Man Who Stood Still Dies in Aurora Illinois
Mr. D W Stockwell longtime Aurora character known as The Man who Stood Still has died at 77. Once owner of a large shop outside Chicago he prospered during the Civil War era then declined, keeping a treasure trove of oddities and antiques. He reportedly kept $260 worth of goods for over four decades and opened his shop daily at 7 in the morning, sometimes staying until late in the evening.
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Aurora
Illinois
D. W. Stockwell
Une
Chiseg
Stockwell
Carnivorous sheep shock Australia and odd potato cord display
A Melbourne observer notes sheep turning carnivorous feasting on rabbits and even each other in southern New South Wales prompting calls for extermination. The article also details a Dry-Farmed Products Exposition in Stevens County Washington featuring a giant potato cord display and a discussion of electrical units including ampere volt watt and ohm with a nod to American usage.
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New
Melbourne
Australian
New South Wales
Australia
Bombay's Animal Hospital World’s Largest Care Network
In Bombay a vast animal hospital functions with inpatients and outpatients, treating domestic animals, jungle creatures, and wounded birds. About 2,000 animals enter yearly and nearly 1,000 receive outpatient care across forty buildings, with facilities surpassing many Western hospitals. The hospital was founded by Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, a Parsee merchant, and aims to heal and rehabilitate creatures before freeing them.
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Bombay
Dinshaw Manockjee Petit
Little Marjorie Louis and the Grandmamma’s Moment
A child named Little Marjorie Louis sits with her grandmother as she longs to grow up and become a big lady with coins. Sal the navy chaplain debates tobacco with Bill, noting only humans smoke and consume food.
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Marjorie Louis
Sal
Navy
Marine
Bill
Looked Out for Numde Hat With Red Ostrich Plume
Sydney in Judge's Library trims a discarded millinery hat and styles a long red ostrich plume to hang over her face. She insists on seeing the feather herself, resisting her mother’s gesture to tuck it away.
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Sydney
Judge's Library
Artful Little Maid and the Birthday Shaving Mug
A Kansas City Journal brief presents a vignette of a little girl forecasting her birthday gift a china shaving mug with gold flowers and her mother gently explaining. An elderly Council Grove resident jokes about reading habits noting milkmen and grocers knowing town news before papers do, highlighting paper delays.
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Pipa
Council Grove
Kansas City Journal
Much Alike and Superstitions in Daily Life
A collection of brief, fragmented lines and musings from various voices. Topics range from post college plans in medicine to superstition linked to burials on Friday, with march of family chatter and casual accusations. The mix resembles stray quotes from a crowded page of humorous observations.
Rare frown volunteers to lend money to friend
A Detroit Free Press quip notes a rare frown from a friend who offered financial help, while the reply indicates the offer was declined. The piece highlights the value of friendship and the caution in accepting loans.
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Detroit Free Press
Enemies Now Firat Soubrette Opposes De Joshly
A playful exchange features Firat Soubrette declaring his face a poem and Soubrette noting that De Joshly might read the lines to judge him.
Kaiser buys farms and boosts colonial wool trade
The German Emperor has purchased two sheep farms in South West Africa for £4800 to develop wool exports as a future colonist revenue. He follows advice from Herr Heckel and also runs Cadinen tiles and wares from East Prussia. The Kaiser attends ship launches and plans to be present at the Imperator launch.
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Kaiser
South-west Africa
Herr Heckel
Windhoek
South Africa
Cadmen
East Prussia
Berlin
Royal Hohenzollern
Silesia
Vulkan
Maxim Plans Invention To Prevent Ship Disasters
Sir Hiram Maxim, aged over seventy, works on a new invention after Titanic’s loss. He aims to create apparatus for ships that detects nearby large objects, measures their size and distance, and identifies direction. He has patent protections across major nations and already has drawers full of plans and designs.
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Hiram Maxim
England
France
Russia
Germany
Austria
Spain
Italy
United States
Hiram
Mirant
Prisoner of St Kilda and a Rome Naples Railway
A fragmentary piece notes a Lady Grange connected tale of St Kilda where a woman is kept prisoner for years with sparse food and care, moved secretly between islands and dying on Jura. It also mentions a new Rome to Naples railway line reducing travel distance by about twenty four miles with underground sections and stations.
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St. Kilda
Lady Grange
Renelu
Highland
B. Kilda
Lotte
Tmoerries
London Chronicle
Rome
Naples
The Only Impediment Hook Is It True That Your Wife Has An Impediment In Her Speech
A Boston transcript notes a discussion about whether a wife has a speech impediment. The exchange centers on possible yawning and sleepiness around 11 o'clock as an impediment to her speech.
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Boston Transcript
Nerviline Cure for 15 Years Rheumatism Reported
A letter from M Dora Chapman of Palmerston Avenue asserts long term rheumatism and heart trouble were cured by Nerviline after failing many remedies and doctors. She credits powerful liniment rubbing with permanent relief and endorses Nerviline for other ailments. Prepared by The Catarrhozone Co. in Buffalo and Kingston.
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Toronto
Palmerston Avene
Mlora Chapman
Catarrhozone Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Kingston, Ont
Oculist Rejects Job-Seeking Husband Glasses Request
A woman seeks very strong glasses for her husband but the oculist refuses without examining him. The exchange reveals the man’s ten years of failed job hunts due to his “fastidious” sight, leaving the case unresolved.
One at a Time in Court Joke Echoes Justice
A magistrate presiding in a small town courts a case while an angry counsel harbors a grudge. The judge is distracted by a jackass’s bray, mistaking it for a plot, until the attorney replies it is only the court’s echo. The back-and-forth ends with the judge insisting on order one at a time.
Conversation With a Chauffeur About Road Incidents
A woman questions a professional chauffeur about encounters with animals and a person. The chauffeur replies with humorous, understated anecdotes describing dog and cow collisions and a single human encounter, noting the human impact felt as a bigger bump than a dog but softer than a cow.
A Maiden Waits For Letter Trolls Postman
An elderly maiden eager for a letter keeps asking the postman each day. After weeks he jokes he will write the letter himself if needed. She agrees to accept it and asks him to write a business letter rather than a love letter.
Impoliteness of Curiosity and Humorous Quips
A fragmented humorous piece from Poplar Magazine and Washington Herald passages shows banter about a goose and a minister guest. The carver responds with dignity when asked what he gave for the fine goose, while a resigned officer jokes about a sword and a sweetheart’s desire to display it.
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Tevah Aoe
Bruddah Williams
Poplar Magazine
Washington Herald
Postal motor wagons to extend service to Manchester
The new motor wagon parcel service between London and Birmingham has proven highly successful and postal authorities plan to extend the service to Manchester, expanding rapid parcel delivery. The move follows positive results and aims to improve coverage and efficiency across major cities.
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London
Birmingham
Manchester
World Prize Draw Sparks Interest at Dry-Farmed Expo
Interest grows in grand sweep stake prizes at the International Dry-Farmed Products Exposition to be held in Lethbridge Alberta next October. The Rumley tractor tops the premier premium for the best bushel of hard wheat under dry farming. Other top prizes include a $600 Oliver Chilled Plow Works gang four furrow plow and a McCormick grain binder donated by the International Harvester Co. for oats and flax awards respectively.
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Lethbridge
Alberta
Rumley
International Harvester Co
Oliver Chilled
International Harvester Co. of America
Canada
McCormick
An Excellent Remedy for Little Ones
Mrs John CG Lepage Rimouski Quebec endorses Your Baby's Own Tablets as an excellent remedy for infants. Thousands of mothers agree they always help and do no harm. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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John CG. Lepage
Rimouski
Que
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Primitive Kubus of Sumatra Reported by Breslau Geologist
Dr Wilhelm Val ez of the University of Breslau describes a primitive people in Sumatra called the Kubus they are small ape like wanderers who collect food and lack property they show minimal warfare and little concept of death and life compared with paleolithic Europeans. The Philadelphia Record notes the finding. The American Medical Association will study resuscitation from electric shocks with eminent physicians and engineers to cooperate.
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Sumatra
Wilhelm Valez
University of
Europe
Philadelphia
American Medical Association
Mishaps in Courtship Speak Found in Transcripts
Fragment from the Bostoun Trans ceript shows a speaker debating whether a wife should expect her husband to discuss his business with her while courting. The exchange centers on gender expectations in marriage and privacy within relationships.
Theatre invitation conversation fragment
A diary like exchange from Marion and Madeline about going to the theatre after a gentleman asked, Marion confirming plans and then realizing she forgot to ask someone named Ude.
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Marion
Madeline
Ude
Dr Hamilton's Pills Prove Mild Yet Sure for Indigestion
Port Richmond resident Edward Dawkins recounts relief from intestinal indigestion after months of pain sour stomach and weakness. He credits Dr Hamilton's Pills for gentle effective action and urges avoiding substitutes while noting price and availability from Catarrhozone Co Buffalo and Kingston Canada.
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Edward Dawkins
EH. P. Dawkins
Port Richmond
Dr. Hamilton
Catarrhozone Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Kingston
Canada
World population gender ratios from census data
The article notes a global population around 1.7 billion with 1.038 billion sexed figures showing 10 males to 950 females. It cites regional differences with Europe 1027 women per 1000 men Africa 1045 America 964 Asia 941 and mentions Uganda 1487 while Alaska and Malay States show 791 and 30 respectively.
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Europe
Africa
America
Asia
Adetralla
Uganda
Alaska
Malay States
Chicago Tribune
Dolly in dismay at marriage dilemma in verse exchange
Dorothy asks if she will have a husband like papa and if she stays single, an old maid, as her mother and Aunt Anna debate. The lines reveal tension over marriage norms and family expectations in a light dramatic tone from the Boston Transcript and Chicago Re Heart Review.
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Dolly
Dorothy
Anna
Boston Transcript
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de Oleh, Which ii Fans For In Fulitiue Bettie Aed Patiny
Bonn
Sinead
Norton
Loston
Okin Book
Frederick Townsend Martin
Ile
Tod
Lenton
Mr. Dorking
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Marin
John
Dorking
Tate Bird
Chidage Tribune
Madan Palth
Phil
Cheney
J. Cheney
Walding, Kinman & Marvin
Toledo
Hall
All Drugeists
MAXIM
Chicago
Re Heart Review
Wess
Marina
Purifico
Chile
Mas. Winston
Clinton Motor Car Co., Limited
Clinton
Winnipeg Fair
Manitoba
E. D. Cleghorn
Queen's Hotel
Winnipeg
Province of Saskatchewan
Sterns & Burton
Saskatoon
The
Manitoba Gypsum Co., Limited
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