Old Hannibal resident recalls Twain with mixed views
A Kansas City Star anecdote describes a Hannibal elder recalling school days with Mark Twain and admitting he never read Innocents Abroad while noting grownups see less in Tom Sawyer. The exchange highlights Twain’s complex legacy through a salty, humor-filled memory.
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Mark Twain
Terial
Hannibal
Pirates Island
Holiday Hill
Huck Finn
Sawyer
Kansas City Star
Protests of Muscles in Sports Strains and Ailments
The article describes recurrent muscle complaints from sports activity. Tennis elbow and tennis leg show elbow and calf injuries. riders sprain affects leg muscles. bowler's side results from abdominal strain. Polo players also suffer a similar condition.
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Cleveland Phun
Modifying Goldfish and the Japanese Craft
The article explains how centuries of selective breeding by the Japanese created grotesque goldfish forms. It notes that careful ‘eyeing’ during a specific stage yields monsters, with hump backs and loops common in brook trout. Selected varieties like fringetails balloon shapes telescope and other odd forms emerged through repeated breeding and hatching without mishap.
Severe Chinese Punishments Describe Family Offenses
The article outlines harsh penalties under Qing law for offenses within marriage. It notes a mandarin who abuses a wife or daughter faces imprisonment and death by strangulation, while the wife of a freeman may be beaten, imprisoned, or sold in some regions. It mentions oaths to treat abused women kindly, provincial selling variations, and sanctions for forgivers or connivers in marital vows.
New Use for Flivver
The Buffums, known travelers, winter with their open car stored water drained and battery in a cellar. Neighbors note Mrs. Buffum visiting the garage with food baskets claiming the house is hot and she uses the car as an ice supply and to save gas.
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Buffums
Buffum
Pancakes Past and Present Decline From Noble Pancakes
The Toledo Blade laments the decline of the traditional pancake in favor of modern light desserts. It recalls fathers serving round cakes with generous portions that filled the table and fed many, noting a Long Island contest where 73 pancakes were eaten.
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Long Island
Toledo Blade
Cure for Insomnia Through Hard Physical Labor
A Globe-Democrat column discusses a radical sleep remedy: a full ten mile country walk or four hours of wood sawing, requiring total disengagement from other activities. It cites Theodore Roosevelt and Gladstone as advocates of hard physical work as a sleep lure and notes the need to exhaust the body to find balmy sleep.
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Earth
Theodore Roosevelt
Gladstone
St. Touts
Ancient law still binds Scotland innkeepers and ostiers
A Drainie farmer's horse, left with an ostier, was placed in a double stable where a second horse also stayed. The farmer's horse later became lame and was destroyed. The appeal ruled that the Praetorian edict of 367 BC applied, extending to stablers and innkeepers, with no modern grounds to exclude them from the old rule.
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Scotland
Condor Giant Among Birds
Naturalists report the California condor is larger than the Andean condor and the wandering albatross with an wingspan near twelve feet. The southern condor is smaller. an exhibit in San Diego shows these carrion eaters and notes ranchers and hunters have reduced their numbers through poisoned meat and firearms.
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California
The Ungainly Flamingo
A descriptive sketch of the flamingo contrasts its beauty of color with its awkward build. It stands five to six and a half feet tall, with a long thin legged frame, a curved neck, and a large downward beak that acts as a scoop when feeding. The female builds a mud mound nest and lays a single egg, with the bird said to brood in a statue-like pose.
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Lees
Ke Ai
Commuter Seeks Why Extra Ride Brings Pleasure
A railway passenger notes weekly gain from unused monthly tickets and occasional holiday rides. He questions why an unpunched ride gives a thrill and cites Einstein as a possible answer, reflecting on psychology of perceived advantage.
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Einstein
Chicago Journal
Weather Halts Sunday School and Local Misfortunes
Fellowship notes no Sunday school due to bad weather and mentions a heavy rain unsettling farmers. A serious accident occurs when Nate Hicks steps on a nail. Local social activity includes residents Tinney Tate Shaver and Campbell visiting kin in nearby towns.
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Nate Hicks
Dave Tinney
Willie
Aston Tate
Otis Shaver
Fleming
Fair Tinney
Comanche
Will Campbell
West
Man’s simple mix claimed to cure wife’s stomach issues
A husband reports that giving his wife a glycerine and buckthorn bark drink mixed in Adler-i-ka relieved years of stomach trouble. He says she feels fine and has gained weight, praising the medicine for cleaning both bowels and reducing gas. Sold by Hamilton Drug Co.
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Hamilton Drug Co
Woman Credits Pinkham Compound With Restoring Health
Marion Indiana resident Mrs Eldridge says after years of illness she regained strength and weight using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports benefit before childbirth and endorses the Liver Pills and Sanative Wash alongside the product. The ad notes nearly fifty years of service by the company.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Marion
Ind
Wm. Eldridge
E. Grant Street
Marion, Indiana
Wild Boars On Santa Cruz Island Described As Plague
An note describes feral boars on Santa Cruz Island as a devastating menace to ranching. The animals, once few, have grown into powerful beasts with large tusks and relentless strength, tearing fences and rooting crops. They gore horses and cattle and prey on lambs with wolflike cunning.
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Santa Cruz
Oldtime Pharmaciea and the rise of labeled bottles
The piece describes historic pharmacies with mortars on the table and shelves of bottles. It notes the pre chemistry era lacking pills and ointments and the use of coats of arms as labels. It mentions sixteenth century reform with bottle labels and better preservation methods. Paracelsus introduced tinctures extracts and metallic salts in Fingland.
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Fingland
Paracelsus
Handel Expurgated Anecdote From Messiah Preface
Anecdote from Dr John Clark edition of Messiah preface recounts a country chorister with music books and a quip about Handel's music being difficult. The anecdote notes a reform of the singing and a response from the chorister about adapting the score for church performance.
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Handel
John Clark
Henry RK. Bishop
William Parsons
John Braham
Muszlo Clements
Busby
Zur
Suriname Toad’s Odd Crop of Eggs Carried on Mother’s Back
The Suriname toad is an aquatic species of South America known for its unusual reproduction. Eggs are carried on the female’s back as the skin thickens around the eyes forming a protective pouch. About 100 eggs, five to seven millimeters wide, develop entirely inside these pouches and hatch as fully formed young that emerge without a tail.
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Suriname
South America
Andes
Amazon
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Central, S.C
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C. W. McCollum
Office Burks Ride
Comanche, Texas
I. M. Cochran
Office F. & M. Bank
O. H. Donaho
Texas Oil Company
Oscar Callaway
Gib Callaway
Mark Callaway
Callaway
Veeak
Showi Taxze
KODAK
Dixon
Skep
Drugrista
F. J. Cheney & Co
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P. A. Pettit
Pennant
Pierce Oil Corporation
Clyde House Lotal Agent
A. J. Blevins
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Coker & Isham's
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