Old Lovers Reunited In Quiet Country Home
After a stormy split, observant Miss Patty Chickson and baronial Barnabas Buffington reconcile. He seeks a modest board with a gray cat and she accepts, then proposes marriage, starting a new life together with humor and domestic peace.
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Barnabas Bultington
Mr. Bar- Nabas Buttington
Miss Chickson
Barnabas Buffington
Mr. Buffington
Barbara
Miss Chicken
West End
Barnabas Buttington
Missis
Buffington
Mr. Bullington
Betsey
Patty Chickson
Mr Buffington
Miss Chuckson
Anabas Buffington
Erratic Rivers Cause Shifting Courses and Delays
The New York Sun describes how the Rio Grande and Rio Colorado changed course during the 19th century causing railway construction troubles and travel suspensions. Bridges failed to hold, crews tried to redirect rivers, and a steamship voyage ended with a wagon train detour.
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Rio Grande
Los Lunes
Valencia County
New Mexico
Fort Stanton
Panhandle
Rio Colorado
Arizona
California
Colorado
Yuma
Grand Canyon
Fort Mohave
New York Sun
Pickle Smothered Fire Ends Disaster in Maine
An Eastern Maine tale recounts a Waldo County house fire during a drought with no water nearby. The woman, muttering Here’s a pretty pickle, used brine from pickle barrels to douse the flames, saving the home and showing the odd efficacy of salt water as a fire extinguisher.
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Maine
Waldo County
Lewiston
Fine Distance Measurement and Pendulum Chronoscope
The pendulum chronoscope is hailed as the world’s most remarkable timing instrument. It measures accuracy to one thousandth of a second and operates like a stopwatch without requiring an electrician or mathematician. It is a mechanical device with simple electrical attachments and can time cannonball speeds, revolver firing to runner start gaps, and a boxer's delivery time.
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Washington
Panama
Washington Star
Global Newspaper Production Facts
Reports estimate 12.0 billion copies printed worldwide in a year requiring 781,240 tons of paper or 1.75 billion pounds. Even with the fastest presses it would take 333 years to print one year’s edition, yielding a stack almost fifty miles high.
Seven Cities Claim Poets Now as Ho Mer Myth Grows
A playful exchange contrasts old legends with modern bragging as seven cities now claim poets like Homer. An industrious man and a cabbage symbolize quirky progress, reflecting a humorous outlook in the Washington Star snippet.
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Homer
Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Behalf of Watita Club hosts beef dressing contest in Chicago yards
The Watita Club, a Chicago stockyards social and political group, held a beef dressing contest with a $250 purse. Mike Mullins, a longtime champion, won the top prize over rivals including newcomer French Mike, after fast and precise processing of a steer.
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Watita Club
Chicago
Mike Mullins
Mike
Wedding of Giants in Berlin at Panoptikum
Berlin hosts Oswald Balling, seven feet two inches tall, and Hee-Sin from Tonkin in a giant wedding at the Panoptikum. The pair, unusual in race and language, are joined by two pygmy best men, with Balling a Munich guard from 1890 to 1908 and his bride two years his junior.
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Berlin
Oswald Balling
Bavaria
Hee-Sin
Tonkin
Oswald
Royal Body Guard
Munich
Woman Swimmer Forces Shore After Kicking Strange Object
A young woman swimmer at Far Rockaway kicked a bobbing object beneath the water. She cried out in fear and fled to the shore as lifeguards recovered a mine that had broken from the harbor fastenings.
Famous Indian Chief Spencer of Yakima Reservation
The Yakima Indians recount Chief Spencer, nearly a centenarian, a famed warrior who fought white incursions, helped guard the reservation, and aided Gen. Sheridan as scout and interpreter. His life includes a massacre of his family’s escort and his pursuit of Ki i likitat for vengeance before peace efforts.
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Spencer
Yakima
Fort Vancouver
United States
Phil Sheridan
Moses
Northwest
Mount Adams
Washington
Yakima County
O. O. Howard
Vancouver
Kilekitat
Kiifekitat
Sheridan
Gen. Sheridan
Burned ticket redemption yields unlikely claim
A Pennsylvania Railroad clerk faced an extraordinary request when a man presented a burned ticket for St. Augustine Florida at the redemption window. He produced ashes and charred cardboard as proof, and after investigation a replacement ticket was issued following correspondence with connecting roads.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
St. Augustine
Fla
Philadelphia Record
Trimming Finger Nails
A quirky statistic piece notes that people trim about a thirty second of an inch every two weeks, totaling roughly an inch and a half per year. It cites a global life expectancy of forty years and estimates 1,300,000 people wasting about 28,400 miles of sugar wall in a generation.
France's 25 Ton Bell Hangs in Sacred Heart Belfry
The enormous bell named Bell of the Sacred Heart Neb weighs twenty five tons and is heard twenty five miles away. Its deep tone lasts six minutes, marking a notable addition to the church belfry. A separate SAMan remark notes a woman’s ideal is beauty achieved without time spent in front of a mirror.
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France
Church of the* Sacred Heart
Neb
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Ie Ey
Her
Mr. Butington
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ole Olsen
Willy Wendt
Eng Pao Tien
Teng Pao Tien
First Presbyterian Church
Pekin
Ruth
Tony
Mary
Peter
James
John
Chief Spencer
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