Sherwood Recalls Civil War Songs At Memorial Day Talk
Ohio Congressman and Civil War veteran Isaac Sherwood, age 88, delivers a memorial day address urging reflection on Civil War songs. He cites "John Brown's Body" and "The Vacant Chair" while contrasting era songs with World War I tunes like "Pack Up Your Troubles" and "There’s a Long, Long Trail." He warns of a loss of seriousness and rising lawlessness threatening the republic.
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Isaac BR. Sherwood Rat
Ohio
House of Representatives
House
General Sherwood
John Brown
Col
Fletcher Webster
Twelfth
Massachusetts
Father Ryan
Mobile
Alu
Arthur Kittridge
Second
New Hampshire Infantry
Maryland
James R. Randall
Louisiana
Brooklyn Citizen
Hall
Republic
Italy Reclaims Byzantine Cross From Ice Cream Seller
A famed Byzantine cross missing from Borgo Colle Regato church in southern Italy has been recovered in Glasgow. The cross, valued in the thousands, was in the hands of an ice cream salesman after a shop display. An appeal failed, and the cross will return to the parish church, reportedly found among ruins after the Messina earthquake.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Italy
Borgo Colleregato
Messina
Oyster selects permanent home after two weeks at sea
Science Service notes young oysters roam for about fourteen days then choose a fixed rock or object. They circle and test the spot with one foot before fastening themselves to it, making the anchor permanent for life once settled.
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Science Service
Preparedness Story Turns on Quick Wit
Mrs Flubdub asks a family doctor for medicine for apoplexy. The doctor asks to be seated, then wonders where the case is. She explains she will wait for her husband to arrive so she can ask him for extra money.
Bookkeeping Banter Highlights Double Entry Jokes
A humorous exchange about accounting humor. The applicant claims to do double-entry work and adds a joke about triple double entry with sets for active partner profits keeping partner profits and income tax return showing no profits. The quip satirizes accounting complexity and tax reporting.
Real Love Letters From a Bygone Era
A London Answers piece argues modern love letters lack warmth and soul. It cites famous excerpts from John Churchill to Sarah Jennings, John Keats to Fanny Browne, and William Hazlitt to Sarah Walker, praising the ardor and tenderness of past correspondence.
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London
John Churchill
Duke of Marlborough
Sarah Jennings
Fanny Browne
William Thazlitt
Sarah Walker
Shyron
Opium Use in China Traced to Ming Era Decline
The text notes Arabs introduced opium to China in the 15th century and that under the Ming dynasty from 1418 to 1644 the Elixir of Gold pill became widely used. It says opium cultivation began locally, smoking spread, and China increasingly imported opium from India. It also mentions the Philippines tobacco arriving in 1620 and later opium smoking replacing impregnated tobaccos.
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China
Inelia
India
Philippines
Java
Formosa
Tortoise Shell Veneering Methods and Thickness Grades
Tortoise shell is used as veneering in fine cabinet work and cut like fine woods. Two thickness grades exist: saw cut from 1-32 to 1-16 of an inch and knife cut from 60 to 100 sheets per inch. The knife acts like a plane with the work fixed and the blade moving back and forth. Historically shell was cut by hand about one eighth of an inch thick and planed. heating softens it for easier cutting.
The Continental Divide and the Great Divide
The Continental divide marks the watershed along the Rocky Mountains where water on one side drains to the Pacific and the other to the Atlantic. A vast Montana Wyoming region is called The Great Divide as the natural center of North America with waters reaching the Atlantic Gulf of Mexico Pacific and Arctic regions.
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America
Rocky Mountains
Pacific
Atlantic
Montana
Wyoming
Great Divide
North America
Gulf of Mexico
Federal City the Lost Town of Hamilton County
A fragmentary history recounts Federal City once locating on the Hamilton Kearney county line, with a store post office and dugout. Drought and drought years, poor crops, and westward migration ended the town, leaving only a tar paper edifice and scattered relics as memory. Syracuse Correspondence Hutchinson Kansas News
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Range
Hamilton County
Federal City
Hamilton-Kearney
Kendall
Henry Altenberg
S. J. Verring
Ben Hall
J. P. Francis
George Chilcote
Mr. Smith
Syracuse
Enat
Oklahoma
Cherokee Strip
Hutchinson
Kans
Early Bird Emulators and the 1670 Royal Society Flight Talk
The 1670 Royal Society meeting in London discussed Monsignor Besnier’s winged flight contrivance. Hooke described the device where four wings were moved by hands and legs to fly from a height across a river. Some members doubted feasibility and proposed alternatives like a spring powered chariot to carry riders.
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Cvaqusher
Reyal Society
London
England
Hooke
Monsignor Besnier
Royal Society
Henshawe
Welsh rarebit romance saves a marriage lesson
A young wife lacking cooking skill attempts Welsh rarebit to please her husband. After many failures she tires of cheese but the husband later learns of the effort when the superintendent stops him about linoleum thrown into the court, revealing the couple’s domestic lesson.
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Thrift Magazine
Boy and Dog Feud With Peanut Vendor Sounds
Ten year old Harry Black Jr. of Terre Haute brings his dog to a baseball game. The dog named Peanuts barks and howls whenever vendors shout peanut and ice cream calls, until the boy shares peanuts with him.
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Harry Black, Jr
Terre Haute
Junior
Indianapolis Star
Paris fashions grow lovelier and dearer at Palm Beach luncheon
Mrs Henry Carnegie Phipps praised Paris styles at a Palm Beach luncheon in her villa on North Ocean boulevard. She noted even with a weak franc a Par is frock costs more than ever. A man at Plaza Athenee remarked why the street is called Rue de la Pay.
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Henry Carnegie Phipps
North Ocean Boulevard
Palm Beach
Paris
Plaza Athenee
Rue de la Pay
Blame Aftermath for Scenes Such as This
A fragmented narrative describes a family after a party with lingering tension. Mothers and fathers clash with chores and prying questions while sisters argue over cake and cigarette use in a cluttered household. The scene moves through tired dialogue and erratic, half-formed phrases.
Lafayette Centennial Drive Proposed as National Memorial
A proposal notes the 17 year growth of the United States and Lafayette’s last visit, urging designation of Lafayette memorial highways. It cites support from the Daughters of the American Revolution Portland Historical Society and International Longfellow Society and outlines a commission’s historic traversing of the 24 states as a precedent for nationwide commemorative routes.
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United States
Counpress
National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
Portland Historical Society
International Longfellow Society
Lafayette
Washington
States
Man
States of the Union
Youthful Recluse Seeks Goose in Village Tour Tale
In a Notting hamshire village a respectable squire takes his son on a town tour. The boy, bright and distraction free, is told to pick anything for his coming of age and asks for a goose amid sights of rope dancers and merry go rounds. The tale unfolds as a comic, dated sentiment.
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Nottinghamshire
Idunel
Ife
Hentiey
Farmers Adopt New Method Boosts Early Sweet Potato Crop
In Limestone county Alabama a seasoned farmer and seven neighbors tested a university method for bedding sweet potatoes. After observing success, five of eight adopters set plants by April 10 and sold over 200 bushels on the early market ahead of others.
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Limestone County
Ala
Agricultural College
United States Department of Agriculture
Renaissance scribes resist printing press amid revival
During the Renaissance, poets and philosophers' works revived, with scribes earning high prices to copy manuscripts. Despite the advent of printing, nobles like the duke of Urbina backed scribes, boasting forty copyists and claiming shame at owning printed books.
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Italy
Urbina
This English Visitor Confuses Indian Skin Tone With Indians
An English woman visiting Indianapolis said she was impressed by the white skin of Indian women, noting they resemble other women in dress. The comment drew a stunned silence as she admitted she had not seen any Indian men and wondered how to identify an Indian town in Indiana.
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Papa
Lester
Mamma
Lilly
Eeddies Trouse
Kent Synate
Indianapolis
America
Indianapolis News
New York Streetcar Firm Adopts Money Machines
The New York street car company deploys mechanical money changers replacing 1,200 plus change booth workers. Inventor James S. Doyle, assistant general manager, says the device rapidly makes dimes quarters and half dollars. It includes a counterfeit detector to hold bogus coins.
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New York
James S. Doyle
Exchange
Watch Survived Burial For Seven Years Found In Field
The nearest neighbor plowed up a water buried for almost seven years found by Mr. A. Mac Gregor of Hatton Sask. The watch only needed a winding stem replacement after the mainspring was rusted. The finder opened the back and started it by turning the mainspring with a finger.
Fisherman Scares Hawk and Treasures Trout Wounds Its Prey
Watrous resident Stanley Cole on Pine Creek spotted a fish hawk overhead and yelled as he threw a stone. The hawk dived and struck a brown trout, which dropped beside him after the bird collapsed near the bank. The trout bore three deep holes from the hawk’s talons.
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Stanley Cole
Watrous
Pine Creek
Cole
Cinllont Resists Singing Request From Miss Sereeel
A fragmented note mentions Mr Cinllont and Miss Sereeel with unclear phrases about singing after an event. The readable portion lacks clear actions or outcomes to confirm names, places, or dates.
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Mr. Cinllont
Bees Hold Fort at Y M C A Entrance
A swarm blocked the Sacramento YMCA doorway as bees gathered on the awning. A man with a torch coaxed the queen to a hive, and the remaining bees followed.
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Y. M
Sacramento
Cal
Roosevelt’s Square Deal Save Leads to Famous Guide
Roosevelt altered his Nairobi expedition after a hostile rumor damaged a respected guide. He rehired the man, praised him as the most intelligent and reliable, and the once shunned guide became sought after by hunters again.
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Roosevelt
Nairobi
Blank
Patral
Milwaukee Journal
Mr. Blank
Hongeto
T Man
Outlaw Queen Echoes Female Image in Timd Tale
Detroit News recounts Belle Starr as a mythic outlaw queen of the Texas Oklahoma frontier. The account highlights her short hair and affinity for women, her gang leadership, violent robberies, and stories of her death said to involve Edg A. Watson in Oklahoma in 1889.
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Belle Starr
Texas
Oklahoma
Detroit News
Cow Co
Starr
Edg A. Watson
Okloman
Long Pedigrees Claim Royal Ancestry Across Continents
The article lists multiple noble lines claiming descent from historic figures. It notes a Burton town clerk ancestor connected to Alfr the Great, a French Magon lineage tied to Magon son of Hannibal, an Italian Marche Porre tracing to Porus who opposed Alexander, and the Samson family near Lyons asserting descent from Samson.
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Elizabeth
Adem
Burton
Worthy
Alfr the Great
Magons
Trafalga
Mag
Hannibal
Marche Porre
Por
Alexander the Great
Samson
Estat
Lyons
Manchester Guardian
Hatfield A
Robinson Crusoe figure Alexander Selkirk profile
The real seaman Alexander Selkirk from Largo Scotland served aboard several voyages to the South Seas. He isolated on Juan Fernandez for four years with limited supplies before rescue by Captain Robert Rogers and return to England in 1711. Defoe later drew on Selkirk's tale for Robinson Crusoe.
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Alexander Selkirk
Largo
Scotland
So Sen
Juan Ferndeg
We Rogers
England
Defoe
Famous the World Over Moso a- Boga od 'edo tae county Surrey
Fragmentary notice describes a celebrated mineral spring at a location near Surrey with a well known water source and a royal medical college connection. It mentions medical inventors’ sons and a physics education, all tied to a grand recent binding on the downs.
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Boga
Edo
Tae
Surrey
Ce Hrentet
Royal Medical College
Sad Adjing
Cipal
Chiel
Notable Figures of History and Their Arts Roles
The text notes Ravi us Lite Wie an Aral physician who described smallpox accurately. Hugh Hucbard, a Benedictine monk and music writer, born in Pai France around 484. He founded a school of music and arts at Nevers and authored the Hard en institute. he died in 900.
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Hugh Hucbard
Pai
France
Nevers
Harden Institute
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