Deacon’s Dilemma Ends With Apple Cobble
On Na than's avenue Monday morning Deacon Josiah Carberry wavers between rival widows Mrs. Bonner and Mrs. Marthy. A peddler Joey, sighted but blindsided by mischief, offers apples and vegetables. Mrs. Marthy’s sleight of hand leads to a comic tumble as the deacon’s tension resolves with a clatter of apples.
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Nathan’s Avenue
Nathan’s Row
Queen Ann
Mary Ann
Josiah Carberry
Bonner
Nathan
Mrs. Bonner
Marthy
Deacon Carberry
Lene
Housek Eeper
Tip
Mrs. Marthy
David
Joey
Peculiarity of Vision Blind Spot Explained
A card board test places a black dot and a star at a fixed distance to reveal a blind spot in one eye when the star aligns with the dot and the eye is focused. Reversing the card shows the other eye's blind spot. the spot marks where the optic nerve meets the eyeball lacking rods and cones.
Toad Survives 11 000 Pound Brick Press Test
In Bucyrus Ohio a toad was placed in a 20 ton brick press with 11 000 pounds applied four times. Conserving the toad’s life the experiment compressed clay into a brick and the toad emerged unharmed and hopped away. Popular Mechanics reports.
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Bucyrus
Ohio
Whah in you been workin de garridges tale
Miss Miami Brown asks about work in garage settings hearing of cars and mules. The dialogue contrasts mules with automobiles noting their difference in behavior and potential danger. The excerpt uses dialect to depict everyday labor at the garage.
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Miami Brown
One Thing Lacking Denatured Function at the Petere Mansion
A group including William Harris Andrew Mack Frank Daniels Drury Underwood and Mr and Mrs Benjamin Hapgood Burt attended a Long Island clambake hosted by Mr and Mrs Mason Peters and Mr and Mrs Harry Williams at Douglas manor. They planned a true outdoor bake with spring chicken corn sweet potatoes seaweed and clams but local clam diggers refused access to the mud flats leaving the guests hungry and disappointed.
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William Harris
Andrew Mack
Frank Daniels
Drury Underwood
Benjamin Hapgood Burt
Douglas Manor
L. I
Mason Peters
Harry Williams
Long Island
Mrs. Peters
Mrs. Willams
Andrew
Mr. Underwood
Peterses
Mason
Mr. Peters
Rhode Island
New York
Mr. Mack
New York Morning Telegraph
Trouble-Making Then And Now In The Daily Life
The piece contrasts three kinds of trouble imaginary borrowed and real. Imaginary trouble includes calamities like accidents fires suicides and disease. Borrowed trouble comes from relatives and expectations while the real article urges endurance and self improvement steps from a mix of philosophers preachers and diet apostles.
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Cain
Tubal Cain
Theron
Eve
Adam
Boilermakers’ Union
Puck
Italian Villa Habit and Roadside Shanties in Italy
The text notes Italians cling to villa names, with every roadside shanty titled villa something. In Grand Street, small places bear grandiose names like Villa Penza Villa Gordiolo and Villa Macaroni, selling spaghetti for ten cents and a small wine for five.
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Italy
Villa Something
Grand Street
Villa Penza
Villa Gordiolo
Posterity Won’t Endorse Promissory Notes Says Author
A wry exchange between a sympathetic friend and a cynical writer questions posterity value. The friend predicts lasting worth for the author’s work while the writer doubts posterity will endorse any man’s notes or promises.
Salt Lake City Chosen as Grand Army Reunion Site
Salt Lake City is chosen for the Grand Army of the Republic reunion. The article extols Salt Lake’s historic Mormon landmarks, ceremonial Temples, and Tabernacle. It highlights the Temple, Moroni statue, and a 8000-seat Tabernacle hall as central to the visit. The piece touts city beauty, rail routes through canyons, and the organ recital by Prof. McClellan.
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Salt Lake Ald
Salt Lake City
Grand Army of the Republic
Utah
Zion
Moroni
Joseph Smith
General Assembly Hall of the Saints
America
John J. McClellan
Tabernacle
Temple Square
Temple
Brigham Young
Eagle Gate
Grand Army
Colorado Rockies
Telephone Beetle Appears in Wisconsin From Cable Terminals
A mysterious insect, later named dermestes lardarius, was found in lead sheathes of telephone cables in Wisconsin. Engineers report larvae, not adults, gnawing 19 lead fuses, with no damage outside the terminals. Similar beetles have troubled Texas lines in recent years.
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Brooklyn
Bell Company
Dermestes Lardarius
la Crosse
Wis
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Bell Engineering Department
Texas
Wisconsin
Boston
Reynard's Cunning and a Foxy Deception in Field
A hunter recalls a fox pretending indifference to mislead him as he pursued a reddish brown dog that turned out to be the fox in disguise. The incident ends with the fox out of sight over a hill, illustrating cunning and the hunter's mixed feelings.
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Reynard
Ducks in China dominate global duck production
The note states that China breeds and consumes more ducks than the rest of the world combined, with some duck farms hatching about 60,000 ducks each year.
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China
Times change as women shift from maids to clerks in ads
A humorous collage cites shifting female work trends from traditional domestic roles to clerical tasks and publishing ad shortages. It contrasts job ads for hired help with menacing sports and editor terms, defines slang, and ends with a playful glossary.
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Ford Pub. Co
Petere
Missouri
Vorimtion Tabernacle
Assembly Hall
the Tabernacle
Great Temple
Uit
Taft
Jones
Boggs
Horatio de Bogges
Boggsville
Oklahoma
Johnny
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