Bluffing Greek Chapters On A Poker Train
A college fraternity chapter known for sportiness faces expulsion as three delegates join a train to a convention. A bluff with a scholarship medal and a poker game leads to exposure when the medal bears Garrett J. Gardner Weymouth University Class of 87. Despite the ruse the chapter gains support to sustain its charter.
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Forbes
Gladstone
Garrett J. Gardner
Weymouth University
Brother Gardner
Hawkins
New York Sun
You bad grammar, you
A quarreling pair in a literary household ends with the younger child exclaiming to his sister that she bad grammar, a witty aside noted by Youth's Companion as a charming rebuke in pure language.
Great Chalk Block Once Covered Continental Europe
A Pittsburg Dispatch report explains a colossal chalk formation once spanning Europe from Ireland to China and from Sweden to Portugal. The chalk sheet, thick over England and dipping east, yields famed white cliffs like Flamborough and Dover.
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Europe
Ireland
China
Sweden
Portugal
British Isles
England
North Sea
Flamborough Head
English Channel
Dorset
Flamborough
Beechy Head
Shakespeare's
Dover
Albion
France
Crimea
Central Asia
Sea of Aral
Atlantic
Antrim
Scotland
Argyll
Aberdeen
Pittsburg Dispatch
Dwellings Matched by Decayed Dickerman Churches
The Congregational Orthodox church in Dickerman is run down with rotten sills a leaky roof and a cracked bell while its nearby Baptist church, newer and built under Queen Anne restoration influence, shows shoddy construction multicolored paint fading and stained glass replaced by plain glass creating piebald unsightly effects.
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America
Old World
Alvan F. Sanborn
Atlantic
Dickerman
Antler Treasure Rooms From Saxon Hunting Castle
A Century article notes Moritzburg near Dresden guards one of the few seventeenth century antler collections to survive fires and sieges. The Moritzburg banqueting hall, 66 by 84 by 88 feet, displays 71 pairs of antlers on white walls, each with at least 24 tines and around 200 years old or more, some much older, and the Dresden gun gallery rivals inlaid arms of the elector.
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Moritzburg
Saxony
Dresden
W. A. Baillie-Grohman
Fruit Soups From Varied Fruit Mixtures
Fruit soups are made from thickened fruit juices using currants oranges cranberries and a mix of currants and raspberries. Press enough fruit to yield one pint of juice then thicken with arrowroot and sugar, combine with hot fruit juice, and serve chilled over cracked ice in a punch bowl as a luncheon starter.
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S. T
Rover
Ladies’ Home Journal
Pick Me Up Quote About Reading Turns To Shelf
The exchange frames a view on books as personal friends that never fully satisfy one writer. The speaker explains a paradox: starting by cutting books and ending with shelving them.
The Porter His Bootjack
A traveler on a Chicago to Kansas City train observed an old gentleman struggle with new boots, seeking a bootjack. The porter, deterred by lack of a bootjack, and a drummer offered crude methods before the porter finally removed the boot with a workaround, drawing applause from fellow passengers.
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Chicago
Kansas City
Olar
de Cyah
Unc
George
Darky
Kansas City Star
Lean Meat and Food Heating Values
Lean meat contains high water content with very lean meat up to 78 percent water while fatty pork has about 10 percent. Salmon yields five eighths water, cod four fifths, flounder six sevenths. Fat provides the most heat when burned, delivering twice the energy of albuminoids or carbohydrates.
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Philadelphia Times
Early Italian and English fabrics link to places and names
The article traces how northern Italian commerce grew with Genoa Pisa and Venice steering trade while Milan Florence Bologna and Padua contributed milliaurs and mantua makers. It notes Leghorn hats tweeds cheviots linsey woolsey Worsted from Worsted Norfolk and drugger from Drogheda Ireland plus grenadine from Grenada and jet from Gagas Asia Minor.
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Italy
Genoa
Pisa
Venice
Milan
Florence
Bologna
Padua
Mantua
Leghorn
England
Ireland
Scotland
Linsey
Woolsey
Gagate
Jayet
Jaeet
Ancient Thermopyle Defends Key Pass Against Invasion
An English officer notes the sea has receded since ancient times, leaving the strategic pass extremely strong. The Deleghi route, crossing hills north of the Springs, is equally defensible and leads to difficult terrain. A force of 5,000 could hold the pass indefinitely. The coast road is controlled from elevated positions, making it impassable to small forces, while lowland near the shore is marshy and crisscrossed by dikes.
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English Intelligence Department
Deleghi
The Unhappy Young Wife of Mr Croesus
In a Chicago Post item a quip questions why the young wife of wealthy Mr Croesus seems unhappy. It notes he gives her all but widowhood, the joke suggesting her discontent despite material abundance.
Early bulb planting advised by horticulturists
Horticulturists conclude delaying planting until November is a mistake and urge planting bulbs such as tulips hyacinths and crocuses as soon as the summer display ends in September to ensure better growth.
My Mother's Voice Poem Recited by A Kidder in New York
A childhood memory of a motherly voice returns in verse ending with a note of resilience. The fragment references the speaker A Kidder and the New York Home Journal publication context. The familiar melody lingers, guiding the narrator through life’s trials.
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A. Kidder
New York
Why American Maidens Marry Englishmen And Their Motives
A North American Review excerpt questions why American women wed Britons and whether such choices serve the greatest good. It discusses motives from country roads and lifestyle to courtship charm and perceived stolidity, weighing gains and cultural appeal for American brides.
Sparrows Imitate Finches Canaries And Crickets
Naturalist M. Mingaud of Nimes reports a sparrow raised from hatchling to mimic a finch’s warble a canary’s trill and a cricket’s cry. Placed with other birds the sparrow learned to imitate, and even after the crickets vanished it kept repeating their cry. The bird never emits its own species squall, likely due to early removal from the nest.
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M. Mingaud
Nimes
France
la Revue Scientifique
M. Minganud
The Orsini Headache and the Gas Prank
Dr. Lees recalls Orsini at Blaydon Hall as a simple man. Orsini complained of headaches each morning. Joseph Cowen found gas burning in Orsini’s dark room and asked what he did. Orsini replied he blew him out, and the headaches ceased. The cure came months later by order of the French emperor.
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Cowen
Orsini
Westminster Gazette
Man lists wife at 1,000,000 in tax records
An elderly boarder talks about a tale from the Cleveland Plain Dealer where a man valued his wife at one million dollars on his tax list. The other boarder jokes he may be planning tax delinquency to have her sold.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
David M. Handley
Acton
County of
Middlesex
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Francis Robbins
Middlesex South District
Nancy K. Handley
George Heywood
Concord
Fidelia Wheeler
Angenette Harris
James Tuttle & Co
Wheeler & Harris
Town
Lowell Road
Simon Tuttle
Said Tuttle
European population rises by eighty million in ten years
Within the last decade Europe’s population grew by about 80 million with Russia contributing 12,610,000 and France 67,000. The text notes Austrians as heavy smokers and claims each Austrian consumes 20 matches daily.
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Europe
Russia
France
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W. Henderson
South Acton, Mass
Charles Fay Heywoop
Concord Junction
Teremiah Sheehan
Westerly
Quincy
Scotch
U. S. Fowler
Mayna D
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Stow
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Concord Junction, Mass
H.p.n.dahl
H. &. Richardson
Kk, H. Maker
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Maynard's Block
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Walden Street
J. C. Friend
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Noord
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