Inventions of inventors' brains to save labor amuse people
A long survey of home gadgets and mechanical aids described by an unidentified writer. It covers a stampede of clever contrivances from New Hampshire to Michigan, including shock machines, electric irons, hair drying devices, and a clever clothes hanger clamp designed to grip trousers and skirts, all pitched as labor savers and conveniences for daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regentry
New Hampshire
Uate
Aytivle
Paramount
Questions of the Week Tom Tangler's Budget of Odd Proplenes and Queer Quizzes
A fragmented verse piece surveys a quirky, crowding mix of characters and curiosities. It mentions a men’s club, a famed Dante gloom mood, a clockwork donkey, a nimble climber toy, and a wistful Tom failing to buy gifts after spending on July Fourth events. It notes Payche’s discovery and a prodigal theme running through the lines.
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Tom
Tangler
Anagram Clues in a Curious Text Fragment
A fragment discusses wordplay and puzzles with inserted letters forming phrases. It mentions a friend praised as almost phenomenal and a common mechanic, raising questions about honesty and decisions involving a phrase like I DID NO CAME.
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Darke
T. H
Pastime and Transposition Echoes in Classic Lines
A fragmented 19th or early 20th century collage blends verse fragments and dialog from Shakespeare and romantic poets with quips about clocks and weddings. The disjointed text weaves references to Hamlet, Petrarch, Orpheus, Lochinvar, and Ulysses with stray names, jokes, and a clock riddle, reflecting a playful literary miscellany of pastimes.
Prize Question prompts readers to answer names and prizes
A chaotic list from a historical newspaper invites participants to name who should answer a prize question. It catalogs a long row of names, places, and coded items while promising a $98K prize and a variety of labeled entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morton
Bouth Broad
Elizabeth
Elizabeth C. Spencer
D. G. Pingree
A. Ki Atwood
Mra
Ek, Brown
J. M. W. Bandy
Pop Anson Recalls Earliest Big Game Tale
A vintage reminiscence from Pop Anson recalls a New York fans era game in the early nineties. He describes a long scoreless stretch through eight innings, a nine inning rally, and his signature home run driving in three runners. The tale ends with a cryptic zoological arithmetic puzzle reference.
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Pop Anson
Cowl
New York
Pop
New Yorks
Gms
The Yearn Have Flea and Love Te Dead
Fragmentary OCR text mentions love and law, with unclear phrases The readable parts suggest a literary or poetic line about yearning, fleas, death, and misquoted or garbled titles The item lacks identifiable persons places organizations or dates to anchor a fuller summary.
Art or Pot Boil ers High Speed Painter Wows Success Magazine
Charles Battell Loomis describes Diehl the High speed painter of America painting a canvas in minutes. He fixed the canvas on a portable easel and quickly laid in a blue Italian sky and a moonlit foreground that turned into water with a few strokes. A gondola and colored poles appeared, completing a vivid Italian scene in under half an hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Battell Loomis
Success Magazine
Diehl
America
Italy
Mary
Nat
Henit
Renult
Father and Daughter Battle Over Marriage Fortunes
A story centers on Nan Sprigman and her soldier fiancé Dick, whose wedding hinges on Nan's control of her father's fortune. The father initially resists, but Nan's resolve and Dick's appeal win him over, revealing a clash of obstinacy and love and ending with family approval and mutual support.
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Shiela Esther Dunn
Nan
Herer
Ming
Joethe
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