Diverse anecdotes from a bygone newspaper page
A混乱 collection of short notes mentioning public worship in Australia, global match consumption valued near 200 million dollars, a preventive note for room fires, a fishing tale near Washington, a Buffalo family bicycle, table shapes in different cultures, a long translation effort, the sultan’s carpet to Mecca, Francisville in New Hebrides as a tiny republic, rail jargon “agitive trains,” Quintilian and Tacitus rediscovered, Princess Eudia donations, Egypt’s driest Nile region, a Brunswick man shot near his Bible, and a Rome Georgia hen adopting orphaned kittens.
Short Trolley Conductor Resigns Over Height Issue
A Paterson New Jersey trolley car conductor has quit due to being too short. He could only reach the bell card by jumping, and passenger remarks about his stature led to his resignation.
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Paterson, N. 2
Bank of Germany Fortified Guard Guarding Imperial Treasure
The Bank of Germany, like most German buildings, is protected by a military guard within a strongly fortified fortress at Spandorn. It houses the great war treasure of the imperial government, part of the French fidelity, totaling several million pounds.
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Bank of
Germany
Spandonle
Tomb designed by Barrett Brownlog for Westminster Abbey
Barrett Brownlog designs a tomb for his father Robert Brownlog to mark his resting place in Westminster Abbey. The monument is being carved in Florence from Italian alabaster and will bear only the poet’s name and his birth and death dates.
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Barrett Brownlog
Robert Brownlog
Westminster Abbey
Florence
Old School Southern Gentleman Described by Boston Admirer
Richard Malcolm Johnston, aged 72, is praised as a true type of the old school Southern gentleman. A Boston admirer notes his pleasant Georgian accent and occasional use of a term recalling plantation days when his father’s lands housed 75 slaves.
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Richard Malcolm Johnston
Boston
Little Sorrel the faithful Confederate horse remembered
The piece recounts General Stonewall Jackson's favorite mount Little Sorrel, its role in the Civil War, its capture and return to North Carolina, and its peaceful life in later years. It also briefly tells of a shipboard tale of a brave dog named Bobby saving a boy at sea and the dog’s ultimate fate.
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Stonewall Jackson
New York World
Chancellorsville
Little Sorrel
Harper's Perry
Gen. Jackson
Fancy
Ahutaya
Sorrel
North Carolina
Wade
Latchel
Marcel
Sarvel
Tie
The
Soldiers’ Home
Richmond
Dolby
England
Chitui
Bobby
Hl Manter
Cape of
Gollope
Nayal
Sud
Lim
The Day of Leander Longman’s Death Visited by Sorrow
In a farm house parlor two sisters recall Leander Longman’s life and the wedding that split family loyalties. Delia’s secret, Harry’s unspoken love, and Sarah White’s reluctant pity collide as Miss Longman confronts the grave and the Longman clan faces a fragile verdict of forgiveness.
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Peerig
Tel
Sarah White
Mra White
Sarah
Tovdin
Hough
Delia
Harry
Leander
Barry
Sarath
Mrs. White
Charlotte Longman
Hind
Hern
Talus
Hank
Ty Alls
Fes
Flo
Miss Longman
Tiong
Mis. White
Harry Longman
Devin
Mrs. Longman
Miss Longmain
Abe
Found His Long Lost Mother In Milwaukee Mystery
A romance of a brother and son seeking lost kin follows a letter to Chief Deitsch from George Brush of New York. Frederick A Schroeder dies at Bellevue Hospital after learning his mother and sister in Milwaukee are located at 540 12 Market Street.
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Chief Deitsch
George’ Brush
New York
Frederick Augustus Schroeder
Bellevue Hospital
Schroeder Sr
Louise Hoffer
Milwaukee
Market Street
George Brush
Seale
Sill Ii Cincinnat
Cloes
Commercial-Gazette
Puffball as Food From Pastures Named Edible Wonder
The puffball of pastures offers edible varieties from small white rounds to giant pasture spores. Only early stage specimens are suitable with yellow or darker ones avoided. A connoisseur notes Lyco perdon giganteum as rich in butter and salt, rivaling French omelets in flavor. M. C. Cooke calls it excellent when young and pulpy with few rivals for table honors.
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M. C. Cooke
Quip on Boarding House to Antifat Sanitarium Plan
In a humorous exchange two characters discuss converting a boarding house into a hotel for invalids. Mrs SumAlot challenges the idea while Mr Pelghweakly proposes an antifat sanitarium as a possible venture. The dialogue uses light satire and social wit.
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the Elgin Eho
Lester Ainsworth
Publisier
Iowa
Australia
Country
Fata
Biles
Potomac River
Washington
John Bell
America
Vaugelas
Tha
Mecca
Qsiro
Suez
Seddah
Francisville
Islands
New Hebrides
Quintillian
Tacitus
Westphalia
Eubia
United States
Egypt
Nile
R. R. Martin
Brunswick
Rome
Len
Stonewald Jackson
Sorrol
Robby
Thunder Cloud
Sam
Ami
Father
Uncle Will
Mitel
Don Lovett
Sirah Grand
Moussem Duferla
Purvis
Daterh
Sister
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