True West Tale of Old Jones and the Agent
In a rugged Colorado frontier tale, Old Jones and his nephew torment mules at dusk, face Ute demands for justice, and vow vengeance on a government agent. A hired killer named Curly Bill fails, and Jones kills him in a saloon. He is acquitted amid a mock verdict.
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Winchester
Sam
Gunnison
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Curly Bill
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Curly
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citizens’ committee
Fort Findlay Trail Remains Of War Of 1812 Route
In Hancock and Wood counties a six mile forest swath marks the path General Hull and his army took toward Fort Meigs during the War of 1812. Farm sites still reveal log culverts and tree-stump remains five feet below soil, with Colonel Windlay linked to a stockade fort named for him near Blanchard's Fork of the Auglaize.
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Hancock
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Hull
Fort Meies
Findlay
Windlay
Auglaize
Soldiers Love Tobacco in Battle Tales
A Scottish tale from the Edinburgh Scotsman recounts officers and soldiers lighting pipes or cigars amid combat. It cites Franco-Prussian, Russo-Turkish, and Zulu-era actions, including a Victoria Cross recipient lighting a cigarette with hospital wood and Bruns wick Hussars charging with cigars in their mouths.
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Jones
Rorke’s Drift
Majuba Hill
Archibald Forbes
Metz
von Bentheim
Starbrucken
Brunswick
Prince of Bulgaria Tries Calais Restaurant Menu
A tall elegant foreigner at Calais railroad station demanded the full menu and claimed royal status. He announced, I am the Prince of Bulgaria, prompting the maitre d hotel to remark that high distinctions had been served, while the guest kept his identity uncertain.
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Calais
Stalie
Tam
Prince of
Bulgaria
No Cork Legs in Modern Prosthetics
In this Notes and Queries excerpt a veteran hospital visitor declares that the term cork leg is obsolete in surgery. He explains prosthetic legs have not used cork for over fifty years, preferring wood and willow with steel joints and leather coverings, while cork remains a nonstandard outsiders’ label.
Poisons and detection in modern science
The article discusses common poisons like morphine and drussic acid and notes that chemical tests now detect poison in food water and the body after death. It argues that with scientific examination and judicial inquest almost any poison can be detected by lesions or chemical extraction, and dismisses the notion that the Borgias mastered poison as a lost art.
Large Goat Herds Halt Greek Forest Growth
Greece bears the cost of expansive goat herds that strip young trees and prevent forest regrowth. Holm oaks, if unchecked, grow to thirty or forty feet but are kept stunted to shrub size as goats continually graze the canopy.
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Greece
Government experts on cooking losses in meat revealed
Dietary tests by government experts show fresh food accounts for about 20 percent of the average man’s diet in the United States. They found beef loses up to 38 percent of weight when boiled due to water loss, frying preserves nutrients, and solids migrate to broth when beef is cooked in water. Fat cuts shrink less and smaller pieces shrink more than larger ones when boiled.
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Saturday Evening Post
Sheridan's Sleeping Bag Tale From Civil War Camps
The Harrisburg Telegraph recounts a tale of General Sheridan carrying a fur sleeping bag on the Indian campaign in midwinter. Two big dogs followed him, nosing into the tent and into the bag at reveille. The dogs’ intrusion caused a raucous scene as the general’s mood and the tent mercury rose, while Reim laughed at the scene.
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Sheridan
Wendell Phillips
Dep. Randolph Reim
General Sheridan
Phil
Reim
Harrisburg
Do Animals Weep A Look at Animal Tears
Explorers and observers report animals showing tears or crying in distress pain or sorrow. Accounts include horses in the Syrian desert a mule an injured camel dying elephants and apes and even sea lions and giraffes. The piece notes rare crying in animals but jokes that a house cat’s tears are unlikely.
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Lady Burton
Syrian desert
Gordon Cumming
Livingstone
Prince of Wales Endearing Prank at Evening Party
At a royal evening by King Edward VII when prince was still the future king, a young nobleman boastfully claimed favor and urged the prince to wait on him. The bet led to a funny moment as the prince rang for punch and then ordered the footman to secure the man’s carriage, leaving guests astonished.
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Edward VII
Prince of Wales
Wales
Where Woman is Lord on Mintkoi Island Society
A description of Mintkoi a southern Indian island where women dominate households. The wife leads the home owning the property and assets while the husband works to add wealth and takes the wife’s name upon marriage. The husband belongs to his wife and is granted status through marriage rather than matrilineal inheritance.
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Mintkoi
India
Political Banners Through Time From Canvas to Net
A veteran sign painter recalls evolving political banners over fifty years from canvas sails with weights and holes to modern net banners. He notes wind resistance, damage from loose weights, and the shift to brailed, furled banners that retract during storms, praising overall progress in political display technology.
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New England
New York Sun
Genesis of the Piano from a Padua harpsichord maker
A historic note on Bar tollomeo Christoferi of Padua at Prince Ferdinand de Medici's court who solved the keyed psaltery problem and created the ancestor of the pianoforte. The piano evolved from a dulcimer with a keyboard to a hammer struck instrument, growing in popularity from 1709 onward into a major industry employing thousands.
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Ferdinand de’ Medici
Bartollomeo Christoferi
Universal Magazine
Christofori
Formation of coal in ancient geological ages described
The text reviews several theories on coal formation, noting most coal formed in the carboniferous age before higher animals. It explains lush vegetation, favorable atmospheric conditions, and peat formation that, when buried and distilled over centuries, hardened into coal.
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tropics
The Cocoa Tree in South America Canopy System
A traveler describes cocoa plantations in South America where young plants perish under strong sun unless shaded. Planters use banana and plantain leaves for shelter and employ immortels or mother of the cocoa trees to protect mature plants, creating a complete canopy over the plantation.
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South America
The Doctor In China’s Swim To Freedom
A Chinese physician mismanages a case and is seized by an angry family. He escapes by night, swimming a river to flee pursuit. Returning home he finds his son studying medicine and warns him that learning comes first, stressing the importance of learning to swim.
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China
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