National Corn Show Opens in Omaha With Pascal Ear Exhibit
Omaha welcomes a national corn exposition opening for ten days. D. L. Pascal's Clinton County Iowa ear, the Pascal prize winner, is showcased with two sister ears. Universities and government stations nationwide compete, including Cornell University and Iowa schools Grinnell Drake Ames.
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Omaha
America
New York
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
South Dakota
Iowa
Nebraska
Wyoming
Missouri
Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Cornell University of New York
Grinnell
Drake
Ames
Pangwangling and Honing A Colorful Language Note
The author examines pangwangling as cheerful resilience amid small misfortunes and honing as southern warmth. Both words are praised for liveliness beyond slang, noting their proper place in language and their added color.
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Pangwangling
Pangwangle
Atlantic
Gunpowder Story Told With Intrigue and Fear
The baldheaded man warns listeners to keep nerves as a narrator recounts a grim tale of a man near an Irish keg of black sand who misjudges its danger and dies when a crowdf workman is nearby, prompting shocked questions about explosions and fatalities.
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London
Inside and Outside Vegetarian Creed Cited by Philadelphia Denizen
A Philadelphia vegetarian adherent proclaims an inside outside creed denying any product from animal slaughter. He cites vegetable gloves and wooden buttons as examples and argues both interior and exterior purity matter, insisting no fish flesh or fowl meat touches his life. The quirky speaker, described in gray attire, quotes from the New York Press.
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Philadelphia
Little Vegetarian Church
New York Press
Slipper Allum Tea on City Sidewalk Stand
A New York Post excerpt describes a street vendor, an elderly woman, selling “Slipper Allum Tea” and related items. She explains the products supposedly cure loneliness and fatten older maidens, while a passerby jokes about exploiting the scheme. The scene portrays street commerce and social attitudes.
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Chile
Ginral
New York Post
The Elusive Chuckwalla And Desert Indian Tricks
A tale from southern California deserts explains how chuckwallas hide in rock crevices and how desert Indians outwit the lizards with a nose tap and a tug to pull them free, then cook them. The fragment blends other curiosities and anecdotes with humor about gullible rituals and a Drunk John scene.
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California
Desert
Train Timetable for Great Western Railway Chicago Route
Chicago Great Western Railway announces north bound departures at 4 08 am and 3 36 pm with arrivals from St Paul Minneapolis Dubuque Chicago Des Moines Kansas City. Fort Dodge Omaha services at 3 35 pm and 11 40 pm. Additional departures to Lyle Manly and Mason City at 11 40 pm and 3 35 pm. Returns from Fort Dodge Mason City Lyle Counci Bluffs Omaha at 8 35 pm and 4 08 am.
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Dubuque
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Fort Dodge
Omaha
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Pa and the knocker a critic in playful quip
A Detroit Free-style exchange defines a knocker as a man who habitually finds fault with others doing better than he can. The remark reflects a humorous look at petty criticism.
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Detroit Free Press
Food and Emotion Aboard a Buie Steamer
A honeymoon couple on a pleasure steamer in the Kyles of Buie share a romantic moment. The bride asks for chocolate, revealing hunger amid sentimental mood. An amateur Hebe brings coffee and toast, easing her distress as she admits she feared being thought more unhappy than she is.
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George
India
London
Depth Limits for Mining Under Heat and Pressure
The Chicago Tribune notes coal pits become unworkable below about 4000 feet due to temperatures near blood heat 98 degrees. Currents of water affect heat transfer, but below this depth heat poses a major barrier to mining.
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Great Britain
Coal Commission
Chicago Tribune
Melchior Anderegg Guides Climbers Through London Fog
The London Chronicle recalls how Melchior Anderegg, famed Great St. Bernard guide, nearly lost in London yet guided Leslie Stephen and T. W. Hinchliff from London Bridge to Lincoln's Inn Fields. He paused only once on the return trip from Woolwich.
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London
St. Bernard
London Chronicle
Melchior Anderegg
Meiringen
Berne
Leslie Stephen
T. W. Hinchliff
London Bridge Station
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Woolwich
Hinchliff
Melchior
Why Joyner Left Home
A fragmentary item asks if the reader is ready to receive the oblten and hints at a personal or domestic departure theme. No clear names or events are confirmed in the readable text.
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Joyner
Oblten
Too Scarce to Throw Away in Australian Desert
A San Francisco mining engineer recalls how water, then scarce, dictated life between the coast and Kilgoorlie. He notes vendors reusing bathwater and selling it at half price, illustrating the harsh, frugal realities of early outback mining camps.
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Kilgoorlie
San Francisco
Abbe Pradt Praises Napoleon and Duke in Paris Dinner
In Paris a dinner in honor of the Duke of Wellington leads to a sharp exchange. The Abbe Pradt delivers a lengthy oration on politics and ends with a claim that Europe’s salvation rests with the man alone. The duke interrupts to say the praise belongs to him.
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Pradt
Napoleon
Duke of Wellington
Paris
Europe
Silent Oaths Bind Australian Widows in Grim Tradition
In parts of Western Australia women take an oath of silence after a husband’s death. Some vow to stay mute for two years after the funeral, a custom often extended to the mother and mother-in-law of the deceased. Paris Revue Medicale notes the practice as a cultural ritual.
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Western Australia
Paris
Revue Medicale
When Men Are Friends There Is No Need of Justice
A compact aphorism by Aristotle notes that friendship itself replaces formal justice among morally aligned companions, suggesting harmony and mutual regard can render legal remedies unnecessary when trust prevails.
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Aristotle
For Rent A New Cottage Too Buggy For You South Kenyon
Ten city lots with good location and new cement walk offer a tidy rental. A two room cottage features a coal stove and self feeder. lies on South Kenyon near a dry cellar and trees. Monthly rent around twenty dollars with prior details missing.
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Jay
South Kenyon
A Rule of Auto Etiquette From the Chicago Record Herald
A Chicago Record-Herald quote calls for restraint in auto use noting that no gentleman should drive another man’s car into the country and wreck it beyond repair. The remark frames respectful behavior in vehicle ownership.
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Chicago Record-Herald
One-Eyed Needie Cuts Sharp Look in London
A brief note in the London Family Herald observes a creature called a needie with a single eye that appears keen and alert, despite its lone eye. The item reads as a light local curiosity in period voice.
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London Family Herald
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