Unsinkable lifeboat plan by Captain Brude of Seattle
Norwegian Captain Ole Brude, who crossed the Atlantic in 1905 in an egg shaped lifeboat, seeks permission from Pacific steamship lines to be cast adrift mid ocean to prove his craft can weather gale force seas. He promises to return to Seattle in six months or forfeit a substantial sum.
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Ole Brude
Seattle
United
Pacific
Brude
Mid Ocean
Norway
America
Captain Brude
Boston
Massachusetts
Seven Seas
Atlantic
New York Harbor
Icebox Pan Panic Sparks Summer Coincidence
A commuter recalls rushing downtown to fix an overflowing icebox pan. A neighbor’s confession of not emptying his pan triggers shared fear as both fear the pan under the other icebox may also have overflowed. The remark ends with a light, almost comic, note of mutual worry over summer heat and household appliances.
Rest Eyes From Strain Warns Harper's Bazaar Advice
An old Harper's Bazaar note warns that eystrain exhausts the nervous system causing headaches and digestive issues. It urges rest for the eyes during illness or fatigue, and cautions against reading in poor light or directly bright light. It also condemns cheap smoked glasses and advises no glasses unless prescribed after careful examination by a reputable oculist.
Fresh Actress Misleads Clerk with Gasoline Tip
Miss Louise Gunther returned from Chicago where she acted in vaudeville and, while home on One Hundred and Twenty-First Street, stained her fingers with red ink. A deli clerk offered to remove it with gasoline, prompting her denial of ever smoking. She left without paying for groceries.
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Louise Gunther
Chicago
One Hundred and Twenty-first Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Miss Gunther
Genesis of the Chimney in Ancient Italy and Rome
The article traces early chimney development from ancient Venetian records of 1347 earthquakes demolishing chimneys to Seneca's wall tube for heat. It notes no modern chimney or stove evidence in Pompeii Herculaneum finds and that pre chimney fires were pit-based beneath floor centers similar to Eskimo practice.
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Pompeii
Herculaneum
Italy
Seneca
Bay of
Naples
Family Windfall Cure Promoting Pills Recalled
A spoof note details a family counting illnesses from rheumatism to measles and the promise of a miracle pill. After dosing three times daily, each member supposedly improves drastically within days, leading to humorous boasts about drastic weight changes and renewed appetites. The narrator signs as Judee.
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Uncle
Johnson
Sister
Grandma
Judee
France Adapts to American Luxuries in Housing
France shows growing American influence with middle class embracing luxuries like bathrooms, electric lights, telephones, steam heating, and labor saving kitchen devices. Rent typically equals one-tenth of income in France vs one-sixth to a quarter in the United States. Provincial cities have new elevator equipped apartments renting $800 to $1,000 yearly, with demand outstripping supply.
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France
America
The Blind and Lame Coffers a Fig Orchard Theft
In a tale from the Talmud a king guards an orchard with a blind man and a lame man. Figs vanish, and the pair fail to claim theft. The king uncovers that the blind man carried the lame man, who used eyes and hands to steal. Both punished.
Origin of the Manor Under William the Conqueror
The article explains how William the Norman replaced Saxon and Norse freeholders with manors, rewarding nobles who held vast domains. Lords exercised sovereignty over villagers, with rights to punish by drowning or hanging under a harsh medieval code, where thieves and jailers faced brutal fates.
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William
England
Nobility of the Trades
Charles Winslow Hall
National Magazine
The Practice Delivers A Frantic Don Worry Club Moment
Maria frets over a looming meeting of her Don't Worry club fearing she will be late. The scene captures a light hearted domestic tension as characters race to keep the informal gathering on track. The dialogue hints at personality dynamics and social norms within a small circle.
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Maria
Georgia
Lumpkin County
J. M. Brooksher
H. D. Ingersoll
Court of Ordinary
J. F. Pruett
Leguminotherapy: vegetable diet deemed scientific novelty
The National Pharmacist outlines leguminotherapy as a diet linking each vegetable to human physiology and temperament. Peas supposedly spark frivolity in young ladies, carrots foster temper and amiability for janitors and drivers, potatoes aid reason yet risk apathy, string beans boost poetic traits, while cabbage and cauliflower provoke obstreperousness and are discouraged for those training for the parlor.
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New York Sun
Alligator Skin Bag Joke: Wrinkles in Vogue
In a Cincinnati Times-Star quip a famous actress, famed for youth, asks for an alligator skin traveling bag. The shopkeeper offers smooth leather and a witty exchange about wrinkles. He claims the fashionable bag comes from an alligator massaged to remove wrinkles.
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Cincinnati Times-Star
A Friend's Mistaken Kindness
A Salem resident, thinking Doctor Fanning a bird lover and ornithologist, left a box of 25 migratory birds at his office as a gift. The doctor, unable to bear confinement, freed all the birds, releasing them to regain their liberty in a gesture of kindness gone wrong.
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Salem News
Doctor Fanning
A Difference About Words at a New York Dinner
George Ade urged careful word choice noting subtle distinctions. An editor countered asking for examples. Ade replied that yesterday on Broadway he and the other person with him had a vision while the person with the editor had a sight, illustrating the nuance between sight and vision.
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George Ade
New York
Mr. Ade
Billy
Broadway
Just Like Women Seeks Home Life Divorce Curiosities
A law clerk sighs at two client visits, one seeking divorce because her husband refuses to stay home, the other because he sits at home too much. The quip underscores the era's domestic tensions and comedic take on gender roles.
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Mountain Golub House
Cratger
Arnold
Dahlonega
North
CRAIG_R. ARNOLD
Dahlonega Feed & Livery Stable
College Street
G. H. Moore
Daily Hack
Gainesville
M.G. Head & Co
Merchandlise
Watson
H. E. Watson
Blind and Lame
Agricultural College
J. G. Sims
RR. P. McDonald
R. P. McDonald
J. F. Pruetr
Rachael Anderson
James Anderson
J. ¥. Prue
H.N. Seabolt
Mary Seabolt
J. ¥. Proerr
Iowa Gold Mining Company
Mountain Valley Mining Co
Mountain Valley Company
J. B. Jones
Han
Elizabeth R. Ingersoll
Main Street
Water Street
Warwick Street
Church Street
Ingersoll
Elizabeth RB
van. J. Wortey
Coley
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