Up the Himalayas A two way train over Darjeeling hills
A New Orleans Times-Democrat correspondent describes a dizzying ride on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. He details a tiny two foot gauge train looping in loops, zigzags, and horseshoe curves through misty mountain scenery, with perilous ledges and monkey-haunted vines, concluding at Darjeeling with panoramic town views.
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Calcutta
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Damookdea
Ganges
Pubna
Saraghat
Northern Bengal State Railway
Siliguri
Darjeeling—Himalayan
Johnny's Essay On Dogs In Mixed Autobiographical Folklore
Fragmented humorous essay on dogs features a narrator with Uncle Ben and Bill Thompson. It blends canine lore, human-dog bonds, and rustic classroom banter about breeds, barking, and myths. The discourse meanders through loyalty, appetite, and dog lore with period slang and playful asides.
One of the Fiends Dynamite Prank in Detroit Stores
A man in Detroit paraded with a compact package claiming dynamite safety as a joke in tobacco shops and saloons. He teased clerks and bystanders, finally revealing the package was a cake of compressed yeast. The episode ended with police intervention and the suspect wandering away.
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Detroit Free Press
Michigan Avenue
Mosquitoes Described as Tiny Surgeons in Curious Scandal
A London Sportsman piece lampoons the mosquito as a brutal pest. A mock medical examination lists a lance two saws a suction pump and a steam engine as its tools describing how the insect wounds and drains victims before moving on. The cartoon portrays the insect as a bloodthirsty terror rivaling any beast.
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London
Mosquito
Skeeter
Willine to Oblice Him in a Pacific Slope Murder Tale
A Springfield Globe summary recalls an old Pacific Slope tale of a miner who travels to San Francisco with gold dust. After selling his dust he enjoys a hotel stay and a planned revel, meeting a friendly stranger who turns out to be a minister. The two debate drinking, ending with the minister choosing soda water to avoid temptation.
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Willine
Springfield
Globe
Chicago
Pacific Slope
San Francisco
Jiverty
Strauer
The Flora Bell Sailor Captain and the Canal Romance
The Cleveland Leader recounts the Flora Bell canal boat at sunset near Centre Street bridge. Captain Nelson recalls canal glory, laments steam rail competition, and chats with his daughter Susan and her fiancé Henry about marriage, a future farm, and selling the Flora Bell.
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Cleveland
Flora Bell
Centre Street Bridge
New Castle
Withal
Cuyahoga
Bow-Lund
Flora Bell Directs Crew as Reporter Fades from View
Flora Bell orders all hands to turn in while the reporter vanishes into the shadows near the city’s whorehouses and towering elevators on the way back to the office.
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Flora Bell
DANGER IN DUST Explosive Dust Power in Flour Mills
A New York Sun report explains how flour dust can ignite and explode, with dramatic examples from mills and warehouses. Tests by Professor Peck show dusts from starch, flour, and grain can lift or burst objects. past accidents illustrate the danger of dust explosions.
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New York Sun
Minneapolis
Washington
Scotland
Barclay Street
Peck
Professor Peck
Keely
Boston
Eee
So many inquiries about far West schools and life
Joaquin Miller argues Western universities and towns like Oregon and California match the East in quality. He notes crime rates similar to New York and praises Oregon University, Plutarch, Plato, and Xenophon familiarity among Western readers. He ends with a new tree planting poem for Oregon University.
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Joaquin Miller
Far West
Oregon
California
New York
University of Oregon
Atlantic States
Plutarch
Xenophon
Washington
West
Oregon University
Wells at the desert well of knowledge memorial
A lone Arab sheik dies of thirst while leading a caravan to dig wells in the desert. The poem honors pioneer effort, endurance, and the idea that digging wells, even in failure, plants a future gain. It envisions planting a tree beside a well of knowledge in the west, standing as a sentinel for generations. It extols faith, labor, and patience, praising those who toil for future worlds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Hide and Seek with a Dog
A New York Herald note describes a dog that loves hiding a ball for its owner to seek. The dog signals with a bark, repeats the game, and enjoys the hunt as much as the hid. When asked to read aloud, he makes short sounds like wow wow wow and stops at the word period until told to continue.
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New York Herald
Father and Son at Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge
Comrade Du Bois recollects a Civil War tale of a Troy dry goods owner Chamberlain and his son, a Northern officer, who unknowingly meet on battlefields. The son spares his father at Resaca, later secures parole for him through General Sherman, and their fates after the war remain unknown.
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Albany Press
Harrington
du Bois
Chamberlain
Troy
North Carolina
South
Sumter
North
Chickamauga
Banquo
Missionary Ridge
Sherman
Georgia
Reseca
Fighting Two Lions for Life on Bald Mountain
Early Wednesday morning Jesse Crecelius and John Webster searched Bald Mountain east of town for lost ponies. They encountered two mountain lions, Crecelius shot the first after a standoff, killing it. He wounded the second, which fled after a throat shot. Webster was found stuck in a snowdrift a quarter mile away. The larger lion measured nine feet, the smaller seven feet with young. Webster plans to return east. Crecelius remains unshaken.
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Billy
Olio
Grand Lake Prospector
Jesse Crecelius
Bald Mountain
John Webster
Jess
Jie
Webster
Tender Feet
Bill Nye
Laramie
Medicine Bow
Sheep Mountain
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Old England
Metropolitan Ass
Youbete
United States
Long Branch
Alps
Curtis
No Use Trying to Make Time
A Burlington Hawkeye column laments modern haste and crowds too much into one day. It mocks rapid progress from elevators to telephones and predicts future Americans becoming a race of men without legs due to unused organs.
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Burlington
Not in the Prescribed Course Burdette Counters School Myths
The speaker argues that colleges do not teach only baseball and boating though some students pursue such studies. He contends four years of college should cover broader classics and warns that a boy who only learns athletic skills would still know little even after long schooling.
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Burdette
Do Your Duty Honestly Not Seek Fuss in College
The speaker urges a student to read and do honest work rather than seek college fuss. He cites Washington as a model who earned acclaim through unostentatious effort, and predicts the juniors will lecture him in chapel about college life.
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United States
Old Globe
Washington
Rai
Diddy
Dan
Died From Opium and a Wyoming Ranch Tale
A narrator recalls seeing a tramp sheep-herder shot Curtis at a Wyoming ranch. Curtis dies inquest lists suicide by opium. The piece links opium to danger, notes the high mountain air and frontier life, and laments the victim’s fate in a vivid, reflective tone.
Not Dead But Sleeping in a Hotel Wake-Up Prank
A visiting journalist James R. Cotham at the Capital Hotel in Little Rock fell into a deep sleep after a liniment bottle broke. A porter feared chloroform, alarms rang, and staff plus bystanders rallied. He woke amid a chaotic, comic scene with slaps, water, and shouts as the group learned the truth of the nap.
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Little Rock
Ark
James R. Cotham
Capital
Ice Box Talk Spawns Laughs From German Economist
A German economist surveys a Woodward Avenue hardware store display and questions an ice box. He asks if it plays music or acts as a mower or alarm, then hopes it saves taxes, keeps meat fresh, and wards off burglars, finally deciding it merely cools provisions.
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Detroit Free Press
Woodward Avenue
Lee
Vuell
Dot
Advice to a Would-Be Humorist Texas Siftings
A humorous prose sketch advises a young man dreaming of jokes that true humorists are born not made. It notes many aspire to wit while only a few achieve fame, spoiling readers with overabundant jest and satirical bite. The piece playfully cautions against chasing notoriety for its own sake.
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Texas Siftings
United States
Rehiel
A Polite Gentleman Offers His Seat on the Omnibus
In the Odeon bound omnibus, the crowded vehicle moves along Rue Richelieu. Four ladies board the platform as a courteous man rises from the interior to address them and asks which is the oldest so he may give up his seat.
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Figaro
Odeon
Rue Richelieu
Briga Brac and Billiards Lore in Harsh Wit
Abridged humor from Harvard Lampoon and other papers mocks billiards temper and social quirks. Jokes about kissing in billiards, court scenes, puns, and a nurse’s size raise satirical contrasts between refinement and everyday folly in early 20th century humor.
Daisy's Rise from Grass to World Renown
In a rural scene Marguerite whispers of home as the Queen summons Marguerite to the city. The daisy becomes famed, with the world at her feet, after the royal call.
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Nicholas
Marguerite
Elds
Sam
Daisy
Birthday gift ends in yard chicken mishap
A Chicago Sun item says a mother gave her son a fishing set as a birthday present. Hours later the child yelled and found a chicken had swallowed the hook, prompting the infant to quip that the hen would stop chewing the line when she reaches the pole.
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Chicago Sun
Manuta
In Sorrow's Name and Dining Misfit Banter
A Rockland Courier-Gingette item notes a poetic line from In Sorrow's Name by Julia Sargent Fisher in Manhattan, about enduring friendship beyond summer. The page also features a light exchange: Simmons gloomy over dyspepsia, and a joke about his wife cooking as a cooking-school graduate.
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Julia Sargent Fisher
Manhattan
Rockland Courier-Gingette
Simmons
Twins and Drums Delight Yonkers Neighbor
A verse from the Yonkers Gazette features a playful neighbor praising twins who drum and ding with lively hoots. The speaker longs to wield drumsticks when the twins erupt in their rub-a-dub songs, framing a lighthearted hometown vignette.
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Yonkers Gazette
Young Lawyer’s Maiden Speech Draws Court Silence
In Lockport Journal prose, a young lawyer delivers a florid maiden speech for four hours. The opposing veteran then asks the judge to allow him to follow the example by submitting the case without argument, leaving the courtroom in heavy silence.
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Lockport Journal
Houis
Fried
Poem excerpt about a boy and a buzzing bumble bee
Lowell Citizen presents a short verse about a busy bumble bee and a small boy who leans on a hat and tries to bother the bee Then the bee smiles and the boy hurries home, creating a humorous regional scene
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Lowell
Bumble Bee
Quaker Maiden Stella Wescott in Verse
A poem about Stella H Wescott described as a Quaker maiden with sweet features. The speaker recalls Stella’s pleasant inquiry and a childlike episode where Rebecca places clover blossoms near her ears to coax speech. The poem ends with the beloved blushing red petals and tender affection.
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Stella H. Wescott
Rebecca
Evolution of the Dorset waist fashions in ancient Greece
A Philadelphia Times note argues ancient Greek beauties wore waist bandages and belts. It cites strophium tents zona and Serenus Sammonicus remedies to slim waists. Aristonopanes notes men valued small waists too, with Homer and Martial referenced on girdles and ridicules of fuller figures.
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Philadelphia Times
Philadelphia
Helen of Troy
Andromache
Serenus Sammonicus
Aristopanes
Homer
Juno
Jupiter
Martial
Ovid
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Himalayas
Darjeeling Railway
Colorado
America
Denver & Rio Grande
Cape Horn
Lot
Japan
At & Suudmit
Jean Lugelow
Ghoom
Darjeeling
Tam
Darr
Hong Kong
Johnny
Ben
Bill Thompson
Uncle Ben
Bil Thompson
New Found
Inglish Pauls
Logland
Prof
Daisyhead
Jo Simmings
Garfield
Bones
Miss Krautschwanger
Sehovs
the Flora Bell
Canalin
Peter Nelson
Leader Building
Nelson
York State
Mary Ann Eldridge
Susan
England
Hennery
Muskingum Valley
Sane
Dilly
Arly
New Castile
A Western University
Brig-A-Brac
Harvard Lampoon
Sean
Ordb
Louisville Courier-Journal
Wall
Kenney
Quincy
Tunesome Twins
John Smith
Smith
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