A Chronic Kicker Interview Dialogue
A brief exchange frames a kicker describing work as good and the best, with short hours and no undue exercise. The dialogue emphasizes satisfaction and ease in the role.
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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1907
Page
3
Wages Too High To Take A Day Off
A dialogue notes workers grumbling about high wages that make taking a day off unaffordable. One asks if wages are okay, another replies they are large but prevent missing work due to lost pay. Houston Post style snippet.
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Houston Post
Bronze Morning Glory From a Tomato Can
A worker imitates nature by creating a bronze morning glory. Mike explains a step by step method using an old can, water sand, and a baking process to burn and ash the flower, then pouring metal to form a lasting bloom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike
Friendship Imparts Serious Duties Upon Courtship
Mrs. Henry Graham argues in the Onlooker that friendship deepens acquaintanceship into a serious bond. She says only a few intimate friends should be kept, for love and friendship demand real self giving that cannot be withdrawn easily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Graham
Paradise
Evolution of the letter i dot in typographic history
A Londor Telegraph note traces how the dotted i arose from early accents placed over doubled letters and transformed through medieval scripts. It covers accent usage in the 11th to 14th centuries, the 1327 dot standard, and the shift to printing ease, including changes to capital and small forms.
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Londor
King Renews Gift Exchange Over Pigeon Match
At Madrid Casa de Campo a pigeon shooting match pitted the king against Senor Rivera of Xeres. The king received 2 souvenirs from Rivera but later sent back one of his finest royal horses as a reciprocal gift, keeping the gold 100 pesetas piece.
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Spain
Xeres
Senor Rivero
Casa de Campo
Madrid
Senor Rivera
Senor
Rivera
Royal
London
A Mare's Nest Explained as a Figure of Speech
The piece defines a mare's nest as a false discovery or imagined treasure. It traces the term to a Saxon demon Mara seated on the chest of a sleeper, guarding a supposed nest of riches, and explains the modern usage for any claimed great discovery that is not real.
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Mara
Mare
College Graduate Joins Firm With Pay Question
A college graduate accepts a clerk position, asking if the firm can afford the offered wages. The merchant promises fair pay for worth but notes the start may be modest. The Philadelphia Press records the exchange.
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Philadelphia Press
Hard to Approach. A woman seeks an apartment visit
In Brooklyn Life a woman asks to see the janitor and confirm an appointment with bins. The line hints at social tact and personal goodness as essential qualities, echoing Endymion’s note that tact flows from heart as much as refinement.
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Brooklyn Life
Endymion
Dumpling Town Celebrates Unanimous Harrison Vote
In Pumpilng Town Ballgax County North Carolina before 1840 a town named Dumpling Town cast every vote for Harrison in 1810. Scotland Neck sent 114 Harrison supporters with a feast featuring a huge dumpling, apples and molasses, cooked in an iron kettle and served in a Cypress bowl.
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Ballgax
N. C
William Sency Harrison
Oimayang
Garrison
Scotland Neck
Dumpling
Harrison
Paying in cents and values of old coins in debt payments
The article explains the complexities of debt payment in US coinage citing limits on nickel and copper cent settlements, the acceptability of silver and standard dollars, and the obsolescence of several older coins, noting the trade dollar and other discontinued pieces. It contrasts legal tender limits with practical acceptance by creditors.
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United States
Omaha World-Herald
Paternal watch over gowns in Germany law in view
American journalists recall German manners with a cautionary tale from a park scene. A woman, strolling after dinner with her husband, had her trailing gown held up by a policeman who warned that such skirts could collect filth and harm health. He noted a law proposal to make trailing dresses a misdemeanor.
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Europe
Germany
Jace
Chiffon
New York Tribune
Weathercock on church steeples and sacred trees
The weathercock is linked to legends about St. Peter but historically appeared on sacred trees before church steeples. Movements in the wind were thought to ward off evil spirits, and past churches often featured the vane despite occasional modern omittance.
Japanese garden lanterns prized for bronze antiquities
The gardens use abundant lanterns, with bronze pieces reflecting quaint native designs. Many lanterns are richly carved and of high intrinsic value, with the finest examples found at Nik kho, renowned for its exquisite bronzes.
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Nikkho
Dead authors outpace living writers in posthumous editions
The New Orleans Picayune notes that even five young authors produce more books than some deceased writers who continue to publish volumes yearly, highlighting the ongoing posthumous output in literature.
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New Orleans Picayune
When trouble goes hunting him a man may dodge it
A compact aphorism notes that trouble pursues a hunter much more surely than a pursued man can avoid it. The line imagines fate tracking a man who seeks it, contrasting evasive wit with relentless consequence.
Nerve Splicing Seen As Future Common Surgery
The Baltimore American reports nerve splicing as a new surgical breakthrough that may cure paralysis. Three cases show perfect success. nerves are severed near the spinal cord and grafted to the nearest trunk, with unification of fibers over time.
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Clark
Baltimore American
A Wonderfel Cannon.
J D Hamilton Brown is named as the inventor of the new six inch experimental cannon with Colonel John M Ingalls in charge of construction. The device is described as capable of firing a 100 pound projectile through a six inch steel target, with larger calibers forecast to ranges over fifty nine miles for a ten inch and over a hundred miles for a sixteen inch gun, implying potential coast defense uses between England and France across a channel.
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J. D Hamilton Brown
John M. Ingalls
Ingalle
England
France
Golf Coats Show Left Shoulder Padding Trend
The Louisville Courier Journal notes golfers develop an unusually strong left shoulder from driving with the right arm guiding the shot. To balance this, tailors pad the right shoulder of the coat, sometimes an inch deep. The deformity is rare in young women but common among young men.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
London Residences Lose Luster As City Declines
London becomes a business hub with dwindling gaiety as residences grow scarce. Suburbs encroach and towns like Brighton Eastbourne Windsor expand with a mushroom population replacing former London dwellers. Rents stay high, squeezing the ordinary householder staying in London.
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London
Brighton
Eastbourne
Windsor
London Graphic
Thirty Thousand Dry Goods Stores in the United States
The piece notes about 30 000 dry goods shops in the United States with 12 000 rated as good stores and around 5 000 large enough to be key community factors. It says most prosperous owners started from modest beginnings and highlights a trend of recent years where competition is seen as ruinous by many merchants.
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United States
Theodosia Stewart Dies in Melbourne at Old Age
Theodosia Stewart widow of a late Melbourne resident died in her nineties. She was the first lady to sing the title role of Maritana in the southern hemisphere and claimed to have sung the part in Sydney before the opera’s 1845 Drury Lane premiere. Stewart knew composer William Vincent Wallace, who lived in Sydney in the late 1830s.
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Melbourne
Theodosia Stewart
Sydney
Drury Lane
William Vincent Wallace
Icebergs Drift Opposite to Surface Currents Near Newfoundland
Observers note the coast of Newfoundland shows wide differences between iceberg drift and surface ice movement. Flat pan ice shifts with winds, while submerged icebergs follow ocean water, sometimes moving against the wind. Sealers moor vessels to icebergs to prevent drift leeward.
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Newfoundland
Umbrella Repair Promise Spirals Into Witty Exchange
A customer complains about the two day turnaround advertised by a repair shop. The mender remains stoic and clarifies the promise with a dry quip about waiting will begin the day after tomorrow, highlighting a humorous misalignment between expectation and service.
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Chicago News
Too Much Athletics Health Claims Raise Concerns
Physicians warn that excessive athletics may harm general health not aid it. They say muscle building is unnecessary for fitness and overtraining strains nerves, with built up muscles possibly degenerating and the heart facing similar muscular risks.
Just as With Her Father In Improvised Music
A professor notes a daughter’s improv music, likening her to her father who earned money in the grocery business, as Mrs. Nu itch comments. The Philadelphia Ledger fragment hints at a family with musical talent and a breadwinner father.
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Mrs. Nuitch
Philadelphia
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