Narrow Escapes and Sand Tests at Sandy Hook and Annapolis Trials
A first person account recalls near death moments during Maxim gun tests at Sandy Hook New Jersey and Annapolis Maryland. A breechlock and sand jams created life threatening moments as a schooner approached, with bullets and debris flying nearby. The piece also mentions a historic winter sequence in France.
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Government Proving Grounds
Sandy Hook
N. J
United States
New York
Experimental Board
Fred
Annapolix
MD. 1
Hunting the Caribou and Its Curious Allure
A reflective piece on caribou behavior in Newfoundland noting how quiet, careful stalking is essential. It describes how unremarkable surroundings conceal the animals and how curiosity can lure or mislead, with observations from A Radcliffe Dugmore and a comparison to misapprehensions in bookkeeping and engineering.
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Newfoundland
A. Radecliffe Dugmore
Benjamin
Franklin
Engineering Magazine
Upward Revision in Patient Message
A patient letter questions a medical bill and notes gratitude for treatment. The writer cites a billed amount of 100 fraure and asserts improved vision is evident. The tone implies dissatisfaction with pricing despite positive outcome.
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Grat
Parte Melo Mets
Mystery Islands Teem With Impassable Shores And Hidden Fate
Pearson's Weekly surveys uncharted isles like Tiburon Malayta Tromelin Jan Mayen and Bouvet in a sweeping look at lone lands where white explorers vanished. It notes Tiburon tribes deadly poisons and perilous seas while detailing the eerie remains of wrecks and the unlikely reach of civilization.
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Arctic
Antarctic
New Guinea
Tiburon Island
Wayne
Tiburon
Bin
Hin
Hell's Passage
Melanesia
Gulf of California
Theaterior
Millies
le Malayta
Solomons
Malayta
Malnytn
Malayia
le ‘Tromelin
Mauritius
Henry Hodson
Greenland
Jan Mayep
Lori Differin
Jourists
Oceana
Jane Mayen
BO Darigator
Bax
Valdivia
Pearson's Weekly
Let Evil End With You Note From A Parcel
A damaged fragment speaks with a terse plea to end evil and safeguard a neighborhood, invoking sympathy for a farmer’s note and warnings against scandal and injustice. The text is garbled and difficult to interpret, showing scattered phrases about light versus burden and a cryptic ending.
No Slums in New York Says Expert After Inquiry
Vance Thompson in New York Run argues in a vivid feature that New York lacks true slums despite crime and poverty. He claims only filthless, habitable tenements exist, contrasting Paris and other European cities with grim caveats about European slums.
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New York
Antwerp
Genoa
Naples
Paris
London
River Front
Garreta
Europe
THREE EMPIRES BORN IN DRAMATIC OVERNIGHT FASHIONS
The article notes three empires arising swiftly in history. It describes the German empire formed at Versailles after 1871 under William I, the French empire born overnight after December 1 1851, and Greece shifting from republic to a monarchy following independence and civil change.
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Hall of Mirrors
Versailles
Paris
William of Hruseis
France
Republic
Napoleon II
High Cost of Living Again
Prosperous ex German on visit to fatherland complains about prices. Dialogues reference sausage cost forty pfennig vs twenty pfennig previously. The Walter They was different and The Waiter corrects the old size, as cited by the New York Post.
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Chiltren
New York Post
Old Fashioned Man Remembered On Street Corner
A contemporary asks about the fate of the old fashioned man known for saying I ways says and for brief street corner exchanges. The last sighting shows him lingering at a corner in a cryptic moment echoed by the Cleveland Plain Dealer line Beree to we sezeu.
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Beree
Sezeu
Cleveland Plain
Dealer
Home Secrets And Excuses From The Transcript
A fragment from the Boston Transcript shows a casual exchange about excuses and a father figure. The dialogue hints at a school setting with characters Tommy and Dommy and peers debating accountability.
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Tommy
Dommy
Pat
Bostun
Dreadful rumors about Mrs Buber and recalled friendship
A clipped exchange references Mrs Buber and says Abe was once a dearest friend. The note ends with a comment on reminding rather than informing, attributed to Hanna More.
Man's Two Minds Theory Argued By Benson
The New York Press outlines a two minds theory with an upper and lower room analogy. Dreams arise from subjective thoughts escaping objective checks, with examples citing Napoleon Raphael and Beethoven to illustrate split consciousness and memory shifts in old age.
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Mgr
Benson
Napoleon
Europe
Raphael
Beethoven
New York Press
Short Circuits and the Fuse Protecting Electrical Circuits
An overview explains short circuits as crossed or low resistance bypass paths that can divert current. Fuses or circuit breakers inside buildings blow or melt open the circuit to stop damage until the fault is corrected.
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New York World
Made King Edward Seve n Portrait Shorter
Random Recollections reports Ca tor Woodville the English warnerrat recounts Edward VII approving a shorter leg in his equestrian portrait after objecting to long legs in photos. Hildebrand Gate at St Paul’s basilica is noted for a 1070 bronze gate with inscription praising Hildebrandus. The text blends art satire and medieval papal history.
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Cator Woodville
Edward VII
Woodville
Wesdytile
Aguleet
Hildebrand
St. Paul
Pantaleo Fila
Anchering
St Paul
Constantinople
Hildebrandus
Archidiaconus
Gregory
Polite dining mix up at Broadway hotel luncheon
Mr Schmaltz rushed into a Broadway hotel at noon and joined acquaintances for soup. They urged him to move to their table with promises of a respectful hearing.
Circus Panic After Barber Mistakes Bearded Lady
Sideshow manager laments ruin as a barber in town shaved the bearded lady while she slept. The incident alarms the troupe and unsettles the proprietor. The Birmingham Age-Herald reports the odd mishap.
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Dave
Birmingham Age-Herald
Saving Stamp Money
Patience says her husband is trying to economize now. Patrice wonders how by forgetting to mail her letters as Yonkers Statesman quips.
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Patrice
Yonkers Statesman
Fragments of verse and chatter from Town Topics page
A patchwork of quirky lines and garbled couplets shows playful commentary on fashion music and social manners. The text teases mating symbols and botanical quips while hinting at a lighthearted urban column tone.
Surprise Beds In Tiny Cottage A Bretons at Home Tale
Frances M. Gosling recounts an amusing scene in a Breton cottage shared by a barber and his wife. The Englishman sits in a lather while a chorus of cupboard beds reveals fourteen children. The household remark about living by family size sparks lighthearted laughter.
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Frances M. Gosling
Agemar
Snowstorm image spurs critique in De Critic
In a Boston Record note the critic recalls a snowstorm image felt too realistic, while De Doober recalls a studio incident where an intruder wore a fur overcoat and left. The piece contrasts artistic realism with casual mischief.
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de Doober
Boston Record
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Hudson
Paris Petit Journal
Parliement of
Henry IV
Son
Mme. de Malotenon
Iit
Mystery Islands
Cartyie
Hanna More
Matohad
Kntcher
Petr
Becker
Brittany
Holbreck Bros
Voss-Holbreck
Holzberger
H.H. Jones Service
East 5Th St
Cincinnati
the Ohio Union
Zunt-Heit
Ohio Union Brewing Co
Cincinnati, Ohio
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