Wise Crocus Creek Owl Forecasts Weather By Hoots
A southern Kentucky correspondent reports an owl at Crocus Creek delivering weather signs for fifteen years. One hoot means fair, two hoots threatens, three hoots rain or snow, and more hoots foretell growing chaos. The town reacts with alarm as crops and livestock respond to the prophetic owl.
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Southern Kentucky
Crocus Creek
Courier-Journal
Crocus
Prophet of
Jack Frost
Barren County
George Washington
Mosquito Theory of Civilizational Decline
A Harvard professor argues that malaria carrying mosquitoes helped topple ancient Greece and Rome, suggesting insects changed history more than Gibbon and Mommsen recorded. The piece counters by noting scant textual support and notes on Io and mythic insects, while doubting the mosquito’s role in Greece.
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W. M. Wheeler
Harvard
Greece
Rome
Asia
Egypt
New York
Gibbon
Roman Empire
Mommsen
Ovid
Juno
Europe
Athens
Sparta
Corinth
Man of Six Feet Six Inches Seeks Farm Work After City Rejections
Hopkinsville resident Frank M. Young, six feet six inches tall, finds city jobs impractical due to door heights and crowd constraints. He failed to enlist in the Army and quit a St. Louis streetcar post after constant awkwardness. With limited indoor options, he plans to return to farming where his height may be an advantage and the sky is the limit.
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Courier-Journal
Frank M. Young
Hopkinsville
Mr. Young
St. Louis
Young
Evansville
Indiana
Missouri
United States Army
Young Inches
Odd Bits of Presidential History Not in Textbooks
A compact look at lesser known incidents from U S presidents. Andrew Jackson faced an assassination attempt by Richard Lawrence in the Capitol but escaped when the pistol misfired. John Quincy Adams served in Congress after his presidency and died in service to the nation.
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United States
Andrew Jackson
Washington
Jackson
Richard Lawrence
John Quincy Adams
Congress
John Adams
Chester A. Arthur
New York City
Garfield
Cleveland
Jhhn Wilkes Bogthe
Lincoln
Fredericksburg
Unknown Bits of History and Sugar Prices in 1909
The piece blends historical notes about notable figures and coincidences with a market analysis of sugar. It covers Guiteau and Garfield, Czolgosz and McKinley, Harrison lineage, and Lincoln-Davis parallels. It then analyzes sugar pricing trends from 1870 to 1909, tariff effects, per capita consumption, and estimated duty receipts, concluding the U.S. consumes about one fifth of world sugar.
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Boston Corbett
Charles Jules Guiteau
Garfield
Washington
Louis Czolgosz
President McKinley
Buffalo Exposition
Auburn N. Y
William Henry Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Kentucky
Lincoln
Davis
Polk
Clay
Congress
United States
Hawaii
Porto Rico
New York Sun
A Royal Spender Warns Marjorie About Money
An uncle warns Marjorie against marrying a millionaire noting she would be happier with a man of modest means. He asserts he will deplete the wealth in a few years, implying he would outlast the relationship.
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Marjorie
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