Odd Sounds Supposed to Reflect Demons Across Earth
A historical note gathers reports of mountains and sands that emit moans bells and roars. Mount El Bromador in Chile rustles with a deep note. Nevada bells swell. Singing sands appear at Higgs Island off Scotland and in China. Cross Fell in Westmoreland roars with a mile‑long scream.
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South America
Mount
el Bromador
Nevada
Higg Island
Scottish
China
Enghind
Cross Fell
Westmoreland
Carnivorous Plants Digest Food at Kew Gardens Exhibit
At Kew Gardens a new house showcases carnivorous plants from around the world. The Australia and South Africa specimens discriminate morsels from worthless matter, enveloping meat or egg with curling leaf edges to digest, then reset for the next victim, while sand or inorganic particles are ignored.
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Kew Gardens
Great Britain
Australia
South Africa
Lancashire Thrift Clubs Fuel Mass Summer Vacation
The New York Sun highlights Lancashire plans for summer holidays funded by weekly thrift club subscriptions. Wakes week in August sees mills close for ten days as workers and families visit Blackpool Isle of Man or other seaside resorts. In Stockport $767,500 was withdrawn in one week and Shaw saved $251,000 for its summer spree despite tough trade.
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England
Lancashire
New York Sun
Blackpool
Isle of Man
Stockport
Shaw
Evolution of Parachute Inventions and First Jumps
The Washington Star notes the parachute origins with Sebastian Lenormand in 1784 in Lyons and covers key milestones including Garnerin’s 1797 balloon descent in Paris, the 1912 airplane descent by Captain Berry in St Louis, and the Benoist pusher biplane jump tied to Tony Janus with emergency jumps by Lieutenant MacReady.
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Sebastian Lenormand
Lyons
Garnerin
Paris
Captain Berry
St. Louis
Tony Janus
Macready
Washington
Star
Rip Van Winkle tale questioned by 1906 Catskills resident
Bill Hooker of the Milwaukee Journal reports meeting a Catskills innkeeper in 1906 who believed in Rip Van Winkle as more than folklore and urged Joe Jefferson to accept the tale as authentic. Jefferson doubted its truth despite the innkeeper’s earnest arguments. The Detroit News notes the encounter as part of a discussion on the story’s authenticity.
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Rip
Joe Jefferson
Arving
Rip van Winkle
George Washington
Bill Hooker
The
Milwaukee Journal
Catskills
Ian Innkeeper
Rea
Jefferson
Detroit News
No Sentiment About It
A dissident man finishes dinner at a smart restaurant and, as he prepares to depart, the orchestra is about to begin. A colonel demands he remove his hat, shocking the man who asks if they are playing the national anthem. The colonel insists there is no anthem, claiming it is his bat.
Squire A. Fritters Feud Shocks Montgomery Tavern
In Montgomery Alabama a story from the town tavern tells of Squire A. whose passion for fritters led him to protest the shortage. Boarders bribed the waiter to skip him, provoking an eccentric outburst as he vowed to quit the house. Detroit News reports.
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Montgomery
Squire
Havng
Detroit News
Instruction of Blind Makes Good Progress
Dr. F Park Lewis reports a striking exhibit at the New York Institution for the Blind where blind children aged 12 or 13 solve three figure multiplication aloud and without raised slates. He cites a practical writing method using three rubber bands to guide lines, enabling legible writing with practice.
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F. Park Lewis
New York Institution For the Blind
Randem
Lewis
Open Hearth Steel Making Invention Progress
In 1856 Bessemer devised a process to convert pig iron into purified steel by oxidation in air raising temperature beyond the melting point. The Martin brothers of Sireuil France, 1864, with Siemens regenerative gas furnace, developed open hearth steel making to produce steel of any desired carbon content by melting cast and wrought iron.
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Bessemer
Siemens
Martin Brothers
Sireful
France
Saint Jemima Wilkinson and the Jerusalem Sect
Jemima Wilkinson born in Cumberland R I in 1753 and educated among the Society of Friends. At twenty she recovered from fever and claimed resurrection and miracle work. With a small following she founded a village named Jerusalem in Yates County New York in 1789. She died in 1819 and the sect dissolved.
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Jemima Wilkinson
Cumberland
R. L
Society of Friends
Yates County
New York
Jerusalem
Know Perfume's Secret and the Colonge Origin Story
Three firms claim the original eau de cologne formula and guard the secret closely. Historical notes say the scent blends orange blossom rosemary lavender lemon bergamot and petit grain to create the famous fragrance first made in Cologne in the late 1600s.
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Cologne
Matches for the woodsman on hunting trips
The article advises packing matches in pockets for emergencies and notes methods to keep them dry. It mentions striking a safety match on broken glass, storing matches in a shotgun shell, and protecting them by dipping the heads in paraffin to resist dampness.
Longfellow Daughter Alice Longfellow Dies in Cambridge
The eldest daughter of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow known as Alice Longfellow died in Cambridge Massachusetts at age 78. She was the poet’s eldest daughter and the subject called crave Alice in The Children’s Hour.
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Alice Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alice
Cambridge
Mass
Longfellow
Washington Marine seeks marriage or work to bidder
Leroy B. Rider of Washington DC a former US Marine Corps member offers himself at auction stating he will work or marry the highest bidder He is 26 in perfect health but currently unemployed.
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Leroy B. Rider
Washington, D. C
US Marine Corps
Siamese Twin Marie Keller of Chicago Born Joined
Marie Keller of Chicago is described as physically perfect after separation surgery. She and her twin were born ten months ago joined in the abdomen and the other infant did not survive.
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Meta Marie Keller
Chicago
Marie
Tag Day Among Birds Aids Migration Study
The biological survey tagged about 27 000 birds to learn migration patterns. Returns on banded birds total 10 338. Banding seeks to solve economic issues such as red winged blackbird damage to rice crops, where poison bait failed, requiring timed control measures elsewhere.
Magnet Draws Bullet From Veterans Lung After Years
A Canadian war veteran carried a bullet in his lung for nearly ten years. X‑rays located it but it lay beyond forceps reach. A strong magnet was held over the chest to pull the bullet to a reachable spot, allowing removal through the windpipe. The bullet’s nickel coating enabled magnetism for extraction.
Tame Eagle Hunts as Did Old-Time Falcon
Captain CG W Knight, an English bird photographer, keeps the world’s only tame eagle trained to hunt from his wrist. He recounts painful, meticulous steps to tame the bird, from feeding in darkness to gradual release on a leash and eventual hunting with reliable returns.
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CG. W. Knight
Captain Knight
Knight
Found-1
Happiness of Heaven Possibility on Earth
Excerpt reflects on whether heaven’s happiness can touch life on earth. Bronte suggests some people are born to endure little suffering, guided toward a calm grave, while others face trials. ultimately, she believes God’s will prevails.
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Charlotte Bronte
Storms Reverse Direction In Tropical Cyclones
The weather bureau explains that tropical cyclones such as West Indies hurricanes and China sea typhoons rotate winds around a near calm center, causing a place to feel winds reversing direction from an hour earlier. Tornadoes also reverse but for a much shorter duration, while mid latitude rain or snow storms do not.
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The
Weather Bureau
Tropics
West Indies
China Sea
Immense Tee Trade Ban Would Redefine Golf
The draft ban on golf in Great Britain would deprive about 500000 players of the game and ruin many firms tied to the sport. More than £20000000 is yearly spent on golf, supporting at least 100 trades and industries. Britain has about 2500 golf courses with 200 members per club on average, including Rickmansworth at 1100.
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Great Britain
London
Glasgow
Rickmansworth
Aunt Maria Molasses Cookies Recipe Folklore
A humorous exchange recalls Aunt Maria the famed cook. She describes a recipe with a cup of flour and two gulps of molasses. The guest asks for meaning of gullups and the tale ends with a playful explanation about molasses running up.
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Maria
Chemistry's Triumph and the Synthetic Imitation of Nature
The article notes that chemists could closely imitate many natural factors if flowers lose scent color spices and fruits their aroma. It cites indigo from Wilmington Delaware musk from Delaware New Jersey tannin from Argentina and balsam of Peru from El Salvador. It suggests balsam of Peru might be renamed balsam of Pennsylvania.
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India
Wilmington
Del
Delawanna
N. J
Argentina
Rensselaer
N. Y
Peru
Salvador
Pennsylvania
Clamor recounts town skeet night and pantherlike noise
The Tate Fair store proprietor in Tomlinville recalls a skeet night last Friday and a varmint that rambled through town screaming like a panther. Gap Johnson from Rumpus Ridge notes Rowdy Afy toast boy visited his gran and enjoyed a raucous outing.
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Tate Fair
Tomlinville
Gap Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Rowdy
Kansas City Star
Room sizes vary in historic galleries and vaults
The text notes that interpretation of the word room differs and cites major spaces such as the Versailles battle gallery at 394 feet by 43 feet, the glass gallery at 285 by 35 by 42 feet, the Vatican library hull at 220 feet, and the Galleria Lupideria at 700 feet long, illustrating size variation.
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Lsted
Versailles
France
Vatican Library
Rome
Galleria Lupideria
Vaticans
Parlor Cars Originated From Jenny Lind Idea
Capper's Weekly recalls that Jenny Lind toured America with P B Barnum using a repurposed railroad car dubbed a parlor car. Seats were removed and replaced with chairs couches and tables to ease travel discomfort, birthing the modern Pullman parlor car.
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Jenny Lind
America
PB. T. Barnum
Reward for arrest of bounty fund violators in Madison NF
Madison National Forest Sheep Growers Association offers a $100 reward to any private individual for the arrest and conviction of anyone illegally collecting bounty funds. Notice appeared in the Adg on November 4.
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Madison National Forest Sheep Growers Assn
Reward Offered by Madison National Forest Sheep Growers
The Madison National Forest Sheep Growers association offers a $250 reward for the conviction of any sheep thief and a $100 reward for the conviction of any camp robber. Counts of 10 to.
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Madison National Forest Sheep Growers’ Association
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Fritters
Niss
Clare S Scott
Bayer
First National Bank
Bank OF Strength and Service
Land Office
Beaverhead
Tnargs
Pearl I. T. Smith
Dillon
Montana
Kenneth Strong
Andella Harrison
Leggat Hotel
Butte
Alex. Leggat
Mgr
Lewis & Walker
P. O. Box
North
Wyoming
Batte, Mont
Foley
Geo. M. Gosman
Richard McCarthy
East Granite
Atkeson Dairy
M. Paumie
Galena St
Butte, Mont
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