Generals on a Kentucky Train in a Humorous Tale
A Washington Star correspondent recalls a Pullman trip through Kentucky where several travelers are addressed as generals. A conductor explains the locals treat colonels as veterans and only two officials are truly general in civil life, prompting a wry reflection on titles and roles aboard a railroad line.
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Washington Star
New York
Metropolis
Kentucky
Blue Grass
Col, Blood
Col. Thoroughbred
Col
Mint
Col. Blood
Col. Mint
United States
Fair Blue Grass
The Gowning of Women and Light Kitchen Notes
A city column extols spring gowning as a duty and source of cheer, praising stylish women in seasonable frocks and the social value of attire. It is followed by a cooking snippet for roasted chicken with olive oil, maitre d hotel butter, and bacon on toast. A brief quip from Washington Star and a Judge joke about a golfer’s absent mindedness conclude the page.
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Maitre D'Hotel
Washington Star
Wardrobe of the pope and the sacred pallium tradition
The article describes the pope’s lavish vestments in the Vatican, noting three large rooms for the wardrobe, daily varying garments, and priceless lace surplices. It details the special fleece used for pope’s wool garments, the blessing of lambs, and the pallium worn after a Sarcophagus of St Peter. It also mentions the cappa magna and Leo XIII’s jewel collection with the Fisherman Ring as official signet.
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Leo XI
New York Sun
Vatican
Europe
Legion
Rome
Leo
Leo XIII
St. Peter
Fooling Diamond Experts at the Club
A young businessman recounts testing so called diamond experts by swapping a real brooch with a 50 cent imitation. He reveals how his friends swore the counterfeit looked better after paying an extra 50 dollars and refused to believe they had been fooled.
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Philadelphia Record
Light exerts mechanical pressure proven in 1901
Experimental proof in 1901 showed light exerts pressure on surfaces. Tests in Europe and Americas indicated pressure of 4-10 of a milligram per square meter for black bodies and double that for perfect reflectors, validating Clerk Maxwell's theory.
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Clerk Maxwell
Europe
Americas
Science
Time to He on Geard
A cryptic note describes a tense social moment in Milwaukee involving a woman warned to guard her purse with a Yale lock as an unknown man jokes about closeness and a best friendship. The fragment hints at personal risk and city setting.
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Anniston
Nobie Street
Oxford Lake
Sam A
Laura Lee
the Mayfields
Fred Cohn Beven
Coustine Io
Paralles
Will Hight
T_udlow Allen
Edison
M. G. Rayfield
North Noble Street
West
Austria
Tyler DU
Hilwaukee
Lights Island
Nature
Mull
Henry Clark
Denny, Ky
J.l.wikle
Ala
National Baptist Convention
National Baptist Convention (Colored
Birmingham
Seaouthern Railway
Souther Rail
Fexas Oklahoma and Indian Tea
Coon
Ich
Mephi
Texas
Iis Eee
Tikes
Obleho
Indian Territory
Otane
Angelo
Gar
Houston
Lufkin
ITOM
Baipd
T. Pla
Atlanta, GA
J.W. Labeaume
G.P
T. A
ST. Louis, MO
Ripans
Gruggtots
Sealy
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