Burglar’s Tale of a Safe Break-In Exposed By Police
A former safecracker recalls a staged burglary in a firm’s office. He describes drilling a front hole, pilfering books, and a portly ringleader who paid him twenty dollars but was later revealed as the mastermind behind the heist. The trio were arrested after the busted job and the narrator gained notoriety as the innocent burglar.
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Geome
Orm
Wwurgiar
Bert
New York Times
Seat Saga on the London Tube
In a crowded London evening ride a quarrelsome couple jostles for a seat as a mild husband pleads quietly. A well dressed young man offers his seat, prompting the irate wife to quip that the stranger is not her husband.
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London
Air
Manchester
England
Guardian
The Roethick Indians of Newfoundland and Their Tools
An account notes the Roethick Indians as once the island’s inhabitants now nearly extinct. The French used Mic Mae Indians of Nova Scotia to fight them. Boethicks were peaceful hunters who used birch rind canoes and deer bone ornaments. Their soapstone lamps and triangular carvings, including unique patterns in St John museum collections, mark their culture.
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Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
St. John
Pat and the Jockey
A man named Pat visits a racecourse with friends who bet on the races. Urged to bet he finally places a half crown on a horse. The horse finishes sixth and Pat, furious, confronts the jockey in the paddock asking why he was detained.
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Pat
Tie
Hivin
Young Wan
Phwet
London Chronicle
Snake bite cures and whisky in medical belief sparks debate
The source argues there is no authenticated snake bite cure by whisky and notes many bitten while drunk die or survive by chance. It claims liquor often fails to save lives and may lower resistance, contributing to deaths that might not have occurred. The piece cites American Medicine to challenge whisky as treatment.
Family Dinner Turmoil Edges Toward Elopement
A quarrel unfolds as a demanding father bans the suitor Squilldiggs from entering the home and threatens disinheritance and violence. His daughter pleads for love while a plan to elope surfaces, amid scattered garbled notes on travel and tickets.
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Squilldiggs
Why Noses Point East Theory Explains Facial Tilt
A Saturday Evening Post piece notes most noses tilt right when seen in street crowds. It suggests habitual right hand use for wiping and blowing noses gradually biases the nose eastward, with left handed individuals often tilting left. The article treats the idea as a hypothesis with limited data.
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Saturday Evening Post
Rose of Sharon and pruning tips for trees and plants
The piece discusses flowering care in August and September including Rose of Sharon, pruning young trees before growth becomes hard, and spacing large-top trees forty-five feet apart. It notes that evergreen and feathered shoots of garden asparagus form a decorative mix and that watercress thrives with large leaves. It also mentions sweet william perennials and notes that cuttings or plants from seed bloom timelines.
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Asparagua
Black Sea currents and a waiter’s ribbed humor
A description of the Black Sea's distinct currents, noting a surface flow to the Mediterranean and a saline bottom current from the Mediterranean that traps sulfurous water, leaving no life below 100 fathoms. A joke about an Englishman in New England who protests bean soup’s identity after being told what it has been.
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Black Sea
Mediterranean
New England
Philadelphia Times
Bostonese Defaltion Pun in a Classroom Exchange
A humor sketch from a Chicago Record-Herald item features a teacher asking about the happy isles of Greece and a boy replying that they are pieces of pork surrounded by beans. The humor hinges on misheard terms.
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Happy Isles
Greece
Waldo
Chicago Record-Herald
Talent and sorrow in old reflections
The text discusses talent as aptitude for a line and the value of cultivating innate gifts. It cites a Ladies' Home Journal view on talent growing with use and a Philadelphia Record remark on sorrow becoming amphibious. It briefly notes Italy's numerous chemical fertilizer factories.
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Ladies' Home Journal
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Rupert
the Roethick Indiana
Terife
Squilldiggs Bulletin
Atchison Globe
Philip
Erence
Teo
Geoad
Kes
the Mint
Tion
Philadelphia
Italy
Florsheim
Molling Bros
Norton
Porton
M. Nor’ton's
Alliance
Mark's
Co. E. Marks & Co
Lamberson & Stetter
Palace Saloon
Feed Krug Brewing Co
Elect Cabinet
Extra Pale
L. A. Miller
Ss. A. Miller
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