Fighting Bob Evans Retires From Command After Ill Health
The famed Admiral known as Fighting Bob relinquishes command of the American fleet and retires. Born 1846, Evans led ships in major actions including the Yorktown in 1894 during Chilean tensions and commanded the Iowa at Santoango. His strict discipline earned love and respect from his men as he ends a storied naval career at the Golden Gate.
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Bob” Evans
Robly Dunglineau Evans
Naval Academy
Mae
Fort Fisher
Esui
Yorktown
Chile
Lowa
Santiango
Bob
Golden Gate
Hampton Roads
Magdalena
Mosaic science notes and curious folklore mix in report
A compilation of brief science curios and oddities: researchers in Kansas report rare spectral lines suggesting a possible new element in natural gas. M E Pequington notes milk kept near freezing harbors billions of bacteria per cc with solid frozen form and late curdling. discussions on Bacon's gunpowder knowledge from a Paris manuscript. a strange double rainbow observed near Jamaica with a sun circle. a tale of a hatpin knob boom story tracing a contrived supply chain from failed eggs to hatpin handles.
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M. E. Pequington
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Roger Bacon
Bacon
National Library
Pals
Mon
P. Dubem
Monsieur Dubem
London Wimes
Jamaica
Panama
Turned wood darning eggs ordered for stocking repairs
A New York Sun report notes a turned wood goods maker received an order for several thousand darning eggs without handles. The eggs are used with a boot style wool handle that screws into one end, and the order was for smaller than standard pieces.
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Say
New York Sun
New York
The Lost Voice of a Woman in Old Prose Wit
A fragment echoes lines about gender norms and marriage from a bygone era. It questions female autonomy, male insecurity, and domestic power through satirical quips about husbands, children, and teaching. The tone is instructive and ironic, reflecting social attitudes of the period.
Memory Trick Fails As Skeptical Inn Drudge Spoils Show
A professor of memonics lecturing near Canterbury amuses locals with feats of memory in an inn parlor. While a London-bound train whistles, he hurries away but is mocked by a waiter who exposes his act as a silly ruse, diminishing the acclaimed performance.
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Canterbury
London
Ile Umuretla
Disappointment, Amateur Sportsman in Fractured Exchange
Fragmentary dialogue shows an amateur sportsman expressing frustration after a shooting incident with a friend. The exchange centers on dismay and assurances, with references to personal wagers and irritation at the outcome.
Fragmented Jokes and Chats from a City Newspaper Page
A collage of overheard quips and comic exchanges from a metropolitan paper, listing misheard dialogue and quick witticisms. It includes exchanges about trust, prophecies, a teacher and students, and light social banter across multiple unnamed individuals and places, reflecting daily humor.
Diamonds scheme heightens in South Africa mine camps
Ezra Girdlestone dominates a diamond theft ring using ex clergyman Farintosh and two aides to amass thirty five thousand pounds by buying stones from desperate miners in Kimberley camps. A planned nighttime theft targets his safe as conspirators plot to seize the gems and disappear.
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Tobolat
South Africa
Elasma
Kimberley
Cape
Bera
Trinity College
Dublin
Europe
Gani
Fara
Howe
Ware
Parintosh
Esra
Farintosh
Wara
Ils Tileslon
Forintosi
Burt
Williama
Equator
Farlntosh
Ezra
Brill
Worthy Divine
Ines
Ezra Girdlestone
Farintosh I
Rothschild
Russia
House of Girdtestons
Dinger
Vera
Golf
Liers
Hin
Mt. Inet
Cirdlestone
Williams
Worl
London
Griqualand
Tie
Mit
Mintosh
Barintosh
Wada
Jim
Will Puzata
Farintesh
Oriental Hotel
Spiderweb Ceiling Art Sparks online debate
A quirky exchange questions the existence of a painter dubbed AllIno who allegedly covered a ceiling with a spiderweb design, while a housemaid spent hours sweeping it away. The critic doubts such an artist and even the chamber animal notion.
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AllIno
Bermaid
Where Is Hope Flusband When I See At These Bills
A clipped dialogue fragment shows a weary speaker asking about life debts and a wife encouraging optimism about payments. A line mentions an exceptionally large life insurance policy. The Poet's Wife recalls a public poem by her husband, noted as his last work. The Editor asks if he was killed by someone or shot.
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Louiaville
Courier
Tournal
Wisgwrg
Kbrox
Chiergo Daily News
Tescher
Casey
White Sox
Cuba
Boston
Philadelphia Press
Suzanne
Larper
Mra Gungon
Flure
Brooklyn Lite
Hla
Not Legal Tender. Grateful Patient Owes Doctor
A grateful patient expresses thanks to a doctor and offers payment for services, but the doctor declines, saying the gratitude suffices and payment is unnecessary. The brief exchange highlights a humane gesture in a medical setting.
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Puck
Tandou Ophalou
Church Barth
Washington Star
Belalar
Philadelphia Inquirer
Chapale
Sapleigh
Chipple
Chiscago Daily News
Lingerlong
Deo
Chicago ‘Tribune
North Pole
Philadelphia Ledger
Daetor
Moody's Magnane
Jane
Harry
Carrie
Boeton
Tartner Cortrissel
Rigses
Firm of
Girdlestone
A, Gonan Doyle
Craptor
Syaa
Lida
Dan Beenes
Southampton Ghort
Dimsalo
Mr. Girdlestone
Aja
Hind
Banka
Vaal
Dimsdale
Atlantic
Delparte
Larkin
Ural Mountains
Central
Moscow
Tobolsk
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