Lord Kelvins Bravery and Oddities of History
A collection of anecdotes recounts Lord Kelvin turning a dangerous voltage upon himself during a lecture and reflects on the 1859 New York Illustrated Quadruple Constellation newspaper. It also notes the origin of the term stationer in medieval Paris and a humorous travel tale about a New York visit from a longstanding manufacturer.
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Lord Kelvin
New York City
Buchanan
Edward Everett
Henry Ward Beeche
N. P. Banks
B. H. Chapin
Horace Greeley
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
Alexander von Humboldt
James G. Bennett
Tinsel Maker of Delhi Described In Vivid Detail
An Indian artist offers a lyrical description of a Delhi tinsel maker at work. A worker squats and guides a silken thread from a ball, the spindle responds with a swift sweep, and the gold tinsel leaps upward like a coiled snake, flames of sunlight and gold lighting the thread.
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Delhi
India
Coughing Explained As Aiding Wound Healing Theory
A medical note argues coughing worsens wounds and proposes a remedy of drawing a long breath and holding it to warm and soothe air cells. It claims refined nitrogen acts as an anodyne to the mucous membrane, reducing cough urge and aiding throat and lung healing.
Improbable Diogenes Finds Honest Man in Village
A patriotic man, mocked by a conductor, recalls amazing sights in America. In a village drug store a lantern bearing Diogenes enters and asks for a cold cure. The pill compiler admits none, then Diogenes proclaims he has found an honest man after dropping his lantern.
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Diogenes
New York to Chicago Air Line Railway Planned
Pittsburg Despatch reports a plan to consolidate several Pennsylvania lines into the New York Pittsburg and Chicago Air Line a low grade electric trunk route joining New York and Chicago via Pittsburg with three mergers totaling about 1.85 million dollars in nominal capital and a hoped to start grading next spring with completion in three years.
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Pittsburg
Pennsyvania
Harrieburg
Jseph Rameey, Jr
Wabash Railroad
New York
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Keystone Air Line
Pennsylvania Railroad
Allegheny Mountains
Corps of Engineers
Gartlan Named in Third District Senate Ballot
Gartlan a Parkersburg oil producer leads in the Third district Republican convention on the fourth ballot with 34 votes to Lowther 21. McKnight and Gregory are minor contenders. Coleman and Freer withdraw. Miss Hattie Stanley visits Piedmont and Dellet Newton plans the County Teacher Institute for Aug 27 in Parkersburg.
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Gartlan
Parkersburg
Thomas Gartlan
State Senate
Milton R. Lowther
Wood
Wirt County
Peasants
Charles McKnight
Romeo H. Freer
Gartian
Lowther
McKnight
Emmett L. Coleman
Anti-Saloon League
Robert J. Gregory
Sisterville
Elkine
Hattie Stanley
Piedmont
John‘ .M Stanley
The
Piedmont Herald
West Side
Fairmont
Dellet Newton
West Virginia fair group plans statewide event at Clarksburg
West Virginia Fair Association moves to form a state scale fair culminating in a new corporation. Huntington Wheeling Parkersburg Fairmont and Clarksburg leaders back Clarksburg as best site with the new grounds. The plan envisions taking over stock to create a larger statewide fair with substantial capitalization and $100,000 in improvements.
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West Virginia State Fair Association
Clarksburg
W. Va
State Fair Association
Ingg Clarke
West Virginia Fair Association
New Fair Grounds
Huntington
Wheeling
Parkersburg
Fairmont
Clarkeburg
Morgantown Man Mistaken for the Mysterious Mr Raffles
Morgantown, Aug 15 readers of the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph were told of a public prank in which a photo of the paper’s “Mysterious Mr Raffles” is used. A local man, Attorney Frank L Bowman, was mistaken for the figure in a department store. Crowds pressed him for a copy of the Chronicle Telegraph and the familiar boast, prompting his embarrassment until an explanation and photo clarified the mix up.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
Mr. Raffles
Raffles
Chronicle Telegraph
Frank L Bowman
Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph
Mr. Reffles
Bowman
Crackeman
Marksmanship Contest Set for Terra Alta
Morgantown August 14 Five members of Company L head to Terra Alta on Tuesday August 21 for the West Virginia National Guard marksmanship contest. Forty marksmen will compete with 12 selected to travel to Sea Girt for the annual shoot with other guardsmen. Participants include 22 from First regiment and 18 from the Second. Officers listed are Col. Jolliffe Major Pierce Major Osborne and Captain Hunt. Companies A I G and O will contribute seven five five and four shooters respectively.
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Morgantown
Company L
Terra Alta
West Virginia National Guard
Ol. Jolliffe
Pierce
Osborne
Hunt
State militia camp plans and rifle range prospects
The 12 top scorers will stay at Terra Alta for daily practice until August 29 before marching to Sea Girt. Captains Parsong, Phillips, West, Price, and Bell of Company L will represent Hopkine. Last year Phillips posted the best state record. No range practice occurred this year at the encampment due to insufficient preliminary drills. Steps are underway to improve training and a battalion rifle ranger unit may be formed in various parts of the state, possibly Morgantown hosting one range.
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Terra Alta
Phillips
West
Price
Bell
Hopkine
Morgantown
American Buyer In London Turns Profit On Dog Purchase
A clubman recalls traveling to London and encountering a kennel that quoted $900 for a pup due to his American accent. He hired a cabman at the hotel to fetch the same dog for $60, tipping $10, netting $430 after fees and defining the cabman’s terms in local slang.
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London
Caie
York Sun
Language Notes on Jackdaws and Racial Terms
The London Standard discusses folk etymology for jackdaw and the origin of terms like mag and crow. It notes debates whether to mag is derived from Margaret or the verb chat, and suggests Jim Crow may have traveled from England with names for boys, linking historical usage to American slang.
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England
Jack
Mag
Margaret
Meg
America
Jim
London Standard
Boited van prank explained with improvised explosive egg trick
Fragmentary instruction describes using a bottle with a cork and paper to ignite a blaze. It claims heat and pressure will launch an egg from the neck, followed by a second ignition for another explosion.
Lion of Babylon Inspires Ancient Artistry and Child Wonder
A historic sketch explores the lion of Babylon, a prime example of ancient pictorial work admired for enduring outline and fierce valor after thousands of years. The piece served decorative purposes in Babylonian times. The essay contrasts the helplessness of a newborn with the gradual growth toward self protection, echoing Emerson on childhood miracles.
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Babylon
Ancient
Great Surgeon Exchange on Pricing of Operation
A sharp exchange reveals a magnate balking at fees, asking if the price is $1000 for one life and $2000 if the patient dies. The surgeon retorts that death eases collection from the estate, highlighting dark humor about medical price gouging.
Eloping Daughter Faces Punishment in Ohio Leader Quotation
A Cleveland Leader quote notes a father prepared to forgive his daughter who eloped with the speaker’s son in law like fashion. The girl is said to be punished by leaving her father for a husband as the paper records.
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Cleveland
Brown Walting Uphill Work Describes Regular Challenge
Brown Walting down this steep hill is pretty Trying, isu ily Green It is Indeed. It la regular uphill work.
Tax Reform Sparks Wide West Virginia Debate
The Wheeling News laments the new tax system as the most damnable ever foisted on the people while the Grafton Leader denounces it in strong terms. Politicians and newspapers once critical now retreat, with few champions left defending tax dodgers as the 1905 to 1906 tax impact looms.
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Wheeling News
Grafton
Grafton Leader
Wheeling Register
Brainaben
John J. Cornwell
Feiicametance Strikes Evansville Family in Typhoid Tragedy
A Newport area family suffers a rapid typhoid outbreak in July and August 1906. Wheeler Evans dies at 27, followed by his mother, then father, then another relative. Neighbors Adaline Miller and daughter Aaronah aid the afflicted, while Rev. MecNamire and Rev. Hart conduct the burials. The community mourns as fear and sorrow spread.
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Wheeler
Columbus Evang
Aick
Newburg
Frank Lucas
Evansville
Evane
Evans
Mr. Evans
Adaline Miller
Anoarah
Itig
Dolph
Americus Evane
Maple Row
John McWartney
Knoteville
Neil Gandy
Terra Alta
Mra
Oath Gandy
Monongah
Mesers
Chas. Clelland
Belpre guests and local deaths noted in village column
Thornton and visitors Ida and Maud Marrase from Belpre Ohio returned home after a week here with Mrs Thorne Bailey. Locals Mrs Granneman and Misses Crise visited. George Lee moved to Virginia. Isaac Gowers died after months of illness. funeral at Thorn ton cemetery. Minota Powell and Mrs Maude Johnson visited relatives. Newborn son to Mr and Mrs A F Taylor. Dr N B Michael and family moving to Randolph county. Grace Bh rout returns home. Genis Wolf visited Independence. Nettie Snider of Fairmont visiting grandparents Snider.
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Mirsee Ida
Maud Marrase
Belpre
Ohio
Thorney Bailey
George Granneman
Grafton
H. Granneman
Maude
Etta Crise
Fairmont
Guy Bloom
Lena
Marguerite Hagans
Cameron
George
Lee
Virginia
George Snowden
New Cumberland
A. F. Taylor
N. B. Michael
Blake
Randolph County
Attre
Grace Bhrout
L. W. Lannon
Clarkeburg
Genis Wolf
Independence
Misa Nettie Snider
Protracted German Baptist Meeting Near Westerman
Mrs Jacob Snider and Mies Granneman are visiting relatives in Grafton. A prolonged German Baptist meeting starts next Saturday night at Westerman Church with Rev Sines aiding Rev Ansom in the county Md area.
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Jacob Snider
Mies Granneman
Grafton
Westerman
Sines
Abie He County
Ansom
Spaniard Martines Performs Fiery Oven Trick in Paris
In Paris at the New Tivoli a Spaniard named Martines staged a dramatic feat before scientists. An oven heated for hours held a roasted fowl and a man clad in wool entered and reemerged, the chill audience later reporting a strong odor from boiling tallow and a pulse of 176 per minute as the act concluded.
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Martines
New Tivoli
Paris
Cathedral chair and old English uses of cathedral
The article notes the St Peter’s chair described as the throne of St Peter and explains the episcopal chair in St Peter’s. It links the phrase ex cathedra and cathedral to the bishop’s chair. It also cites quaint 19th century uses like cathedral dogmatism cathedral beard and cathedral as slang for antique.
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St. Peter's
St. Peter
London Chronicle
Johnson
Brought to Book at Last
Tibbie a Scotch lass rules a New England family for eight years and declares plans to marry within six weeks to Rab the mild Scotch suitor. She jokes about spending on ribbons or a talking machine while Rab promises to wed when she is ready.
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Tibbie
Tibbiet
Whetstone tale echoed in Lincoln era humor
A fragment from a magazine piece recounts a bank teller confrontation with a woman claiming local ties and a janitress alias. A soldier recalls a whetstone sent to Lincoln during the war, joking about its fate and its long-hidden resting place atop a gatepost, tied to a presidential tale.
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Lincoln
Washington
Mira Jones Divorce Shocker Salad Becomes Lethal Barbs
In a sharp quip from New York Press, two figures joke about Mira Jones’s divorce. The remark revolves around her husband throwing salad at her face, with a punchline that she did not receive alimony but “the salad” as the outcome.
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Mira
Jones
New York Press
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Chicago Air Line
Mott’s
DR. Mott's Chemical CO
Grafton Drug & Chemtcal CO
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Nortte
Emerson
Upper Broadway
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