Gladstone’s Toast and London Messenger Medals
The piece notes Gladstone’s Edinburgh University speech with a flask and cup refreshment during a long address. It then reports London awards of special medals to about 200 district messenger boys for difficult missions including Alfred Beale delivering items across cities and meeting a grand duke, and Robbins transporting an elephant with its keeper, plus a brave mouse-capture in Bond Street.
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Gladstone
John Bigelow
Edinburgh University
Bigelow
London
New York
Alfred Beale
Paris
Rome
Belgium
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
Liege
Robbins
Buxton
Palladium
Bond Street
Grayhounds, England's Ancient Loyal Hounds
The grayhound of Altcar and the Waterloo Cup is the oldest domesticated dog traceable to thirteen centuries before Christ. Ancient grayhounds appear in British museum pieces and Egyptian hunting scenes. In England they were restricted to gentlemen or freeholders, with 1853 licenses to keep grayhounds costing six dollars, triple the tax on other dogs.
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Altcar
British Museum
England
Canute
What She Wanted
An old woman in a peaked black bonnet boards a Kentucky train, asks about the bell cord, and after snapping it to halt the train she tells the conductor she wants a cup of coffee and a ham sandwich. The tale appears in the Ladies' Home Journal.
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Kentucky
Ladies’ Home Journal
Edinburg Haddock Yields Diamond Opal Earring
A Edinburgh laun found a diamond and opal earring inside a haddock she bought for dinner. The ornament is about one inch long with 12 diamonds and a rich opal in a silver mount with gold accents, one diamond missing from the circlet.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
After Dark Can a Crook Turn Straight
In debate on crime reform a sly quip notes a crook could head to a bank after dark. The remark underscores public concern about criminal recovery routes and the question of genuine rehabilitation versus relapse.
Have Learned How to Spell Guilty Juries Sharpen Spelling
A juror recalls less debate on guilt and cites improved spelling of guilty. He notes past jurors challenged word forms like Gilte gillite gille and gilty, while today most juries spell the word correctly without coaching.
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Gilte
Gillite
Gille
Gilty
Diver’s Nerves Save Life Against Shark in Gulf
A seasoned diver with a pearl expedition recalls a near death encounter with a huge shovel nosed shark off a Gulf of California reef. He stayed low, stirred mud to blind the predator, then surfaced and was hauled aboard as the shark lunged.
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Gulf of California
Sayings of Famous Men Cycle
A playful compilation of famous quotes updated with humorous anachronisms. Historical figures like Richard III King Midas Schuyler Colfax Lord Stevenson and Robinson Crusoe appear in mock dialogue delivering witty lines. The piece blends literary names with modern twists for comic effect.
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Richard III
Nick Altrock
King Midas
Schuyler Colfax
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robinson Crusoe
Just a Little Too Fresh Miss Gunther Scolds Delicatessen Trickster
Miss Louise Gunther, back from Chicago vaudeville, inked her fingers red then faded to brown. A deli boy offered to remove the stain with gasoline and joked about smoking. She did not pay for her purchases and left, vowing to trade elsewhere.
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Louise Gunther
Chicago
One Hundred and Twenty-first Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Miss Gunther
A Soldier’s Tale and the Dinner Hour Mystery
Sergeant Atkins recalls long battles from eight in the morning to eight at night while traveling home. Workers listen with astonishment as he explains the strange adventures but one man asks how he managed dinner during that endless fight.
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Atkins
Office Argued Salary Increase Prompted by Voters
A constituent questions whether the elected man appreciates his office. The reply notes his first act was to call for a larger salary, underscoring the tension between duty and pay.
Doomsday for Marriage: Divorce to Reach Half by 1990
A Missouri University professor warns that at the current rate of increase one half of all marriages may end in divorce by 1990. He argues monogamy as a social institution could disappear in the United States, while noting 1905 had 68 000 divorces compared with 40 000 elsewhere.
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Missouri University
United States
Needs of the Brain as a Muscle for Practical Use
A Utopian argues in the Atlantic that the brain is a muscle requiring exercise. Education, he says, underutilizes the brain by treating it as a storehouse rather than a trainable organ. People begin real mental work far too late after years of schooling.
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Atlantic
Misinterpretation Overturned in Wedding Remark
Mrs Teuton described a newlywed couple as having a perfectly idle wife. Miss Vallville quickly translated idle as ideal and whispered the corrected meaning to the company.
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Mrs. Teuton
Frederick
Martha
Miss Vallville
Couple Faces Swindle Over Groceries For a Stranger
In a domestic dispute, Mr Sillicus accuses his wife of ordering ten dollars worth of groceries from a total stranger at bargain prices and paying in advance. She replies she has the receipt as proof. The quarrel ends with the husband claiming no goods are left, only the receipt.
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Sillicus
Meeting an Ex Suitor Sparks Old Memories
Mrs Crawford recalls a past rejection as she meets the man she refused years ago and he greets her warmly. Mrs Crabshaw notes the encounter was awkward as he seemed glad she hadn’t married him.
Wise Man From the Orient Commentary Cites Dance Craze Drollery
A Philadelphia Bulletin note recalls the Persian ambassador in Washington being asked to dance at a public event. He replied that in his country hired performers did it for him, poking fun at the Turkey Trot Bunny Hug Grizzly Bear Shiv ers and Apache dances and their prominence in these times.
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Washington
Philadelphia Bulletin
Trick of the Trade The Young Doctor and the Successful Old Doctor
A humorous exchange contrasts a Young Doctor who urges his patients with a Successful Old Doctor who admits wealthy patients often feel ill without cause and how he encourages them. The dialogue highlights medical attitudes toward patient reassurance and perception of illness.
Easy Job for the Senator Opens Calendar Question
A dialogue imagines an easy assignment for the senator and a quirky clock winding task. The speaker proposes weekly clock winding and removal of calendar leaves as alternate duties, hinting at a light political satire.
Readers urged to take limited six month newspaper offers
Advertises numerous combined subscriptions with prices from 50 cents to 1.85 for six months, or a year, listing titles such as Tri-Weekly Constitution Chattanooga News Farm Journal Georgian and others. Promotion claims big reading value for small money and directs readers to send orders to Ww. B. Townsend.
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Constitution
Chattanooga Weekly News
Farm Journal
Alabama Times
Chattanooga News
Georgian
Chattanooga
McCall’s Magazine
Farm Press
Spare Moments
Magazine of Mysteries
Peoples Poplar Monthly
Gentlewoman
Jeffersonian
Watson’s Jeffersonian
Uncle Remus
Southern Ruralist
Ww. B. Townsend
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Craig R, Arnold
Dahlonega
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Craig
R. Arnold
Watson
H. E. Watson
Dahlonega Feed & Livery Stable
College Street
G. H. Moore
Lin
Gainesville
Dhllonega
M.G. Head & Co
Drices
Grayhound
What
Wanted
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Pearle
Wise Man
Delins Eator
Chattacnooga
Ala
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