Deaf Armstrong Finds Loot and Wins Myrtle
Dale Armstrong, once famed college football star, is revealed deaf after a head injury. He uncovers a missing safe from Mr Parr's home with help from a trusted plan, regaining his hearing after a city operation. He returns the loot, earns Mr Parr’s respect, and wins Myrtle Parr.
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Dale Armstrong
Columbia College
Virden
Dale Arm
Howe
Consciouness
Dale
Myrtle
Myrtle Parr
Tipton
Mr. Parr
Ife
Armstrong
Grossip
Parr
Billard Hell
Inean
Stringer
Corer
Murray
Hfe
Farr
Impossible to Deny Dogs Psychic Powers
Popular Mechanics Magazine notes dogs display apparent psychic abilities. Author Albert Payson Terhune cites three incidents in which dogs predicted actions of their owners and reacted to events at distant kennels, suggesting canine extrasensory perception beyond coincidence.
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Albert Payson Terhune
New York
Sunpybank
N. J
Terhune
Wolff
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Bad table etiquette not a valid reason for divorce
A Paterson New Jersey man sued for divorce saying his wife’s table manners, eating with a knife, justified the split. The judge ruled knife use at table is not a fault that dissolves marriage, noting many homes would collapse if it were. The piece mocks extreme etiquette anxieties.
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Paterson
N. J
Rockaway
Brooklyn Standard Union
Tomato the Newest Ingredient in Modern Salads
British food experts study salad history and note tomato as the single new ingredient in modern salads. They cite ancient diets with onions, garlic, cucumbers, mustard, watercress, nasturtium, and even hard boiled eggs, from Cleopatra to Confucius, and Persia 4,000 years ago using sour wine on lettuce.
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Persia
Insects Provide Food for Imprisoned Frogs
Scientists recount finds of frogs trapped in rock and coal mines, tracing their presence to tiny fissures during stone formation. Insects fed the frogs while they were sealed inside, but frogs cannot survive without food for more than twelve months.
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Ught
Henddel
William Boyd Dawkins
Werneth
London
Thrift Lesson: Small Savings Grow With Time
A magazine explains how saving before key ages doubles the value over decades. Investing one dollar early, such as before twenty or thirty, can yield about tenfold by age forty or sixty, illustrating long term growth of small amounts.
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Parches Magazine
Boys Earn Cents Rearing Potato Beetles
The Bug for Business describes two boys gathering potato beetles from their dad's garden. They earn ten cents per hundred beetles, saving the potato crop through their labor. The younger boy notes yellow eggs, while the older boy warns not to crush them as they hatch and yield more payment.
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Big Boy
Lttle
Interviews reveal early journalism and abolition link at raid site
The piece discusses the origins of slow feature journalism linked to the John Brown raid at Harpers Ferry. It notes Gerrit Smith, antislavery advocate from Peterboro, N Y, as one implicated figure. The New York Herald sent a reporter who published a conversation style interview. The era marked a sensational start for newspaper enterprise.
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Iss
John Brown
Karpers Ferry
Gerrit Smith
Peterboro
N. Y
New York Herald
Berg
By Comparison An Antoriean and a Departed Friend
An Antoriean dies and meets a departed friend in the afterlife. They exchange casual remarks on their new surroundings. The conversation turns to New York and the universe, with the newcomer jesting about heaven and the older friend bristling at the notion.
No procrastination and prompt action guide success
A quoted extract by Noerma Sauls from The Central Magazine urges strict time discipline. It equates time with money, opposing delay and inviting decisive action to seize opportunities and gain rewards.
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Noerma Sauls
Uthels Central Magazine
Wit and Natural Parts in Speech in Timber
In 1641 Y, Jonson argues that lacking wit occurs when one is not universally witty, comparing eyes noses and other facial parts as equally necessary in their places. He critiques natural language used by gentlemen and notes wit diminishes when prose mimics lofty manners.
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Hen Jonson
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Howard R. Pritchett & CO
Greensboro
Maryland
J. Virgil Moore
Rpunelratl
Denton
Wesley Collegiate Institute
C. A. Short
Dover, Delaware
Caue
Ernest G. Cooper Denton, Md
Ake
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Rette
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Winston-Salem, N
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Foster-Milburn Co., Mfy. Chem
Buffalo
N.Y
S. Frank Cole
Denton, Md
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