Flood Story and Indian View of the Deluge
A long piece surveys how a North American Indian perspective questions biblical sin and divine punishment for the flood. It recounts a legendary ark voyage to Avee-heilah, Avee-qua-lul, and Qual-jo-para, with sacred rites and petrified driftwood, plus an anecdote from Los Angeles Times and a separate humorous domestic tale about Jemima seeking higher wages after improving her cooking skills.
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America
Avee-qua-lul
Pilot Knob
Mexico
Avee-heilah
Los Angeles Times
Jemima
Trivial Cause of a Bloody War
A 1654 Polish nobleman flees to Sweden after crime triggering a war. John Casimir demands surrender, Sweden resents missing et cetera after his title. War lasts until 1660 ending at Oliva. Kochowsky laments the eight missing letters cost many lives.
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Sweden
John Casimir
Poland
Charles Gustavus
Oliva
Danzig
Kochowsky
A Horse's Toe Nails and Hoof Growth
The New York Sun explains that a horse hoof is like a toe nail, with horn growth varying by shoeing, grooming, and feeding. Hind hooves grow faster, the toe takes 11 to 13 months to grow down, and the heel 3 to 5 months, with new horn pushing defects outward as it forms.
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New York Sun
Dictionary Users Modest
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote suggests men feel uneasy using a dictionary in public. Attendant notes men glance around as if fearful others judge their knowledge of pronunciation or meaning. He invites asking what is being looked up, predicting most won’t disclose.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
A Bibliophile's Reply
Mandell Creighton the bishop of London feared damaging books. A fellow clergyman borrowed an old Shakespeare edition and kept it for months. He returned it with a note saying he had great pleasure in returning the volume. The bishop replied that all the joy was his.
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Mandell Creighton
London
Her Progress Exchange Quip Highlights Slower Servant
A short vintage exchange notes a servant’s progress as a joke with the line She’s progressing now and she’s getting slower and slower implying mounting irony.
Realistic Actor’s Extreme Realism Sparks Onstage Wounds
The Louisville Courier Journal notes the actor embraces realism to excess. In the second scene he is severely wounded and a doctor issues bulletins between acts, heightening theatrical authenticity.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
The Writer and Artist Exchange Sharp Retort
A brief squabble between a writer and an artist sparks a public feud captured in a single-panel exchange. The Life quote frames the clash as creative tension, with both sides criticizing the other's work.
Time standards across the United States explained
Harper's Weekly explains the four time sections eastern central mountain and Pacific adopted in 1883 for railroads. It notes one hour differences between adjacent zones and how true local time varies from standard time by location such as Boston and Buffalo.
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United States
Atlantic Coast
Detroit
Charleston
N. C
Bismarck
Rio Grande River
Montana
Idaho
Utah
Arizona
Pacific
Pacific Coast
New York City
Chicago
Denver
San Francisco
Boston
Buffalo
Harper’s Weekly
Thief Poses as Police to Steal Coat Tail
A Frenchman loses part of his clawhammer coat tail after a night at the Comedie Francaise. A supposed police officer claims the tailor is found with a black cloth scrap and seizes the coat for a test. The coat owner never hears further of the case, as the thief’s ruse unmasked itself in the disguise.
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Comedie Francaise
Boulevard Montmartre
Figaro
Bureau of Police
The Colonies in English Eyes
The average Englishman holds hazy notions of colonies, ranging from Virginian plantations to crown colonies. He seems to imagine imperial rule as a distant, autocratic burden. The ideas are often fifty years out of date, notes Sydney Lone Hand.
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Sydney
Lone Hand
The Oldest Jury and Its Early Form of Justice
The piece describes an ancient Greek jury image where a primitive court weighs guilt or innocence. Elder men voice opinions in turn while the community’s commons applaud the views they favor, and the applause helps decide the verdict, illustrating an early jury concept.
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Commons
The British Drama and Public Taste in Theater
The London Graphic notes that the British public attends theater for amusement rather than instruction and resents overt moralizing in productions. It argues only a shift in this attitude will trigger a renaissance in British drama.
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London Graphic
Cocoa sips for thirty days in hot water
A joke from Fliegende Blatter notes a homemaker’s daily cocoa cue. The dialogue suggests adjusting water to serve guests without changing the cocoa amount, highlighting humorous thrift and hospitality in a domestic scene.
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Missis
Advantage of Position piano recital quip
A brief Chicago Tribune item notes a humorous exchange about a piano recital at a music hall. The pianist reveals the speaker’s own role, highlighting a playful twist on the day’s events.
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Music
Chicago Tribune
Des Moines Daily News offer for three month subscription
The Des Moines Daily News promotes a three month subscription for 40 cents. Readers are told the paper provides condensed fearless state and national news, market reports, farm news, household hints, and sporting gossip. Subscriptions end unless renewed.
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Iowa
Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines
Ticket prices at Chautauqua remain largely unchanged
Directors set season and day admission as last year with minor changes for Innes Day. Season tickets cost 2.00 for adults or 1.50 early purchase, 1.00 for children aged 8 to 15. Day tickets allow all events with Innes Day at 75 cents and other days at 35 cents, children 25 cents. Single admissions are 50 cents for Innes Day, 26 cents on other days, 15 cents for children. Innes Day children over 12 pay full price.
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The
Chautauqua
Innes
Ames Public Library additions bid notice 1908
Notice to contractors invites sealed proposals for adding and remodeling the Ames Public Library. Bids due by 7 p m August 4 1908 with 3 percent certified check and 35 percent bond. Plans available at the library and Hallett Rawson Des Moines. Rights reserved to reject bids by Library Board President Mrs Julia W Stanton.
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Ames Public Library
Hallett & Rawson, Architects
Des Moines
Iowa
Fine feathers do not always make fine birds
A Dallas News aphorism noting feathers alone fail to ensure quality, using a playful twist about a little goose to illustrate that appearance does not guarantee merit.
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Dallas News
Auction of old news cases and racks offered for sale
A seller advertises five pair news cases and two double racks no longer valuable. The note asks if the items are wanted, marked as old stock and priced minimally.
Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Claim
A reader from Cat Island Louisiana recalls severe diarrhoea in 1902 and a 1907 attack treated with Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He asserts the remedy would have saved him a $100 doctor bill had he used it earlier and credits prompt relief to the medicine sold by J. B. Cagwin.
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Chamberlain
R. N. Farra
Cat Island
J. B. Cagwin
Artificial Ice Favored for Public Drinking Water
At a Chautauqua association directors meeting the grounds committee was instructed to use manufactured ice in all drinking water for the public. Vendors with iced drinks must use manufactured ice while natural ice may be used for freezing and cooling where no ice is in drinks.
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Chosen Few
Sieur
Alice
Bridget
Cook
Library Board
Julia W. Stanton
Stanfield
Levi S. C. Stanfield
Ames
of the
Chautauqua Association
H. M. Duckworth
Geo
Darner & Romans
Romans
Parner
Judge’s Bakery
Owa State Fair
Pain
Sheridan
Simpson
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