Athena Press announces 1912 parcel post rates and poultry contest
The Athena Press outlines parcel post rates to 1800 miles and local delivery costs while noting school children may raise poultry to fund education. It also mentions the upcoming school industrial contest plan proposed by State Superintendent Alderman and reports on a Saturday opera house event and school athletic news.
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Alderman
Aoity
Costa
Gil
Oregon
Portland
Ines
Eliy
Jonathan Jr
Portolsinn
Xecorns
Sud Gems
Sobec
Alaska claim and dinner among scattered notes in period chatter
A battered column notes Alaska purchase pride and political quips as a Pittsburg Gazette observer ponders a Democrat executive and refined instincts. It mentions a Chicago arrest for possessing $820, and advertises a farm near Athens offering 660 acres of fertile land at 45 dollars per acre with large down payment and balance through prospective mortgage.
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Atna Barguin
Urear Athena
Oni
B. B. Rioburde
House for sale in Kirk Jet addition Seattle
South half of Lot 7 and 8 block 1 Kirk Jet addition, six room house. Examine, make a bid, any reasonable cash offer will be carefully considered. Mullin Bros. Land Co. 1205 Led Ave Seattle Wash.
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Kirk Jet
Rama
Mullin Bros. Land
Led Ave
Seattle
Wash
Origin of the New York Yacht Club at Hoboken
The piece recalls Hoboken as an early yacht center after the Revolution, detailing Colonel Blevens buying Hoboken, the Stevens family settling at Cristlepoint, and John O. Stevens, a founding figure of American yachting born there in 1785. It notes no ferries of the era, young Stevens boat skills, and the schooner Gimcrick built for him, with the New York Yacht Club charter formed aboard the Mercury off the Battery in New York City in 1815.
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New York Yacht Club
Blevens
Hoboken
Cristlepoint
Hudson
New York City
John O. Stevens
Stevens
John C
Diver
Gimcrick
Hil
William Capes
Abe
John Stevens
Merc K
Battery
New York
Yaelt Club
Real Literary Crumba and the Slovenly Town
A fragmented prose piece critiques readers who cram texts and neglect hygiene, noting a newspaper as the sole clear landmark. A mid-20th century style excerpt recalls Dr Tred and a Richmond railroad board meeting debating passenger rate cuts, provoking protests about state reactions and Whig politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wong Foo
Menttmne
Perplexing riddle stumps partygoers at Louisville Journal
A humorous tale features a party goer asking for an animal that has eyes but cannot see legs yet cannot walk but can jump high on the Eiffel Tower. The crowd remains silent until a wooden horse is proposed. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson discuss the deduction as a new client arrives amid playful banter in the Louisville Courier Journal.
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Eiffel Tower
Schille
Elfel Tower
Nassau Hall Named to Honor Nassau Royal House
The trustees of the college, after Governor Belcher declined the naming, vote to name the Princeton edifice Nassau Hall in memory of the Glorious King William III and the illustrious House of Nassau. The edifice is to be known by Nassau Hall for all time.
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Old
Nassau
Princeton University
Princeton
Belcher
Lonor
Pound
Nassau Hall
William the 3d
House of Nassau
Govt
New Jersey College
Morning Reflections From a Breakfast Table
A humorous dialogue depicts a professor in a lofty mood reading editorials between sips of coffee and bites of bacon. He muses that forefathers' breakfast talk could shape history while his practical wife counters that history does not depend on such topics.
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Professor
The Connoisseur's Surprise at a Courbet Landscape
A Paris writer recounts a humorous scene with a high French official. He shows a friend Courbet's landscape of the Paris environs bearing the artist's red signature and jokes that the horizon should be cleansed with squid. A brushful chemical reveals a sketch of the Eiffel Tower.
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Paris
Courbet
Eiffel Tower
Wages No Object and Quirky Court Anecdotes
A tramp seeks work and is offered dawn milk chores in a white house by Mr Oatseed, with further scenes of a judge wooing a salad loving woman and a tormented spouse. the stories echo early 20th century humor and social attitudes.
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White House
Praise For the Growlers from a Georgia Philosopher
A Georgia philosopher praises the growlers as the boys who keep the world moving. He argues that people growl when the world stops to seek answers and a remedy for trouble, and that taking things for granted stalls progress.
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Georgia
Mitches
O. K
Atlanta Constitution
Man in Irish cemetery mocks inscription in exchange
An Irishman recalls reading a sobering monument inscription and quips that if the subject were dead he would own up to it. The moment reflects a wry, solitary exchange amid a cemetery setting showcasing dry humor.
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Pat
Golfer Reports Grand Army Score After May Round
A Chicago Post item says a golfer described his best game of the season as a Grand Army score, going out in G1 and returning in G. a downtown report from May notes the unusual score while detailing his round and performance.
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Chicago Post
Bow Legged Man a Noted Feature in Sports and Speech
A London Sketch quips on caddies and nervous players, noting bow legged men as a symbol of robustness. It claims about 40 percent of mankind are two legged, and cites notable figures such as Caesar, Horace, Napoleon, Wellington, Schopenhauer, and Cavour to illustrate athletic and intellectual pride.
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Cresar
Horace
Napoleon
Wellington
Schopenhauer
Cavour
Trade Mose as witness in grand larceny trial
The court assigns two lawyers to Mose in a grand larceny case as he asks for a witness trade. He asks to trade for one of the witnesses, while the judge and attorneys address the alibi and his guilt or innocence in hushed tones. The slang and courtroomDynamic echo in this fragment from the Kansas City Journal.
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Mose
Trlal
Jones
Jedge
Kansas City Journal
The Lion and the Lamb Training Trial
A trainer attempted to pair a docile elf Hon with a lamb in its den a risky effort that required months and several lambs. The beast killed a lamb and nearly harmed the trainer, finally tolerating the lamb only while the keeper stood armed with an iron bar. The act was abandoned after a few tries.
Steel Nest Built by Wagtails in Switzerland
At Soleure's Museum of Natural History a bird's nest made entirely from clock springs astonishes visitors. A clockmaker noted the nest in a yard where discarded springs lay and showed that wagtails fashioned a four inch across, comfortable home.
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Museum of Natural History
Soleure
Switzerland
Mozart and Bretzner clash over Belmont and Konstanze
The note records Christoph Friedrich Bretzner protesting Mozart's use of his drama Belmont and Konstanze for an opera. He vows protest and further action, as published in the Leipziger Zeitung.
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Mozart
Bretzner
Seraglio
Joseph I
Leipziger Zeitung
Belmont
The Mystery of Love Revealed in a Taine Quotation
A compact reflection on love cites Montaigne and describes an inexplicable, fated power that makes the speaker answer only by affection for the beloved. The quotation emphasizes that the reason lies in the beloved and in the self, beyond expression.
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Montaigne
Up Early Tiff Between Clerk and Bookkeeper
A dialogue scene centers on Galley the clerk and Jub the bookkeeper. Galley explains he is up early, prompting a quip from Jub about his morning routine. The humor hinges on a play on words about being "up" rather than physically rising.
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Galley
Olditewad Disease Teases Comeback Hope
A Houston Post quip notes Olditewad appears gravely ill yet the doctor says if he can keep fighting and give up, he might win. The speaker remains confident Olditewad has never given up on a challenge in all the years known.
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Houston Post
In Anticipation Towall Rowell Borrowing Trouble
In Anticipation, Towall Rowell is always borrowing trouble. Powell Yes, he is the kind of fellow who would walk off the weight before he got fat, if he thought he could.
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Towall—Rowell
Powell
Not Much In a Name Says Sunday School Teacher
A young Sunday school teacher recalls asking a pupil how many apostles there are and the boy briskly replied a dozen or so, prompting the teacher to note how numbers and names can mislead.
Tribute to Buiker-So Jones fades with Bremlantes impact
A fragmented tribute notes Buiker-So Jones as a famed figure whose death sparks reflections on Bremlantes Phin delpia Lodger and the lasting influence on minds and communities. The wording hints at widespread memory and cultural resonance amid a murky obituary-like passage.
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Buiker
Jones
Bocker
Bremlantes Phindelpia
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