The Bicycle on Wet Roads and Related Tales
A collage of period notes includes a bicycle safety piece on side slip risks and pumping tires, a New York Ledger excerpt about sea breezes and carriages, a Child's Paper note on Washington’s oath stone, pay scales for German officers, Irish harp lore, ancient head coverings, a Syria mosaic find, and the Dead Sea’s bitumen fish.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Wall Street
Nassau
New York
Washington
London Daily Graphic
Syria
Jordan
Salt
Kerak
Egypt
Lebanon
Jerusalem
Dead Sea
Do Fish Have a Memory The Edinger Inquiry
A London Lancet excerpt reports Professor Ludwig Edinger of Janifort-on-the-Main seeking anglers and naturalists to share experiences on fish memory. The letter discusses whether fish remember, can recognize people or places, and whether memories arise without a brain cortex, noting observed behaviors and the influence of sensibility in memory debates.
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Ludwig Edinger
Janifort-on-the-Main
Edinger
London
Lancet
Needle Making Through the Ages and Its Heirs
The article traces early needle origins from bone and ivory to bronze, Egypt, and Mesopotamian depictions. It notes Chinese, Indian, and Hebrew use, Roman steel needles, and Moorish introduction to Spain before Elizabethan England. It highlights 1650 as when English production began, then describes modern machines turning out thousands of needles hourly with youth labor.
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Egypt
Spain
England
Elizabeth
New York City's Grand Park Compared With London Estates
An Englishman and an American tour London’s Houses of Parliament and discuss public buildings and parks. The Englishman boasts about Thames embankment and estate ownership, while the American notes America’s vast size and jokes about New York being a park for the city. Harper's Round Table quotes close dialogue.
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London
Thames Embankment
New York City
de T
New York
United States
British Isles
Harper’s Round Table
Night time Broadway cab ride attracts a tipsy passenger
A befuddled man aboard a Broadway car after hours clung to his belongings and requested the conductor to note his car and badge numbers before handing over cigars and a gold watch. A newspaper man recorded the incident as one oddity among city transit tales of the night.
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Broadway
Park Row
New York Sun
Prayer of gratitude at missionary event praised
A New Hampshire delegate offered a fervent prayer at a missionary convention praising God's power and noting the Earth’s rotation and balanced forces. The World’s iron mountains are described, with supposed solid iron ore in Missouri, Mexico, India, Africa, and reported in Siberia.
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New Hampshire
Missouri
Mexico
India
Africa
Stanley
Siberia
Signboards Through Two Millennia of Pub Art
A historical survey traces signboards from ancient Rome to medieval England and beyond, noting how emblems and heraldic figures advertised inns and trades when literacy was limited. It covers pumice and pottery depictions in Pompeii, the shift from religious and animal symbols to stagecraft in hall and hostelry, and anecdotes of signs like the Bull's Mouth and Boulogne Mouth, plus mentions of famed painters and Royal Academicians who contributed to the craft.
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Rome
Pompeii
England
Commonwealth
Barebones
God
Boulogne Mouth
Boulogne Harbor
Henry VII
Boniface
Charles Calton
Royal
Samuel Wade
Hogarth
Richard Wilson
Lippincott’s
London Clergy Courts Men Only Services Draw Crowd
The London Telegraph notes that so called men only services are common in city churches. A Brixton area cleric advertised a men only service with Ladies admitted on the bill to lure curiosity seekers and draw a larger audience to hear the usual doctrine.
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London
London Telegraph
Brixton
Papier mache nose in Paris shoplifting case shocks inspector
Noemi Saumon, a middle aged woman arrested for shoplifting in Paris, collapsed and lay in a coma at the station. An inspector attempted revival with smelling salts, then tweaked her nose, which detached in his hand as a papier mache prop, prompting disbelief and concern.
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Noemi Saumon
Paris
Neighbors clash over nearsighted misreadings in Detroit
A Detroit Free Press item recalls Briggs and Griggs arguing about nearsightedness, with Briggs claiming to have walked up to a creditor yesterday. The exchange highlights everyday misunderstandings in a city setting.
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Briggs
Griggs
Detroit Free Press
Nest Fireproof Doors Show Wood Tin Cover Best for Fire Resist
Experiments compare fire resisting materials for doors find wood with tin coating better at resisting flames than iron doors. The article reflects on the question settled and includes a brief aside about poetic talent notably denying poets are born. It cites a biblical real estate note: Abraham purchasing Macphelah field for 400 shekels of silver where Sarah was buried.
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Adam
Indianapolis Journal
Macphelah
Abraham
Sarah
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