Moneyless natives in the Philippines trade copra for goods
John D. Rhoades reports from a Philippine island that locals barter rice for fish and chickens, paying laundry with the same commodity. A Spaniard shopkeeper says no money is used, bread travels forty five miles by runner, and a native presents a cocoanut-root cash substitute traded for rice, highlighting widespread barter and cultural reluctance to use cash.
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Philippine Islands
Wichita Eagle
John D. Rhoades
Philippines
Ife
Frightened by Degrees in a Kansas Lecture
A Chicago bacteriology lecturer drew a small town audience including the leading citizen’s gardener and housekeeper. They attended for magic lantern views and, after the talk, admitted fear despite limited understanding. The exchange reveals public unease about scientific subjects.
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Kansas
Chicago
Tobin's Early Memory Of Sunday School Talk
Alfred W Tobin a Oxford Fryeburg proprietor recalls a shy four year old encounter with a Camden Sunday school teacher who spoke about Jesus without saying harm. The anecdote highlights a child’s memory of religious instruction and demeanor.
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Tobin
Alfred W. Tobin
Oxford
Alfred
Jesus
Circle of Life Nearly Complete in Probate Tale
Stephen P. Steele a Peterboro New Hampshire lawyer long practiced in the town. A Boston buyer tasked him to clear the title by purchasing a life interest held by an elderly woman. The life interest became an annuity based on tabular life expectancy. After many years the purchaser asked Breele how long the old woman would live. Steele predicted she would soon die and thus the life plan would end.
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Stephen P. Steele
Peterboro
N. H
Boston
Breele
Steele
First Ocean Cable Cost and Per Mile Breakdown
The record outlines the first ocean cable cost details with a per mile breakdown. It states deep sea wire cost per mile $200 plus $265 for yarn and iron wire, $25 for coating, totaling $455 per mile. For 2,500 miles the cost is $1,212,500 plus 25 miles of shore end at $1,450 per mile. It concludes the exclusive cost of the first ocean cable at $1,250,000 excluding instruments.
Too Optimistic. Dr Weir Mitchell Interview Wit Wealthy Uncle
An interview recounts a wealthy Philadelphia uncle and his heir, a 23 year old nephew, arriving from Newport after the uncle’s illness. The nephew asks about appendicitis, but the uncle reveals it is only rheumatism and cautions the youth to avoid optimism.
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Weir Mitchell
Newport
Locomotive in the Game A Baseball Tall Tale From Maryland
A Baltimore Sun retells a famed Fourth of July tale from Texas baseball lore. In a game between the Texas Sluggers and the Timonium Little Potatoes, a home run ball allegedly vanished into a passing train’s smokestack, then reappeared for a double play as the third baseman retrieved it, leaving the visitors arguing over the call.
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Maryland
Texas
Baltimore County
Little Potatoes
Baltimore Sun
Chivalry Tale From Buffalo Enquirer
A Buffalo Enquirer piece recounts Thomas W. Lawson criticizing a broker as a chivalrous attack. It lyrically frames a Charlestown tale of John Henry and a cow purchase, noting a lean tall man, his wiry wife, and a shopkeeper's blunt remark about the cow’s milk. The humor hinges on practicality over sentiment.
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Thomas W. Lawson
John Henry
Charlestown
Buffalo Enquirer
Hard-Working Newspaper Men Worth More Than Belief
The Portland Oregonian quotes Mark Twain on daily writing output noting 1800 words a day for a newspaper writer, about 657000 yearly, enough for a best selling novel every two months, and over forty years totals of 240 books. It argues journalism is hard work, not easy.
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Mark Twain
FE. D. E. N. Southwoarth
Portland Oregonian
A Witch Singing for You from Wandering Words
A fragmentary verse scene pleads for a single unbound song to praise a beloved, with imagery of waters singing and birds in flight. The lyric laments earthly constraints and imagines starry listeners and a transformation into light and flame as a muse appears from a distant, ecstatic moment.
Powers of Memory Linked to Smell in Noted Study
The article notes memory and smelling are closely linked yet questions whether one can truly recall a specific odor. It cites occasional olfactory hallucinations in the insane and references Society of Psychical Research records describing experiences like a lingering scent ghost.
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Society of Psychical Research
Calcium No Longer Rare In England
A note on calcium highlights its rapid price and supply shift. Once scarce, it has become widely available, with a month or two previously limited to an ounce or two in England, now purchasable by the hundredweight. Investors face volatility as rarer metals swing between high potential values and plentiful supply.
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England
Renunciation and Greatness in Literature Tone
A critique argues literature must forgo cheap applause to restore serious English letters. True excellence requires deliberate withdrawal from prevailing trends, demanding writers endure long obscurity and self funding. It warns against chasing popularity and urges steady, solitary effort for enduring art.
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Shakespeare
Milton
Shelley
Keats
Browning
Swinburne
Tennyson
Mary
Martha
Harper’s Weekly
Latest Physical Culture Fad in London Noses
An American visitor in London complained about English nose blowing in public. A paper argued the habit is a current physical culture trend. It cited adenoids as caused by improper nose blowing and urged the visitor to observe Fraulein Wilke’s classes at the Southwestern Polytechnic Chelsea.
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London
Fraulein Wilke
Southwestern Polytechnic
Chelsea
Dad's Queen of Girls Poem From Houston Post
A daughter described as dad's queen appears in a lyrical piece from the Houston Post. The poem depicts tender, protective paternal affection as the child rests on his lap, with imagery of gold curls and smiles, expressing lifelong devotion and comfort.
He Was No Ornithologist Witmer Stone Shows Bird Collection
Philadelphia natural science leader Witmer Stone guides a Pittsburgh millionaire through a vast display of meticulously prepared birds. Stone asserts the stuffed bird collection is worth thousands of dollars while the visitor probes what the birds are stuffed with.
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Witmer Stone
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
America
Mr. Stone
Pittsburg
Judge Sherman Estate Renamed Found-dead-on-a-rock
Judge Sherman planned to name his summer home Located on the rocks at Gloucester Massachusetts Found-dead-on-a-rock appeared on his friend's reply indicating a mistaken reading of Founded-on-a-Rock The misread name links to a humorous stationery joke about the judge
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Judge Sherman
Gloucester
Mass
Judge Shermen
Greatest Trout Hatchery on Grand Mesa
The government will establish the world's greatest trout hatchery on Grand Mesa about twenty five miles north of Delta. It will produce at least 25,000,000 fish annually within a year of completion and distribute them across the western states.
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Grand Mesa
Delta
West
Onions Said to Cure Rabies and Smallpox
A New York man recalls a western town tale where a rabid patient calmed after biting into onions and a doctor credits the onions with drawing the poison. A Civil War veteran adds a similar onion anecdote about smallpox, noting the onions turned mushy as the disease supposedly left the body.
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New York
New York Press
A Prayer to Love by Theodosia Garrison
A speaker pleads with her master to spare her dream and joy, lamenting loss of youth and happiness after a single betrayal. She requests this last solace, a dream she clings to amid desolation, describing love as both desire and sorrow.
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Theodosia Garrison
Harper's Bazar
Penetrated Parson Disguise
The Rev Dr George Hodges dean of the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge is a famed Boston storyteller. He notes parsons should mingle with peers and shed ultra clerical air, then recalls a rector visiting Chicago who, after a Turkish bath, was confronted by a drunken onlooker who muttered it is devishly hot in here parson and the rector collapsed.
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George Hodges
Episcopal Theological School
Cambridge
Boston
Parsons
Chicago
Mystery Boards and Dark Paper At Boarding Houses
A curious clerk asks why boarding house keepers prefer dark wallpaper. The answer: dark walls hide the ghastly nail scars from residents’ pictures, avoiding obvious wall damage and preserving room appearance. The tale, sourced from the New York Press, offers a wry glimpse of practical aesthetics in shared housing.
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New York Press
The Beautiful Terrys and the Secret of Their Charm
Mr. Joseph Knight recalls Kate and Ellen Terry as teens with Marion and Florence playing nearby while their father and mother work in the garden. The father asks how he has such lovely children, then invites Mr. Knight to meet Mrs. Terry amid flowers in the garden.
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Terrys
Joseph Knight
Kate
Ellen Terry
Marion
Florence
Terry
Mr. Terry
Mrs. Terry
Comes of Colonial Stock Gen James A Buchanan Brigadier General
Gen James A Buchanan appointed brigadier general is a great great grandson of Samuel Ogie a colonial governor of Maryland.
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James A. Buchanan
Samuel Ogie
Marylend
Lawyer's $500 fee for Chinese murder case
Julius Kahn recounts a grim joke about a Napa lawyer, Dennis Spencer. A Chinese man offered $500 to defend a case and returned with the corpse, revealing he had killed the other Chinese. The tale underscores deception and greed in a xenophobic frame.
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Fee
Julius Kahn
California
Dennis Spencer
Napa
Spencer
New York Times
Only an Italian Could Play Romeo and Juliet
London critic argues Romeo must be a young Italian actor fluent in English to convey adolescence. Max Beerbohm says no English youth can express the awakening of love. mature actors show only mature love. Viewers may opt for genuine young lovers or accept reduced technique.
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London
Max Beerbohm
Ladies’ Pictorial
Romeo
Minister recalls a marriage price tale from Kansas City
The Rev. C. P. Smith of North Side Christian church in Kansas City recounts a humorous incident from Walla Walla Washington about negotiating a wedding fee. A groom, after hearing there was no fixed price, tells the minister he has ruined him for life with the bride.
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C. P. Smith
North Side Christian Church
Kansas City
Kan
Walla Walla
Wash
Kansas City Journal
Toor Cookery in England and a Bishop’s Remark
A London correspondent recalls the bishop of Salford bemoaning English cookery to Manchester high school girls. The piece cites Voltaire on England’s many religions and one sauce, noting the social envy of men toward men who marry good cooks. The tone hopes Manchester girls will digest the bishop’s remarks.
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England
Salford
Manchester High School
London
Voltaire
Manchester
Distinguishing Cotton From Linen in Handkerchiefs
To distinguish cotton from linen when choosing handkerchiefs moisten your finger and touch the fabric. If wet through instantly it is linen. If it takes seconds to penetrate the threads the fabric is cotton. Linen threads are less even than those in cotton.
Paris Postal Service Upgrades With Electric Mail Wagons
In Paris the post office department is adopting several electric mail wagons designed to carry mail matter in larger quantities and at higher speeds than the old horse drawn vehicles.
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Paris
Post Office Department
Hair color debate between wife and husband over cloudy day
The Wife notes shade differences in sunlight versus clouds and asks which hair color to wear. The Husband remarks it is cloudy today and asks which colored hair should be worn today.
Sponger nicknamed Antilightning roams city blocks
Shorté notes a dangerous character dubbed Antilightning by locals, while Sharpe questions the moniker. Sponger reportedly uses repeated strikes in the same area, suggesting a pattern of increased danger and potential threat to residents. Authorities urge vigilance.
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Shorte
Sponger
Antilightning
Sharpe
North-Western Railroad Timetable February 8 1906
Rail timetable lists north bound and south bound trains with numbers and daily schedules including Scoot Passenger and Way Freight arrivals at Saxon Escanaba and copper country connections. Notable times include No 25 at 5 50 am No 23 at 9 28 pm and No 32 at 7 03 pm and No 28 at 11 27 pm.
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North-Western
Sun
Saxon
Copper Country
Escanaba
Naba
Ax. Sun
Duluth
West
Calumet Houghton
Ishpeming
Marquette
C. M
St. P
Olson
Bessemer
No. 6
North Bessemer
John A. O'Hara
Mich
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