Fortune Caught In A Minor Mine Tale Of Watered Pockets
A veteran civil engineer narrates a Montana era fortune tale from 1868. German partners invest in the Wild Horse Mine, a waterlogged tunnel yields rising and falling floods. He engineers a fix by siphoning the reservoir, drills, and blasting, gaining a quarter share and later securing a fortune invested in U.S. bonds. The tale ends with a moral on asking questions and learning.
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Wild Horse
Horton
Jake
Hans
United States
Antiquated weights and wonders from distant shores and local oddities
Ancient Roman green marble weights with bronze handles confirm a Roman pound equal to three quarters of an avoirdu pois. A New Zealand geyser shoots steam and water hundreds of feet high. Chicago stock receipts set a record with 2,397 cattle cars and tens of thousands of livestock. Cumberland wedding customs gift gold and silver to the bride. Wood as fodder gains a patent based on sawdust nourishment. In Indiana, a man finds a snake formed of wriggling worms on a bank sidewalk, later matching worms appearing at a neighbor’s yard.
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Rome
Rotomahona
New Zealand
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Cumberland
England
D. C. Misner
Dillsboro
Ind
Sarah Ketcham
The Stormy Petrel and Its Notorious Habits
The stormy petrel, also called Mother Careys chicken, terrifies sailors as a storm omen. It is the smallest web footed bird and trawls seas for food. Its oily body has inspired lamp use by Feroe Islanders who wick it as a lamp.
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Mother Carey
Feroe Islands
Novelists doubt history in new work says critic
A historical novelist doubts including history in his next book as his wife laments the repetitive approach. The Chicago Record-Herald quotes the exchange, noting irony as friends view the author’s self-doubt with bemusement.
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Percival
Chicago Record-Herald
Hiawatha Ojibway Drama at Desbarats Inspires Pride
A Boston Transcript essay praises the daily Desbarats Ontario Ojibway drama Hiawatha at Hiawatha Camp. The sacred performance, staged on an island near Kensington Point, blends Longfellow’s poem with Ojibway ceremonial dress and song.
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Garden River
Sault Ste. Marie
Armstrong
Smithsonial Institute
Washington
Kensington Point
Hiawatha Camp
Desbarats
Oberammergau
Trouble in Selling Safes and Skyscraper Delays
A New York room mate recounts a big safe salesman’s view that rising skyscrapers hurt sales. Large office buildings demand heavy fire and burglar proof safes, yet elevators and janitors often block them. Superintendents side with lift restrictions, forcing external hoists and extra costs.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Excuse Farmer Questions Rascal in Apple Tree
An exchange from the Boston Transcript features a farmer scolding a young rascal perched in his apple tree. The rascal replies about wormy apples littering the ground, highlighting farm life and neighborly humor from the era.
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Rascal
Boston ‘Transcript
Man in the Iron Mask Cemetery Mystery in Paris
A Paris street house on Rue Beautrellis is slated for demolition to make way for a workshop. In its garden lies the reputed grave of the Man with the Iron Mask, said to be buried in St. Paul’s cemetery, with questions about whether his bones are really there and if the tomb will be opened. The site is a magnet for Old Paris pilgrims amid decayed acacias and stagnant water, near the ancient cemetery of St. Paul now largely built over.
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Jim
Montana
Wif
Helena
Sioux Gulch
Horton Boys
Wild Horse
Shingwauk
Queenstown Heights
Hiawatha
Nokomis
Minnehata
Francis West
Minnehaha
Lake Huron
Hudson
Pan-Pak-Keecis
Desbarats
Golemp
Wagner
Paris
Rue Beautrellis
Place Des Voges
Place Royal
Beaux
St. Paul
Marchiall
Rabelais
Mansard
Bank of France
Musee, Carnavalet
Moliere
Armande Bejart
Pall Mall Gazette
Paris Auctions Stand Out For Fair Valuations
An observer notes Paris Hotel Drouot auctions use frank experts who reveal defects and give fair intrinsic estimates. The expert’s valuations are often near the sale price, sometimes lower under competition, contrasting with American rooms where trash fetches inflated values.
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Paris
America
Drouot
Addenda reveal quirky banter in Philadelphia Press dialogue
A brief exchange from the Philadelphia Press features playful wordplay about fractions in a lighthearted addendum. She concedes love is imperfect, He counters with a witty claim about repeating four thirds.
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Philadelphia Press
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Berlin
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Massachusetts
Lakes Superior
Huron
Lakes
L. O. Armstrong
Montreal
Longfellow
Alice M. Longfellow
Prince of Wales
The
Chicago Tribune
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