Widow Aims to Capture Neighbor with Culinary Schemes
In a small town tale the widow Jones schemes to win the stubborn colonel next door by sending edible gifts. The colonel resents the rival courting but secretly plots to outmaneuver her. Jed the colonel’s man warns of folly as widow Bing shifts her favors to the parson. The two men mirror vanity, cunning, and comic schemes amid winter snows.
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Ewes
McClure
Jones
Jed
Widow Jones
Gramp Sumpkins
Bing
Arabine
Bureau
Bub
Bob
MPP
Colonel and Bing Clean Up in Humorous Laundry Scene
In a widow Jones shed a comic washday unfolds as the colonel, matching eager bravado with Bing, battles an obstinate button and a toppled benchtop. Water, soapsuds, a dramatic kiss, and a marriage vow end the scene with playful chaos and lingering laughter.
Tempering Steel Claim Made by Washington Inventors
A Washington claim attributes a tempering process to two inventors that supposedly makes steel tools perform feats such as chopping a crowbar and shaving a rod. Damascus steel is deemed inferior by supporters. The process uses chemicals in oil or water, and even drills tempered this way allegedly endure 40 days of use without sharpening in a Wasco mine tunnel.
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Washington
Wasco
Drummer Praises Boom Town on Southern Train
A drummer loudly extols his home city aboard a southern train claiming it is a great little town. A jurist in the smoker questions the wording, asking why it should be called great. The drummer replies with a quirky origin line about Churiotta.
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Churiotta
Wisdom of the Persian Proverb Echoes Moral Duty
A Parisian attributed saying notes the ancient Persian sacred books advise: holiness of instinct toward children. It claims good acts by offspring reflect back on parents, emphasizing parental virtue and responsibility as recorded by Montesquieu.
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Montesquieu
Energy Is Maln Thing In This World
A shortened quotation from Goethe asserts energy defines achievement beyond talents or circumstances and opportunities, claiming it drives one to become a man. The phrase emphasizes personal drive as decisive for success.
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Goethe
Electroscope Detects Traces of Radium Bromide World-Wide
A science note explains that if half a grain of radium bromide were divided equally among all people, any single portion could be detected using an electroscope. The statement highlights the sensitivity of electroscopes to extremely small radioactive amounts.
Baby Margaret’s first elevator ride described
As It Seemed to Her, Baby Margaret recounts a timid ascent in an elevator. The child’s diary tone notes entering the machine and the unusual sensation of rising to an upstairs floor and then coming back down.
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Baby Margaret
Aatte House
Hoston
Man Who Goes More Than Half Way Toward Happiness
A fragment notes a man who strives to please others, described as moving more than halfway toward happiness in this world and the next. The line suggests a moral or reflective sentiment rather than a concrete event or report.
Telegram and Train Provide Final Word in Spouse Talk
A Chicago American snippet suggests sending a telegram to tell your wife you have the last word, then catching a fast train to end the quarrel. The wry remark plays on modern communication and travel as a cheeky cure for spousal disputes.
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Chicago
Definition of a Dinner by M. D. Quote in Boston Transcript
A Boston Transcript quote attributes a playful definition of a dinner to M. D. describing it as a society function that some people dislike attending. The remark frames dinner as a communal event often enjoyed by many yet disliked by some.
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M. D
Boston Transcript
Stray Bits of Wisdom from a Persian Proverb
A compact reflection on speech and influence notes that great talkers are the broken pitchers from which insight drains, leaving only the remnants of their lessons. It presents a concise, aphoristic line about how words can exhaust their own wells.
Queen Elizabeth Wardrobe Reveals 3000 Dresses Found
Upon Queen Elizabeth II's death a vast wardrobe was uncovered, with no fewer than 3,000 dresses catalogued among the regnal garments. The find underscores the breadth of royal attire accumulated over decades.
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Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth of England
Adelaide name origins and a Teutonic heritage
A compact note traces Adelaide as a noble Teutonic name from Adile and Odile, detailing historical forms Adut and Adelheld, its spread through Teutonic, French, Italian, and English usage, its meaning noble estate, popular royal connotations, associations with the turquoise gem, a lucky day Friday, and Tennyson’s Adeline reference.
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Adile
Odile
Ado
Addo
Adele
Adela
Adelaide
Otho
England
Italy
Adalaida
Alisa
France
Adeline
Friiiny
Tennyson
Trowbridge Early Life as Lockport Schoolmaster
J Trowbridge author of Darius Green recalls his youth in Lockport New York where he taught as a schoolmaster. He describes pen mending as essential and recounts a half hour writing lesson filled with nib scratching and pupils asking to mend their pens. He notes earning sixteen dollars a month and finding some pleasure in his duties despite the drudgery.
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J. T. Trowbridge
Darius Green
Lockport
N. Y
Mr. Trowbridge
Man Acquitted After Weak Evidence in Robbery Case
A man arrested for robbing a watch and chain was discharged by the judge due to scant evidence. The court declared him acquitted, but the startled defendant remained silent as the judge urged him to leave. He then asked if he must return the claimant's watch and chain.
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Wateh
Ehaln
Origin of Bull and Bear in Stock Exchange Terms
The origin of bulls and bears in stock markets remains debated tracing to Cibber's 1720 play. Bears may reference selling bear skins before killing, while bulls describe speculators buying stock hoping for price gains. Contangoes, reintroduced, are percentages paid by buyers for postponement, from Spanish cinengo meaning I check.
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Stock Exchange
Cibber
Cinengo
Reading the Hand of a Successful Actor in Palm Lines
The article explains palm reading for actors, detailing fate lines from the wrist to fingers and lines on the mounts of Jupiter Saturn and Mercury. It ties success in comedy to lines from the life line, heart line, and mounts, noting ambition, wit, and versatility as key traits.
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Ife
Apollo
Saturn
Jupiter
Wheeler Syndicate, Inc
Curlo Real Work of Art Auctioned Pear Wood Pod
A pear wood pen pod about two and a half inches long and one and a half wide sold for 525 dollars. The hinged pod contains two Sixteenth century carvings, one showing Joseph and Potiphar's wife and the other the judgment of Paris.
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Curlo
Joseph and
Vutiphar
Paris
Farmer finds odd chick with two beaks and three eyes
A New Brunswick rancher reports a chick with two beaks and three eyes on one head, the center eye located between the beaks, while the bird otherwise appears normal. In a second tale, Sorrel Pete hires Mac Towles to marry a cranky cook, tying old promises to a practical joke on the prairie.
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New Brunswick
Cook
Pete Harker
Sorrel Pete
Mac Towles
Pete
Mac
Soirel
Freaks of the Fish Family
The article explains how flounders and soles are born symmetrical as larvae and become asymmetrical as they mature. In adults the cranium twists and both eyes migrate to one side, leaving an upper colored side and a nearly white eyeless side.
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