Baggage Bouncing Trick Ends When Snakes Spill Out
An old railroad tale from Prairie Junction recounts Billy the baggage man who invented a trunk transfer method by tossing trunks across a rubber pad. He boasted high accuracy until a massive marked trunk labeled Snakes, Handle With Care, broke midair, snakes spilled, a man was injured, and the risky system was abandoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wily Skagaly
Primre Junction
Billy wan
Prairie Junction
M. N
A. M
G. X
Billy
farang o
Draizie Junction
Baily
Chicago
Lead Pencil Craft From Graphite to Wood
An article explains how graphite from Cumberland England and Quebec is mined, milled, and refined for pencil production. It details grinding, clay mixing, pressing, and shaping into standard pencil cores, then wood shaping and assembly into finished pencils. It also anecdotes about Robert Louis Stevenson and Samoa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
England
Laurentian ganges
Quebec
Ticonderoga
Jass tanke Jn
The Coach Whip Snake in North Louisiana
A New Orleans Times-Democrat observer recounts watching coach whip snakes in north Louisiana. When unalarmed the snake glides with two thirds of its body on the ground and a curved head, smooth motion like a whip. When frightened it straightens into a straight rapid motion, seeming to arrow along the ground. The author ponders complex, subtle locomotion possibly driven by writhing and contractions, yet cannot discern any deviation from a straight path.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Old Hutchinson and the September wheat squeeze
A dramatic account of the wheat corner led by the trader known as Old Hutch, who fixed September prices at 1.50 and then 2.00, driving up bids while protecting favored “good fellows.” He cleared millions, avoided pressuring allies, and kept a warm charitable heart amid the turmoil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hutch
Freeszied
Mr. Hutchinson
Wwer
Hutchiman
Hoe
Hutchinson
Columbus A. Orvis
board of trade
Huchinson
bia
Chicago
Remenyi Story Told to a Little Girl by a Fiddler
eccentric violinist Edouard Remenyi shared a fairy tale of a voyage after a ship misfortune. He described landing among giant black people in Australia, playing the Miller of the Dee, and meeting a towering king with a ten foot fiddle. He claimed eight years of companionship and lessons before returning to America to reassure a worried child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edouard Remenyi
America
Chicago
Virginia hotel
Remenyi
Wirrawilla land
Australia
Arundel plain
Turret mountains
brooks
Remeny
Chicago Times-Herald
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M. L. BLANCHARD
W.S. LORD
I. T. BAKER
J. CULVER, E.W. INGRAM
W.H. GOLT
P. H. DENNY
8. N. SMITH, JR
W. F. PENNINGTON
EUGENE LYNCH
W.H. ANDERSON
H. C. HOBBS
W.R. PETERS
Wye
Denton
Greenwood
Ellendale
Q. A.R.R
Queenstown
WILLIAM M. CONN
QUEENSTOWN, MD
Lewes
WM, HOPPS & CO
BALTIMORE, MD
Milton
Price
orc
JULIUS HINES & SOM
Baltimore
SILLY SKAGGLY
Mreken MHendle
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Fifa
Phat Staton
Le price
Keating
J. N. RICKARDS
Rincety
FARHERS
Main street
Acme
Planet, Jr
Preston
J. H. BARROW
Railroad & Cannery Aves
PRESTON, MD
H. W. Dobson
BALTIMORE OPTIC COMPANY
Attie
Fergie anu wauwince
DOBSON
MILES & McK KENNEY
Gen. Manaarns
W. Fayette Street
Choptank Hotel
J. O. Taylor
J.C. LEIB & COMPANY
FRUIT AND PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Camden St. BALTIBACT
Traders’ National Bank of Baltimore
First National Bank of
Stewartstown
Stewartstown, Pa
T. H. Evans & Company, Fruit AND Produce Commission
Light Street
Maryland
parprrARiHh
RUMFORD
Water Street
EASTON
PEERLESS TRACTION
IMPERIAL AUTOMATIC
Easton delivery
G. M. VINCARD
ASTON, MARYLAND
JOS
BUMERNARD
PRiesident
FRED. KL OWENS, Vier Pista sr
GEOL
WALLACH, CASHIFR
DENTON, MARYLAND
DIREC
BERNARD
Greensboro
FRED. KR. OWENS
Ridgely
ROBT
JARRELL
Goldsboro
GEO. C. MOORS
Queen Anne
PAUL
HOLSINGIR
J. W. KI
W. SILK
F. A. PORTER
Durrsville
J. FRANK LEDNUM
WM. B. NOBLE
PIEULADELENA
FISHER & NICHOLS
Tuckahoe Neck
Caroline county
Denton and
OSCAR CLARK
HARRY B. MASON
Wihnington
Philadelphia
New York
Percales
India
Hamburg
Thomas Carmine
Ridgely, Maryland
Caroline
adjoining
Caroline, Talbot
Dorchester
J. B. K. EMORY
HMORY
NEAVITT
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Baltimore, Maryland
EBENE
R. LEWIS
Carolina
Denton, Ma
PERCY DUNNING
Samoa
Robert Louis Stevenson
Apia
Heywood
Robert Lous Stevenson
Stevenson
frankie Louis Stevenson
Detroit
Fico Press
Lee
Pittsburg
Atlanta Constitution
Wen
New York Tribune
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