Old Arnheim Estates Exceed Fairytales in Dutch Inn Dinner
Visitors tour Arnheim in Gelderland famed for lush villas and gardens of wealthy East Indies families. A guide-led journey includes a hidden water jet, marble terraces, and copper beech avenues ending at De Panw Inn founded over three centuries ago. The meal is described as abundant Dutch cafe cuisine with meats fish eggs and pastries as a memorable finale.
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Holland
Arnheim
Guelderland
East Indies
Otdhead
Abent Naht
Title Square
I Wish I Was a Heathen
A Sunday school lesson turns into a moral quip when Ted, uninterested in missionary zeal, mutters he would rather be a heathen. The exchange highlights a boy’s blunt honesty as the class ends and he races to the towpath. The teacher’s smile clashes with his blunt wish.
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Ted
Africa
Indianapolis News
His Last Effort by Irving on a Colored Soldier’s Homeward Tale
Irving told a Cleveland audience a new tale of a colored soldier returning from France. The veteran endured a rough voyage and was battered, sick, and discouraged. He urged listeners to understand that this is another part of the war, another duty worth wartime effort.
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Wii Irving
Cleveland
France
Cleveland Plata
Air Fuel Dream Prompts Citywide Excitement in Seattle
A Seattle man claims an air engine powered by air can run a 14 by 10 foot dirigible airship for six days and six nights without fuel or food. The piece notes skepticism about fuel from air and jokes about potential uses for air power once proven viable.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle
Youngstown
Earth
New York
Father
Birth of Jean De La Fontaine and his poetic rise
Fontaine Chateau-Thierry born July 8 1621 in a noble family. He rejected priestly training to pursue poetry and writing becoming a carefree but gifted artist. Later he grew devout, earning fame for his fables and influence on French literature alongside Moliere.
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Chateau-Thierry
Jean de la Fontaine
Fontaine
Moliere
Meanest Man I Ever Heard Of At Kansas Farm Wedding
Bishop Benjamin Brewster recalled a Kansas farm hand at a Portland wedding breakfast telling of a late night arranged marriage. The parson affirmed the ceremony as irrefragable and irrevocable, prompting the groom to lead his bride away and never return.
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Benjamin Brewster
Portland
Kansas
Parson
Campaign Planned Against Grasshopper Nests in Sutter County
Farmers in Sutter county plan an aggressive campaign next year to destroy grasshopper nests centered around the Sutter Buttes. Insect specialists note these pests breed in arid grazing grounds with 25,200 eggs per square foot, similar to Utah varieties spreading across Sutter and Yuba counties.
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Sutter
Yuba
Sutter Buttes
Sutter County
Buttes
Utah
San Francisco
Rolling Hotels
The piece highlights a vast travel system with parlor cars as hotel equivalents. It notes 260000 beds, 20000 desks, 26 million yearly guests, 8000 porters, two million dollars in linen, and soap value of and supplies per year.
An amusing query on wedding gowns and ancestral dress
The piece notes how brides may wear gowns once owned by grandmothers or great grandmothers, while grooms rarely wear inherited clothes. It argues men seldom marry in grandfather garments due to practicality and desire for attention, suggesting playful examples and a critique of wedding reporting.
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New York Evening Sun
New Haven
Conn
Dorothy W. Tay
John Bridegroom
Mehitable Spanker
Peddediah Timkin
Bunker Hill
Valley Forge
Granddad
Times
Shane
Squire Binglewhiffle
Prudence Winterbottom
Madrid’s crowded postwar housing crisis draws crowds
Madrid swelled by 30 percent since the war with a population near one million. The influx includes Spaniards, refugees, and visitors from belligerent nations seeking peace in the capital. Urban density tops Europe with 271 per hectare, central Madrid reaching 773 per hectare.
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Madrid
Spain
Europe
Paris
London
New Lace Making Machine Aims to Transform Industry
Nottingham engineer announces a revolutionary attachment for the Levers lace machine enabling full width lace production up to 100 inches. The device uses two jacquard sets to control warp and bobbin threads, allowing adjustable breadths from one inch to the full width, promising wide allover nets.
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Consnitec
Nottingham
England
Able to Carry It
Dialogue features Colonel Jagsby claiming the capacity of a southern gentleman as he rebuts whisky for the stomach, noting resilience of head and appetite for drink. The excerpt reflects a period tone from the Birmingham Age-Herald.
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Jagsby
Birmingham Age-Herald
The Mystery of Golf Dialogue Highlights Frustration
In this snippet a wife questions her husband’s passion for golf. She notes his joy seems elusive as the sport irritates and angers him, while he acknowledges at least some enjoyment in playing. The exchange captures mixed feelings toward the game.
Paying For Wanton Waste
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle notes farmers once burned and cut walnut trees to clear land. Now walnut is scarce and valuable, prompting reforestation efforts to restore the stock. Governments protect forests, and timber ownership may become highly respected as timber becomes king.
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Middle West
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Maryland
Famous Meeting Places Through English Club History
The piece traces early English clubs from the Mermaid Tavern and Will's coffee house to 17th and 18th century literary figures like Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Dryden, and others. It highlights social gatherings as venues for exchanging ideas and the rise of tea culture in these salons.
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England
Cheapside
London
Friday Street
Broad Street
Ben Jonson
Shakespeare
Beaumont
Fletcher
Dryden
John Bull
A Missed Opportunity in a Small Town Speech
An Indiana town mayor boasted to a schoolhouse audience while his wife listened nearby. He repeated his long boasts until a tired high school student quipped that he wished his wife had borne him out the first time he suggested it.
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Indiana
Fresh troops replace regiment in failed attack
In a World War II era vignette a debonair arrival questions a retiring unit about the failed assault. The weary soldier blames lack of support and ineffective artillery, lamenting the absence of backup as the new troops move in.
Immense Telescopes in American Observatories
The world’s largest refracting telescopes are at Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, Lick Observatory in California, United States Observatory in Washington, and Harvard University. Among reflecting types, Mt Wilson Observatory in California houses two highly regarded instruments. One feature notes a movable electric motor drive for right ascension and declination with focal lengths from 20 100 to 150 feet.
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United States
Yerkes Observatory
Geneva Lake
Wis
Lick Observatory
Mt. Hamilton
Cal
United States Observatory
Washington
Harvard University
Mft
Wilson Observatory
Poanenw
Earth not Alone Expansion of Cosmic Ideas
The Kansas City Star notes ancient beliefs saw a flat Earth and a two story cosmos while modern astronomy reveals suns, planets, and galaxies in motion. It explains sun movement, star wake observations, and the Runaway Star, suggesting our Milky Way is a spiral and that universes orbit a central point as space seems infinite.
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Babylonia
Egypt
Earth
Jasper
Groombridge
Constellation
Lyra
Milky Way
Kansas City Star
Women War Workers in Waxworks at Whitechapel Gallery
London displays a Waxworks record of women wartime labor. The exhibit features roles from ship painting to munition work and farmingettes, with scenes of women operating a 100 kilowatt engine and driving an electric crane. The display covers gas works brick dressing tar spreading sieving testing and factory tasks in naphthalene flour and sawmills.
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London
Whitechapel Art Gallery
Increase in Foreign Mails Sends Records Soaring
A review of US foreign mail by steamers shows 2,560,043 pounds of letters and post cards dispatched in 1920 versus 1,794,822 pounds in 1919, an 82.63 percent rise. Prints and parcel post also climbed, with parcel post tumbling from 12,883,722 pounds in 1919 to 26,453,048 pounds in 1920, a 105.25 percent jump.
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United States
A Fighting Fowl in the Courier Journal Cartoon
A witty Louisville Courier Journal blurb features a quip about guarding a hen house and a parrot kept inside after an attempted theft, delivering light commentary on poultry protection and comic bravado.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Camera replaces rifle in rise of wildlife photography era
In a historic shift, big game hunting adopts camera work as Laton Huffman of Miles City becomes a pioneer photographer. The piece praises his field portraits and notes his impact on wildlife imagery while denouncing credit theft and celebrating the sport’s new visual age.
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Mars
Laton A. Huffman
Miles City
Mont
Huffman
Milestown
William T. Hornaday
Scribner
When Nature Conspires
A Victorian-era tale describes leaf shaped insects mimicking leaves in Australia. Sailors misread a twig-walker as witchcraft until discovery of camouflaged creatures. The narrative blends marvel with natural history and animal mimicry themes.
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Australia
Gas Tank Terror Sparks Panic at El Prado Cafe
After 8 pm a gas leak from a large cylinder in the Havana cafe caused chaotic scenes with waiters and crowds frantically searching under chairs and tossing napkins as they avoided hissing bursts. The proprietor finally traced the source to a leaking carbonated gas tank.
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el Prado
Havana Post
Psst
Havana
Census Man Encounters Pondering Worker
In New York a census taker asks how many children the man has. The reply: three, and no more. The worker cites a book claiming every fourth child worldwide is a Chinaman, delivered with dead seriousness.
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New York
Saturday Evening Post
American Women Have Prettiest Feet Says French Maker
A French shoe manufacturer says the shoe is the foundation of a woman's wardrobe. He claims American women have the prettiest feet and prefer low heels for walking. He also recommends house sandals that support the feet yet allow flex.
Tahiti A Pacific Island Portrait From A Geographic View
Tahiti described by a National Geographic Society bulletin as a volcanic Society Island with steamship links to Sap Pruneth and New Zealand. The report highlights Papeete harbor views Fatang valley coconut harvesting methods copra and climbing coconuts, and notes Tahiti’s role in supplying copra to Europe.
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Tahiti
H. W. Smith
Bulletin of Theational Geographic Society
Society Islands
Pacific
Sap Pruneth
New Zealand
Papeete
Fatang
Tahith
South Sea Islands
Europe
Gabriel at Pere la Chaise in wartime blackout
A World War I doughboy wakes in Pere la Chaise during an air raid amid silent tombs and sirens. He scrambles to discard his last possessions a bottle of wine a pack of cards and worn ivories muttering to move on as he faces the unsettling urban night.
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Gabriel
Paris
Pere la Chaise
American Legion Weekly
Extended Tour Echoes of Gas Shell Blast Near Yank Company
In the St Mihiel vicinity the German blast near a Yankee company released gas shells from a dam stored munition. The Americans fled quickly but later returned as danger waned. One sergeant claimed he spent the day making his way back.
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St. Mihiel
American Legion Weekly
Making Him Useful as a Mop Handling Joke Note
The dialogue features Mrs Harrigan and Mrs Horrigan discussing how a man is used as a mop in Volsted days. Mrs Horrigan explains she uses him to mop floors and she admits she does that often. The piece calls attention to American Legion Week as context.
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Old Arnheim
Los Angeles Times
Vital Statistics
Ing
Soc Islands
Cord
Iety
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