The Wisdom of Nicodemus and the Railroad Claim
A dog Nicodemus disrupts a rail line quarrel with Mrs. O'Hearn over a cow lost to the Sunrise Limited. A trio of railway men, a venerable station president and the owner barter over compensation, as the dog keeps the crowd in comic turmoil and the cow remains unpaid.
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O'Hearn
Michael
Mrs. O'Hearn
Exeter
Nicodemus
O'Elearn
O'Kearn
Nicodeius
oomic
Mrs. CHedes
Indy
Jack
bnotwip
Pocket hunter prospectors in California’s pockets
The Argonaut describes pocket hunters as gold prospectors who locate shallow surface pockets in mountain soil. They mine pockets until the surface gold colors vanish, then move on. One Trinity county find yielded as much as $15000 in a few feet.
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California
Trinity county
How He Uses His Hands and Marital Happiness Advice
Notes on Mr Town send art editor of London Punch as ambidextrous in different tasks. He writes with his right hand, draws with his left, bowls left handed, bats right handed. Also a Louisville Courier Journal blurb advises marrying a bright woman for success and a pretty one for happiness, with cautions on cooking for digestion.
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Townsend
London Punch
London
Louisville Courier-Journal
Under the Ban of Death Core Story of an Assassin’s Flight
A young Russian joins a nihilist circle and is chosen to kill the interior minister. He fakes his death, flees via his sister’s clothes, and assumes multiple identities across Europe and the United States. Years later he marries Sophia Palzoff, living undercover in South America while the nihilist threat wanes and age catches up with their hidden lives.
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brotherhood
Siberia
ton Fe wis
Russia
America
Australia
Ife
Berlin
Waying
Hamburg
Peter Michalowski
Warsaw
Poland
Viborg
Finland
St. Petersburg
cirrcle
Antoine du Bois
Antoine
Anthony
Denver
Du Bois
New York
Sophia Palzoff
Malik
seaid
Sophia
Sophia Paizeff
Amertes
South America
Abbe Pradt Praises and Duke of Wellington Reply
Abbe Pradt, a minor light of Napoleonic times, is recalled as conceited. At a Paris dinner in his honor the abbé praised Europe’s salvation to “one man alone.” The Duke of Wellington counters by claiming the credit, joking that the abbé’s praise should have stopped him from blushing before declaring the phrase “To me.”
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Dept
New York
Abbe
Pradt
Napoleon
Duke of Wellington
Paris
Europe
All In Harmony in Mrs. Gilder's New Home
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item notes Mrs. Gilder’s residence is richly furnished with period antiques. The humor highlights her attention to authentic detail, praising the Queen Anne vacuum cleaner as a notable feature.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Curious Axolotl Reveals a Desert Adaptation
A Youth's Companion recounts how the axolotl a Mexican desert water creature transforms when drought dries its ponds. It details its translucent seven inch body gills fins and tail then explains how it becomes a land creature as ponds vanish and returns to its aquatic axolotl form when water returns.
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California
Mexico
North America
southwest
Mystery of the Salmon Runs Across the North Pacific
The article describes the vast spring and summer salmon runs along the North Pacific shores across Washington, Oregon, California, British Columbia, Alaska, Alberta, and Japan. It notes the immense numbers, upriver migration distances, and the perilous ascent through falls and nets, ending in the breeders dying after spawning, a mystery noted by scientists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
north Pacific ocean
Washington
Oregon
California
British Columbia
Alaska
Aberta
Japan
anyage
Wide World Magazine
Origin of the Telephone From Bell’s Deaf Teaching Efforts
Professor Alexander Graham Bell recalls in a lecture that the telephone sprang from his work to teach the deaf to speak not from electricity. He describes using a dead man’s ear as a model and experimenting with vibrating iron over an electric magnet to create a device that could hear and understand vibrations.
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Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Who Bells the Cat in Stirling Tale
The Glasgow Times recounts the old proverb about who will bell the cat. In Stirling a Scottish noble episode follows the parable with Lord Grey doubting who would act, and the Black Earl Angus replying I will bell the cat, earning Archibald Bell the Cat as a nickname for life.
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Stirling
Spence
James Jr
Lord Grey
bell
Earl Angus
Archibald Bell
Glasgow Times
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Jeweler and Optician
Denton
Maryland
L. H. Bickford
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Mrs. O'Uearn
Detroit
DENTON AUTO CO
JAMES J. ROSS
WM. DENNY
The
Kent County Mutual Insurance Co
DOVER, DELAWARE
CARTER & DEEN, Agts
Denton, Md
L. IRVING JONES
Agt
Greensboro
ALEX. NOBLE, Agt
Preston, Md
Denton Drug Company
Denton, Maryland
Cooper, Wright & Cooper
H. M. THOMPSON
HILLSBORO, MD
enuil
EDWARD J. WOODS
BENNETT BROS
N. Water St
Philadelphia
Northern T. Co
UY SPAPERNA CHI
Pocket Hunters
PAUL SZENSKY
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