Duration of dreams as short as a single moment
Sir George H. Savage told the British Medico-Psychological society that dreams, even when lengthy in experience, occupy only brief time. He cited rapid scenes from climbing in Switzerland and a bivouac to illustrate how a two minute sleep can yield a long dream and a late dinner.
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British Medico-Psychological Society
George H. Savage
Switzerland
Oxford
Sir George
Medico-Psychological Association
Hutchinson
Pall Mall Gazette
Water Pots and Sleep Rituals of Simla Mountains
The Simla hill people practice daily immersion of infants under a small stream of cold water from birth to age four or five. The water touches the crown and runs off without soaking clothing, producing an immediate soporific effect. Usually one or two women oversee the bathing of a group of babies.
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Simla
Wide World Magazine
Two Scotsmen Discuss a Friend’s Domestic Strife
Two elderly Scotsmen mock a mutual friend Jamie Thompson and his wife claiming their seven year marriage proves they cannot know a partner. One recalls courting twenty years to know a woman and avoid marriage. The exchange ends with humor about long courtships.
A Worthy Antagonist
In a London style exchange Jorkins recalls visiting Scot land caves with Maria who was compelled to be pulled out. The cave echo haunted her as she feared the echo would have the last word.
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Scotland
Jorkins
Maria
Liverpool Mercury
Filed With County Clerk In Montana Land Transfers
A Montanan list from Teton County Abstract Co. covers December 24 filings in the county clerk and recorder office. It itemizes U S patents, quit claim deeds, warranty deeds, and right of way deeds involving multiple ranches, towns, and individuals including Halvorson and Co. in Cut Bank, Van Buskirk heirs, Seifert, Weiss, and several companies across Choteau Conrad Shelby Agawam and related tracts.
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Montanan
Teton County Abstract Co
Chateau
Montana
Halvorson and Co
U.S
Roger N. Skelly
Robert R. Johnson
Charles E. McIntosh
W. Alfred van Buskirk
W. J. Alfred van Buskirk
W. Mary D. van Buskirk
W. Gunda E. Rognstad
W. Joseph Carroll
Henry Sill
C. H. Kester
Water-Montana Land and Water Co
Milwaukee Land Co
Goodrich-Call Lumer Co
Agawam
Hobson
Choteau
Torwald Bjornstad
Julius Hirshberg
John D. Oliver
Joseph P. Seifert
Shelby
Rena Cochran Shilling
T. F. Steven On
Finest railroad watch highlighted by a jeweler ad
Reliable Watches Elgin Waltham Illinois Hampden Let us show you the Hamilton watch the finest railroad watch made Our repairing advertises itself Holl and the jeweler Wanted a four or five roomed house furnished preferred Inquire at this office
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Elgin
Waltham
Illinois
Hampden
Hamilton
Holland
Bushmaster the Deadliest Snake Described by London Correspondent
The London correspondent of the Chicago News details the bushmaster as the world’s most venomous large viper. It describes its rarity in tropical South America and Trinidad, its potential twelve to fourteen foot length, distinctive pink yellow rhomboid patterns, and Linnaeus given name meaning silent rattlesnake. It notes its heart shaped head and long striking reach.
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London
Chicago News
E. Leijonhufvud
South America
Trinidad
Linnaeus
Charles Waterton
Central America
Astronomers Accept Herschel Idea Of Solar System Motion
The passage explains the sun’s apparent daily rise is due to Earth's rotation, while Herschel proposed the solar system moves through space toward a point near the star Hercules, a view now broadly accepted as the system traces a curving path through the galaxy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Sir John Herschel
Hercules
Sir John
Thomas Can Ride The Horse If The Horse Lets Him
Abner rewrites a sentence in class after Miss Jena errs grammar. He steps to the board and converts the prompt about Thomas into a new form where the condition is the horse's choice. The exchange is recorded by the New York Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jena
Thomas
Abner
New York Post
Juvenile Musical Prodigies Noted in London Chronicle
The London Chronicle lists child prodigies such as Sir Charles Halle at four, Hummel at five, Mozart at six, Chopin and Rubinstein at eight, and Elgar at twelve composing music for a child’s play. Samuel Wesley also wrote a march at seven, highlighting extraordinary early talent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Halle
Hummel
Mozart
Chopin and
Rubinstein
Samuel Wesley
Sir Edward Elgar
London Chronicle
Nice Discrimination in New York Weekly Scene
A brief quoted exchange shows a shopper selecting items in a New York Weekly vignette. The floorwalker guides the customer to the crockery department and then to the bric a brac department with two clerks named James and George.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floorwalker
James
George
New York Weekly
For Sale Breeding Ewes and Trailing Livestock Montana
Office over Frost's clothing store in Chateau Montana advertises 2,500 breeding ewes and lambs for sale. For particulars contact the Montanan office. Also offers a thoroughbred Holstein bull, four years old, for sale or trade. Seen at the ranch four miles from Bynum Gorpon Monk Man.
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Chateau
Montana
Montanan
Bynum Gorpon Monk Man
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Allen E. Walter
Orlo Urick
Bruce R. McNamer
Charles J. Boothe
Charles Fox
George Mitchell
Collins
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Joseph J. Carrol
Conrad
Charles H. Seaman
Wim. A. Davis
W. A. Baker
Chicago & St. Paul
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William Silverman
H. H. Luther
O. A. Cowley
State of Montana
Great Northern Ry Co
Great Northern Ry. Co
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EB. J. Crary
A. D. Pond
Prep
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Beaupre Hotel
J. W. Johnson
WM. Butler
TIN Shop
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