A Grateful Wool Broker Becomes a Millionaire in New South Wales
A broken down immigrant in Sydney’s Mrs. Macquarie’s chair grills a wool broker on war price bets. The man buys up Australian wool, triggers a price surge, and earns about £4,000,000 as the London paper proves his claim. He then funds a pub in Woolloomooloo with his windfall.
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New South Wales
Sydney
Mrs. Macquarie
Macquarie
Australia
Water
London
Europe
France
Germany
Fatherland
Berlin
Wool Exchange
Colonies
Woolloomooloo
London Free Lance
Most Useful Book and City Directory
A Syracuse Herald item records a brief exchange where a passenger asks what book helped most in life and the other replies the city directory. The dialogue frames a light anecdote about public records and daily work.
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Syracuse Herald
Linen Ban Seizes Ceylon Hospitals’ Old Towels
A government official conducts periodic inspections and condemns worn sheets towels and other linen from Ceylon hospitals to be burned every three months under regulation ensuring disposal of used linen.
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Ceylon
Humors of mispunctuation in old advertisements
A London Globe piece notes humorous mispunctuation in ads about hospital trained ladies offering care for epilepsy and hysteria, portraits of nobles, a boss who can speak Spanish, a charger for a horse, and a club member with one eye asking for the other eye.
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South Bucks
Texas
Walker
London Globe
Instant Death Concepts From The Indian Lancet
The Indian Lancet discusses death as a physiological process, noting death is not declared until disintegration makes revival impossible. It cites instant deaths such as caustic potash immersion and electric shocks, while noting living cells can be preserved and revived with proper treatment.
Vagrant Knocks At Kitchen Door Then Faces Rudeness
A hundred stone man timidly asks for help at a culinary department. The woman cuts him off with a sharp retort saying she is not kind. He wonders if she truly believes he is only a woman. He departs, lamenting the missed bicycle stoop detail.
Girl Helps Archbishop Home in Stephen's Green Tale
A Dublin archbishop in declining health crawls to Stephen's Green. He is aided by a bright young girl who volunteers to see him home and quips that her father is the same every day. The anecdote, cited by V Pearson's, highlights gentle kindness.
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Detroit Free Press
Dublin
Stephen’s
Pearson
What Is This Social Struggle About
Quote from Chicago Record on social struggle notes it involves self-entry and blocking others. It contrasts self-inclusion with keeping others out as part of the issue.
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Chicago Record
Intuition and the cricket's autumn proclamation
Henry Cleveland Wood reflects on how intuition marks the changing season as summer fades. The poem ponders when nature signals transition and the cricket's shrill note break the spell, announcing autumn’s approach in August’s quiet backdrop.
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Henry Cleveland Wood
Ainslee
Lunch Counter Imitation Turns Meals Into Herd Behavior
A Chicago Inter Ocean article notes lunch crowd imitation as patrons copy end seat orders from others. Waiters describe how preferring common items causes shortages and a chorus of requests for popular dishes, likening trends to contagious ideas among patrons.
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Chicago
Inter Ocean
Alcohol’s Effect on Brain and Nerve Centers
Dr Victor Horsley describe how alcohol dissolves nerve centers and slows perception and reaction time. He notes narcotics produce similar effects and cites Kraepelin and Aschaffenberg diagrams showing reduced type speed after alcohol.
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Victor Horsley
England
Horsley
Kraepelin
Aschaffenberg
The Stool of Repentance at Girard College
The Philadelphia Record reports Girard College uses a stool of repentance to discipline rule breakers. Originally one stool sufficed, but the count grew to 64 stools in a room dedicated to this punishment. Students are ordered to sit quietly for 20 minutes and think over their misdeeds.
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Girard College
Philadelphia
Dirigo Motto Sparks Fond Farewell Exchange
In a late night scene, a young woman reflects on Maine’s motto Dirigo while Spoonamore hints at departure. He bows, noting Miss de Muir once called him dear, sealing a poignant moment in the Chicago Tribune’s entertainment tone.
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State of
Maine
Dirigo
Spoonamore
de Muir
Chicago Tribune
Exercise Enough in Sign Language Clash at Club
A Chicago Times-Herald snippet notes Mr. Smythers discussing a physical culture class. He explains his wife planned to join but a Swedish visitor of six weeks requires communication by signs, limiting participation.
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Smythers
Sweden
Chicago Times-Herald
Postman Riddle Keeps Its Name When Letters Removed
A brain teaser about a postman who remains the same even after removing letters from its name. The riddle plays on the idea that removing letters still points to the same worker person.
Rose as emblem in funeral customs among Syrians and Chinese
The rose symbolized immortality among Syrians while Chinese tradition placed the flower over graves.
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Leslie’s Weekly
Earth
Calla
Nervita Medical Co
Clinton and
Jackson Sts
Illinois
L. M. Bosworth
Ames
Iowa
T. J
Clistle
Camrammed Goods
Pillsbury’s Best
Mutual
B. Kooser & Co
Fish and Game
CIVIC
Ames Lodge No
C. F
Ames, Yes
Odd Fellows Hall
R. T. Sisson
Proper
N.G
M’carthy & Lee
J. ¥. Martin
First National Bank Aid
Nevada
J. A. Fitchpatrick
Edward M. McCall
Fitchpatrick & McCall
Attorneys-At-Law
Opera Block
MO. H. Williams
Budd Block
A. Richmond, M.D
Ames, Iowa
Hutchison M.sc
M. D
DRS
Richmond & Hutchison, Physicians and Surgeons
Bosworth’s
W. E. Harriman
Hamilton
Thurston's Hardware
H. Kelso
Hamilton's Grocery
E. F. Posegate
Get, E. F. Bell
Roland Iowa
A. K. Banks
R. D. Connell
Ames, Id
the Undertaker
Barkhurst
Trough Mann & Co
Scientific American
Maunn & Co
Bradwey
Washington, D
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