Bloomers and a Bicycle Break a Marriage Pact
In a domestic farce, Mrs. Cranston defies her husband by planning bloomers for bicycling. He resists at breakfast but is later drawn into the plan after a social bicycle outing. The uproar ends with him conceding under pressure, and Louise secures her fashion goal amid comic banter and a club dinner.
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Cyanston
Tom
Louise
Thait
Mrr. Cranston
Trai
Gouris
Thomas Cranaton
Tume
Mr. Cranston
Pin
Cnn
Pam Cranston
Louie
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Mrs. Cranston
Sata Craton
MeCranston
Orky
Ale
Cranston
Tate
Ce Ghibe
Mire
New York Evening Suty
Photographing living bones with X rays and disease findings
A report on early X ray photography revealing disease in the center of living bones despite outer portions remaining intact. Mentioned are advances in medical imaging, a vanishing land theory for Jamaica, and a daguerreotype of a gorilla at a London Zoological Society meeting.
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Goriltta
Zoological Society
London
Europe
Lome
Delta Cephei Star System Shows Unexpected Brightness
Delta Cephei is a double star in an elliptical orbit whose light varies as the two suns approach and recede. Spectroscopic tests show blending into one disk from Earth though they are millions of miles apart. One explanation posits a thick atmospheric veil that clears at closest approach, boosting brightness.
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Delta Cephei
Backwoods Postoffice Mixup Ends With Found Letters
A humorous Detroit Free Press tale describes a Mountainville post office that is really a store and smithy. After a lengthy search, letters are found under a pan in a house where a woman admits she moved them there, and the postmaster notes stamp orders must be placed today to be sent from Knoxville.
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Detroit Free Press
Mountainville
Knoxville
Not Irish Tales and Sudden Death Sayings
A string of anecdotes recalls sudden death remarks by various figures. A French cure on death, a lawyer’s burial wish, a chemistry lecturer’s poison claim, and a lieutenant’s fear of being killed by a company all mix with a merchant's unsealed letter found after death.
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Bulle
Trinh Preasgerty
Leutenant
Royal Niger Company
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Ty Aberdeen
Geological Society
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West Tahdian Archipelago
Angelo Mosso
Turin
Mosse
Belgian Academy of Sciences
Scientific American
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New York
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Cepheus
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