A Desperate Chimney Rescue on a Windward Ledge
A daring early 19th century tale recalls apprentices Colly and I, working with a builder on a tall chimney. They rig a kite line to haul up a cradle but wind the rope wrong, snapping the main cord and leaving them suspended. As Colly faints in fright, the narrator steadies him with risk yet compassion, praying and clinging to the rod to prevent a fall.
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Colly
Steaming
Dolly
Jem
Mr. Stanning
Canada
Madman Dolly and the Cradle Rescue at the Shaft
A narrator recounts a perilous mine shaft rescue after a tragedy with a cradle crane. Dolly, driven mad by fear, heckles from above while Colly staggers toward the narrator. The narrator writes a note to friends and, with help, lowers to safety as Colly is finally rescued and later confined.
Judging Colors Delicate Test for Dyeing Experts
Newark Times describes how color discrimination defines a dyeing expert. Training memory, rapid accurate judgment of minuscule shade differences matters when matching dyes. Exposure to many colors strengthens eye and discrimination, while near identical shades require expert rest and periodic testing.
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Newark
Value of an Idea Prompts Million Dollar Insight
An elderly man, wealthy in appearance, gives a young man a check for 1000 dollars after hearing his advertising idea. The benefactor, president of a major advertiser, explains he would pay 1000 if the idea matches its worth, and he projects over 1 million dollars in profit from the concept. The tale underscores how a single idea can drive vast business gains.
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Has
Washington Star
Costly Cigarette Barters Across Conflicts
A London Tit-Bits item recounts extravagant cigarette trades from war times. An English soldier swapped a captured horse for a Turkish cigarette, others paid 20 marks for ten cigarettes during the Franco German war, and a French lieutenant sold fifty for 1000 francs. The record £250 Napoleon III cigarette was auctioned for war relief.
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South Africa
London
American tourist learns Italianized English in Florence
An American woman who knows Italian but not Italianized English recounts a Florence hotel miscommunication. A clerk sends a boy to announce her carriage, the boy speaks in a doorway, she ignores him, and he pleads in broken English, saying he must hurry her departure by rapidly repeating a garbled phrase.
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Florence
America
Oak Tree Lincoln Or Santa Clara Baptists Built Church
In 1853 Santa Clara California saw its first Baptist service under an oak tree. The church site was chosen at the tree, which shaded an acre. The tree was cut down at twenty five feet, trunk split into lumber, and a hollow stump used as the church tower. A tall steeple rose, the church measured thirty by seventy feet, with 1200 feet of lumber left unused.
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Santa Clara
Cal
Baptist Society
Humber
Winning an Umbrella Joke Turns on Fortunate Theft
A Milwaukee merchant bursts into laughter after recounting a rainday mixup on East Water street. He mistook a stranger for Dick Wilson, seized a fine silk umbrella, and learned the man he grabbed had mistaken the item for his own. The tale ends with the punch line that Poe would have approved of the new umbrella and a second thief makes the best owner.
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Grand Avenue
East Water Street
Dick Wilson
Poe
Milwaukee Sentinel
Letters of today lure in big market business
The New York News discusses the mail order business, noting operators need “names” and a targeted audience. They mail carefully worded circulars to lists of responses from previous ads, saving effort by narrowing to an interested, paying audience rather than broad, uninterested circulation.
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New York News
Burning Glasses In Store Windows
A chemical journal warns pharmacists and all who display lenses in windows that seasonal sun rays may focus through glass and start fires. It notes show globes in druggists windows can act as burning glasses, citing a case where sun concentrated through a globe charred window woodwork.
Altered Napoleon Portrait Spawns Christ in Boots
In a Paris college a painting shows Napoleon visiting a plague hospital in Egypt. After his death a Bourbon artist transformed the general into apostles, but left the boots on the Saviour, creating an anachronistic image where Christ wears Napoleonic footwear.
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Paris
Napoleon Bonaparte
Egypt
Christ
Things Not as They Seem in a Street Scene
In a New York Press vignette a youth with a crutch rests against a car as a sympathetic woman offers him her seat. A bystander teases that the boy is not lame but carrying the crutch to a coworker, yet the youth keeps his seat and crutch, unfazed by the exchange.
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New York Press
Eureka
Extinct Volcano of Maui and Kalamao Valley Description
An Extinct Volcano on Maui, Halen kala, is described as the world’s largest extinct volcano with a crater pit about twenty four miles in circumference and 2,000 feet deep. Sixteen subsidiary cones rise from its bed, base circumference around ninety miles. Molokai features Kalamao valley, a 20,000 acre fertile region bounded by 3,000 foot high cliffs.
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Maui
Halenkala
Molokai
Kalamao
Fertilising Tomatoes Show Fertilizers Boost Yield
Experiments at several stations indicate tomatoes respond quickly to manures and fertilizers. The method of manuring greatly influences maturity and yield. New Jersey station tests find nitrate of soda to be a top nitrogenous fertilizer.
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New Jersey
Denton Town Law Reforms in Caroline County Act Enacted
Maryland General Assembly approves repeal and reenactment of several sections of Article Six Public Local Laws for Caroline County Denton. Adds sections 104F and 104G to define town bounds, voting eligibility, officers, taxation and enforcement. Provisions detail boundaries, Electors, election process, officials duties, tax assessment, and tax collection procedures.
Denton Town Powers and Tax Enforcement Act 1902
The act grants Denton town commissioners authority to levy taxes and collect via the bailiff, with 30 day payment windows and 20 day notices before sale. Real estate sales report to Caroline County Circuit Court for ratification, with six month payment window for purchaser protection. Fines up to 50 dollars may be imposed for by laws violations, and town officers may arrest disruptive behavior. Annual county funding of 200 dollars for street repairs begins Jan 1, 1903, with up to five percent discount on timely tax payments. All able bodied male residents 21+ must labor one ten hour day per year on streets, or hire a substitute or pay one dollar. Enactment date: April 8, 1902.
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Public Local Laws
Caroline County
Denton
General Assembly of
Maryland
T. A
Queen Anne's
Choptank
United States
Circuit Court
John Walter Smith
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Denton Journal
Melvin Steele & Johnson
Pall Mall Gazette
Newspape
Coulbourn & Noble
Coulbourn
Bath and
Market Streets
Philadelphia
Pal
M. L
Waller
Egas
Live Aid
Beacon
G. K. Ebling
Ridgely, MD
Denton Flour Mills
William S Wowbray
Friprrick Paisey, Miller
Freick
Calblogue
Nevius & Frampton
Aston, Md
Missouri
Smith & Fountain
Wathes
Evers
Journal Building
H. Bullock
Denton, Md
Oreka
Harvey M. Thawley
Contractor
Carpenter, &c
Henry R. Lewis
T. Alan Goldsbo
Lewis & Goldsborough, Attorneys-At-Law
Caroline
Counties
Ie ST
Eas
W. Jd. Blackiston
Des
L. DD
Kecrey
Easton Vantye and
Wiha
Preston
Tames
Tasylvester
Constablie
Baltimre
Journal
J Fletcher Clark
Baston, MD
Public Local Law
Authority
John Hubner
Senate
Noble L. Mitchell
House of Delegates
Secretary OF the
Alfred Ritter
Denton Bridge
M. M. Mowbray
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