The Skyscraper Engine and the Harvard Wreck
In May a Missouri railroad’s sky scraper locomotive hauls wheat to Chicago amid mounting orders and a hazardous schedule. Georgie McNeal and Dad Hamilton break field records, suffer a wreck, and rescue each other as a red light signals a near disaster.
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Hamilton
Beverly Hill
McNeal
Chicago
Board of Trade
Georgie McNeal
Lasalle Street
Dad Hamilton
Lake Michigan
Zanesville
Harvard
Norman
Tfny Lowls
Redbud
Neighbor
Bailey
Glencoe
Jupiter
Samson
Two Doctors and a Baron’s Curious Wound Experiment
The late Baron Lutz, Bavaria’s former prime minister, wounded in both legs, had two doctors treat each leg separately without informing them of the other wound. Each doctor used a different method, yet both wounds healed at about the same time, providing amusement as he later questioned the physicians about their methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Musgrave
Sfard Lines
Dad
Georgie
Hamilton
Scaylor
Ephraim Scaylor
Baron Lutz
Bavaria
Some Thought For Food
A short aphoristic meditation on digestion and appetite. It links food choice to world outcomes and personal judgment, warning that indigestion disrupts life and that overfull stomachs lead to nightmares, drawing on W. J. Lampton’s quote from the New York Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Lampton
New York Herald
Cipher Writing in History and Its Controversy
The article surveys early cipher writing credited to Adaeas and Polybius, noting twenty methods and their unsealing difficulty. It recounts Frederic II’s abhorrence of cipher as diabolical, Trithemius’s revival efforts, Boville’s misunderstandings, Poissevin's claims, and Frederic’s burning order of the original work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polybius
Adaeas
Frederic II
Trithemius
Spanheim
Boville
Poissevin
Frederic
Graceless Children and a French Preacher in Paris 1518
French preacher Michael Minot, who died in Paris in 1518, was famed for dramatic pulpit turns from humor to pathos. He warned that strict law would punish sweaters, then denounced neglect of aged parents, likening flourishing trees to children who forget their roots.
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Michael Minot
Paris
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the Tribune
Spearman
Frank Jear
Narrows
Foley
Wild
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Tan
Clauss
Tad Hamilton
Freman
Reed
Bankie Gray
Neva
Beverly
Biff
Beverly Bill
Rotary
Mr. Reed
Father
George McNeal Sinclair
David Hamilton Sinclair
Seaylor
Rascal Scaylor
Acton
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