Husband Keeps Dead Wife Beside Him In Cemetery Vault Plan
In Peitstown Pennsylvania W H R Roth a young engineer sits with his wife Della Trene Roth in Mount Zion cemetery after her death. He halted burial to demand a vault in the cemetery where he can visit and talk to her each day while continuing to keep the body in an undertaker’s shop until the vault is built.
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Peitstown
W. H. R. Roth
Mount Zion
Roth
Della Trene Rhoades
Squire Rhoades
Mount Yion
Della
Rid e Miles Clinging to Side of Flyer
James Smith of Fort Wayne Indiana clung by hands and toes to the outside of the 18 hour Pennsylvania flyer for 188 miles in 133 minutes. Rescued near Upper Sandusky after the train reached the city at 40 miles per hour. He recalled only two towns as the train passed through a dozen while he hung on.
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Sandusky
James Smith
Fort Wayne
Ind
Smith
Upper Sandusky
Not Making Repairs
A brief line from the Detroit Free Press notes a complaint about damaged or unpaid repairs. It mentions a half dollar gag and a tightfisted attitude as context for the exchange. No further concrete facts or identities are provided in the readable text.
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Detroit Free Press
Wearing High Collars Linked to Headaches, Doctor Finds
A Viennese physician notes high collars cause nervous headaches and giddiness. He observed relief after patients switched to lower, looser collars and even women with stiff neckwear improved when removing high collars. He warns those prone to headaches to avoid tight neckwear.
Women Essayists on Choosing Husbands Draw Mocking Attention
A provocative remark notes women who write essays guiding women to pick a husband are often labeled as old maids. The comment sparks debate on advice literature and social labels.
Two Girls Kill Wolf With Wooden Pail in Bon Homme County
In Sioux Falls South Dakota two Olson sisters daughters of Mr and Mrs J Olson living on a Bon Homme county farm used only a wooden pail to strike and kill a large wolf after their two dogs failed to subdue it. The girls were gathering berries when the attack occurred and the dogs followed. The wolf lay hidden in brush beside the road and was slain after the girls closed in with blows to the head.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
J. Olson
Bon Homme County
Paris man seeks rest by sleeping in a coffin
M Ban bil believes absolute rest lies in death and rests in a coffin with a glass cover for 48 hours before entering a weeklong confinement. He consumes no food or drink during the period, breathes ether through a slit, and loses eight pounds, returning to health quickly after emerging.
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Paris
M. Eldach Banbil
M. Banbil
Cat fosters eight chicks as mother for second brood this summer
In Greensburg Indiana Dr Henry Johnson of Newpoint notes a cat acts as a foster mother to eight chicks gathering them with care using paws. This marks a second brood the cat has tended this summer.
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Greensburg, In
Henry Johnson
Newpoint
The Farmer and the Spectacle Prank
In Springfield Massachusetts an elderly farmer Samuel Jenks aged 70 with fading sight seeks eyeglasses. A young neighbor at an optician’s store plays a prank by fitting frames without lenses and asks how they suit him. Jenks tests them with a newspaper and exclaims they let him see as well as twenty years ago.
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Springfield, Mass
Samuel Jenks
Jenks
Mr. Jenks
Harry
Eye of the Submarine Periscope Explained
A French navy observer details the periscope used on submarines, describing its dual-tube design with prisms and mirrors, operation, and how it serves as the submarine’s eye while noting vulnerabilities from wake and the potential for a secondary periscope.
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la Nature
Literary Digest
Jourdan
Mistresses Speak On Mothers Losing Middle Age To Children
An essay by Joseph B. Bowles argues mothers often yield authority to their grown children and drift from queenly role to old age. It warns against allowing children to rush parents into passive aging and stresses the value of continued self care and steady training.
Let Mothers Be Mothers Not Students of Life
The article argues experience at home surpasses schools in shaping a woman, praising a mother’s influence and warning against neglect when children mature. It shares a tale of a daughter who returns from college to help her mother, rekindling shared study and affection, while noting the danger of parents being sidelined as heirs gain independence. It laments aging mothers erased by later generations and urges letting mothers remain themselves.
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John
Mary
Advice on building and flat living from William A. Radford
The American Home column offers free expert answers on building topics by William A. Radford. He notes flats can ease housework with one-floor living but warns some women cannot breathe or live in flats. The piece weighs pros and cons of city flats versus larger houses and hints at the need to adapt furnishing to space.
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William A. Radford
Fifth Ave
Chicago
A Beautiful Cottage House Plan For Vines And Flowers
Editor notes a 30 by 32 foot cottage plan priced around 1800 and designed for large lots. Describes porches, climbers, border plantings, and year round appeal with salvia and china asters. Emphasizes simple furnishing, hospitality, and avoiding social envy to keep a pleasant, single floor home.
Improved Potato Knife Surfaces in Invention Debate
The text hints at inventors reaching a limit in improving the potato knife design. It notes speculation on whether the latest improvements truly advance efficiency or if further innovation is possible, reflecting ongoing debates in culinary tool development.
New Potato Knife Aims to Ease Households
An Iowa inventor patented a potato cutting knife that does the work of eight cuts in one motion. The device features six small blades and a center blade on a single handle, producing eight pieces per stab. Hotels and restaurants could save labor time with this device.
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Iowa
Bear Intervenes in Solway homestead meal
St Paul Minnesota Peter Martinson a Solway area homesteader packed a sack of provisions and was joined at his supper by a bear. He climbed a tree as the bear followed. After a volley of buckshot the bear collapsed and Martinson discovered his wife had fired the shots from below.
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St. Paul
Minn
Peter Martinson
Solway
Martinson
American patent granted for tantalum pen production
A new patent in the United States covers methods for making pens from tantalum or its alloys. The invention details processing of tantalum components and assembly for durable writing instruments.
Profitable Summer Boarding House Earns Village Dividends
A judge notes the boarding house thrived as guests bought many crackers, with every grocery in the village paying dividends. The lighthearted remark highlights strong profits from seasonal accommodations and local commerce.
What is a dude according to a ladylike standard
An observer explains that a dude is a young gentleman who attempts to act in a ladylike way, as cited by the Chicago Daily News.
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Chicago Daily News
A Lamp of Science and a Mercury Vapor Light
The Cooper Hewitt mercury vapor lamp provides steady monochromatic light ideal for optical experiments. It replaces the diminishing efficiency of mercury arc sources and offers fine rays suitable for interference studies at low cost.
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Cooper. Hewitt
Youth
Cooper Hewitt
Boy Traveled Hidden in a Trunk to Escape
Freddie Summers a 16 year old runaway from Lancaster hid in a baggage car trunk on a Pennsylvania Railroad shipment to escape custody. He nearly suffocated before a Pennsy detective found the boy when the lid moved. Station staff covered his fare to return home after resolving the 70 cent deficit.
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Altoona
Freddie Summers
Lancaster
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsy
Freddie
Pittsburg
Absurd Suggestion Prompted by Senator Sorghum
A Washington Star note quotes Senator Sorghum ridiculing the idea that government officials should be paid only for real value. The remark mocks tying pay to perceived service worth and lampoons using private fortunes as a conscience fund.
Man Leaves $5 Offering On Plate Unconcealed
A man places a five dollar bill on the contribution plate and does not bother to conceal it in any envelope.
Tartans on the Rise in Winter Dress and Trimmings
A London Paris fashion note describes a tartan season with Scotch plaid appearing in dresses, wings, quills, and roses. Costumiers show tartan trimmed short-sack coats in silk poplin and velvet, with orange piping and silver buttons, while worsted checks and tweeds feature plaid and stripe effects to brighten plain cloth outfits.
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Paris
London
Poppy Design Traced on Dark Linen in Rich Shades
The Valais design is traced on a dark linen fabric with a bold conventional poppy motif. It is most effective when worked out in deep, rich shades of a color.
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Valais
All Black Millinery Dominates Early Autumn Hats
The piece notes an abundance of all black hats with conspicuous trimming adding weight, and highlights black and white combinations as chic but risky. It describes soft white felts trimmed in black, an imported black velvet dress hat with white felt border and black plume buckle, and lists trims like velvets beavers felts satin ribbons and ostrich plumes. It also observes the return of ostrich feathers and paradise plumes in fall millinery.
Economical Fire Kindler From Corn Cobs
A simple fire starter is described using dipped corn cobs in melted resin and tar and then drying. The method aims to provide an inexpensive way to kindle fires.
RUFF LIKE THE HAT IN FALL COSTUMES
The article highlights autumn ruffs as essential accessories matching hats and gloves. It describes white maline and navy blue options with silk edging and velvet spots, noting color harmony enhances the costume's overall appeal.
Came Not a Swimmer Camel Drowns in Stream
A camel loses footing in a stream and immediately rights itself to the side, making no effort to save itself from drowning.
Ingenious river bottom profiler by Italian engineers
An Italian engineers devise a measuring wheel fixed to a graduated rod attached to a boat side. As the boat moves up, down, or across, the wheel traces the river bottom while the rod rises and falls. By recording depths at intervals, the device gathers data to trace the profile.
Protecting Home Water From Disease Germs
An Atlantic writer argues private homes cannot rely on small filters to remove bacteria. Experts say 18 inches of sand above drains with proper sediment filters are needed, and some filters use fine materials to slow water flow. Boiling drinking water remains the best safeguard during epidemics. Municipal control offers greater protection than individual devices.
Kept pledge leads to whisky on a plate
An Irish lawyer vowed to abstain from intoxicating liquor during a trial. After long hours in Dublin court his colleagues urged him to drink. He explained the pledge. a friend returned with rolls hollowed and filled with whisky, sparking a humorous workaround.
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Dublin
Optimist defined in Houston Post quip
A Houston Post quote explains optimism as a man who expects to marry and stay happy forever after, framed as a lighthearted parental exchange. The line blends humor with timeless views on romance and optimism.
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Houston Post
Equipment Advances River Depth Sounding Methods
A historic note describes a simple sounding apparatus with improved accuracy over traditional depth methods for river surveying. The device offers a significant advantage in measuring bottom sinuosity and depth variations, highlighting technological progress in hydrographic practice.
Bookmakers' Narrow Escape at the Races Noted
In a light exchange Mrs. Torkins remarks on her husband’s race system as failing, while the bookmakers enjoy their usual narrow escape, highlighting betting luck in the scene.
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