King of the buzzards and the California condor tale
An excerpt recalls early sightings of the California condor once common to the western United States. It notes its restricted range now from Monterey County south through the San Bernardino mountains, declines in captivity, and eggs in museums compared with the great auk, now extinct, as documented by Century Magazine.
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Marietta Ranch
Southerm
California
San Bernardino Range
Columbia River
Utah
Elliott Coues
Arizona
Oregon
Monterey County
Cal
Coast Range
Mexico
W. Les Chambers
Century Magazine
Unfortunate Experience Recalls Comic Policeman Tale
The Manchester chief constable recalls a Newton Heath workman story told after dinner. The man says he found a drunken policeman and took him to the station. The officer recovered, accused the man of drunkenness, and the magistrate jailed him for fourteen days.
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Manchester
Newton Heath
Newton Treath
Westminster Gazette
Mysterious Figures Frail Riddle of Living and Dead Kin
A newspaper riddle asks to compute a sequence: take living brothers, double, add three, multiply by two, add living sisters, multiply by ten, add dead siblings, then subtract 150. The final three digits encode deaths, sisters, and living brothers respectively. The quirk highlights family totals and numerical play.
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Tvo
Chastised Once Again In Court Tale From New Bedford
A battered reminiscence recalls Judge Coffig as a young lawyer in New Bedford facing his first case. He cites being unprepared and uses a ruse to plead, claiming a call to his mother's sickbed from Nantucket as the reason for his absence. The scene unfolds amid courtroom chatter and old-time quips.
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Coffig
New Bedford
Bim
Nantucket
When a Python Kills Painlos in the Serpent Prey Tale
An anecdote from India recounts a tame Indian python ten feet long kept in a beer chest. The reptile slowly hunts prey, striking swiftly to crush and swallow rats one by one. It never eats the sixth rat and this method is described as merciful yet deadly. The account notes the python’s constricting power and a belief that wounded snakes die from insect torment.
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India
London Field
From Bottles to Vases The Red Light Sign in Apothecaries
A late 19th century note describes how apothecaries used a red light behind a bottle as a shop sign, evolving to candlelit displays and then colored vases red yellow and green. Rival chemists later copied the idea, leading to broader adoption of the decorative sign. The piece also notes advice on gentle coughing to protect the lungs and avoid injury.
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London Chronicle
Widow Seeks Eternal Message Carved On Stone
Mrs Marble consulted a headstone dealer about an inscription in a Port Record tale. She requested “To my dearest husband” and “We shall meet in heaven,” but the grave marker allegedly misread as a chilling line. The scene unfolds as the widow confronts the engraving in the cemetery.
Prejudice as natural factor in thinking and judgment
The author argues prejudice is not always irrational and can have a defense. Some preconceptions are unreasoned yet useful and necessary in mental life, aiding quick conclusions whose proofs may fade but whose truths remain stored as permanent knowledge. Scribner's Magazine.
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Jason
Scribner’s Magazine
Bride and groom depart in carriage after ceremony
Amid showers of shoes and rice the bride and bridegroom leave in carriage for Charing Cross as a teary parent recalls hope, saying Ethel landed the fellow after a long wait and would not fail. The scene closes with quiet sympathy from guests and family.
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Ethel
London
Too Much For Her Chiat
A Washington cabinet officer, irritated by constant promotion requests, tells a female applicant that clerks are the bane of his life. She retorts that he is the first man who ever wished she were a man, and she secures the promotion.
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Washington
The Loyal Irishman Diplomat Parable
A Washington official compares a diplomat to an Austrian nobleman who boasted about preferring other peoples and places. The exchange highlights linguistic play and national identity jokes as the Irishman and Pat trade quips about being Irish versus other nationalities.
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Washington
Prag
Budapest
Aes
Paty St S
Pat
ARIOLA Coffee Praised by Old Soldier in Ad Claim
An veteran writer extols ARIOLA coffee claiming it as the best and richest since service days. The note touts ARIOSA as the first roasted packaged coffee with egg and sugar coating to seal freshness and speed settling, asserting economies from a massive coffee business and high sales in the United States.
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