Diverse Scientific Facts From Early 20th Century Digest
A wide ranging compilation covers world area comparisons Mexico U S sizes, brain cell counts, efficiency of locomotives electric traction, Brazil nuts shell forms and cannon ball tree, ear identification research by M A Ellis, ancient Egyptian electrification plans, Assouan Nile power schemes, telecope power dreams by R M Hunter, and a New York Sun anecdote on overshoes reflecting economic cycles.
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Mexico
United States
Baltimore
Brazil
M. A. Ellis
British Association
Misa Ellis
Pyramids
Egypt
Assotian Falls
Nile River
Nile
R. M. Hunter
Philadelphia
Open Door Calls for Troops Prompt Iowa Draft Scandal
The piece recalls Lincoln calling for volunteers and Iowa’s draft, led by Hon. James Fisk of D- heading the list. Fisk, a banker and railroad magnate, is denigrated as greedy, nicknamed Old Jin Fish, and enmeshed in a plan to dodge service via a subterfuge involving Horace W. Packard in Carson City Iowa.
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Lincoln
Iowa
James Fisk
Jin Fish
United States
America
Mr. Fisk
Horace W. Packard
Carson City
Horace
Horace Packard Volunteers As Fisk Forecloses Home
In a small town the young Horace Packard fights a war fever to save his family from ruin. Horace confronts James Fisk who has foreclosed the mortgage yet offers relief if Horace serves as substitute. Mrs. Packard pleads, Fisk dies of a heart failure, and a note reveals Fisk’s remorse and a contract cancellation.
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Horace
Packard
Main Street
Horace Packard
James Fisk
Madam Grundy
Mrs. Packard
Margaret
Auld Lang Syne
J. L. Fisk
Ohio
Law summaries on railroads, damages, and street liability
A digest notes several cases in 41 L. R. A. 432 onward. It covers segregated railroad accommodations as lawful police regulation, creditor stockholder liability merged via receivership, bicycle handlebars as a factual ordinance issue, maternal damages in a child death case despite remarriage, wind as intervening cause in a fire, dam building rights subject to riparian limits, log floating rights, and city liability for a defective street not attainable until remedies against the railway are exhausted.
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Smith Vs. State
Tenn
Castleman
Va. Templeman
District of Columbia
D. C
Hennessy
Bavarian Brewing Company
Linibridge Vs. McCann
Carlsonge
St. Louis River
Schaefer
Fond du Lac
Wis
The Coming Black Sheep In Brooklyn
The Rev Dr Meredith a Brooklyn clergyman tries to forge bonds with youth. A dirty faced urchin greets him on the street with How do, Dov and asks to pin one of his little lambs five day before swaggering away, leaving him speechless.
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Meredith
Brooklyn
Dov
Saturday Evening Post
Fort Pierre au Calumet Peril on Lake Athabasca
A French Canadian Pierre and Irishman McTaggart defend Fort Pierre au Calumet from forty Chippewa raiders. Amid a parley the chief enters, McTaggart is killed, and the attackers overrun the fort. A whiskey-fueled riot and fire follow, ending with many deaths and a claimed heroic misattribution.
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Lake Athabasca
Fort Pierre Au Calumet
Trier
York Factory
McTaggart
Pierre
Fort Adventure
Tit for Tat in Family Help and Fashion Advice
An elder sister chides Horace for bad necktie taste and offers to buy better ones while joking about husbanding belts. A teen youth replies with a cheeky bargain. A Wisconsin humor observes a wife exaggerating milk bills and suggesting her husband buy a cow.
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Horace
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New York Sun
Bes
Mme
Hon
Hen Boy
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