Debates scheduled with Denison and North High in March
In the past week two more debates on the same question were arranged. The affirmative team will meet Denison at Denison and the negative team will meet North High at Ames, both events on an early March night before the Boone contest. Hicks trains the Ames teams and they are training hard.
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Boone
Denison
North High
Ames
Fupt. Hicks
Russell Heneberg
Dave Holden
Warren Glidden
Alfred Stevenson
Paul
H. J. Plagge
Cwtiss
Supt. Hicks
M. H. Bickham
High School Association
Waite
Bickham
College
Swede Paulson
Boy Scouts Movement
Shugarts Milk Cow Sale Set For Feb 15
Local auctioneer J. Shugarts invites buyers to a first-ride sale featuring milch cows on February 15. Attendees can inspect stock beforehand and bid at the auction yard.
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J. Shugarts
Remember the Name Foley's Honey and Tar Ad
A vintage advertisement touts Foley s Honey and Tar for coughs colds croup hoarseness and lingering lagrippe coughs. It promises no opiates and rejects substitutes with availability at all druggists.
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Foley
In the Shadow of Fame New York Rooms Former Celebrities
A New York Press piece notes former stars now run rooming houses in NYC offering furnished apartments sublet to aspiring performers. The set ups trade on yesterday’s fame, offering access to past glory over practical comforts for young artists seeking a foothold.
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New York City
New York Press
Cicero on Wit and Ridicule in Old Sayings
Witty maxims expose ridicule as the Sicilian’s request for shoots from a fig tree to plant. Crassus counters a bad orator who claimed moved pity by noting very great pity from all, implying the speech stirred only feigned emotion.
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Crassus
Cicero
A Strange Likeness at London Museum
An extraordinary resemblance was found at the London Natural History Museum between a specimen of the huge African elephant and the pygmy shrew mouse. Sir E.
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London Natural History Museum
Sir E
Tiny Creature Mirrors Giant Beast in Lankester Study
Ray Lankester advocated comparing the two creatures and found that nearly every bone muscle blood vessel and nerve of the giant beast is identically reproduced in the two inch long little animal. A stuffed mouse is placed between the fore feet of the mounted giant in the museum to illustrate the likeness.
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Ray Lankester
Diamond Ring Won't Be Returned in Harsh Talk
In a brief wry exchange, Watkins quips about unreturned affection while Dobleigh laments that the girl will not return his diamond ring, highlighting a petty quarrel over a lost and unreturned keepsake.
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Watkins
Dobleigh
Harper’s Weekly
When a Joke’s Not a Joke Joke Writer’s Editorial Frustration
A noted quip about joke writing and newsroom editors. The line from Lippincott underscores tension between humorists and publishers.
The Joy of Play Across a Man’s Life
Dr Woods Hutchinson argues play keeps men young at any age and denounces Mrs Grundy for labeling adult play as undignified. He cautions that neglecting exercise leads to fat, dulling health while playful activity returns vitality and energy.
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Dr. Woods Hutchinson
Fennel Reminds a New Yorker of Grandmother’s Garden
A New York man recalls fennel served by an Italian waiter, noting its similarity to celery and its scent evoking childhood. He writes fennel, fennoccchi in Italian, is enjoyed as salad or with cream sauce, but the memory that floods back is the half century lost since his grandmother’s garden.
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New York
New England
New York Sun
Orison Swett Marden
Success Magazine
African Witch Doctors and the Ritual Masked Ceremonies
The piece from Wide World Magazine discusses African witch doctors during youth to manhood rites. It describes hideous masks, skins, and body pigment used to terrify maidens, asserting a frightful spiritual tradition and grotesque carved figures intended to alarm, not comfort.
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Chile
Wide World Magazine
Voice warms souls as wife earns church choir stipend
A Boston Transcript item notes a man praising his wife for a sweet voice and adds she earns $1,200 a year for singing part of it in a church choir.
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Boston Transcript
A Possible Exception in Matrimonial Banter
A brief dialogue captures a playful disagreement between wife and husband about pleasant behavior and handsome men as a possible exception to harmony. The exchange highlights marital teasing and social perceptions of propriety.
Republics in Germany in the Kaiser's Orbit
The text notes Hamburg Bremen and Lübeck as three republics under the Kaiser governing only local affairs while seated in the bundesrat and reichstag. Hamburg’s burgomaster remains influential as the Hanseatic tradition persists. Cracow’s fate and translations of classic French and Italian works are also discussed.
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Hamburg
Bremen
Lubeck
Prussia
Ist
Empire
Bundesrath
Federal Council
House of Burgesses
Europe
Cracow
Poland
Boston Transcript
Drama over encores ends in concert pandemonium
Theodore Thomas runs a subscription series in San Francisco with Emma Thursby as the lead. A $50 000 guarantee fund is raised after her engagement prompts encores. Thomas clings to a no encore policy. the audience insists, chanting and shouting as Thursby bows repeatedly until the orchestra finally plays the last number to silence.
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Theodore Thomas
San Francisco
Enterprise
Emma ‘Thursby
Thomas
Aplause
San Franciscans
Miss Kursby
Sdience
Ladies’ Home Journal
A Venetian Fashion Through Centuries of Eccentric Style
The piece notes how Venetian fashion varied in history with high patten shoes worn by noble women in the sixteenth century requiring escorts to walk. It also describes a Milan banquet with fifteen courses each opened by living animal specimens.
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Venice
William Boulting
Italy
Milan
Longest Novels Then and Now
The excerpt notes seventeenth century giants like Mlle de Secudery’s Le Grand Cyrus stretching to ten volumes over five years. It contrasts these with today’s much shorter epics and hints at ongoing literary trends.
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la Calprenede
Cleopatre
Paris
le Grand Cyrus
Scudery and Calprenede
London Chronicle
Mlle. de Secudery
Blood Tax Legend Endures Across Borders Since 1375
The New York Tribune recounts a centuries old pact between Spanish and French valleys along the Pyrenees. Each year representatives meet at a remote frontier stone to present and receive three white mares or three cows as a blood tax, a ritual documented from 1375 and recorded in the Bon aluis archives.
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Roncal
Navarre
Bareton
Bearn
Arlas
Pyrenees
France
Spain
Bon‘aluis
New York Tribune
Riis Recounts Danish Town Tales Of Law And Peace
In The Old Town Riis recalls two lawyers once serving in Denmark, one honest and one tricky, and tells how disputes between farmers and neighbors ended when the swiftest to reach the honest lawyer chose peace. A line fence quarrel ends with both men returning home to reconcile.
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Denmark
Jacob A. Riis
Mr. Riis
Itans
Hin
Mercenary Marriage Leads to Enduring Union
The second Duke of Richmond wed Lady Sarah Cadogan to cancel her father's gambling debts. They met years later when Lord March, after a continent tour, saw the famed Lady March at the opera and immediately claimed her. Their lifelong devotion became a noted tale.
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Duke of Richmond
Sarah Cadogan
Mareh
Lord March
Sarah
Russell
Rose Goddess
London
Lady March
Old and Modern Customs Across Holy Week
The New York American notes varied traditions such as Fig Sunday with figs for Palm Sunday, snap dragons for Christmas Eve, plum pudding for Christmas, oranges and barley sugar for St Valentine Eve, pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, salt cod on Ash Wednesday, frumenty on Mothering Sunday, cross buns on Good Friday, gooseberry tart on Whitsunday, goose on Michaelmas, and nuts on Allhallows.
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New York American
Tourists in Japan Face Higher Rates and Rude Encounters
Vera Collum notes that European travelers who do not speak Japanese pay premium prices for nansensical extras. Hosts demand extra quilts, special foods, and bath customs, while diners struggle with chopsticks and etiquette. Some guests withhold tips, prompting higher bills. Waitresses may be treated poorly by male travelers.
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Vera Collum
Wide World Magazine
Manyuema Cannibals of Tanganyika Described
A Wide World Magazine account describes the tanyuema cannibals west of Tanganyika in central Africa. It details primitive dress, nightly ambushes, drying of human flesh, and teeth filed to points to tear flesh quickly for meals.
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Tanganyika
Central Africa
Tangnyika
Wide World Magazine
Rubbing Up the Arms for Fainting Aid
An excerpt from a London medical journal describing a method to revive a woman by gripping her wrist and pressing the thumb and fingers upward toward the elbow. The author notes repeated applications produce relief and suggests wider use in cholera patient care.
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Lancet
German Red Tape Fooling Berlin Deputies Over a Lost Key
A Berlin deputy found a key on the sidewalk and offered it to a police agent who refused to take it. The agent insisted the deputy must deliver it to the bureau for lost objects, threatening a possible fine or jail. The deputy complied and now carries his hand in his pocket.
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Berlin
Frankfort
Special Bureau of
Bureau
Cri de
Paris
The Hangman's Stone in Foremark Derbyshire Mystery
A large bowlder called the Hangman’s Stone sits in a Derbyshire field near Foremark and is a well known local landmark with folklore surrounding it.
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Foremark
England
Derbyshire
Hangman's Stone Legend From Local Field
A six foot bowlder in a field bears a narrow indentation said to mark a sheep thief death. Legend says the thief, resting against the stone, tied a sheep and was choked when the rope tightened under his chin as the animal escaped. The rope's friction supposedly carved the mark during the final struggle.
A Notable Gambler’s Rise and Fall in Regency Clubs
From Thackeray’s The Four Georges, the piece reflects on Arthur’s Almack’s Bootle’s and White’s clubs as the scene of high life, where Charles Fox, a notorious gambler, lost £200,000 and Gibbon lost £500 per hour for twenty two hours. It notes his long watches, health decline, and a quiet moment reading Virgil after a brutal session.
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Arthur's
Almack’s
Bootle’s
White's
Charles Fox
Gibbon
Vircil
Thackeray
Poster design evolution from 1836 to Cheret
The article traces poster history from 1836 France with Lelance advertising Commend Meurent les Femmes to later color posters around 1860. It credits Jules Cheret as the father of the pictured poster, noting early black on white formats and the London Chronicle’s mention of Fred Walker promoting The Woman In White.
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Lelance
France
Jules Cheret
Fred Walker
London Chronicle
Election Boss Rushes to Fourth Ward
A political boss drives a buckboard down the main street on election morning shouting to his son to hurry to the Fourth ward where voters are already lining up. The scene, from Success Magazine, captures a high pressure moment before polls open.
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Johnnie
Success Magazine
Notable Novelists With Diverse Backgrounds
A literary survey lists famous novelists by early training and careers. It names Fielding Scott Reade Wilkie Collins and others who studied law, Kipling era journalism figures, naval and maritime writers, artists and architects, and academics who turned to fiction.
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Fielding
Scott
Charles Reade
Wilkie Collins
Blackmore
Washington Irving
George Meredith
Robert Grant
Henry James
Anthony Hippe
Rider Haggard
Owen Wister
Mr. Kipling
Dickens
David Christie Murfiy
William Black
J. M. Barrie
Marlon Crawford
George W. Cable
Stephen Crane
George Barrie-Cutcheon
Frank Norris
Richard Harding Davis
David Graham Phillips
Navy
Merchant Marine
Smollet
Captain Marryat
Fenimore Cooper
Clark Russell
Joseph Conrad
Morgan Robertson
Thackeray
du Maurier
Hopkinson Smith
Robert Chambers
Thomas Harry
William J. Locke
Wererall
Smollett
Holmes
S. Weir Mitchell
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sterne
Charles Kingsley
Henry van Dyke
Edward Everett Hale
Ian Maclaren
Ralph (Onnor
Thomas Dixon
Sir Walter Besant
Robert Herrick
Brander Matthews
Bookman
Ancient Roman Bridge Superstition and River God
The article describes a primitive belief among Romans that building a bridge harmed the river god by saving people from drowning. It claims offerings of human victims were made to the Tiber for centuries, with men and women drowned from the publician bridge to appease the deity.
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Rome
Tiber
Turkey feast raises eyebrows among boarders
A humorous anecdote recalls Mrs. Pedagog serving a modest turkey to her boarders. An observer notes the slicey portion and quips that she excels at making both ends meet, ending with a light punchline about the bird’s ends.
Looking Ahead Young Wife and Husband Exchange at Rail Fare
A compact item from Every Woman's Magazine notes a heated exchange where a wife insists the offered railway fare won’t cover a return ticket and the husband calmly provides money for travel. The brief vignette hints at financial strain and marital tension.
Early Intimations
A bystander notes a child crying for the moon in a playful exchange. The anecdote humorously frames Horace as an aspiring astronomer in a lighthearted moment.
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Horace
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