Royal Strong Arms: Royal Athletes of History Noted for Strength
The article chronicles legendary royal figures famed for great strength. Maximianus Hercules lifts three men with one hand and carries a horse with rider. Augustus the Strong tosses courtiers aloft. Richard the Lionheart savagely defeats a youth in a duel. Dom Pedro I jokes by dunking courtiers in water from a royal barge. Peter the Great and Charlemagne are also cited for feats like bending coins, breaking horseshoes, and lifting anvils.
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Germany
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Dom Pedro I
Brazil
Peter the Great
Russia
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Peter
Alexander III
Samson
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W. R. C. Larson
New York Tribune
Great Circus Compared To Rome Coliseum
The article extols the great circus as vastly larger than the Colosseum while noting the Coliseum could seat about 50 000 spectators. It cites that the great circus at various times housed 150 000 250 000 and finally 380 000 spectators, calling it perhaps the most tremendous public spectacle building ever erected.
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Palatine
Aventine Hills
New York American
The Sleeping Sickness in Tropical Africa
Popular Mechanics details a dread tropical Africa disease spread by the tsetse fly. The bite triggers four to eight months of decline with symptoms from headache and feverish lassitude to tremor, speech loss, shuffling gait, and eventual coma and death.
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Africa
Popular Mechanics
Fatty Heart Dangers From Obesity and Exercise Limits
Obesity weakens muscles and leads to fatty degeneration of the heart. Fatty invasion of heart tissue causes danger from even slight exertion. Anemia and hysteria may accompany obesity, with lassitude and aversion to movement. What to Eat.
From Medicine to the Drama in Sardou’s Early Life
The young Victorien Sardou faced family pressure toward medicine but chose theater. He struggled financially while pursuing writing and acting. his first play failed. Illness followed until actress Mlle de Brecourt cared for him, after which his career and fortune turned around.
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Victorien Sam Dou
Sardou
Mlle. de Brecourt
Aw Break Sparks Scene as Young Man Baffles Couple
About half an hour passes with the bashful suitor making advances and retreats while Johnny hides behind the sofa in discomfort. A startled exclamation from behind them cuts the moment short as someone cries out for an easier target. The Brooklyn life vignette captures a bold interruption and a sudden shift in mood.
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Johnny
Brooklyn
Literary Irrigation Weeps On 253 Pages
A Cleveland Plain Dealer reader mocks a rising author about his dry novel. The author responds with a quip claiming the heroine weeps real tears on exactly 253 pages of the story.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Howell Rowell Inconsistent Fellow Sparks Legal Scrape
A New York Press item previews Howell Rowell as erratic, noting he would grant time freely yet later have someone arrested for stealing his watch, illustrating a volatile personality.
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Howell— Rowell
Powell
New York Press
Public opinion sways despite private snowflake views
A reflective note on how private judgments matter little when public sentiment dominates. The piece contrasts individual indifference to snowflake trivia with the overwhelming force of collective opinion shaping outcomes.
Wasn't a Beauty. Tired Traveler at Barber
A humorous exchange from Harper's Bazar where a traveler complains that spending the night in a sleeping car does not improve beauty and the barber responds with a wry guess about the traveler’s appearance before the journey.
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Harper’s Bazar
Farm venture faces drainage concerns in sunken fields
A Washington Herald brief notes a farm project raising questions about land subsidence. Proponents cite heavy cropping as the cause, while observers warn of drainage issues impacting soil stability and future yields.
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Washington Herald
A Glutton for Work in the War Office
ABecket recalls his first day in the British War Office as a young clerk who asks for tasks. His chief tells him to index circulars, praising his diligence yet later regrets the overwork as the job proves unnecessary and out of date. The boss warns not to overdo tasks for future usefulness and hints at restraint.
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Arthur W. A’lveket
War Office
Times
Becket
Developing a Star in Cyrano Brims with Struggle and Resolve
Richard Mansfield drives the production with relentless coaching as cast turmoil roils the Cyrano cast. An international Roxane resigns by cable, while Clargaret Anglin, a Canadian, grabs the role after Mansfield prods her to unleash temperament and beauty.
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Richard Mansfield
Mr. Palmer
Roxane
Cable
Clargaret Anglin
Mansfield
Cyrano
Paul Wilstach
Scribner’s
Power of Water under Cortzin Conditions
A discussion of water jets and hydraulic power, detailing dramatic demonstrations of force. It describes water cutting land, shattering objects, lifting heavy loads with pumps, and reports blueprints from mines in the west and a factory in Grenoble. It notes skepticism from some travelers while affirming observed effects.
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Wittlis
Hinas Sjiarely
New York Birds
Iit
Durango
Colo
United States
Grenoble
Spain
Toledo
Bimini and the Fountain of Youth Myth
The text recounts Bimini as a legendary northern island of the Antilles sought after for the fountain of youth granting perpetual health. Ponce de Leon and Hernando de Soto are described as chasing this legendary spring toward Florida, where the island was believed to lie near the state's edge.
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Antiles
Hispaniola
Ponce de Leon
Hernando de Soto
Florida
Which do you think is the greatest slur Cleveland News
The prose poem questions whether a kiss was given and who is implied in the act. It riffs on emphasis and capitalization to challenge reader perception. The piece centers on social attitudes and language rather than a clear narrative event.
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Dean
King Cactus Oil
Lney & M-Daid
Clinton
OWA
C. A. Pooler
Thos Rochford Ad Seeks Houses, Lots and Coach Equipment
Auction style notice offering 8 new houses on good terms and 10 city lots in a fine location. Includes a No 1 driving horse, top buggy, cutter, stove, and self feeder. Contact South Kenwood, phone.
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Val
South Kenwood
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