Unsuspected Cat Duet Reveals Anna Cary Secret Voice
A Boston Clef club gathering features Will and John Winch performing a comical duet between a world weary tomcat and his amorous son. The falsetto finale reveals Anna Louise Cary’s disguise as the singer, shocking the all male audience. The prank ends with Cary's laughter answering the crowd’s astonishment.
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Anna Louise Cary
Boston Clef Club
Will
John Winch
Will Winch
John
Paes
Annalise Cary
New York ‘Post
Abbotsbury Swannery One of Britain's Largest
The London Magazine describes Abbotsbury swannery on the Fleet near Weymouth as Britain's largest. Tradition says it is over 800 years old with Tudor-era evidence. In March and April swans nest on marshy ground, with over 400 nests last spring and a total of 1,150 birds. Each nest holds about six eggs, four or five hatch, yet only thirty to forty new birds join the flock annually.
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Abbotsbury
London
Great Britain
Fleet
Chesil
Weymouth
Stomach indigestion remedy from old natural medicine
If the stomach lacks gastric juice the undigested food stagnates and foul gas rises to the throat causing indigestion and a sick headache. Currant juice is advised to stimulate stomach acids and promote digestion. Red or black currants stewed with little sugar are suggested as an effective remedy.
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Barranta
What Causes Fage Fog and Its Formation
Fogs result from moisture in the atmosphere when a warm air layer meets a cold layer or cooler surface and loses capacity to hold moisture. Cold air over warm surfaces also forms fog, seen around lakes and marshes as evening mists. In London dense fogs are worsened by rising smoke from countless chimneys mixing with mist and settling over streets.
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London
A Boy Who Did His Duty
A London Tit-Bits tale recalls a shopkeeper leaving a boy to guard a customer. The boy reports the man is not stealing, claiming he watched him closely. The scene unfolds as the shopkeeper seeks change upstairs and returns to the counter.
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London
Serenity and Simplicity in Japanese Life
The text praises Japanese women for serenity and freedom from worries, noting simple dress, clean houses, and minimal decoration. It describes homes with sliding walls that open to outdoors, adaptable rooms, and the ease of housekeeping, while suggesting both nations could learn from each other.
Company Manners and the Dinner Served Three Times
A woman learns a blunt lesson in etiquette when she teaches her daughter to avoid urging guests to take more. At dinner the daughter asks Mr X if he wants oysters, prompting the mother to exclaim that he has not yet been served. The daughter replies he has already had three helpings, exposing the rigidity and folly of rigid table manners.
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Mr. X
Mamma
Mirage Rainstorms in Colorado Desert Dazzle Locals
In the United States a man may stay dry in heavy rain without rain gear. In the Colorado desert, fierce rainstorms occur where rain evaporates in hot air, leaving the ground untouched. The phenomenon happens under shade temperatures up to 128 degrees Fahrenheit, creating a strange spectacle of rain that never reaches the earth.
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United States
Mackintosh
Colorado Desert
Why He Was Posted and a Linguistic Mix of English
A humorous exchange from a club scene features a Chicago man praising his wife’s mind while a Dakota stranger, claiming to have married her, challenges authority. The text then shifts to language quirks, noting errors in English usage and a misheard question about a missing coat, highlighting pronunciation and grammar flaws.
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Chicago
Dakota
New York Tribune
Stair climbing and name spellings in a curious mix
A physical culture teacher warns against bent posture when going upstairs noting the correct head and weight on the ball of the foot. The piece then shifts to a long list of misspellings for Shakespeare’s name and ends with a courtroom quip about aging by hesitation.
Negro Dialect Tale From Montserrat Surprises Visitors
In Montserrat, an Irish settler recounts the island’s unique blend of Irish brogue and African speech. A saddler’s miscommunication with a Black dock worker leads to a comic exchange about time and color, illustrating how the sun supposedly darkens a man in months. The anecdote ends with the saddler fleeing back to Ireland, swayed by the local speechscape.
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Martinique
St. Vincent
Barbados
Montserrat
St. Lucia
Guadeloupe
America
Connaught
Antilles
Africa
Kerry
Donegal
Ireland
Early Fire Extinguishers and Dental Care Advice
The article traces early fire extinguishers to Augsburg in 1518 with water syringes on wheels, and a 1657 Nuremberg engine on a sledge capable of a one inch jet to eighty feet, built by Caspar Schott. It also offers dental guidance on brushing technique, dentifrice, antiseptic rinses, and avoiding metal picks, nuts, threads, temperature contrasts in foods and drinks.
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Augsburg
Germany
Anthony Blatner
Friedberg
Caspar Schott
Nuremberg
Enroughty Pronounced Darby in Virginia Family Tale
A Virginia family story explains why the surname Enroughty is pronounced Darby. A country squire named Darby supposedly inherited a fortune on the condition of changing his name to Enroughty, then wrote it as Enroughty while friends kept calling him Darby, a custom carried through generations.
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Darby
Cholmondeley
Chumly
Beauchamp Beecham
Virginia
Enroughty
Distance viewing rule for observing distant objects at sea
The observer must stand 6.67 feet above sea level to see 100 miles. The rule states that the distance in miles equals the square root of one and a half times the observer's height in feet above sea level, with atmospheric refraction adjustments. It helps ocean travelers estimate how far away a ship appears.
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Seing
Six Good Reasons. A Witty Irish Job Offer Bit
In a humorous exchange Pete is offered a job with long hours and poor pay. Pete agrees to take it saying he knows the balance will work for him. The other man asks for six reasons to accept, and Pete lists his family: a wife and five kids as the six reasons.
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Pete
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