflect the author’s own character and love for people, keeping his work lively beyond fashionable fads.
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Scott
Wyandottes Still Lead In Egg Race At State Fair
Pete Windblad's White Wyandotte pen leads the eight week egg laying contest at the state fair with 93 eggs after three weeks. North Yakima pens dominate the top spots with Linse, Parkinson, Bingham, and Williams all placing in the first six as several birds are removed for setting. The field features a wide mix of breeds and multiple farms from Washington and nearby Oregon, with several pens reporting birds out to set at the start of week four.
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Pete Windblad
Lalso
A. F. Linse
North Yakima
Plymouth
Yakima
J. A. Parkinson
J. W. Bingham
Plymouth Rocks
Baton Eggery
Tacoma
Miss Alta Plank
Woodburn, Ore
W. B. Williams
F. Dev
Mounsey Ancona
Wise Tommy Teacher What change when water freezes
A playful exchange shows Tommy mixing up scientific and everyday terms. The implicit lesson hints that freezing water causes a phase change from liquid to solid, a simple concept delivered as a joke.
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Tommy
Roosevelt Opens Progressives Campaign in Rhode Island
In Providence Roosevelt rallies thousands at the railroad station as he launches the Progressive Party drive. He blasts both parties’ machines, urges plain people to lead and reform tariff making and banking, and cites government efficiency critiques observed by a New York business visitor.
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Providence
R. L
Progressive Party
Roosevelt
Rhode Island
United States
R. I
New England
Kansas
America
Senator Lippitts
Lippitts
Businessman Discovers Bureaucratic Hurdles in Washington
A business man visiting Washington learns that stationery budgets are quarterly and unused staff must remain idle, that labor saving devices are restricted by law, and that buying in bulk for a year is forbidden. The visit changes his view of government, turning Washington into a concrete business proposition and stirring ambition to run it.
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Court of Cassation
Justice of the Peace
Washington
Treasury
George
New York
Picayune
Steel
Sam
New York City
Fruit Trains Travel East At Good Speed
Superintendent Roth of the North Yakima and Valley railway dispels the notion that fruit cars take 10 or 12 days to reach Chicago. Eight days at most, with seven to St Paul or transfer points, is the typical time. A Mabton pears car reportedly made the trip in under six days.
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Roth
North Yakima & Valley Railway
St. Paul
Chicago
North Yakima
Northern Pacific
Paradise
Mr. Roth
Yakima
Cubs Defeat Giants in Fierce Eleven Inning Game
Chicago edged New York 6 to 5 in an eleven inning battle before an estimated 30,000 plus crowd in Chicago. The win pulls the Cubs within five games of the Giants in the National League pennant race as fans carried players off the field after the dramatic finish.
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Chicago
New York
Giants
Cubs
Invention promises wide telephonic reach across rails
An inventor from Montreal unveils a device enabling voice telephony over ordinary telegraph wires for 995 miles to Fort William. The system allows simultaneous telegraph and telephone use, slashing costs, with Western Union Bell Postal Telegraph eyeing adoption and railroads noting safer, clearer line communications.
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Canadian Pacific Railroad
Montreal
Fort William
David H. Wilson
Western Union Telegraph Company
Bell Telephone Company
Postal Telegraph Company
Wilson
Rochester Post
Darrow Faces Second Trial In Bain Indictment
Clarence S. Darrow, freed in a first verdict on bribery charges linked to the McNamara case, faces a second trial on the Bain indictment. The Los Angeles scene showed Elated jurors and Darrow amid congratulatory telegrams as district attorney Fredericks outlined the forthcoming Bain case.
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Los Angeles
Clarence S. Darrow
Chicago
McNamara Cas
Fredericks
Darrow
Faree Darrow
Bain
Broderick
Franklin
Cure Reney
Darrow Sa
England's Champion Swimmer Wins Five Mile Championship
London reports J. H. Taylor captured the English long distance title by swimming five miles and sixty yards in one hour five minutes seven and two-fifth seconds.
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England
London
J. H. Taylor
New Tieton Ys School District Authorized
Ranchers in Tieton and Cowiche Canyon win approval to form a new two‑section district combining No 42 and No 10. District No 99 will open with one room, a $1300 frame building, and elections to set up the district after 39 days notice. Directors named are Mrs Bh Yates A R McAnally and Taylor.
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Tieton
Cowiche Canyon
Scho
S. S. Busch
Bh. &. Yates
A. R. McAnally
Taylor
Carnegie offer blasted in Yakima tale
Morton Birge reports Heap Big Chieftain Wed-Yal-Luhwa-Ya-Ci-Ka of Yakima heard claims that Andrew Carnegie would give three-quarter million dollars to found a local Indian Brotherhood council. The chieftain sent a reply denying the tale with a sharp rebuke in an angry Indian language.
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Carnegie
The
Indian Brotherhood
A. Carnegie
Yakima
Company Men Get Together Banquet for Yakima Valleys Orchard
The Yakima Valleys Orchard company hosted an annual banquet at the Yakima Grill attended by 20 people including officers city and country salesmen and ranch employees. The firm owns a 200 acre Wenus valley fruit ranch and runs a real estate loan and insurance office at 502 West Yakima avenue. The officers are described as young men and boosters of the valley.
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Yakima Valleys Orchard Company
Yakima Grill
Wenus Valley
West
Yakima Avenue
Yakima Valley
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Valaze
Geusonne
Hermann
Damien
Louis XV
Jehan Chastel
Henry IV
Rovaillac
Marquise de Brinvilliers
Louis XVI
Flore
Lyons Mail
Conciergerie
Chevalier de la Barre
Camille Desmoulins
Danton
Andre Chenier
Hoche
Santerre
Madame Roland
Council General of the
Department of the
Treve
University of Grenoble
Leon Bourgeois
France
Wyandottes
Windblad
Linse
Latter
Reed
Senroth
Colfax
Auburn Farm
R. J .Reds
H. A. Dury
Empskamp & Co
Spokane
R. B. Brown
F. A. Johnson
T. D. Whitman
G. C. Lincoln
Prosser
H. W. Sprague
Golden Rule Farm
Cheney
Mounsey Bros
Kennewick
Frank P. Wheizel
Winond
C. L. Miller
Fletcher
Fighting
Congress
West Side
George Frederick
Ildien
NEW_YORK
Bears
Castoria
the Centaur Company
NEW School
Tieton Ys
Morton Birge
Yakima Valleys Orchard Co
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