Across the Desert on a Stalled Train Adventure
The narrator recounts a stalled Oklahoma journey to Shawnee and El Paso aboard trains with comic mischief. Pranks include telegram hoaxes about circus elephants, milk bar antics, and a peroxide blonde with a pet monkey, all amid heat, sand storms, and desert mirages.
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Ringling Bros.” Circus
Uneeda Child Company
el Paso
Mexico
Acros
Fort Yuma
Union
Hades
Yuma
East End clergyman counsels wife to brighten home
A London clergyman visits a parishioner whose husband drinks. He urges making the home more appealing so he will stay in, but the woman says she has tried and nothing helps after she sprinkles sawdust, hangs carpet, and places a beer barrel to lure him home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East End
London
Continent Erosion Revealed by River Action and Water Power
Frederick Wright explains how chemical weathering and continuous sediment transport by rivers erode continents. He cites Mississippi sediment flows, cave formation, and global dissolution rates, noting that without counteracting forces landmasses would vanish in about two million years.
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Frederick Wright
A. M
L. D
North America
Asiatic
Russia
Joseph B. Bowles
United States
Luray Caves
Virginia
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
Indiana
Ozark
Missouri
Great Wind Cave
Black Hills
Dakota
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Appalachian Chain
Mississippi
Europe
England
Wales
Humphreya
Abbott
Gulf of Mexico
Peculiar Army Expressions Creeping Into Everyday Speech
Soldiers and outsiders alike note a growing slang in the army with terms like hike for march and striker for a body servant. Others include O. O. for commanding officer and O. D. for officer of the day, hop and hoproom for dance and room, cut clothes for dress, commissaries for groceries, and coffee cooler for a staff seeker.
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West Point
Leslie's
A Hint to Wives from Harper's Bazaar
A prose note in Harper's Bazaar warns a husband that a watchful wife notes every courtesy and lapse. It argues failure to show gratitude or to kiss her goodbye can erode spontaneity and undermine affection.
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Han Per's Bazaar
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Oklahoma
Shawnee
New England
Bowles
New York
California
Lecton
Chico
Miesissippi
Amherst
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