World’s Great Men Voted By Hiogo School Pupils
Dr Yamakawa proposed a portrait subject for Iriye primary school Hiogo. Three hundred forty three students listed favorites led by Washington and Lincoln with 69 and 53 votes. Admiral Togo placed third with 28 votes. Other figures followed including Ninomiya Sontoku Benjamin Franklin Kusunoki Masashige Florence Nightingale and Marquis Oyama. Numerous other historical and contemporary figures received a few votes each.
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Yamakawa
Tokyo University
Iriye
Hiogo
Washington
Lincoln
Admiral Togo
Ninomiya Santoku
Kioto
Benjamin Franklin
Kusunoki Masashige
Nanko
Miss Florence Nightingale
Wage No Kiyomaro
Marquis Oyama
Nelson
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Gen
Saigo Takamori
Nakage Toju
Admiral Uriu
Murasaki Shikibu
Bismarck
Suga- Wwara Michizane
Hirose
Napoleon
Roosevelt
Niijimato
Galileo
Columbus
Socrates
Katsura
Dancing Days Not Over Grandmothers Attend Dancing School
A West Side flat tale reveals grandmothers joining dancing classes to stay limber and youthful. An early caller encounters a child who explains their grandmother attends dancing lessons all season. The report notes many elderly ladies take up fancy steps beyond simple dances.
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West Side
N. Y
How Swift Was Sold Amusing coal weighing tale
A Boston buyer Mr Swift observed his coal being weighed by a dealer. While the scale laughed at the sight the driver revealed the buyer stood on the scales, remarking that Swift weighed about 200 pounds. The buyer exclaimed he had been sold and bought himself too.
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Swift
Boston
Puzzie for Post Office Clerks
A Boston postal office dealt with a puzzling letter addressed Wood Mass. The line under Wood and over Mass redirected it to Mark Underwood in Andover Massachusetts. The clerk treated it as a simple prank and handled it as part of the day’s routine.
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Boston
Wood
Mass
Mark Underwood
Andover
Dinner Campaign Loot Revealed in Bohemienne Feasts
A humorous scene at Bohemienne dinner party shows guests presenting white napkins with lighted prizes from Healy's Cafe Boulevard and the Waldorf. The writer notes the bold carving of names on napkins and the hosts react to the display of prized keepsakes.
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Bohemienne
Healy's
The
Waldorf
New York Press
Hallucinations in the Sickroom in Utica Observer
A brief dialogue in Utica New York captures a physician and a druggist debating patient perceptions of money sense and treatment in a sickroom. The exchange centers on medical reasoning and market behavior.
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Utica
N. Y
Gladstone’s oratorical display described by Lucy
The passage contrasts Gladstone’s ministerial replies with his intense debating style. It notes his ten minute replies leaving others bewildered, his fierce gestures and finger pointing, and the dramatic motion of his hands and box as he argues, likening his assault to an elephant in a jungle.
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Anon
Henry W. Lucy
Putnam’s
No Longer a Gentleman Aboard the Team Train
A sleeping car conductor recalls a football team traveling to a game. A youth hid 80 cents in a shoe to keep for himself. The porter found it and mocked the boy as a jay not a gentleman. Morning restitution followed amid tension.
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Jay
Wise Old King and the 700 Priceless Wives
The tale tells how King Solomon returns from the hunt to find his 700 wives in tears. He explains he avoided calling them priceless jewels because a tax assessor lurking in the shadows might tax the throne. The joke equates ancient wisdom with modern wealth.
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Solomon
Train Tip Cushions Improve Writing On Rough Trips
A brakeman advises using a lap cushion on trains to steady writing during rough travel. Rest your tablet and arm on the cushion to neutralize tremors and keep legible text as if at a desk. Railroaders and seasoned travelers carry cushions for on the go correspondence.
Diving suit with inner operated arms and penetrating helmet light
A government adopted invention features a diving suit whose artificial arms are worked from inside by the wearer. The lever mechanism lets the diver lift heavier loads. The helmet includes a high power electric light that penetrates the water for some distance.
The Pressing Need and a Foldable Baby Carriage Joke
The piece cites a quip from Smart Set about baby carriages being impressive yet noting the desire for a baby that can be folded and stored. It uses a humorous exchange between Todd and the magazine. The joke pivots on the idea of practicality and satire of consumer goods.
Coffin Sleeper Humphrey Believed Death Only a Long Sleep
New Haven correspondent reports car penter Humphrey who preached immortality and built himself a black walnut coffin inscribed I sleep, but I shall awaken. He used the coffin for months, slept in it at a boarding house and later at an Odd Fellows Home. His wife and mother in law were involved in his mortality views.
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Chases Humphrey
New Haven
New York Times
Humphrey
Odd Fellows
New London
Kiss as Plot Peg in World Drama and Literature
Commentary on the importance of the kiss in drama and fiction across eras and cultures. Notes that kisses drive plots in plays seen on the New York stage this season, and recalls a 19th century French theater regulation fining actors for kissing actresses without consent.
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New York
France
Leslie’s Weekly
College education shapes capable housekeepers says Mount Holyoke leader
Miss Woolley president of Mount Holyoke asserts college bred women make best housekeepers. She notes higher education equips for any future profession and for life at home, despite many pursuing domestic roles after college. The trend shifts from mission driven study to general culture for life readiness.
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Miss Woolley
Mount Holyoke
Reversible Cognomen and the Adam Equation
A playful note on names read forward or backward including Eve and Adam. It mentions a Harlem glass dealer Leon Noe who can reverse writings without changing spelling and keeps the joke alive with reversible names.
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Eve
Adam
Harlem
Leon Noe
I Can Teach You Law But Not Manners
A Washington lawyer recalls a court retort about teaching law versus manners. A quick-tempered judge warned a sharp Chicago attorney, I can teach you law, but I cannot teach you manners. The Chicago lawyer replied That is true, your honor. Harper's Weekly.
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Washington
Chicago
Perkins
Harper's Weekly
Ancestors by Auction Portrait Prompt a Witticism
A man admiring a fine portrait asks who it is. The owner replies it is an ancestor of mine. The other quips that it would have been an ancestor of mine if I had bid another hundred credits.
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William M.chase
Paper Hanging With Tack Incident in Small Town
A story from Wilbur Nesbit recalls two brothers in Ohio who tried to paper a storeroom ceiling with brown mortar that would not take paper. They bought ten boxes of black headed tacks and tacked the paper to the ceiling, creating spotted flowerlike patterns. the hardware man questioned the tacks as payment was received.
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Wilbur Nesbit
Ohio
Wilbur
Worst climates on earth described in dramatic terms
The excerpt catalogs three brutal climates: the Straits of Magellan with constant rain, cold and wind. Sierra Leone with 81 degree heat and 189 inches of rain plus marsh fever from persistent mists. and central Asia highlands with extreme temperature swings from furnace heat to arctic nights.
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Straits of Magellan
Sierra Leone
High Table
Central Asia
Saharan
Author Hyde delays manuscript by indecisive heroine
Henry M. Hyde recalls giving half of his novel to a young typist with instructions to wait for weeks. She returns twice asking for the rest and inquires which character marries. Hyde admits even he does not know yet, delaying completion.
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Henry M. Hyde
Mr. Hyde
Relic of Cliff Dwellers Found Near Montezuma County
Archaeologists note scarce cliff dweller pictographs at Mesa Verde. A six by four and a half foot rock slab with deep carvings was found in Montezuma valley southeast of Cortez. It was moved by four horses to the Montezuma County courthouse yard where it now rests.
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New Mexico
Mesa Verde
Colorado
Montezuma Valley
Cortez
McElmo Canon
Puye
San Cristobal
Montezuma County
Teakettles That Sing From Japan Echo With Steam Music
The Youths Companion notes that Japanese iron tea kettles form a wide variety of singing designs. Steam bubbles escaping from thin iron sheets near the kettle bottom create musical tones. Proper fire control yields the best effects, and the kettle sounds vary by shape. These singing kettles have a long history.
How Soldiers Reduce
The text describes officers using lean meat and hot water to shed weight quickly. It notes a two pound daily loss during a short lean diet, followed by a return to usual food. Some officers maintain trim figures by three lean-meal days each month.
Unfortunate Pantomimies Highlight Theatrical Mishaps
Stories recount misadventures in pantomimes with actor Polaski injured after a 40 foot fall from a Liverpool theater roof. He lands in sawdust but is fined for the stage damage rather than shown sympathy.
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Polaski
Liverpool
Too Late Ivan Swears And Basil Defends Him
In a domestic exchange, a mother scolds Ivan for his language while Basil defends him saying he has learned most of his tricks from Ivan. Strana watches the scene.
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Ivan
Basil
Strana
Uncle Mose Lerner’s Pool Curiosity Sparks Hartford Debate
In the early 1990s Lyme Connecticut legislator Uncle Mose Fowler seeking to understand pool gambling visits Middletown’s Chaffee House. He asks proprietor Mr. Chaffee to show how a pool table operates amid efforts to curb pool selling at Charter Oak Park races.
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Moses Fowler
Lyme
Conn
Charter Oak Park
Mose
Chaffee
Middletown
Hartford
Tip the collie puppy with a pedigree and a new baby
A West Philadelphia girl recently became owner of a collie puppy and a newborn brother in one day. When asked the baby's name, she replied it had none yet. The minister then learned the puppy is named Tip for its pedigree, highlighting the family’s rapid new additions.
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West Philadelphia
Tip
Uncommon Use a Morals Joke in New Flat
A young couple moves into an unused flat. The wife drills hooks to hang clothes and fails with a gimlet. The husband jokes that she is boring a hole with a corkscrew, implying moral mischief rather than poor carpentry.
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Harry
Coldly practical love and life of married people
A dialogue between George and Lou reveals practical, everyday marital tensions. They insist their love remains strong despite ordinary concerns like meals, feeding the baby, and clothing. The exchange highlights domestic routines and unromantic, enduring affection.
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George
Darling
Angel
Emperor Wilhelm II Chats at Berlin Morning Visit
A humorous anecdote recounts Emperor Wilhelm II visiting Count Szoesgreng in Berlin. The Kaiser, delaying departure for maneuvers, chats over beer and a cigarette with the Austrian ambassador and his wife before calling the empress to explain a missed parting kiss.
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Wilhelm II
Count Szoesgreng
Berlin
Szoegyeny
Blondes and Brunettes Through Hair Color Beliefs
A summary of beliefs about how hair color affects personality and health. The piece cites Ancient Jewish, Greek, and Roman opinions on hair shades and links various hair colors to traits and ailments, noting sun exposure and temperament as factors.
Mistaken Identity in Judge Adams Court
A humorously tangled case unfolds as Judge Adams notes a mismatch in complainant and defendant names. Sing Lee faces an ordinances breach while the officer cites 8 A Officer as complainant, revealing the complainant George Nee is the judge’s own name.
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George Nee
Boston Herald
Finery Fits None But One Teen At Costume Party
A group of women at an afternoon gathering enjoyed a seventeenth and eighteenth century costume display by an artist. Guests tried on gowns, but all but a slim 16 year old could not fasten their antique outfits. The scene ended with gowns awkwardly not fitting their wearers.
Professor’s Brain Gives Way for Tuberculosis Cure
Berlin reports a Paris newspaper notes Dr. with a claimed tuberculosis cure is confined. Personal acquaintances deem the news plausible, citing the professor’s prolonged neurotic state.
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Berlin
Cds
Paris
Dr. Ie
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Gladstone
Porter
Ted
Coe
Lou
Kaiser
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