Jackson’s stomach power locates underground oils
A Sioux Falls man named Jackson travels to Kentucky oil fields claiming the ability to locate oil and minerals by stomach pains. Blindfolded tests in Richland fields trigger convulsions as he points to deposits, leading a Northern company to drill based on his location. The 17-year ear injury from a steel foundry accident is cited as his origin of the purported power.
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Jackson
Kentucky
Sioux Falls
Richland
St Louis Republic
How He Could Do It A Satirical Look At Wasteful Habits
The piece jeers at excess by listing absurd savings from everyday goods and habits. It mocks extravagant spending by suggesting simple substitutions could save vast sums, noting scales like umbrella purchases, cutlery costs, and other trivial luxuries. It mixes humorous hypotheticals with a critique of consumer waste.
Lace’s origins tied to men through centuries of use
The Scotsman notes lace was developed with strong male influence from papal and church patronage to royal fashion. Early lace on altar vestments and robes shifted to masculine attire in ruffs collars sashes garters and shoetop decoration under the Stuarts.
Butler Remembers Dinner Oysters Avert Disastrous Banter
A twelve cover dinner featured scalloped oysters in silver shells. With eleven shells left the mistress refused to eat any oyster. The butler offered one shell to her and then hurried in to remind her that the doctor forbade oyster consumption at any occasion.
Fragmentary remark on domestic danger and alcohol breath
A fragment notes that men may refrain from killing their wives because wives use the occasion for liquor or to mask the killer's breath. The sentence suggests a misused or cynical view of domestic peril and intoxication.
Buttons They Wear
Observing pedestrians in the city, about half wear lapel pins or badges showing membership in various societies. Buttons range from Masonic, Elk, Eagle, Forester, Knights of Columbus, and Holland Society to Republican clubs and Civil War era emblems. A few display college fraternity pins on waistcoats as well.
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Knights of Columbus
Holland Society
N. Y. Sun
Delicate French instrument measures thickness by light lever
A new French device uses two finely ground plates and a movable upper plate to gauge the thickness of thin plates, wires, and threads. A reflected ray of light on a graduated scale magnifies the small lever movement, enabling quick precise measurements.
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France
Himalayan Ant Diversity Surpasses Alps Elevation
In the Himalayas the perpetual snow line sits about 6500 feet higher than the Alps, yielding diverse life. Ants thrive up to 10000 feet with four species at 12000 feet and possibly higher. Of 110 Himalayan ant forms, 50 are unique to these mountains, a unique regional richness noted by Dr. August Forel.
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Himalayas
India
Alps
August Forel
Mountain Range
The Cows of Muscat and Their Odd Diets
A Muscat tale notes cows subsisting on dates and dried fish due to desert scarcity. The milk is described as queer tasting, and a calfskin effigy is used to calm nursing cows after weaning. Arabic tradition allegedly preserves the cows’ nerves to prevent drying up.
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Muscat
Persian Gulf
Arch construction and Rome’s first use of the arch
The article surveys opinions on arch origins, noting Romans first applied the arch to architecture. It cites the Cloaca Maxima in Rome, built about 583 B C by the Tarquin kings, as a monumental early example, built without cement and still in service after twenty five centuries.
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Archimedes
Sicily
Rome
Influence of Waters on Cement at Ashtabula
An Ashtabula experiment shows concrete made with water charged by furnace leaks from slag yields superior strength. The water contained silicious and lime constituents, sodium chloride, sodium sodium salt, and sodium thiosulphate. Compared to Allegheny River water, the Ashtabula mix shows noticeably higher resistance.
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Ashtabula
Allegheny River
Inquisitive Husbands Spark Lighthearted Household Woes
In a humorous exchange two women describe husbands whose curiosity leads them into misadventures. A vacuum repair fiasco ends with scattered parts and a 175 cent janitorial bill. Another tale follows a grease smeared, steam roller helper and a razor sharpener show causing late arrivals and comic observations.
Vicar to Wed Again After Two Marriages Mix Up
A parish vicar is summoned when a curate has wed two couples and two men to the wrong brides. The couples refuse to change, so the vicar agrees to marry them again but they decide to stay as they are. Also a joke about Flipson and the Blazes Fire Insurance Company ends with an arson arrest for a cigar hoard.
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Flipson
Young Waggles
Blazes Fire Insurance Company
Flopson
Fiipson
Too Severe Ten Years Would Be Enough
Joe Jefferson recalled being urged to join a friend at a new comedy show. The act proved weak and the comedians seemed nervous. As they left, the friend quipped their need was life. Jefferson replied with a grave smile that ten years would be enough.
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Joe Jefferson
Jefferson
Multimodal Innovations For Kitchen And Garage Use
A novel automobile barn can produce three tones by adjusting a single air supply bulb to multiple angles. A new cooking kettle includes a bottom valve to drain water from vegetables safely without risk to the user.
Flow Kansas Became a State Fight and Civil War Prelude
The Kansas admission to statehood sparked a bitter contest that fed tensions leading to the Civil War. The 1854 territorial bill and the ensuing conflicts influenced John Brown and Harper's Ferry and reshaped party dynamics, possibly delaying or altering the war’s onset.
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Kansas
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
Charleston
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Rival Rockefeller Wealth Attributed To Baroda Rajah
Belief centers on Sayaji Rao, rajah of Baroda, possessing wealth rivaling J. D. Rockefeller. His wife owns a world famous diamond necklace worth 12 million dollars, with 200 stones the size of a baselnut. A 500-diamond collarette, a carpet of gems, and vast treasure rooms fill the palace.
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Beliere
Sayaji Rao
Baroda
J. D. Rockefeller
Mauch
Oxygen in Ocean Depths Defies Old Belief
Scientists now report that deep ocean zones contain sufficient oxygen. Cold polar water, enriched with atmospheric oxygen, flows from both poles along the seabed toward the equator. This global circulation prevents stagnation and supports life, or else the ocean would become too foul to sustain higher life forms.
Marriageable Ages in Novels Reported
A Philadelphia Record excerpt notes that modern novel heroines are depicted as older. The speaker recalls heroines of eighteen to nineteen in youth novels, while recent works feature women starting around over thirty and ending in their early thirties, with one heroine portrayed as forty.
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Philadelphia
How Accidents Occur in City Walks
Pearsons Magazine reports that twelve percent of urban injuries happen on streets. It estimates a citizen facing one hundred near-misses would slip on ice sixty eight times, be hurt ten times on boarding or alighting from cars, six times by horses or wagons, four times from dog bites, and twice on banana peels, with miscellaneous other misadventures including occasional motor vehicle collisions.
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Pearson's Magazine
Curious Legal Custom in India Causes Strange Court Rituals
A noted custom in parts of India involves two landowners in a dispute having two holes dug close together. Each side places a leg in a hole, with lawyers from both sides similarly constrained. They remain until one party is exhausted or bitten by insects, at which point the employer loses the case.
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India
Buttermilk Compared With Green Bone for Eggs and Growths
The text contrasts buttermilk and green bone in relation to eggs and growths, noting both have perceived value and potential effects. It discusses culinary or medicinal implications and hints at comparative outcomes without specifying experiments, dates, or clear conclusions.
How to Stand in a Car Advice for balance while riding
A Brooklyn writer with experience advises Shop Notes Quarterly on how to maintain equilibrium when standing in a moving car. He suggests feet seven to eight inches apart with one foot behind the other and toes pointed outward to reduce sway while delivering parcels or riding to work.
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Brooklyn
Shop Notes
Mummy Beliefs From Ancient Egypt Explained
A plain tale of how desert winds and drying salts led Egyptians to mummy their dead. The two souls belief is outlined, with Ra the sky god and another soul lingering near the body.
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Earth
Fly traps of Spiders Nests in Mexican insect control
In Mexican villages during the rainy season forests of spiders nests lure flies by hanging a nest branch from a ceiling nail. Real nests enlarge with each capture and attract flies. paper copies fail to draw them. Despite their small size, these mosquero dwellers attack larger insects, with wasps often losing the struggle.
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Mexico
Mosquero
Rhubarb's English Growth Tied to Russian Root Heritage
The Field notes rhubarb has been grown in England as a fruit substitute only recently. The root, once valued for medicine, came via Italy, linked to Sir Matthew Lister and Charles II era seed. Native to Siberia and the Volga basin, its name derives from the Volga’s old name Rha.
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E. M. Holmes
Encyclopaedia Britannica
England
Matthew Lister
Charles L
Italy
Parkinson
Siberia
Volga
Coffee Raising in Arabia
The piece describes Mocha coffee production in the mountainous region of Arabia by Arabs, noting the scarcity of white men, undefined statisticians, and many small plantations. Arabs grow few bushes around their homes for personal use and small trade, making large-scale collection for caravans difficult. Trade routes to Aden and Hodeda are distant, with journeys taking weeks.
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Arabia
Lttle
Aden
Hodeda
Form of Divorce in Old Rome
In early Rome divorces were rare until the Sullan Wars. A couple appeared before the hearth with a priest and priestess. They rejected a shared wheaten cake and spoke severed formulas in place of prayers, ending the religious bond and dissolving the marriage.
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Rome
Bat Invasion Damages Woman's Hair At Hotel Rafael
In San Rafael a bat infestation disrupts town life as Miss Lilian Steadman, a maid at the Hotel Rafael, climbs to the attic to drive away the bats. A bat flies into her hair and she is forced to have her hair shaved after the creature gnaws through the tresses during the frightening encounter.
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San Rafael
Lilian Steadman
Hotel Rafael
Miss Steadman
Grewsome Private Museum of Harry de Windt Items
The traveler Harry de Windt has begun a Lapland reindeer trek and is assembling a private museum of curious objects. It includes a Buddhist praying wheel, a Dyak warrior skull, Dyak shield hair adorned with enemy scalps, daggers and spears, a Russian convict’s dress, a set of chains from a Siberian prisoner, and a genuine English cat o nine tails.
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Harry de Windt
Laplands
Reserved Adjectives Taint Gender in Historical Usage
A discussion notes that adjectives in English were once gendered with men avoiding words like beautiful while women and children used pretty lovely and beautiful. It observes hand some and good-looking as common to both sexes and questions the masculine correla tive of belle beau. It also traces pretty to an Anglo-Saxon meaning sly.
New Neighbors Move In Quietly
A neighbor remarks on the arrival of new residents noting the absence of a phonograph or music box among the furniture carried in yesterday. The conversation hints at a quiet household and curiosity about who occupies the new home.
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Delmonico
Heela
New York
Rockefeller
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Grewsome Private Museum
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Hurst & CO
Greencastle
Ind
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