Early days of baseball lifter Adrian Anson remembered
A reminiscence by Adrian Constantine Anson sketching his Iowa upbringing in Marshalltown, family roots from England, and early ball play. He recalls pedigree debates, Swedish ancestry rumors, and childhood games like ant y over and two old cat shaping his lifelong baseball passion.
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Adrian Constantine Anson
Anson
Adrian Constantine
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Sturgis
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Sweden
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Captain Anson
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Iowa
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Metropsis
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Allegheny Mountains
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New York State
Father
Adrian
State University
Notre Dame University
South Bend
Ind
Notre Dame
Reformatory
Goodby
Anson House
West's Great Dam Erected to Reclaim Arid Valleys
Sheridan Wyoming described as a land of fortune and opportunity as irrigation transforms the west. A massive concrete dam on the Shoshone river will create a 100 foot deep lake, controlling floods and powering a canal system that supports 160 000 acres. The project already hosts over 200 farms and two thriving towns as thousands seek land and work in this hopeful arid region.
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Commonwealth
Wyoming
Lofty Mountains
Yellowstone Park
New York
United States Capitol
Sock Ball and Its Rough Origins in Schoolyard Play
A narrator recalls the rough outdoor game sock ball once common among boys, noting its progressive shift from soft homemade balls to harsher versions with lead-wrapped yarn, and the perceived physical toughness of the pastime despite frequent bruises.
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Lawas
Vacationers Peer Into Veguylus Crater Scene
A group of tourists gazes into Veguylus crater. An American man quips it resembles the infernal regions while an English woman comments on American travelers. The remark captures cross cultural humor in travel.
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Veguylus
Lippincott’s Magazine
Seals Captured by Ore Boat Return to St John’s
About 30,000 seals captured by the Newfoundland sealing fleet were returned to St John’s aboard the ore boat Bonaventura. The Bonaventura was the first of eleven steamships to report back, bringing in 1,000 seals.
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London
Bonaventura
St. John’s
Prehistoric Man Found Buried Near Thames Bed
A 170,000 year old prehistoric man was uncovered 170 feet beneath a terrace believed to be an ancient Thames river bed at Galley Hill. The skeleton stood about five feet one inch with a thick neck and narrow protruding chest, indicating brain capacity rivaling modern intelligent humans. The find supports a long timeline of land movement and habitation in prehistoric England.
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London
England
Galley Hill
Secret of Egyptians tempering copper found in Kansas
John Stipp a Santa Fe fireman in Newton Kansas claims to have rediscovered the ancient Egyptian art of hardening copper to steel hardness. In a small cottage laboratory near the railroad shops he describes eight years of persistent work yielding a process to temper copper so it resists the hardest files.
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Newton
Kan
Kansas
John Stipp
Santa Fe
Structure and membership of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom
The house of lords consists of lords spiritual and temporal. Seats are not automatic. peers are summoned by the king. Each UK peerage grants a seat, numbers are indefinite and can be increased by the crown, which cannot strip a dignity once granted. The house holds about 580 members, with 16 Scottish peers and 28 Irish peers elected for each parliament.
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House of Lords
London
Lords Spiritual
United Kingdom
Scotland
Ireland
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Thames Valley
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