Monte Carlo Gamble Ends in Ruin for Peck Family
In a tongue in cheek travel letter from Monte Carlo, Hon George W. Peck recounts a failed gambling scheme with a North Dakota partner. The plan to break the bank collapses after repeated losses, leaving Peck, his father, and the Dakota man broke and facing possible workhouse. The narrator notes a cautionary tale about greed and luck.
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Wisconsin
Peck
Joseph B. Bowles
Monte Carlo
South Clark Street
Chicago
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Monaco
North Dakota
Paris
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Europe
Black Hills
Prise
Comedy Is Serious Business Says Sam Bernard On Stage
Sam Bernard recalls Joseph Jefferson on comedy’s paradox and the craft required. He describes audience types from front-row fashion to late theater parties and the family man in the balcony, noting how each shape a performance and the comic choice of moments.
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Sam Bernard
Chicago Chronicle
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Kay
New York
Rooster Tandem Chase Leads Two Year Old Driver
Frank Robins son, a two year old, issues a challenge to chicken fanciers to race his roosters tandem attached to a homemade wagon. The child guides the birds by reins tied to their lower beaks, a feat noted by the N Y World as a patient but unlikely triumph in barnyard ingenuity.
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Frank Robinson
Frank
How to Make a Blow Gun for Small Birds
A writer in the Elmira Telegram describes constructing a four foot glass tube blow gun wrapped in cloth with a cedar cannister handle. It instructs using peas clay tacks or pins as ammunition and details crude arrow and pellet projectiles with wax and wax-coated tacks. It notes clay pellets may kill birds if not handled, but suggests capturing them alive if picked up promptly.
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Elmira Telegram
The Herd Boys Riches and Other Tales
A collection of brief pieces from a children’s page featuring a German tale about a herdsman who values contentment over riches and the moral that happiness comes from a contented heart. Also includes jokes and notes on eye anatomy and a humorous quiz about U.S. states.
A Magic Toy Trick With Beads and Loop
A four inch by three quarter inch wooden strip is drilled with three holes. A string passes through the holes and two beads hang on it. The trick ties two rings on one loop and, by threading and knot handling, brings both beads together then resets the loop ready to repeat.
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Washington Star
Ages of Birds List with Example Lifespans
A compiled table shows average lifespans for common birds including Crow 100 Eagle 100 Geese 50 Heron 59 Nightingale 18 Parrot 60 Swan 100 Raven 100 Pigeon 20 Sparrows etc. Other values range from three years for Wren to sixty years for Parrot in the list.
City Maid Sees Sausages Growing on a Stick
A playful verse recounts a city maid visiting the countryside and astonished at cat tails and sausage growing on a stick, expressing wonder at rural sights and a humorous misunderstanding of things seen for the first time.
Puzzler: Eight-Year-Old Lydia Questions Age Gap
A girl named Lydia wonders why she is eight while her classmates are nine or ten. She asks her grandmother how it happened, noting she is the youngest in her class.
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Lydia
Cured by Accidents and Sudden Recoveries in London Tales
A London Answers piece recounts multiple astonishing recoveries from accidents and injuries. A painter regains hearing after a ladder fall shock. a private soldier regains sight after lightning. others recover speech, stop asphyxia, or regain limbs after dramatic falls or blows.
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London
Charleston
Austria
Barry
Cardiff
Glasgow
Halifax
Holbeck
Horsforth
Promise to Harness the Waves
An optimistic report describes barges launched near shore with metal tracks and cars moving weight ends to drive pistons. The system converts wave motion into pneumatic power for shore machinery, with potential to pump water and run a beach water motor, promising power without coal.
French inventor unveils long range torpedo firing device
Jean Denissell of Roubaix introduces an electric wave powered torpedo launcher building on Dr Brauly’s wireless arc light concept. The device is highly sensitive, works underground or in water, and can receive signals from several miles away. Manufacturing cost about 50 francs.
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Jean Denissel
Roubaix
Dr. Brauly
Denissell
Tom-My Brother Solves Vacation Dilemma Cleverly
Jessie asks how he manages the vacation puzzle. Tom explains he collects various Where to Go booklets and, after reviewing them all, finds September arrives too late to start.
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Tom
Jessie
Brooklyn Hagle
What Does Expert Witness Elicit Show in Trial
The exchange questions what the expert witness’s testimony proves and whether payment indicates bias. A lawyer answers that the retainer suggests which side funded the expert.
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