The Knock at the Door A Bride in Fearful Home Invasion
In a New York apartment a newlywed named Mrs Worth confronts a masked intruder after a night of fear and nerves. Her neighbor Mrs Purdy helps calm her, but the danger ends with the pistol menace as the husband Ralph returns to a shocking scene.
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Short Story Pub. Co
Mrs. Worth
Jim
Mrs. Purdy
Mr. Purdy
Worth
New York
Ralph
Chicago
Jenn
Jean
Purdy
Martian Earrings and a Potent Escape
A masked robber demands a woman's opal earrings threatening violence. She smashes the danger with boiling water, scattering the jewels and fleeing danger. Later, a doctor arrives for a burn accident upstairs, while the couple clings to safety and confides fear to each other.
Japanese holidays list cited by linotyper’s mind
The Linotyper’s mind is freed from worry about a Japanese war cloud as twelve national holidays are cited in Japan. The items include Shiho-Ha, Genshi-sal, Shin-penen kai, Kigen-setsu, Shuki-korel-sal, Jim mu-Tenn, Meiji-Tenno, en-chossetsu, Shuku-jitsu, Nji-name-sal, Shunkikerle, and Kan-name-sal per Pittsburgh Tost.
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Japan
Pittsburgh Tost
Interesting UV effect on metals hints at corrosion indicator
Test for Building Metals notes that portions of metal exposed to ultraviolet light may tarnish while other parts stay bright. The U S Bureau of Standards suggests that this atmospheric action could provide a method to indicate metals' susceptibility to corrosion.
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United States Bureau of Standards
Tommie Claimed Urgency To Whistle After Mouth Event
Four year old Tommie grew anxious to whistle after seeing a colored boy whistle. He urged his mother to buy him that mouth, expressing excitement at the passing whistle.
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Tommie
Mamma
Charleston News and Courier
Effect of Light on Silver Tarnish in Bright Light
Light causes silver to tarnish due to actinic properties, while in darkness it remains unchanged. A photographic plate or film also shows actinic light effects, discoloring as soon as light reaches it.
Figure of speech question cites Shakespeare mistake claim
In a recent exam candidates described the figure of speech artifice in the line The child is father to the man. One answer wrongly attributed it to Shakespeare and claimed he often made this kind of mistake.
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Shakespeare
Old Winter Blusters Then Yields To Spring Tale
A vignettestyle retelling where Old Winter roars through the land until Spring awakens with sunshine. Spring enlists the Sun and noise of birds to coax Winter from his blanket and into leaving, revealing his stubborn nature and eventual retreat to his cold homeland.
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Old Winter
Old North Wind
Cross Old Winter
Summer
Old Whiter
Spring
Winter
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
The Habit of Borrowing First Editions
A humorous tale about Ella and Bridget confronting Montagu D Arcy a notorious borrower of first editions. After missing Irving volumes surface the plan forms to reclaim books through a grand exchange among library friends, exposing the social sting of literary thievery.
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Irving
Ella
Bridget
Montagu D'Arcy
D'Arcy House
Montagu
Elia
Irvings
D’arcy
D'Arcy
Elsa
Jones
Ike Jones
Eda
Smith
Smith Eda
Brown
Doctor Williams
Poe
Doctor Williams Brown
Bryant
Metropolitan Newspapor Sarvica
Recognition of Virtue in Daily Morals Cited From Marcus Aurelius
Fragmentary quotation attributes admiration for public virtue to Marcus Aurelius. The line suggests praise of moral examples seen in everyday life and among those who surround us, but the source text here is incomplete and lacks concrete events or persons.
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Marcus Aurellug
Luck for the Turks in Bessarabia remembered in defeats
The article notes Turkish defeats in Bessarabia, detailing four historic battles against Poles in 1024 and 1073 and against Russians in 1730 and 1769, marking the events as memorable in Turkish history as described by Chotin.
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Chotin
Bessarabia
Turkey
Why of Superstitions: Cock Crowing as Sailor Omens
Sailors have long linked crowing cocks with luck in battle and voyage, citing Themistocles at Salamis and Rodney in 1782. The belief, rooted in Norse Ragnarock myth and sun worship of Apollo, ties cock crowing to victory, favorable winds, and even drowned-body searches, reflecting ancient sun cult remnants.
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Themistocles
Kort
Ragnarock
Baldur
Salamis
Apollo
McClure
Foote Fined For Not Saying Except The Mayor
The tale recalls an old English joke where speakers must add except the mayor. Foote, dining at an inn, tried I except no body and was fined a shilling by a magistrate for nonconformity. He paid and quipped that his accuser was the greatest fool in Christendom, except the mayor.
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England
Foote
Christendom
Prodigy Mozart Delights Salzburg At Five
A child prodigy, Wolfgang Mozart, wowed Salzburg with childlike piano and violin flair. By age four he composed a difficult concerto his violinist father could not master. A year later at five, he performed before university patrons, drawing wild enthusiasm.
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Wolfgang Mozart
Salzburg
Germany
Wolfgang
Bee hive roles in a honey bee swarm
The article describes a honey bee hive housing 10 000 to 60 000 bees in a single swarm. It outlines three classes: the queen lays about 2000 eggs daily, drones do not work, and the working bees collect honey.
Nothing Out of the Way Animosa Shrub Cited
A fragment notes Animosa, a sensitive shrub, develops nervous prostration when touched too often. It suggests a human likeness in the plant and shares a personal sentiment from Oma ba Bea about repeated contact.
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Omaba Bea
His Narrow Escape From Bank Robbery Loot
A man of Irish origin recounts his close call when learning the town savings bank had been robbed. He says he would have lost about 250 dollars if he had gone to the bank that day, but was robbed of it earlier en route.
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Denton, Maryland
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T. H. Everngam
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