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A “Sliding” Boat
Some experiments made on the Seine recently with a remarkable automobile boat of a new type yielded surprising results. The boat is described as a “slider,” from the fact that…
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The Language of Eden
Said by Highlanders to Have Been Gaelic The Scottish Highlanders have always been firmly convinced that Adam and Eve used “ta Gaelic;” and it is gratifying to find that philologists,…
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Medical Student Held in Rum Case
Ralph J. Benart, who told the police he was a student at George Washington University Medical School, was arrested at 1227 15th street northwest last night by prohibition agents and…
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USS Constellation Medal to Be Struck
In the House of Representatives of the United States, on the 17th inst. Mr. Parker of Virginia, brought forward the following resolution : which was ordered to lie on the…
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Pork Man’s Meat Slandered
Philip Armour, the great “pork man” of Chicago, says that the French edict prohibiting the importation of American pork was originated by the wily minister of commerce, who was seeking…
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Ostriches Here for Big Banquet
One is Displayed in a Window of a West Pike Street Restaurant The three ostriches that will be cooked and eaten at the Annual banquet of the Clarksburg Brotherhood Thursday…
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From Cairo
CAIRO, March 21. — Affairs at Greenwood are improving. The Chillicothe was not injured so badly as reported, the extent of her damages being some battering of her casements. The…
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San Francisco’s Rapid Crowds
A leisurely person with an observant eye and a mind given over to rumination may station himself on any one of San Francisco’s prominent thoroughfares and be led into some…
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Suffragette Causes Trouble for Roosevelt
Colonel Unable to Answer When Woman Asks Opinion of Equal Suffrage Fight New York, March 25. — In one of six meetings, which Col. Roosevelt addressed on the east side…
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Aweful Steam-Boat Explosion!
Accounts were received in New York, says the Observer, on Tuesday, from Baltimore, of an explosion on board the steam-boat Helen McGregor, one of the largest boats on the Mississippi.…