Morning Hour in the Senate Gets Two Hours
Washington Star notes the Senate’s so called morning hour is now two hours long and starts at noon rather than morning. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts pushed the change fourteen years ago with a resolution that ends the hour at two o clock. The period handles petitions bills committee reports and other minor business before at 2 o clock the presiding officer presents the calendar bill for precedence and longer speeches begin.
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The Curious English Soldier and War’s Absurd Laughter
A London Spectator passage notes soldiers laughing and tossing helmets at a hare during battle, forgetting danger and the grim fate around them. It likens this to a runaway horse or a snake in the grass diverting troops, a curious glimpse of battlefield psychology.
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A Farreaching Lighthouse Off Cape Hatteras
A three thousand candle power searchlight mounted on Diamond Shoal lightship No. 71 creates a mobile beam thirty inches wide to warn ships near dangerous shoals. Visible up to forty miles, the light surpasses standard beacon ranges, and similar electrical gear may expand to Sandy Hook Fire Island and Nantucket shoals if successful.
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Health costume hailed by Portland lecturer leads to recovery
A San Francisco man wearing a blanket with bare legs and sandals was taken to Emergency hospital. He claimed the health costume revived him after years of illness and that he lectured on it, saying one lung is gone yet his health improves as he travels.
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Smoke Converted to Fuel in Belgian Cities
In Brussels Malines and other Belgian towns a new method uses a ventilating fan to push smoke through a porous filter. A hydrocarbon liquid flows over the filter producing a smokeless gas with high calorific value for heating and engine use. The filtering material also serves as a fuel.
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Vanderbilt's Gold Buttons On Dinner Coat
The New York Times reports Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr wore a gold button dress suit to a dinner for Prince Henry. Comment marked the style, but the outfit was the NY Yacht Club full dress uniform he accompanied Prince Henry wearing later that evening.
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Massachusetts Hall at Harvard to be Restored as Dormitory
Harvard plans restore Massachusetts Hall to its original dormitory use restoring a colonial interior with twenty nine brass knob locks and sixty box locks from the Continental era. Albert Bushnell Hirt notes the building housed President John Adams and famed students, linking past and present student life in a preserved setting.
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Big Horn basin irrigation boom opens up vast western lands
A western speaker notes patches of country remain suitable for millions, citing Wyoming’s Big Horn basin opened by a Burlington line. Covering about 50,000 square miles, larger than New York and Denmark, it boasts rich soil, abundant water, and three major irrigation ditches.
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Tea production in the United States expands with green tea facility
Tea farming gains traction in Summerville South Carolina where soil proves suitable for growth. Experts say US grown tea matches imported flavor and aroma. Last year yields bring profits of 30 to 40 dollars per acre with 4500 pounds produced in 1900 and a ready market for all. A green tea manufacturing machine was invented and put into operation in Summerville.
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Perils of the Eye in Eclipse Observation
A Cornell University gentleman looked at a partial sun eclipse without shade, causing a crescent sun image on his retina. He later saw eight to ten redbirds in a distorted pattern and has abandoned scientific work with the left eye due to the lingering green crescent with red border.
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Prison life vis Ideal in Baril Italy man given five years
At Baril Italy an elderly man Gissi Vicenzo aged seventy eight has been sentenced to five years for manslaughter. He had just been released from prison days earlier and said his goal was to return to prison. He spent thirty years of his life incarcerated.
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Keeping His Date on Griswold Street
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recalls a year apart as a hooded caller returns to a bankrupt man on Griswold Street seeking a cash contribution. The scornful exchange ends with the stranger predicting future attempts while the odor of cigars lingers.
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Cleverness by fixing an auto far from home
Miss Cayenne discusses a man owning an automobile and being clever. The punchline notes true cleverness lies in fixing the car far from home, a remark featured in a Washington Star quotation.
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Mortality Will Soon Begin
A satirical quip from the New York Evening World questions baseball's danger, claiming it causes funerals of at least 10,000 grandmothers of office boys annually.
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Love finds a way to the poor house says Post
A Chicago Post quote reflects a view that love can find a path but may lead to financial hardship, noting love’s persistence may not always be wise. The aphorism contrasts romance with practical consequences.
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Judge Questions Wife on Husband Jailed for Assault
A court hearing centers on a husband jailed for wife beating. The judge prompts the wife with a pointed question about her husband's expected longing, and she replies he will miss her because he cannot hit her.
Joke Exchange Over Liquor in the Home
A Philadelphia Record cartoon exchange features Mrs Wigwag asking about liquor at home and Mrs Guzzler replying that it does not stay long, reflecting social humor on alcohol during Prohibition era debates.
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Mary and cow in a teaching exchange
In a Chicago News item a classroom dialogue turns on a sentence where cow is treated as a stand in for Mary. The exchange highlights learning about sentence roles and a teacher’s challenge to the idea of such substitution.
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