Aerial Navigation Assured Says James A Edgerton
Aerial progress is hailed as revolutionary with Enri Farman predicting widespread flying within ten years. The Wright brothers are testing their aeroplane for the U S war department, while Germany pursues military airships for potential commercial uses. The piece notes invention outpaces prediction and urges letting innovation proceed to define its future uses.
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James A. Edgerton
Enri Farman
United States War Department
Baldwin
Wright Brothers
Orville Wright
Wilbur
France
Vision of a World Federation and Air Dwelling Machines
The piece previews a future of global cooperation and air travel. It cites Dyson and The Hague foretelling a federation of the world and a parliament of man balanced by aerial navigation. It notes the Wright brothers and Captain Baldwin advancing heavier than air flight, with Kitty Hawk experiments and secrecy giving way to public flights near Paris and Fort Myer.
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Nagara
Wrights
Wrigit Brothers
Dayton
North Carolina
Kitty Haw
Kill Devil Hills
Paris
Fort Myer
Washington
World-weary progress sketched in distant work note
A fragment notes progress in a project, suggesting substantial advancement yet vague on dates or specifics. The tone hints at ambition and a long road ahead before any public reveal or result.
Wright brothers and Baldwin airship rivals contrasted
The piece profiles the Wright brothers as young, precise inventors in a career from bicycle repair to airplanes while contrasting Captain Thomas Baldwin of California with his lighter than air dirigible. It notes Baldwin’s parachute feats, government testing, and plans for a balloon corps, alongside reflections on early automobiles and future aerial travel. It also covers a Washington summer house nicknamed the Merry Widow, detailing its design for cooling, wide openings, and elevated doors.
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Baldwin
Wright Brothers
Wilbur
France
Orville
Fort Myer
Thomas
United States
Old Cliff House
San Francisco
California
Lahm
Congress
Thomas Scott Baldwin
Oakland
Cal
America
Balloon Society of
Great Britain
Mount
Vesuvius
Captain Baldwin
Wheeling
W. Va
James L. Parsons
Washington
Chevy Chase Lake
Mr. Parsons
Budd’s Leap For Life Escape From Rattlesnake
James H. Budd, former California governor, recalled a near fatal escape in Calaveras county. While climbing to a cliff ledge above the Stanislaus pool, a rattlesnake struck as he leapt forty feet into the water. He survived with bruises, and the fate of the snake is unknown.
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James H. Budd
California
Stockton
Cal
Calaveras County
Stanislaus
Shopper Seeks Alternatives After Store Visit
Mrs Shopper discards local options and considers Stacy's for better assortment. A salesman offers a contact but reveals a $10 debt owed by the salesman to the person. The skit ends with a humorous note on unpaid debts.
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Stacys
Business college for young ladies questioned on training quality
The Louisville Courier-Journal notes a claim that 60 percent of graduates marry their employers in the first year, prompting questions about practical business training offered by the institution. The exchange emphasizes female training in a business college context.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Mrs Spicy Seethes Over Vanished Husband
A Chicago Journal note describes Mrs. Spicy sitting on her porch with clenched teeth and a glare, while her husband undergoes a troubled half hour date and is treated as absent. The fragment hints at domestic strain and looming tension.
Beaming Boy Declares Beard Plan to Reduce Wash Time
In a humorous dialogue from Harper's Weekly, Tommy vows to grow a beard to lessen face washing, while Uncle queries the idea and a Mrs De Riche Venus de Milo exchange leads to a quip about servants and gluing arms back on.
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Excelsior
Tommy
Harper's Weekly
Queen Caroline Allegedly Uses Mock Witchcraft at Dinner
In The Diary of a Lady In Waiting by Lady Charlotte Bury, Queen Caroline of England is depicted engaging in a witchcraft prank at home. The diary recounts her making a wax figure of the king with horns and pins, then heating and destroying it, described as petty and laughable by the author.
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Caroline
George IV
England
Charlotte Bury
Charlotte
Elderly man declined aid as hurdy gurdy man attacked
An old man walking to the subway ignores a breathless woman who says a group of toughs is beating a small hurdy gurdy man to death nearby. He jokes about the situation and refuses to get involved.
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New York Press
Doomsday Book Described as England Survey Chronicle
The Doomsday Book is a British institution begun during William II's reign about 1080 to 1086. It served as a register to determine tenure rights, land extent, homage, and the military aid a man owed.
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England
Won Every Time Breach of Promise Suit Retort
A Cleveland Leader quip reports a swain’s line about loving and losing, noting a jokey claim that the speaker has won every breach of promise suit he brought, illustrating sharp humor in a social column.
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Swain
Cleveland Leader
Magic and Poison Rings Through History and Lore
The text recalls how rings were believed to hold magical power against poison and to aid in defense of royalty. It mentions Ruthven’s alleged poison antidote ring given to Queen Mary, Jeanne d Arc’s ring blessed with sacred names, and doubts about the genuine virtues of poison rings amid historical tales and skepticism by Andrew Lang.
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Lord Ruthven
Riccio
Mary
Ruthven
Jeanne d’Arc
Jesus Marie
Jeanne d'Arc
St. Catherine
Sinia
Fierbois
Hannibal
Andrew Lang
Electricity as Fertilizer: Power to Feed the Land
The article argues that electricity will fertilize the ground in the future, using electrical methods to enrich soil and boost crop yields. It presents a forward looking view of agricultural technology relying on power as the primary nurturing agent for fields.
A Lawyer's Pathetic Plea Salutes a Nation
A Montana official recalls a famed lawyer in a murder defense who paused for ten minutes to seek inspiration. Returning, the attorney urged jurors to consider the United States as the greatest country and destiny, warning that convicting his client for a single fatal shot would betray national ideals.
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Montana
Saturday Evening Post
Editor Complains of Contributors and Cuts Copy
A London Globe note describes an editor blaming contributors for careless writing and messy layouts. A fashion column clipping and a clipped ode titled An Ode to Death illustrate sloppy copy as an office boy demands more material. Health officials in Boston and a library disinfection talk at Gallup's Island are mentioned.
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London Globe
Kites Guard Chicken Yard On Montclair Farm
Poultryman John Wolfe on a Montclair New Jersey farm uses large box kites to deter hawks from his henneries. The kites hover above the yard and spook predators, a concept inspired by Wolfe's nephew who first tested the idea locally.
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John Wolfe
Nook Mountain
Montclair
N. J
Wolfe
Inconsistency riddle stirs tense family exchange
Freddy asks about inconsistency and his father replies with a cryptic moral about a man who growls at night and later punishes a pet. The dialogue uses a playful, rural tone to hint at behavior and consequences.
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Freddy
Schedule of Ohio Seventh Circuit Court terms in 1909
The order fixes start dates for circuit court terms across counties including Lake Ashtabula Geauga Trumbull Portage Mahoning Columbiana Carroll Guernsey Noble Monroe Harrison Belmont Jefferson with terms beginning at 9 AM on specified February to December days in 1909. Andrew J. Linn certifies the transcript as a true copy from Guernsey County Ohio court records dated October 1908.
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State OF
Ohio
Lake Pase
Ashtabula
Geauga County
Trumbull County
Portage County
Mahoning County
Maren
Columbiana County
Carroll County
Guernsey County
Noble County
Monroe County
Harrison County
Belmont County
Jefferson County
Jerome BR. Burrows
Peter A. Laurie
Dwiges
John M. Cook
Andrew J. Linn
Guernsey
Circuit Dudges
Seventh Judicial Circuit
Circuit Court
T- Cambridge
SRAL
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Thomas S. Baldwin
Stevenson
Fulton
Morse
Mette
Orville Wrig
Dyson
Locksley Hall
Parliament of Man
Federation of the World
Hague
Wilbur Wright
Thomas Sbalowin
Natural Inventors
Merry Widow
Budd’s
Reves
John Ritchie, Jr
Boston
Maesachusetts Association of Health Boards
Gallup's Island
Rickard
Foston Public Lbrary
A. D
Ofto
Kimbolton
Byenville
Senecaville
Cambridge
Boxwell-Watterson
Boxwell-Patterson
Rules and Regulations
Pres. H
Cash
C. V. Presworthy Dyson
Kimbolton Chork
W. O. Moore
Ralph Jones
Coshocton
Cleveland
Buffalo
Erie
Toledo
Detroit
N. Y
Niagara Falls
Cleveland & Buffalo Transit CO
W. F. Berman
Gen
Jeffersonian
Ohio Farmer
Pittsburg Stockman
Weekly
Enquirer
J. M. Amos & Sons
Cambridge, O
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