Joe Weston Wins State Corn Prize at Farm Fair
Joe Weston a fourteen year old farmer wins the state corn prize at a county fair. Tom Ralston backs him as townspeople praise his hard work. The young inventor overcomes poverty and doubt, receives support from Mr. Somerville, and plans to celebrate at the fairgrounds before the award ceremony.
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Joe Weston
Afr
Surmervilly
Lim
Louk Famming
Boal
Mr. Somerville
Joe
Tle
Somerville Jo
Connulston
Iain
Sass
Leo’ O Haa
Aisu
Joe d
Alyter
Coartis
Tom Ralston
Tom
Ralston
Ton
Tom Ratevema Fither
Todtili
Joe Sally
Mr Stoleten
Sabner
Chandry
Henty
Haan
Rawston
Bert
Dee
Wither
Oman
Scholarship Swap Averting Loss Becomes County Hero Tale
In a county setting Joe Weston and his father Mr Weston face the chance that a less privileged boy would miss a scholarship. Henry and the boy’s family negotiate a cash transfer to secure the prize for the rightful recipient. The Weston family celebrates a just outcome and considers the boy’s future in farming rather than a distant college path. Joe accepts the deed with gratitude, acknowledging the broader impact on his community. The anecdote closes with gratitude, resolve, and a vow to keep quiet about the arrangement.
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Evie Dently
Joe Weston
Sewins
Beitek
Osome
Mr. Weston
Mr Weston
Joe
Mr. Ralston
Tom
Mr. Halston
Edo
Halston
Pin Net
Min
the Fair Management
Mr. Tilston
Mr. Talston
Sears
Weston Uising
Lafayette Dollar Coinage For Lafayette Monument
In 1899 Congress ordered 50 000 Lafayette dollars to fund a Lafayette monument in Paris to be erected in 1900. The first coin was struck December 14 1899 at the Philadelphia mint on Washington’s hundredth death anniversary. The coin shows Washington and Lafayette on the obverse and a Lafayette statue on the reverse with the inscription commemorating the monument. Sales proceeds supported the monument fund at two dollars each. the issue was limited to fifty thousand and the coins are now rare collector pieces worth about one dollar and ten cents to one dollar twenty five cents.
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Wilmington Savings Fund Society
Wilmington
Contigent Fund For
Congress
Paris
Philadelphia
George Washington
United States
Republc
France
Washlington
Lafayette
General Lafayette
Lafayette Memorial Commission
New York Times
Move on Fever In Uncle Sam’s Service Cooks Desert But Stay Loyal
A collage of wartime humor and social commentary questions why cooks desert the Marine Corps, noting higher desertion rates among cooks over two years. It cites statistics from vault-like sources and mocks service life with anecdotes about employment agents, a widow cook, and jokes on bait and freedom. The piece frames cooks as a stubborn, celebrated group within an era of service.
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Uncle Sam
Marine Corps
Memory versus sight in recalling language and music
A historical discussion questions whether hearing or reading leaves a stronger imprint. It cites feats like Woodfall’s exact oral reports, Toscanini and Beecham conducting from memory, and other memory legends, noting popular belief leans toward auditory memory over visual reading.
Curious tale of bluffing age and a birthday razor
A humorous vignette from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recounts a mother teaching her son to claim an age, a rector’s quip about a birthday gift, and a moral about old Father Time. It then shifts to De Parville on rats storing 250 tulip bulbs in an underground chamber ungnawed, arranged neatly in two rows.
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Weston
Tom
Ralston
Steegans
Caplad City
Willy Baaimets
Davids
Miro Taalsten
Art Agley
Fonsiis
Lord Fauntleroy
Syaw
Vos
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
de Parville
le Uva
Time and lobster terms in historical notes from London to Sydney
A brief note explains how Sydney subscribers can obtain standard time by calling the observatory for Time or Exact time with escalating precision. It also traces the origin of the term lobster in English history from Civil War cuirassiers to police and clergy slang, via references in Grose and the London Chronicle.
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Sydney
Australia
Sydney Observatory
Clarendon
Grose
London Chronicle
New England Weather and a Dinner Speech
The late George M. Stearns of Chie oper Mass spoke at a New England club dinner in New York. He quipped that New England weather for twenty years builds a vigorous constitution enabling one to live longer even after a fatal disease.
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New England
George M. Stearns
Chieoper
Mass
New England Club
New York
Mr. Stearns
Pittsburgh Press
First Flying Machine Achievement Cited in 1901 Flight
A New York American note recalls the December 1901 Wright brothers flight at Kitty Hawk North Carolina as the true birth of powered heavier than air flight. It marks the historic moment when a man rode a machine propelled by power through the air.
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Wright Brothers
Kilty, Hawk
N.C
New York American
First Woman Legends Across Cultures
The piece surveys diverse origin myths for women from various cultures. It notes the Japanese belief that women grew on a tree, the Laplinders claim she was once a rabbit, the Perstars say she fell from the heavens, and Australian natives describe her as a former toad.
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Melvin & Johnson, Publishers
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Federalsburg
Hurlock Automobile Line
Williston
American Corner
Williamsburg
Hurlock
Baltimore
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Penton
Federalsbourg
Uurtock
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Auto
Pennsylvania
Greensboro
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Ridgely
Downes
Denton Auto Co
Greater Delmarvia
Delmarvia Advancement CO
duPont Building
Del
Victor Torbert
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Ral
Washington
Desmarvis Peninsula
America
Ceci
Kent
Queen Anne’s
Maryland
New Castle
Delaware
Caroline County
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Delmarvia
C. T. Trazzare
Masonic
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Railwayz Division
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Willard Chommndon
Junker
E. Fayette ST
Charles
Baltimore, MD
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J. Ormond Neal
Pliny Fisher
Win. Pepper
Maryland Trust Building
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Elkton
West Denton
L. B. Towers
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Goldsboro Bank
Goldsboro, Md
Robert Jarrell, JR
Custer
Denton Meat Company
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Den-Mar Wosile Co
Chas. A. Davison
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Ytel Powhatan
Washington,d. C
Pennsylvania Ave
18Th and
H Streets
White House
J. C. Owen
Wilmington Conference Academy
S. Cardoso de Silva
Henry G. Budd
Dover
Public Servicer Construction CO
W. Pratt Street
Mbp
St. Paul
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Frantz Bros
Reading Terminal
Journal
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Harper & Brothers
Joe Tues
Tom Boston
Jew Bose
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Lewis Prise & Renad
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Jae Weston
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Oulsten
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Dee Weston
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Mer Radston
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Cade Grounds
Cony Club
Acun
Aparrant Arris
Henry
Mar. Tralston
Mother
Annie
Jabu
Garrick
Learian
Macaulay
India
Dude Stuart Mhvs
Woodfall
Toscanini
Thomas Beecham
London Orchestra
Strauss
Rosenkavalier
Vou Buelow
Hamburg
Berlin
Kuuwald
Cincinnati Times-Star
First Woman Legends
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