North Ackley reflects town pride and growth in a midwest column
The Ackley Iowa area column extols local improvements including water works electric lights and strong schools. It notes two rail lines aiding shipping and 2000 residents with a thriving economy and mentions a serialized autobiography excerpt about a Nevada duel and a humorous misfire tale.
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Be ‘Wists
Ackley
Hardin County Feta
Sacred Heart
Eble
Towa
Howe Mill
Acite
TRE WorLp
Tre Worto
Iow
The Ghostly Sleigh Ride and Forthcoming Trials
A fragmentary page blends a humorous verse about a sleigh driven by fearless horses with early 20th century adverts for health tea and watch repairs. The poem depicts a magical ride to a schoolhouse, while notes reference a 1452 breach of promise case and a 1891 French action, set in a dated press style.
Rain and Fear in Philippines Matinee Scene
A vivid McClure's Magazine passage recounts a Philippine rainy season experience. A woman at her window describes an approaching storm with torn roofs, flying debris, animals scattering, and a violent downpour as structures tremble and a harbor of sound erupts.
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Philippines
McClure
Ants’ grooming tools inspirit natural world display
In a New Orleans Times-Democrat report a nature student explains the ant colony’s grooming habits using a toy model. He details a black ant’s built in toothbrush, sponge tongue, combs on legs, soap-like secretion from mandibles, and the elaborate self cleaning routine.
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Nature
Gings
New Orleans
Tines-Democrat
American plans hotel ship scheme for Monte Carlo
A St Louis Globe-Democrat cablegram reports an American's plan to move an unfinished transatlantic liner to Monte Carlo as a floating hotel. He allegedly sought to buy the Monte Carlo hotel and to conceal the act by disguising a ship as a hotel venue. The scheme aims to attract customers away from the existing property, reflecting a dramatic if impractical revenge.
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Monte Carlo
Monaco
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Eagfish
Ines
Millonaire
Pointed Paragraphs and Quoted Bits on Courtesy and Deceit
A collection of terse proverbs on trust and social behavior contrasts with humor from early 20th century newspapers. It includes reflections on loyalty, gratitude, limits of concession, happiness, and social scrutiny, followed by brief Variety-like items about venison prices and a light theater exchange.
Irreverent exchange ends with marriage boast in Los Angeles News
Fragmentary dialogue shows Mr Miafit asking Mrs Missit about a prior suitor and Rosa's marriage. Mrs Miaft confirms she married him. The piece references a cheerful Philippine tone about joy and the blessings of giving and receiving.
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Miafit
Missit
Misit
Rosa
Miaft
Los Angeles News
World religions by adherents and spread across nations
A historical tally lists seven major world faiths with estimated global adherents. Christianity leads with about 603 million, followed by Confucianism and ancestor worship, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, Judaism, and Zoroastrian Parsee beliefs, noting regional concentrations and cultural practices such as burial towers.
Tennyson and Mars Moons Foreseeability Debate
In a Nature discussion J B Stevenson from Blairaven Norwood Ceylon challenges H Turner quotes about 1955. He cites Lord Tennyson's biographer noting that only The Moons of Mars is a modern reading. other items are over fifty years old. Scientific discovery was not anticipated by Tennyson in Martian satellites.
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Tennyson
Ines
OTB
Orion
Swift
Stevenson
Blairaven
Norwood
Ceylon
H. =. Turner
Interoet
Lord Tennyson
Mars
Nature
Fire extinguishers in New Jersey town questioned after blaze
In New Jersey a town installed fre extinguishers in large buildings but a recent fire reportedly found them ineffective. During a town meeting days later residents debated the cause and one speaker motioned that extinguishers be inspected ten days before any fire.
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New Jersey
Saya
Philadelphia Ledger
Napoleon's Tomb Amber Windows Shine Over Bronze Sarcophagus
The Chapel of the Invalides in Paris features amber glass windows that glow gold when sunlight hits them, creating a ladder of light across the bronze sarcophagus of Napoleon. The text also notes the purse’s ancient origins alongside money.
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Kansas City Times
Napoleon
Poultry Notes and Domestic Advice from Chicago News
The column discusses cooling dressed fowls before market and managing fat by feeding oats and grain. It warns against crowding hens, notes wintering drawbacks, and includes a comic exchange about encouraging a wife to exercise with a humorous bargain suggestion.
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