Brooklyn boys form their own tiny fire department
A Brooklyn youth group ages 11 to 15 organize a mock fire company with two trained goats Tom and Bill, a tiny patrol wagon, improvised equipment, and uniforms. Ernest Grant leads as foreman as they rehearse alarm calls and rapid response before summer break.
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Brooklyn
Ernest Grant
Tom
Bill
Engine Company No. 85
Foreman Grant
Willie
Jakie
Davy
Jonas
Charlie
New York World
Moon Signs Bring Luck or Bad Luck
A reader discussion from St. Nicholas explores beliefs about new moon signs. The speaker reflects on seeing the moon over the left or right shoulder and how such signs might foretell luck or misfortune for the month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna E. Langdon
St. Nicholas
Edna And Grandmother Debate Light Suppers
Edna asks for scrambled eggs for supper. Grandmother says mamma prefers light meals. Edna retorts that mamma allows her to have foods darker than eggs, revealing a playful kitchen dispute from a youth's companion excerpt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna
Grandma
The Ideal Elusive Dream in Donahooe’s Magazine
An excerpt from Donahooe’s Magazine reflects on the quest for an ideal of truth and faith. It describes striving, disappointment, and a mirage-like prize that remains just beyond reach as attention turns from earthly beauty to humble, hidden things.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Donahooe's Magazine
Office Boy Lawyers and a Courtbound Elevator Joke
A New York Mail and Express item recounts two young aspiring lawyers riding an elevator in a downtown law building. The banter shows a 15 year old and a slightly older companion joking about cases as a matron disciplines a boy over missing his father’s shoes, while the elevator operator notes they have met the chief justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giegerich
Supreme
Frank
Supreme Court
New York ‘Mail
Sixpress
Vagabond trouble and parish relief cited in old Berkshire note
A derivation of vagrancy tied to monastic dissolution notes highway robberies and a 1597 act to ease local burthens in Benhurst hundred. The piece recalls Alfred the Great and a Berkshire king in a Gentleman's Magazine excerpt about Maidenhead thicket robberies. It also reports on Miss Alberta D Garber becoming associate organizer at Everyday Church Boston describing her education and wide reform work.
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Reading
Berkshire
Alfred
Maidenhead
Hundred
Benhurst
Gentleman's Magazine
Alberta D. Garber
Everyday Church
Boston
Friends of the Everyday Church
Garber
Ohio State University At
Columbus
Associated Charities of
Cincinnati
Lending Library Association
Philip Ayers
Associated Charities
Chicago
Miss Garber
Ohio Y. P. C. U
Pig Eating Dare Stuns Gustavus Camp and Alarmed General
During a siege of Prague Gustavus of Sweden faced a boastful boor who offered to eat a large hog in his presence. General Konigsmarck urged burning the man as a witch, the door exclaimed it would eat the general first, and the man’s monstrous grin sent the general fleeing to his tent.
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Gustavus
Sweden
Prague
Konigsmarck
San Francisco
Argonaut
Rats in cotton mills reveal seed removal method
In a Spanish cotton mill rats pulled apart imperfectly ginned bales to reach seeds without harming the fiber. The note also mentions ancient Greek and Roman time divisions—Greeks used three equal periods, Romans used three unequal kalends ides and nones.
Self Control and Maritime Women Highlighted in 19th Century Note
A Covington funeral scene shows a singing woman maintaining poise as a mouse drops on her hymn book. A Berlin Tageblatt letter notes women seafarers in Denmark Norway and Finland serving as sailors pilots and crew with recognized skill. Mrs. Arthur Sewall, wife of the VP candidate, described as educated travelled artistic and cultured with watercolors and photographic diplomas from Paris New York and Boston.
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Covington
Cincinnati
Berlin
Finland
Arthur Sewall
Charles Crocker
Bath
Ipswich
Europe
Paris
New York
Boston
Women Vote Rights Expand in Episcopal Church Trials
The diocese of Michigan declares women eligible to vote for vestrymen in parish elections. Twenty five other dioceses and four missionary jurisdictions of the church permit women to vote for vestrymen. The Woman's Journal notes progress within a conservative The Episcopal Church.
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Michigan
Woman’s Journal
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Boys’ Fire Department
Victoria
England
Italy
Spain
Dolly
Singapore
New York Times
Dot and the New Moon
Office Boy Lawyers
Knights of the Road
Wonen
Peoria
Bargatins
W. A. Haynes & Co
Maynard, Mass
Stanhopes
Surreys
Road Wacons
Democrat Wacons
Waldo Littlefield
Mass
West Acton
N. B
C.d.holmes
D. Dilmore
Maynard's Block
Maynard
Horace Tuttle
Walden Street
Concord
J. C. Friend
Boynton
CGC
Keith
Concord Junction, Mass
James T. Foote
Summer Street
H.S. Richardson
E. OH
Maker Concord Mass
ALBERT + BATLEY
Acton St
Renest Hosmer
D. D
Acton
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