Starfish oddities and wealth driven tales in a column
The piece explains starfish regeneration from lost rays, including how two arms can form from one, and describes their lack of senses yet predatory feeding. It also notes ships hunting starfish for science and the deep sea collection economy. The archive then shifts to a Wisconsin girl engaged to a Maine civil engineer and her culinary vow, a Pepys era electric furnace anecdote, and a servant cooking gag from a Chicago Journal item.
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Wisconsin
Maine
Far West
Washington
Lewiston
Pepys
London
An Odd Whist Deal at Grimsby
A curious whist deal in Grimsby England left one player with twelve spades another with eleven clubs a third with twelve diamonds and the fourth with eleven hearts while spades were trumps in the game.
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Grimsby
England
I Think We Have Not Run In Debt This Month
Dialog from Brooklyn Life features a wife and husband discussing finances with economy and restraint. The exchange highlights careful spending and comparing to last month’s debt, reflecting urban domestic concerns.
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Brooklyn
Judge Goode Metaphor Links Civil War Battleto Peace
Virginia judge and former Confederate congressman recounted Foote's attack on Jefferson Davis and General Albert Sidney Johnston after Cloyd Mountain defeat. He claimed Johnston could have fought better to spare the nation, saying peace would have cloaked the land like a wedding garment.
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John Goode
Virginia
Confederate Congress
Foote
Tennessee
Jefferson Davis
Albert Sidney Johnston
Cloyd Mountain
Johnston
Erie Middletown flyer derails near Paterson injuring forty four
An east bound Erie train derailed between Fairlawn and Warren Point in Bergin County. A girl from Middletown New York Miss Grace Matthe died. A flange broke causing the crash. about 1000 feet of track was torn up and many were hurt. Physicians and relief trains rushed to the scene.
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Paterson
N. J
Middletown
Erie Railroad
Fairlawn
Warren Point
Bergin County
Here
Grace Matthe
Jersey City
Montgomery Suffern
Hackensack
Waldwick
Spirit of Revolution Shakes St Petersburg University
In St Petersburg on February 21 students and professors met to discuss joining a Russian general strike. The gathering, held on Basil Island, urged liberty of speech conscience and press, demanded convocation of a national assembly and an end to war, and closed the university until fall amid Cossack patrols in nearby Nevsky Prospect.
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St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg University
Russia
Nevsky Prospect
Kazin Cathedral
Two Executed In Sing Sing Electric Chair
Frank Rimieri and Adolph Koneig were executed at Sing Sing prison in Ossining New York on Monday. Both prisoners received two electric shocks with no incident reported. Rimieri killed rival junk dealer Waco Pinto in Brooklyn over an old bottles dispute, while Koneig strangled Mrs Mary Kauffman in a West Fortieth street home last May and injured himself attempting suicide.
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Ossining
N. Y
Frank Rimieri
Adolph Koneig
Sing Sing
Rimieri
Waco Pinto
Brooklyn
Pinto
Goenig
Mary Kauffman
West Fortieth Street
Congressman Norton P Otis Dies in Yonkers
New York February 20 Congressman Norton P Otis of the Nineteenth district died at his home in Yonkers after months of illness. Age sixty five, he had served as Yonkers mayor and led Westchester Republican politics. He chaired the Otis Elevator company board and left a large fortune. Born in Halifax Vermont he traced his Otis lineage to John Otis of 1635 Massachusetts. His father invented the elevator and founded the Otis Elevator Co.
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New York
Norton P. Otis
Hudson Terrace
Yonkers
Otis
Westchester County
Otis Elevator Company
Mr. Otis
Halifax
John Otis
Hingham
Eng
Massachusetts
Flood Killings Spark Arrests in Valdosta
In Valdosta Georgia J F Flood was killed at his home from Mans ing S C A L Frierson and Mrs Flood are jailed with Frierson charged as the killer and Mrs Flood as accessory The arrest follows a reported romance motive The Rock Island wreck near Wiota Iowa left two dead and thirteen hurt after noon Monday.
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L. Frierson
Valdosta
J. F. Flood
Manning
S. C
A. L. Frierson
Rock Island
Des Moines
Wiota
Seven Business Houses Fall to Fire in Tyler TX
Fire in the rear of Harris Bros. drug store destroyed seven business properties in Tyler on February 20. Total losses around 150000 with about 85000 insured. Damaged items include Harris Bros. stock and furniture, Columbia store, Foman tailor, Mrs. Lizzie Marsh millinery, MetLife items, Stella Prwin dressmaking, Southern Printing presses, and brick buildings. Separate blaze in Palestine destroyed the residences of conductors Tom Fitts and J. R. Dolson valued at 7500 and 6300.
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Tyler
Tex
Harris Bros
Columbia
Harris Bank
Foman
Lizzie Marsh
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Palestine
Tom Fitts
J. R. Dolson
Train Collision Near Cedar Hill Injures Crew, Delays Line
Passenger train 65 on the Santa Fe northbound struck an open siding at Cedar Hill, colliding with a southbound freight. The passenger engine was wrecked, two freight cars damaged, three hour delay ensued, but no passengers were hurt. Fireman Gillum was shaken, Engineer Sinclair unhurt, Conductor Purcell bruised, and baggage man Wright plus clerk Faulk lightly injured.
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Dallas
Santa Fe Railway
Cedar Hill
F. C. Gillum
A. Sinclair
W. H. Purcell
T. L. Wright
George A. Faulk
Militia Measure Reported Favorably in Legislature
Austin February 1 20 The House committee on military affairs favors a bill revising and codifying state troop laws. Senate committee on military affairs also reports favorably. The House passed several local bills and left ten for adjournment time. Peeler's bill allows children of legislators to attend Austin public schools during session. Mr Carswell of Wise county introduces in the House a general land bill to simplify statutes.
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Austin
House Committee On
Senate Committee On
House
Peeler
Austin Public
Carswell
Wise County
Burglars Blast Dallas Coal Office Safe
A safe in the coal and woodyard office of W. M. Earnest at Elm and Good streets was blown open early Sunday but contained no cash. Detectives noted soap smeared around the safe edges suggesting nitroglycerine. police say this is Dallas’s first cracking job in years.
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Dallas
Coal and Woodyard
W. M. Earnest
Elm and
Good Streets
Wei
Police
Knight
Death of A. B. Manning in Denison
Denison reports the death of A. B. Manning, general foreman of the bridge and building department of the Katy railway, from typhoid fever at his residence Sunday morning. Manning had long worked in railroad construction.
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Denison
A. B. Manning
Katy Railway
Manning
Negro Rapist Dies in Bastrop Jail After Mob Shooting
Will Johnson, the Black man charged with criminally assaulting Mrs Tiffany and two Bohemian women near Smithville, was shot by a mob and died in Bastrop jail on February 20, ending the case.
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Bastrop
Tex
Will Johnson
Smithville
Tiffany
Post office Burglarized Near Lawton Oklahoma
Cache post office fifteen miles west of Lawton was burglarized. A boy about fifteen named Far nest Needly was arrested and brought to Lawton to await trial in the United States court. Other items note deaths and weather events in various states.
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Lawton
Cache
Okla
Farnest Needly
Needly
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J. F, Ransome
Houston
J. E. Grice
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Texas Seed & Floral Co
Dallas, Texas
Rio
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Nuevo Laredo
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Rio Grande River
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U. S
Monterey
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D. J. Price
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the Starfish
A. L. Spafford
Chester, Mich
E. O. Dewitt & CO
Chicago
M. H. James
Spirit OF Revolution
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House Committee
Mounds
I. T
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Snyder
Mobile
Ala
Jabez Parker
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