Earling a Distinguished Railroad Leader Since His Wisconsin Beginnings
The article honors Albert J. Earling, praising his rise from a Wisconsin schoolboy clerk to St Paul and Minnesota railroad president. It notes his skill as a telegraph operator and train dispatcher, his ascent to assistant superintendent, general manager, and president, and his role in linking the St Paul system to Harriman's transcontinental route, shaping Union Pacific leadership after Harriman's death.
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E B. Harriman Vone
Albert J. Earlng
Earling
Mr. Esking
Wisconsin
St Paul
Minnesota
St. Paul
Harriman
Starriman
Union Pacific
Ballinger recalls first law case in Kankakee
Interior secretary Richard A. Ballinger recalls his first law case at Kankakee Illinois. A man accused of bigamy was defended by three wives and the judge and jury led to a two year sentence. The bigamist later wrote asking if it would be safe to return after release.
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Ballinger
Richard A. Ballinger
Secretary of the Interior
Kankakee
Bigamist
Stickler for the Law Judge Adams and a mail case
The article profiles Judge Elmer B. Adams famed for upholding written law. It recounts a tense case where a defendant faced charges of assaulting a mail carrier and stealing registered letters, with only the money in the pouch surviving the arson.
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Elmer B. Adams
United States
Standard Oil Company
Judge Adams
Judge Adams Sentences Culprit to Life Plus Twenty Years
The judge, a Vermont native and Yale educated Harvard trained jurist, found the culprit guilty and imposed life imprisonment. He then twice added twenty years before the defendant left stunned. Adams, 67, appointed by Roosevelt, is a Democrat who voted for Taft in the last election.
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Judge Adams
Vermont
Yale
Harvard
Roosevelt
Taft
Rousseau Shyness and Impostor at Court
The article recounts Rousseau's reluctance to appear before Louis XV preferring privacy in the country. A false claim of being Rousseau misleads the group, and the real Rousseau fears exposure, recounting in his Confessions his trembling and blushing at the impostor's tale.
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Rousseau
Louis XV
Westminster Gazette
Penguins Compared To Humans In Shackleton Book
Lt E H Shackleton in The Heart of the Antarctic compares penguins to humans noting erect walking and refined traits. He cites two photographs showing an emperor penguin bowing and delivering a speech like a chief, with politeness bows and repeated attempts amid impatient followers. Both emperors and adeles use tobogganing on suitable surfaces.
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E. H. Shackleton
The
Antarctic
Wild British Cattle Face Extinction Threat
The wild cattle of Great Britain are scarce and declining due to natural causes and inbreeding concerns. Confined in parks with strict anti admixture rules they remain white with red ears and are likened to buffaloes or deer in treatment. Historians tie their lineage to the Shorthorn breed, and experts warn extinction is likely as unrelated sires become hard to obtain.
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Great Britain
England
Tome
The Scented Court of Louis XV
The rage for perfumes peaked at Louis XV's court known as the scented court. Hostesses announced the odor for large entertainments and guests used that scent to prepare. Each day at court had a distinct perfume, highlighting fragrance over cleanliness and soap and water.
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Louis XV
Continent
Pauline in Order At School Delays Classmate Discipline
Pauline, after nearly two weeks at school, reports that the teacher addressed the whole class except her. When pressed, she says the teacher announced they would all wait until Pauline is in order. The playful parent hears the anecdote from De Wayneator.
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Pauline
de Wneator
Lost opportunity whispers in household chatter
Mrs Garbie questions a hidden lapse while another character insists on silence. A week of knowledge passes, yet the truth remains unspoken as tension grows in the domestic scene.
Evening Echoes Framed By Wits and Weather
A witty exchange unfolds as a woman insists she heard a noise late at night. He mocks the moment, asking about nightfall. She insists it was day breaking signaling a new dawn. Baltimore American.
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Baltimore American
Cautious banter questions a Har labeled man
In a fragment from the Jewish Ledger Thompson asks what a man would do if called Har while Jones hesitates asking about the size of the man.
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Thompson
Jones
Jewish Ledger
Ceylon Menus and Culinary Language Gaffes
A writer from the Epicureans recalls comic menu errors seen while traveling in Ceylon. Lead servers misrender English on menus and add footnotes, producing phrases like roast beef smelling a little and steak sod kidney pie no kidney. Welsh rabbit becomes Welsh rabbish and hurried dinners culminate with plates labeled as a dessert.
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Ceylon
The Penny Stamp That Ruined Hobart the Iron King
The Whitworth crisis era sparked a costly downfall for Hobart the English iron magnate. An unsigned unstamped letter caused him to misread private news, doubling iron deals and leading to bankruptcy after a price collapse. His partners warned sell offs, but he acted on blind post and ciphered alerts.
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Hobart
Whitworth
England
Sheffield
London Telegraph
Pillsburys Wonderful Memory Test Readings
Harry N Pillsbury offered a memory challenge in South Bethlehem to memorize thirty words read once by Merriman of Lehigh University and Eadwards of Bethlehem The list included scientific terms places and random phrases Pillsbury repeated the words in both the original and reverse order for emphasis fears and amusement among observers.
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Harry N. Pillsbury
Bethlehem
Merriman
Lehigh University
Lhretheld Eadwards
Mississippi
Cincinnati
Eichenberg
Russia
Salmagundi
Madjesovomsiopa
Mr. Pillsbury
Origins of the term cockney as Bow bells London citizen
A 1617 Minshen dictionary claim ties cockney to London born within Bow bells. A tale has a novice father and son traveling, the horse neighs, a cock crowing, and the phrase cockweigh inverted to incoctus, meaning raw country matters.
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Minshen
London
Italian Grigandage in 1848 Theater Roars
An 1848 summer theater scene depicts Ges, bandits led by Il Passatore occupying the stage as the crowd demands the curtain. He allegedly levies G per head from spectators while looting occurs, and observers remark on Briggins fortunes and distrust in disinterested friendship amid a citable Exchange note. Proverbial humor notes over 600 English proverbs about doors.
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Il Passatore
Pheebles
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