Patty Meets Love at the Merry Go Round
Patty Gray, at a charity bazaar ride, fends off fortune teller jokes while courtship unfolds. A circus lion ride pairs Patty with Bobby Wright, who appears riding a wooden lion and meets her after a dramatic fainting rescue. The two grow closer as Jane Lamont orchestrates the moment.
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Patty
Jane
Ethel
Patty Gray
Jane Lamont
Dick Haden
Ernest
Laddie Smith
Sahara
Henry
Miss Gray
Marcia
Josephine
Bertha
Harriet
Bobby
Carrousel
Gray
Bobby Wright
Mr. Wright
Windiest Zone of the North Hemisphere
The article describes the windiest region covering the northern United States and southern Canada. It explains that late autumn through early spring are the windiest months, notes August as the calmest month, and details how pressure gradients, temperature contrasts, and Coriolis effects drive stronger winter winds.
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Hemisphere
United States
Canada
Meaning of Sib A Rural Word Turns Up in Science Texts
The word sib once meant a kin like a brother or sister in rural England, applying to collateral relatives. It gained renewed acceptance with eugenics writings, where it denotes a sibling, shaping later dictionary usage and social perception.
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England
Many a Storm He's Weathered
Comic exchange about Cassel the soloist with a joke on hair loss. Conversation hints at storms and weather affecting appearance.
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Cassel
Knitted Sweater Coats Set for Enduring Spring Style
Fashion notes mark knitted outerwear as practical yet chic for winter sports and formal events. Describes double breasted wool coats with fox fur trims, plaid effects, pile fabrics, and novel sleeve shapes, forecasting spring trends with leather and fur accents, bold plaids, and versatile lengths.
Emperor Flicks Dumplings In Delicate Imperial Taste
A reminiscence recalls Emperor Ferdinand I ordering dumplings be served daily, sparking consternation among court, empress, and physicians who warned against such peasant fare. The anecdote notes Napoleon I and II also favored humble dishes, contrasting palace preoccupations with kitchen quirks.
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Austria
America
Vienna
Ferdinand
Eldon and the Guinea Joke at Dinner
A quip about Lord Eldon the judge who drops a guinea and tricks a waitress Betty by asking her to find two guineas. She locates one and he pockets it while promising to keep the other for her trouble. The tale is shared as a humorous old-world anecdote.
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Lord Eldon
Betty
Oil Calms Turbulent Sea Aboard Blue Triangle
An American steamer Blue Triangle battered by a hurricane off the Carolina coast stopped its engines and discharged specially prepared oil overboard to calm the seas. The tactic steadied the ship, enabling it to ride out the storm and resume voyage the next day as winds eased.
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Carolina
Talking Ray of Photophone Demonstrated
At the Brit ish association meeting a photophone demonstration showed a talking ray that keeps messages secret to directed recipients. Light from an electric lamp vibrates with voice to tremble, selenium cells pick up the tremors, and a telephone receiver translates them back to sound.
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British Association
Telephone Lady Keeps Brother in Closet for Connection
A playful exchange recalls a child hiding in a clothes closet for a pretend telephone connection. The sister says she is the telephone operator while the brother waits for a line, highlighting a quirky domestic joke from a past era.
Giants of the Frontier Strength and Appetite Spotlighted
The article recalls legends of extreme strength from pioneer days. It highlights Dodge City's Marshal Masterson lifting a horse and rider in a fall, and Joe Beaupre the French Canadian famed for lifting a dead horse after it refused to move. Beaupre also amazed crowds with his prodigious appetite, eating 58 pounds of buffalo meat in a single contest.
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Lincoln
Masterson
Dodge City
Mr. Masterson
Joe Beaupre
Buffalo Plains
Red River Country
Dakotas
Saskatchewan
Joe
Beaupre
Only Real Survivor Of Custers Last Rally
A historical note honors Comanche the horse as the sole survivor of Custer's last rally. Capt Miles W Keogh rode the claybank sorrel, wounded in battle, later saved by Lieut Henry Nowlan. Comanche lived at Fort Lincoln then Fort Meade before dying in 1891. his skin is preserved in a museum.
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Custer
Montana
Curley
Crow Reservation
Seventh Cavalry
Little Big Horn
Comanche
Miles W. Keogh
Troop II
The
Seventh
Keogh
Sully
Sand Hills
Oklahoma
Henry J. Nowlan
Troop I
Terry
Nowlan
Reno
Fort Abraham Lincoln
N. D
Sturgis
Fort Lincoln
Fort Meade
S. D
Meade
Fort Riley
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Mr. Wright Comes
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
North Hemisphere
Gulia Brent
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Elmo Scott Watson
Western New
Spaper Union
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