Fatal Automobile Crash Claims Fall River Man
James B. Jackson of Fall River is killed when his car collides with a second vehicle on Metacom avenue near Mason School shortly after midnight. The Yale student driver James W. Anthony Jr and three passengers in his car survive. an autopsy reports a severe head wound for Jackson.
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James B. Jackson
Fall Rives
James W. Anthony, Jr
Fall River
Metacom Avenue
Mason School
Bristol
Mr. Jackson
City
James and
Jessie Jackson
B. M. C. Durfee High School
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Chatrina
Jackson
Orabell
Manchester
Euclid J. Demars
Anthony J. Ferrara
Frederick W. Serbst
William Tucker
Bristol Police
Lincoln Avenue
Bristol Casino
Anthony
Wendell B. Thompson
South Swansea
Mass
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Seaconnet
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High Street
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Ungelheim
Rose Anthony
Yale University
Yale
G. M. Wilbur & Son
John R. Bernardo
William F. Duffy
Rickshaw Workload Compared With Runners and Oarsmen
The article notes that a rickshaw coolie, with the center of gravity over the axle, exerts no forward force to move the vehicle. A coolie traveling four to six miles per hour uses about one tenth horsepower, equivalent to pulling five and a half pounds one foot per second, more efficiently than running without a heavy load and less energy than university boat oarsmen.
Italians Lay Claim to First Spectacle Maker
Montreal Herald questions the claim that Salvino Degli Armati invented spectacles in the thirteenth century and notes the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers in London received its charter from Charles I over three centuries ago.
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Florence
Salvino Degli Armati
Pepys
Montreal Family Herald
Pipe smoking First Ladies in Early White House Life
Kansas City Times notes that Mrs Zachary Taylor and Mrs Andrew Jackson smoked pipes in private at the White House and Hermitage fireside. Biographer James Parton recalls Jackson and his wife smoking for hours before their fires during the era near Nashville.
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White House
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James Parton
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Hermitage
Nashville
Kansas City
Deadly White Ants Threat to Iron Poles Exported to South Africa
A fragment notes vast ranges of white ants in colonial trade, claiming iron telegraph poles from the United States to South Africa would be ruined by powerful ant laws. It cites a Ceylon army ant pageant and a scientist count of 300000 soldiers, with orderly marching lines described by Prof Arthur Thomson.
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South Africa
Ceylon
Arthur Thomson
Outline of Science
Bunyan’s Flute Echoes In Prison Cell
A retold jailhouse tale explains John Bunyan’s music from a makeshift flute carved from a loose rail. Jailers hear no instrument and find only Bunyan and his book as the sound resumes when he hides the improvised flute behind his stool.
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John Bunysan
Bunyan
Spatts Couple Quarrel Prompts Tense Exchange
In a domestic scene Mr Spatt, irritated by silence, glowers at the evening paper while Mrs Spatt scolds him for being a poor husband. He retorts that she is not much of a wife, revealing a strained, uneasy home life.
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Spatts
Spatt
Definition of vitamine and its life guarding role
In 1912 Casimir Funk, then with the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, described a force that guards nutritive processes turning inert food into human feeling thought and action. He called this force vitamine as it is essential to life.
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Casimir Funk
College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York
Flattery as a Commodity and Its Double Edges
The quote treats flattery as a man made commodity with limited good and numerous abuses. It likens flattery to hot air and counterfeit money that is eventually discovered and worthless, warning against deceit and contempt.
Invisible Message Hidden in Blank Space Revealed by Ink
In a detective style note the ex convict used saliva to write invisible words in blank spaces. The trick was exposed by rubbing ordinary ink over the area to make the message appear clearly.
Daddy Stork the Victim of Eternal Triangle
German naturalists report cases of murder in the animal world. A stork tale describes a young rival wooing the mate while the husband is away. The pair lure the husband to his marsh and kill him in a fatal triangle tragedy.
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Daddy Stork
The Nature and Reach of Superstition Across Cultures
The essay traces superstition origins from Latin root meaning over or beyond belief and links it to survivals in ancient states including Assyria. It notes enduring ghost beliefs in rural areas, lunar influence, and European fears of the evil eye. In the United States symbols like horseshoes and four leaf clovers remain notions of good luck.
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Europe
United States
Child Humor Delivers Quip About Windshield Cleaner
A New Bedford Standard brief notes a child's witty remark after seeing a windshield cleaner. The child gasped at the steamy window then quipped to his father, "start the razor," capturing a rare droll moment from a bright saying.
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New Bedford Standard
Meeting with an Old Acquaintance Turns Lively
Breakspeare walks across a street when a car honks. He nearly collides with a radiator but recognizes the driver, Alfred, an old acquaintance. Their banter reveals Alfred learned to drive after six cars, not six weeks.
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Breakspeare
Alfred
Dairy Waste Becomes Wide Use In Casein Goods
Dairy waste has grown into a broad industry. Casein substitutes horn ivory ebony pearl amber and tortoise shells are common in beads buckles buttons combs cigarette holders cuff links dominoes dice and other items.
Wide Pronunciation Variants Of Miami Named
George B. Joyner of Whitney Florida records nineteen distinct pronunciations of Miami from overheard tourist conversations at Florida gatherings. The list includes Mi-a-mer My-er-mah Mi-armour My-alm-ah and other variations such as May-hammer My ammy Meammer M-ammer and Masemy.
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George B. Joyner
Whitney
Fla
Florida
Mecca
Mr. Joyner
My-am-l
May-hammer
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