How Noon Is Broadcast Across America Time Signals
The article explains the national time system from Washington DC where the official time is calculated by the observatory. It describes five minutes of telegraph shutdown and the noon beat signaling the instant of noon with a three foot time ball in the War and Navy Building. The mechanism automatically corrects 23 clocks below to synchronize hour, minute and second hands.
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Pew
United States
Astronomical Observatory
Washington
S Ome
State
War and Navy Department
Central Belt
Rocky Mountain Belt
Crane dines on sparrows in Arkansas park cautionary tale
A Mississippi River region observer recounts a crane in a swampy Arkansas park that survived sparrow assaults only to develop a new diet. The bird learned to strike sparrows with a yellow bill and drown them in a pool, then died possibly from indigestion.
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Arkansas
Mississippi River
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Parson Brownlow A Praised Rebel Preacher And Patriot
Dr William E B Barton hails Parson Brownlow as east Tennessee’s embodiment of rugged devotion and right. A character notes he may be praying or quoting scripture or cussing. Brownlow wrote to Secretary Benjamin asking passports to quit the Confederacy. Chicago News notes ships lost averaging 2172 annually with 94 missing and never heard again.
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Parson Brownlow
Wiliam EB. Barton
Homespen
East Tennessee
Brownlow
Benjamin
Richmond
How Big Sea Turtles Feed in Coastal Waters
A Jacksonville correspondent describes giant sea turtles weighing 500 to 1600 pounds. Turtles feed on seagrass, roll it into balls with clay, and wait for high tide to drift seaward while hunters use seines. Bears raccoons and other Florida animals also prey on them.
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Mian
Florida
Jacksonville
Pickpocket Under Umbrella Trick at Paris Opera
In Paris Romieu sought shelter from a shower and borrowed a stranger's umbrella at the Cafe de Paris. He charmed a mystery man into conversation, then entered the cafe, only to discover his cravat rumpled and Elispin, a jewel, gone along with his purse and watch, the umbrella stranger revealed as a pickpocket.
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St. Margaret’s Bay
England
Hfe
Hope
Romieu
Cafe de Paris
Komwleu
Clementine
Ramier
Romien
Elispin
London
Opal Superstition and a Fake Gem Tale
A town man smashed his opal ring to end alleged misfortune after business failure. New York report tells of a man selling an opal believed unlucky, only to have the jeweler reveal the gem was an imitation. The piece notes opals as rarely well imitated, cited by New Lippincott.
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New York
New Lippincott
Bevacant Matrimonial Woes End Heroically in 1771
Beverly Massachusetts records Josiah Woodbury announcing his seven year escape from a troubling marriage. The notice, dated September 16 1771, mocks his former wife Masury Old Moll alias Trial of Vengeance and warns townsfolk to beware of that scheme. He celebrates with neighbors and widows in a humorous farewell, declaring joy and good riddance.
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Beverly
Mass
Bevrary
Cooper
Masury Old Moll
Josian
It Yielded First Physician Did Old Coupon's Case Yield
A clipped London Fun item notes a medical treatment that yielded about a hundred guineas after six months of effort. The quotation contrasts two physicians and their results in a terse, period voice.
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London
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