Odd Tales From Local News Bits In A Midwest Paper
A collection of short curiosities and incidents from various locales includes a Nebraskan seeking a state office while farming 75 bushels daily, a warped Forbes Missouri house board revealing a honey hive, a Westphalian village bee and pigeon race, wild dogs unearthed in Shelby County Indiana, a Japan bomb injuring a mill worker, a Maine trapper’s record numbers of fur, a Baltimore schoolroom mouse alarm drawing in firefighters, and a Florida beach find suspected as an octopus with missing tentacles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minty
Gage County
Neb
Forbes
Shelby County
Ind
Morgan ‘Hendrickson
Westbrook
Maine
William Brown
Oakland
Anastasia Beach
Fila
St. Augustine
Paying for the Honor in China and Other Anecdotes
The excerpt narrates foreign visitors in China paying for grooming services by status, with a Pek ing barber charging 50 cents to a foreign minister and 25 cents to a secretary. natives pay about half a cent. A Chinese chiropodist in Japan quotes tiered rates for different foreigners. The piece includes a tale about a minister’s visit and a bribe-like demand, a native bride’s striking dress described by Dr. Fenn G. Paton, and a light joke about office names and slang in various papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Peking
Legation
Helcombe
Japan
Thes
Fenn G. Paton
Souths Sea Islands
Martian Signals and Civilisation Praised in Observations
The piece reports Sir Francis Galton studying Martian signals observed from Lick Observatory, with a telegraph-like code of three signals. dots and dashes of defined durations. It cites Lowell and Schiaparelli noting Mars as highly civilized with irrigation canals, shifting vegetation, and seasonal cycles across the planet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mars
Sir Francis Galton
Lick Observatory
Chicago Inter Ocean
Glammarion
Lowell
Schiaparelli
Cleveland to Dine with McKinleys Before Inauguration
A New York Times dispatch from Washington reports President and Mrs. Cleveland will invite Mr. and Mrs. McKinley to dine with them the day before the inauguration with a likely acceptance. Maj. McKinley arrives March 2 and stays at the Ebbitt House until his inauguration. The Clemlands plan to depart Washington March 4 for Princeton New Jersey and Cleveland will not have business plans or decide on post presidency work until after leaving office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Warrison
New York Times
Washington
Mas
McKinley
Harrison
Maj. McKinley
Ebbitt House
Executive
New York
Princeton
N. J
New York City
Pulitzer Buys Jekyll Island Home for Winters
Joseph Pulitzer owner of the New York World buys the Furness cottage on Jekyll Island for 45000 dollars in cash and plans to spend winters there with telegraph links. A dredge near the house caused noise until Pulitzer paid the foreman to halt work during his stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World
Jekyl Island
Joseph Pulitzer
New York
Jekyll Sound
Weekly Courier Journal to Become Twice a Week Paper
The Journal will change to a Twice-a-Week Courier Journal from January 1 1897 with Wednesday news and politics and Saturday stories pictures and poetry. Each issue will be six pages or twelve pages weekly, totaling 232 columns a year and maintaining Democratic principles. The price remains $1 per year. Editorials by Mgr Henry Watterson will feature daily coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Couurier-Journal
Courier-Journal
Mgr
Henry Watterson
Bell in Contribution Box Heard During Sermon
Alice Morse Earle notes a church using a bell concealed in the collection box that rang only when a donation was made, revealing stingy churchgoers during the sermon. She also warns Sweden’s woodcock eggs may face near extinction as markets in Stockholm show large sales of the eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Morse Earle
Atlantic
Sweden
Stockholm
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Oda
W. Y. Journal
Boston
Fosdick
Koedick
Boston Aeronautical Society
Will
Kinleys
London
Paris
Amsterdam
Uncle Sam's
John’s Mall
United States
Europe
Journal
Daily Courier-Journal
Alice Ever
Irwin
Hank
J.D. Emmons & CO
Columbus, Ind
G. W. Cooper, CB
Cooper Cooper & Cooper
Attorneys-at-law
Masonic Building
Columbus
Indiana
SAS
COX
Attorney-At-l Law
Crusip
East O Court House
Roland NM
OLR
Geittith
Ith Street
Weater
Union Telegraph Office
S- W. Cor. 8Th and
Chestnut St
Houis
Puowe
George Trinkenschuh
Washington ST
U.S
Colmbus Weekly Star
iAll
Colum
Veno
Otto
Chamberlain
Q. J. Noblitt
Vir
Shouss
A. Strauss
Pricea
Menabber, Tue
Tarror
Ulrich
BIG Four RB. R, C. A. & G. Branch
Franflin
D. B. Martin Gen
Fain
Gonatt
Excells Them
Bowlen & Lay
Pennsylvania
Ray
Indianapolis
Sun
Eictisville
Dailey
Madison
Cambridge
Orty
Ws. Dowrr
D. Ogden
Egga
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