Restored to Life A Thrilling Rescue from India
In colonial India Charles Norton a beloved officer defies danger with his sepoy and friends to rescue a young woman captured for a temple rite. They uncover a hidden cell beneath a pagoda, free the girl, thwart murderers, and Norton dies yet is later revived by restoratives amid a dramatic night of peril.
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Charles Norton
Meer Ali
India
Mussulman
Ali
Jie
Charles
Pris
Philadelphia Press
Could Make Wim Useful
A street car encounter unfolds as a pretty girl tells a stranger he reminds her of her brother and expresses a playful wish for his presence for a moment. The stranger responds with a chilling smile, the exchange noted in a Chicago Tribune quotation.
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Wim
Khilling
Chicago Tribune
Before Marconi
An Egyptologist and an Assyriologist debated relative advancement of their subjects. The Egyptologist claimed remains of wires in Egypt proved they understood electricity. The Assyriologist countered that there are no wires in Assyria, implying they knew wireless telegraphy.
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Marconi
Egyptolot
Egypt
Assyria
Magistrate questions motive in school mischief confession
A magistrate questions a determined mother who says her son confessed after she disciplined him. She details a sequence of punishment including a beating and withheld supper, claiming the boy spoke freely and told the full story.
Jones the tailor asks Miss Swell to marry
Jack and Dick exchange humor about a tailor named Jones proposing to Miss Swell and her witty reply that he was cut out. The joke ends with no further pursuit as he gets the hint.
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Jack
Jones
An Early Start in Love Debate
A child asks if she must marry when grown, mother replies with a playful nod to tradition. The girl notes Aunt Jane has pursued marriage for twenty years without success, prompting a lighthearted reflection on early courtship and expectations.
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Little Flossie
Jane
Foreigners and patriots in travel lore
A travel anecdote contrasts a French visiting woman remarking that even children spoke French with an English traveler who loved travel yet clung to his identity. He refused to be called foreign in Florence, insisting Italians are foreigners but he remains an Englishman, a staunch John Bull.
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France
Florence
Region of Laziness Island Tale If True
A regional tale claims between Madagascar and India there are 16 000 islands with only 600 inhabited. It asserts a man may live in luxury on most islands by working no more than twenty five days a year.
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West Denton
Madagascar
India
Death valley’s extreme heat and barren vastness described
The article contrasts Death Valley in Inyo County with the Dead Sea region, noting its eight by thirty five mile expanse, below sea level portions, and relentless heat surpassing 100 degrees day and night, with 125 degrees inland. It mentions thunderstorms nearby and the mummified remains of animals in the dry sands. It also recounts a separate incident involving Justice Sir John Armour on the Alaskan boundary commission where he playfully raised a rotary chair to illustrate his point of view.
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Death Valley
Inyo County
Cal
Dead Sea
Pacific
Sahara
Sir John Armour
Supreme Court of Canada
Alaskan Boundary Commission
Sir John
Wranglers
Armour
Hair Styles Reveal Women's Status in Japan
In Japan, women's hair arrangements signal marital status. Maiden seekers display front hair styled as a fan or butterfly with silver ornaments, widows seeking new husbands pin hair at the back with tortoise shell pins, and faithful widows keep short hair with no ornaments, indicating constancy to a departed spouse.
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Japan
Deacon’s oxen breachy remark leads to fence damage
A New England deacon sold oxen to a brother farmer. Before buying, the buyer asked if the pair were breachy. The deacon replied they’d never bothered him, but the oxen damaged the fences soon after. The buyer confronted the deacon, who stood by his answer.
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New England
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Swinney & Company
J. H. Nichols
Denton
LAW Building
Armour’s Animal Fertilizers
Armour & Co
Armour’s Farm and Garden
C. F. Smith
J. Calvin Smith
Greensboro
John T. Stevenson
Ridgely
Armour Fertilizer Works
Chicago
Ill
Baltimore
Nuttle Hardware Co
Coats
W. R. Wright
Cupid
Azeeta
One
Sahib
Bardrie
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