Neglect and Dust by P M MacDonald
A meditation on a master minor in a silent room whose neglected mirror fills observers with despair. Dust and neglect corrupt speech and joy, turning bright songs to sighs as ages face grim brows and dark resignation.
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Mirror
P. M. MacDonald
Tornado Prophet Defeated by Own Country
In a rural kitchen Harrison Bently predicts a March tornado between the eighteenth and twenty sixth, while his wife dismisses the warning. A storm arrives on the tenth after Annie Evans’s wedding, destroying homes, and proving the prophet’s forecast fails to save his credibility.
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Len
Sophia Bentiy
Mrss Bragg
Harrison Bently
Liza Crowell
Illinois
Pye
South Boxford
Harrison
Annie Evans
Annie
Dan
Mrs. Bently
My Pneumatic Snake and Public Notices
A column snippets two humorous episodes including a tale of a driver aided by a tame snake on a Pimlico road trip and a sharp Wyoming style retort about a Colorado hunter. The piece also reviews Judge Jeter C. Pritchard’s federal status and North Carolina rail rate tensions with Gov. Glenn and Judge Pritchard.
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Pimlico Road
Baltimore
H. EB. Warner
New York Sun
Jeter C. Pritchard
Pritchard
Glenn
Superior Court
Setting Her Right and a Note on Electric Elevators
A park outing like a high school ball game frames a niece and brother exchange about the term dexterous with a quip on left handed pitchers. The piece then shifts to a brief item noting rising demand for electric elevators in South Africa due to skyscraper growth and water limits for hydraulic lifts.
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Gerald
Indiana Local Notes Highlight Postmasters and Accidents
Levi K. Todd named postmaster at Arcola Allen County Samuel B Shipley takes Seeleyville postmaster duties replacing G W Dickerson St Josephs La Porte to be remodeled at cost 10000 Big Four train incident fatal for worker details multiple farm fires and accidents across counties smallpox outbreak ends in St Joseph County and South Bend hospital releases rookery.
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Levi K. Todd
Arcola
Allen County
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Laporte
Samuel B. Shipley
Seeleyville
Vigo County
G. W. Dickerson
J. D. Hoss & Son
Indianapolis
Shelbyville
Fred H. Kirkhoff
Huntingburg
St.Joseph County
South Bend
Luke Donahue
Lagman
Chestnut Street
Lafayette
Oscar Paddock
Richmond
Matthew A. Ferguson
Delphos
Ohio
Wiley Cook
Milton
William S. Petty
Monon Railway Company
Henry Garber
Dale
Pan-American Bridge Company of
Newcastle
Big Indian Creek
New Albany
Sherman Wallick
Claypool
Bruce Whittinberger
Frank Wilson
P. F. Wilson
Lebanon
Burkett
Kosciusko County
Nickel Plate Railway
Warsaw
Francis Manier
Fort Wayne
France
Frank Nugent
Bedford
Indiana Reformatory
Mitchell
Cal Nash
Princeton
Nash
St. Joseph County
Petersburg
Frank Capman
William Korporal
Marion
How the World Will Be Saved From Starvation
Scientists warn of a looming bread famine as wheat demand grows faster than supply. Crookes notes fertilizer limits and nitrate exports from Chile. nitrogen fixation from air via electric arc is commercialized at Notoden Norway. Berkeland Eyre works produce nitric acid and nitrate of lime for fertilizer.
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Royal Institution
London
Silvanus LP. Thompson
William Crookes
Chili
Crookes
Cavendish
Dewar
Rayleigh
Berkeland-Eyre
Notoden
Norway
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