Going Away Parties and Second Wedding Anniversary Ideas
The article offers luncheon and decor ideas for women traveling to the mountains or abroad, including mountain themed centerpieces and foods. It also describes a rapid fire geography contest, paper party decor for a second anniversary, and a mock marriage ceremony with gifts, games, and a newsroom sendoff. It closes with an excerpt about a dangerous bush journey from Oxford to Matabeleland describing lions and supply shortages.
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China
Mississippi
Dresden
Abraham Lincoln
Sroom
Joseph B. Bowles
Piano Tuners Tell Rainy Day Tales of Luck and Tangled Money
A Chicago Record-Herald account shares a professor of a large piano shop recounting a tale of discovering hidden money while servicing a piano. He found forty dollars under the ivory, plus two ten-dollar bills, and charged the owner three dollars and fifty cents for the repair, continuing the meal with the group.
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R . Se FE
Prairie Avenue
Bedelia
Chicago Record-Herald
Dog Steals Foreigner's Paper In Village Incident
A village innkeeper trains his dog to fetch his printed pager. The dog fights with a foe, destroys the victim’s paper, then calmly retrieves a foreign paper carried by a bystander who explains the irony to the astonished master.
Giraffes Disrupt Telegraph Line Near Victoria Falls
A Bulawayo dispatch reports giraffes entangled in telegraph wires at Intundhla causing a brief service interruption and damage to three poles. The fall line has seen similar incidents about six times since opening, with elephants previously blamed in two cases.
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Victoria Falls
Bulawayo
South Africa
Intundhla
American Motors 1905 Car Output and Sales
Statistics show 27 840 motor cars built in the United States in 1905 and 22 970 sold. The data highlights early American automotive production and market uptake during the year.
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American Motors
America
Automatic watering pot idea for plants
A clever plant raising idea uses a simple automatic watering pot made by puncturing a small hole. This method offers a low tech solution to keep plants hydrated without daily attention.
Prey Too Far In The North Woods Lynx Trap Encounter
A Minnesota trapper recounts a dusk cabin incident where a lynx bursts into his tent chasing a rabbit. The trapper fights the animal, dodges a clawing attack, and kills the lynx with a club leaving himself scratched but the rabbit free.
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North Woods
Minnesota
George Brown
Tahquamenon River
Stag Escapes After Ladder Catches antlers Near Innsbruck
Hunters find a stag wearing a ladder on its antlers as it bolts through brush. The ladder hooks on two trees and the stag breaks off antler tips before escaping. The ladder belongs to a farmer who left it by a haystack during a hay theft. The tale ends with a pun about honesty.
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Innsbruck
Orchid Sets Record Price at Cheapside Sale
The Odontoglossum Crispium Pittianum orchid sold for 5735 at Protheroe and Morris salerooms in Cheapside. It won two medals at Manchester and experts deem it the finest blotched O Crispium ever observed.
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Crispium Pittianum
Messrs. Protheroe and
Morris
Cheapside
Manchester
England
Curious geyser clock in a backwoods town
A peculiar clock uses a geyser as its mechanism. The geyser erupts every 38 seconds, striking a lever that advances the clock hands by 38 seconds with each spout. The timing never varies by a tenth of a second.
Phonocard Brings Voice Messages Over Mail in France
A new device called the phonocard records human speech on a postcard using a simple phonograph and a sapphire-tipped pencil. The innovation enables voice communications to be sent through the mail, offering a clearer alternative to written text.
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France
Return of Elam Th’ War Veteran in Mercy Gibson Story
In Ossipee valley Mercy Gibson tended her late husband Ed’s grave for years while Elam, a back from war, returns under an assumed name to court the widow. The two old rivals clash and, after Mercy’s firm stance, Elam bonds by caring for Ed’s grave and nursing Mercy during illness, ending with his departure to find Ed.
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Joseph B. Bowles
Mercy Gibson
Peters
Freemont Skilly
Edwin
Elam
York County
Skilly
Baldwinville
Fellers
Widder Gibson
Gibson
Pitchmore
Bar Harbor
Mercy
Ossipee Valley
Blam
Ossipee
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Edith A. Brown
Oxford
Matabeleland
English University
New York Evening Post
Kopjes
Lynx
Trapper
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