Visiting Hours at Otter Lake
Richard Dwight rents a bungalow at Otter Lake and misreads a cottage door late at night. He meets Miss Cameron, Mrs. Temple's niece, who helps recover a missing watch linked to a cottage break in. Amid pursuit chatter the pair bond, and Dwight learns a lesson as Mrs. Temple’s relatives hint at a summer romance.
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Otter Lake
Mrs. Temple
Mo Noiice May
California
Achard
Juall Islands
Richard
Bill
Dwight
Redbard
Card
Miss Cameron
Cameron
Redard
Captive Orang-Utan Demonstrates Problem Solving
The AD orang-utan Dohong at a New York zoo solved a banana trap by using a hidden hooked stick after a banana was placed inside a pipe connected to bars. W Reid Rish notes the event in American Magazine, highlighting apparent high intelligence.
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AD Orang-Utan
Dohong
New York Zoo
Borneo
W. Reid Rish
American Magazine
Lel
Esperanto Aims At World Understanding But English May Prevail
The article notes optimism for Esperanto spreading as a universal tongue yet doubts the average person will accept an artificial language. It predicts English will likely remain the most spoken modern language while Esperanto’s advocates pursue universal brotherhood and a harmonizing effect wherever it is introduced, per The Argonaut.
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Paige
Jewett
Proving That Hasty Criticism Is Unwise
A humorous anecdote from My Book of Memory recounted by Silas Hocking involves W B Pope a Wesleyan theology professor and his son Sam who sought to become a barrister. Sam preaches to pass the two hour deadline and learns his father secretly judged the sermon harshly yet praised his own improvised effort as the best available.
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Silas Hocking
W. B. Pope
Sam
National Hero Just Small Boy to Mother
Dutch salvage firms search the Caribbean seabed for a relic from Piet Hein’s 17th century sea victories. He captured eight Spanish galleons, sank five others, and sparked national pride before decline. In Rotterdam he was hailed by government and nobility, then visited Delfts haven where his mother’s greeting was simple: wipe your feet, my boy.
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Caribbean
Piet Heln
Piet Hein
Dutch Republic
Pierre van Paassen
Rotterdam
Amsterdam
Haarlem
Alf Holland
Ingala
Delftshaven
Piet
Restitution Motive Guides Edward Hunt’s Odd Will
An elderly Edward Hunt, seeking restitution for a past wrong, devises a will that makes his twenty one year old son marry the daughter of a man he once harmed. The daughter is found to be fifty five, but the son complies, executing the odd parental stipulation.
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Edward Hunt
Hunt
Old-Time Oratory and the Begums Speech Reference
The item recalls Sheridan in the House of Commons delivering a famed spellation of the Begums of Oade, offered £1000 within 24 hours for the copyright, and Burke urging Hastings impeachment, with Macaulay cited for dramatic recall. It notes shifts in oratory since 1788 and cites the New York Herald Tribune.
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House of Commons
Sheridan
Oade
Burke
Warren Hastings
Macaulay
New York Herald4 Tribune
Chameleon Lakes in Colorful Water Changes
Lake Geneva and Lake Constance show blue and green waters respectively, with blue signaling purity and green indicating impurities. The text explains that green lakes can turn colorless when iron oxide dust washes in, neutralizing the green hue through a complementary red tint.
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Lake Geneva
Switzerland
Lake Constance
Ted
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Jewett and Paige
Detroit
WM. Bullock
White’s
N. Sixth St
Denton
Telephone
the New Jewett
Lockheed Hydraulic
M. K. Newnam, Denton
James J. Ross
Wm, Denny
Sec’y-Treas
The
Kent County Mutual Insurance Co
Dover, Delaware
L. Irving Jones
Agt
Ial
Jonn T. Carter, A .Denton
Greensboro
John W. Payne
Preston, Md
Nature
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield, N. J
Denton National Bank
Denton, Md
Denton National Bank of Maryland
Norris
Caroline County
Goldsboro Bank
Goldsboro
Maryland
Robert Jarrell, JR
Ernest G. Cooper Denton, Md
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