Chloroform Myths Debunked By Medical Experts
Medical experts challenge the belief that burglars use chloroform on sleeping victims. They say anesthesia requires 10 to 15 minutes and multiple strong people to subdue, with dangerous stimulation. Reports of chloroform use in robberies lack factual basis, as portrayed by sensational writers.
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Ini
New York ‘Times
Pally
Madison Street
Patly
Central
Bella
Perrot
Chicago News
His Half Way Scheme and the Chinaman Policy Claim
A Pittsburg life insurer sold a $5,000 policy to a Chinese man who believed paying premiums would grant him the amount. He was told the payout required his death. After he was injured in a fall, his friends delayed doctor care. The brother later sought $2,500 but was informed no payout until death. The doctor, arriving late, exclaimed the man was half dead.
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Pittsburg
Prince of Wales foot tale at Osborne visited by queen family
An old royal anecdote recounts a British visitor with a deformed foot who planned to visit Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Osborne. To spare the children embarrassment, the warning was withheld and the prince and princess royal behaved with tact. The guest departed, and the princess mourned not seeing his foot.
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England
G. W. OL. Riussell
Osborne
Prince Albert
Prince of Wales
Princess Royal
Lord
London
Bertie
Overheard Exchange On A Cable Car
A terse exchange aboard a cable car captures a sharply dressed woman demanding courtesy after a slender man steps in ahead of an empty seat. The conductor receives a fare as the scene closes with a quick, dry retort.
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New York
Title of Majesty Given to Louis XI of France
The article notes that the honor of the title majesty was first conferred on Louis XI of France, marking a shift from earlier rulers who were seldom styled as highness.
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Louis XI of
France
Beggar Described As Touching Object in Berlin Herald
A Berlin Maryland Herald report portrays a beggar as a touching object, highlighting public sentiment and social perceptions in the local scene.
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Berlin
Good Horse Senne: Mexican burros find water by ground study
The observer notes that three burros searched dry ground, pawing a hole in sand until water appeared. After the leader drank, the others followed and the humans quenched their thirst from the cooler water. The writer asserts no witchcraft, only horse sense.
Naval commander defies orders to aid Spain fleet
A Queen Anne era naval officer, ordered to sail within Spanish coast limits, learns a Spanish fleet lies beyond them at Vigo. He fights with notable gallantry, faces arrest for disobeying orders, and declares that a man loyal to his country must risk life when needed.
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Spain
Vigo
Her
Nugvets
Catfish Lung Hearing Mechanism
The article explains the catfish uses its swim bladder as an ear like tympanum. The air bladder connects to the oesophagus via a tracheal remnant and lies near the vertebral column. An anterior vertebral chain supports the bladder to transmit water disturbances as sound signals.
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Popular Science Monthly
Duel Killing Sparks Remorse Over Land Rivalry
In a letter style exchange from the Kansas City Independent, Moonshine Jim admits to killing a rival over land and a possible marriage, expressing remorse as Dr. Poundtest questions the act and its motive.
Dear Friend Love Request Rejected by Emma
In the Boston Transcript Emma recounts that Emima Charley asked for her hand last night. She says she likes Charley but cannot marry him. Ella asks how the proposal occurred and Emma explains she declined Lou’s influence while Charley pressed.
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Emima
Charley
Ella
Emma
Lou
Boston
Disputed Tale of a Soldier’s Absence and Return
A fragmentary account describes a soldier who vanished after a perilous event and was later believed dead. Companions search through outposts and a prayer house before learning he disappeared and then reportedly reappeared, with scant details and unclear chronology.
Uruguayan Treasure Tale Turns on Local Officials
A Robert Crawford story recounts a daylight assault on a farmer and wife over a hidden hoard. A female neighbor shoots dead one thief, and police later identify him as the attorney general, with the second thief possibly the criminal court judge.
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Uruguay
Robert Crawford
Crawford
Criminal Court
Miraculous Escape From London Powder Explosion
A London ship chandler handling gun powder with a lit candle caused an explosion in the last month of Charles I. Fifty houses were wrecked and many lives lost. A baby in a cradle survived the blast and was found on church leads the next day, later adopted and growing to womanhood with a lifelong link to All Hallows Church.
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London
Church of All Hallows
Sir Walter Besant
Explosions In Siberia Ice Bursts Create Hillocks
A Siberian traveler describes intense cold nights on a river near Sadonsk where ice as thick as six to nine inches cracks with cannon like reports. Circles six to eight feet wide rise, four to five feet high, as hydraulic pressure forces ice upward before the water bursts and refreezes, yielding scores of ice hillocks along a short stretch of the river.
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Sadonsk
Brneath
A Bridge of Cotins
When British forces marched toward Peking in 1260 they faced a swollen river impassable after rains. An officer proposed using Chinese coffin stockpiles as airtight pontoons, and with empty casks, a coffin bridge was built to transport artillery safely across the river.
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Peking
Taku
Safatv
The Women and the Car
A reminiscence on women and steering a car, noting how men stumble off cogent to the curb while women struggle to exit from moving or stationary vehicles. The piece laments skirts and rain not aiding and mocks persistent backward stepping by female drivers.
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le Sgrary
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Atlanta
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