New Life for Barnabas Buffington and Patty Chickson
After a stormy separation over ten years, Barnabas Buffington and Patty Chickson reunite in a modest boarding house. Buffington proposes marriage at last, and they agree to start anew with the gray cat as a quiet witness to their renewed life.
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Barnabas Buffington
Patty Chickson
Miss Chickson
Mr. Butington
Barnabas Bultington
Mr. Bar- Nabas Buttington
Mr. Buffington
Barbara
Miss Chicken
West End
Mr.Buffington
Daily Paper
Barnabas Buttington
Missis
Buffington
Mr. Bullington
Betsey
Miss Is
Miss Chicksum
Mr Buffington
Miss Chuckson
Anabas Buffington
Erratic Rivers Alter Courses and Halt Bridges
The Rio Grande and Rio Colorado rivers repeatedly shifted courses during the 1880s causing railway and travel disruption. A cottonwood on a sandbar redirected the Rio Grande near Los Lunes New Mexico, stranding a new bridge. The Colorado’s floods also stranded a stern wheeler near the Grand Canyon, forcing a wagon transfer.
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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 Fire Saver in Dry Waldo County Tale
An Eastern Maine tale reports a Waldo County home saved from a blaze during a drought when water was scarce. A woman, troubled by the word pickle, dumped brine from a barrel onto the roof, using salt water to extinguish the fire and save the house.
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Maine
Waldo County
Lewiston
Pendulum chronoscope promises ultra precise timing
The new pendulum chronoscope is described as the world’s finest timing instrument. It measures to one thousandth of a second and operates as easily as a stopwatch without specialist knowledge. It is a mechanical device with simple electrical connections capable of timing ball speeds, gunfire to runner start delays, and a boxer's blow duration.
Global newspaper output and paper usage shock
World journalism production reaches 12.0 billion copies annually requiring 781,240 tons of paper or 1.75 billion pounds. If printed on the fastest presses it would take 333 years to print one year’s edition, stacking nearly fifty miles high.
Seven Cities Claim Poets In Modern Times
A playful exchange contrasts ancient fame with today where every city claims seven poets. The Washington Star framing and dialogue between Much Commoner and Miss Cayenne highlight a humorous view of literary celebrity. An industrious man and a cabbage manage to get ahead.
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Homer
Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Beef Kitting Contest Sparks Chicago Stockyards Interest
A Watita Club event drew prize money as contestants from Chicago stockyards competed to dress a steer fastest. Veteran Mike Mullins narrowly edged rivals, with newcomer French Mike failing to claim the $250 purse despite a 4:18 record.
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Watita Club
Chicago
Mike Mullins
Mike
Wedding of Giants in Berlin
Berlin hosts the giant wedding of Oswald Balling a 7 foot 2 inch bridegroom and Hee Sin a Tonkin native in the Panoptikom palace. The ceremony featured two pygmy best men and the couple, despite language and race differences, drew a large crowd. Balling served in Munich’s royal bodyguard from 1890 to 1898.
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Berlin
Oswald Balling
Bavaria
Hee-Sin
Tonkin
Oswald
Royal Body Guard
Munich
Woman Swimmer Discovers Mine Floating Near Shore
A young woman swimmer at Far Rockaway kicked a bobbing object under water. She screamed and ran to shore as lifesavers recovered a sea mine that had broken from its moorings in the harbor.
Famous Indian Chief Spencer of the Yakima Reservation
The Yakima Indians recount Chief Spencer as a near centenarian and famed warrior. He joined Gen. Sheridan and aided in diplomacy with Nez Perces and Spokanes, after a brutal family massacre triggered his vow of vengeance against whites. He governed the reservation lands east of Mount Adams, later part of Yakima County.
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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
Redeeming a Burned Ticket at Pennsylvania Railroad
A man presented a burned St Augustine ticket at the Pennsylvania Railroad redemption window asking for a replacement. He showed a match box with ashes and two cardboard fragments bearing a number and the name St Augustine. Investigation confirmed a matching number ticket existed and a new one was issued.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
St. Augustine
Fla
Philadelphia Record
Trimming Finger Nails Global Habit and Waste
A quirky calculation notes people trim a thirty second of an inch every two weeks, totaling about an inch and a half per year per person. With an average life of forty years, 1,300,000 people worldwide waste about 28,400 miles in a generation on fingernail growth and disposal.
France's Sacred Heart church mounts massive new bell
The largest bell in France, weighing 25 tons, has been hung in the belfry of the Sacred Heart church Neb. Its sound travels 25 miles and its vibration lasts six minutes. A man gleasy woman is defined as one who looks pretty without time at the mirror.
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Eng Pao Tien
Teng Pao Tien
First Presbyterian Church
Pekin
Ruth
Tony
Mary
Peter
James
John
France
Church of the* Sacred Heart
Neb
Sa Man
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ole Olsen
Willy Wendt
Panama
Chief Spencer
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