Baseball and Banter Under Egyptian Skies
The Chicago and All-America teams tour Cairo and Naples with a desert game presided by the Sphinx, a comedy of errors with a regal audience, and a Naples debut. Spalding's temper flares as locals invade the field. The Rome game crowns a 3–2 finish before Florence beckons and a continuation promises more.
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Cairo
John Ward
Chicago
Orient
Tenet
Baldwin
Healy
Crane
America
Desert
Sphinx
Prince Borghese
Rome
Vatican Gardens
King Humbert
Naples
Signora Crispi
American College
Warle
Tener
Daly
Burny
Florence
Chapter XXVII Play Under the Blue Skies of Italy
From Cairo to the Adriatic shores our voyage across the Mediterranean proved rough and devoid of poetry as seasickness overwhelmed us in Brindisi after a fierce gale. We rested briefly before resuming by train the next morning.
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Italy
Naples
Capri
Mark Baldwin
Leon
Mr. Spalding
Brindisi
Carroll
Spalding
United States
California
al- Americas
John Ward
John Tener
Ward
Harrisburg
Governor Tener
Vatican
Cairo
Adriatic
Mediterranean
Telephone gossip and a baby on a party line tale
A Louisville Times anecdote humorously shows party line woes as Mrs Blank and Mrs Cash gossip while a baby cry reveals a misheard fact about a neighbor. The scene ends with sneering suspicions about a nosy neighbor listening in through the line. Shelton's Don Quixote is noted as a staple translation alongside the Bible.
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Blank
Dash
Mrs. Blank
Mrs. Dash
Louisville Times
Shelton
England
Accidental discovery sparked the phonograph by Edison
The article recounts how Thomas Edison, while testing diaphragms for the telephone, attached a needle to a sheepskin drumhead. A passerby note and Edison's experiments led to the first phonograph, which recorded and later reproduced sounds. His insight showed the vibrating pin could indent wax to reproduce human voice vibrations.
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Moison
Wdison
Edison
Kddison
Stone Bath Tubs Use On Mexican Estates
Describes stone and cement baths on private estates in Mexico. Stone baths are hewn from rock or fed by bamboo pipes and filled by bucket on rural sites, while city homes use cement versions. Baths measure about ten by four feet, filled at night for cool morning tonic water.
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Mexico
Virtue as News Versus Crime in Boston Reporting
The Boston Globe argues virtue is often more newsworthy than crime and that sensational crime coverage dwarfs ordinary good deeds. It notes Moody and Sankey meetings once received heavy space, while large religious rallies surpassed criminal case reporting in Boston history.
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Boston Press
Moody and Sankey
Boston
Boston Globe
Thrashing Machines Through History
The flail is the oldest thrashing tool with horse and foot trampling. Romans used the Tribulum, a stone loaded sledge drawn by animals. Michael Mengies of Holmburg built an early machine circa 1732, Andrew Meikle later built a similar device. By the late 1800s thrashing machines neared modern perfection.
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Michael Mengies
Holmburg
Andrew Meikle
Letter From a Late Boss in Puck Style
A ramshackle Black man, Gabe Hilsondigeer, faces a bank official in a satirical Puck excerpt. The colonel’s note brands him as a thief, while the teller laments his own profits and laughs at the misfit’s claim of dignity, exposing white prejudice in a comic frame.
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Baal
Maynio
Pusson
Hilsondigger
Gabe Hil Sondigeer
Sali
Haffer-Dollah
Tom P. Morgan
Puck
Venus a Fascinating World Study Reveals
The article compares Mars canal myths with new Venus observations. Venus lies 26 million miles closer to the sun than Earth and completes an orbit in about 225 days. It supposedly keeps one face toward the sun, showing a sunlit parched plain and a frigid shadowed realm with extreme cold.
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Venus
Mars
Earth
Grammar in the Supreme Court’s spoken words
The piece notes Supreme Court justices often break spoken grammar while delivering oral decisions or addressing the bar, though written opinions are carefully edited. It cites phrases like he don't and they ain't, suggesting lapses in everyday speech even the chief justice reverts to boyish phrasing when listened to closely.
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Grammer
Supreme Court
Grammariana
Justces
Belgium to Test New Circulating Library System
The Belgian government plans a central library in Brussels with 10 000 volumes. Any Belgian resident holding a post office savings bank book can borrow by mail for two weeks, with two cents deducted from their account. Deposits guarantee payment for unreturned books, creating a network of about 1 500 branches across the country beyond the central library.
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Brussels
Belgium
Post Office Savings Bank
Ready Sympathy. Excited Stranger at Store Door
An excited stranger reports a man collapsing and dying outside a shop door. The passerby speculates the deceased may have intended to buy clothing, while locals react with shock at the sudden death and the odd scene.
Hla Gifted Relative Story Sparks Family Whip Tale
Mrs Lepsing recalls Uncle Seymour once famed as a “famous whip” who enjoyed driving his flashy coach across the country, remarking on his happier days behind the reins and the lively household memory that follows.
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Seymour
Johnny
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