Remains of Hessian Camp Unearthed in Harlem Heights
Workmen along Broadway between 169th and 170th Streets unearthed a 12 foot deep fireplace and hut flooring of a Hessian camp. New York Historical Society members Reginald Bolten and William Calder identified the ruin as part of a 40 hut complex used by Hessian soldiers until 1779 and linked to General Von Donop. Gold buttons bearing the Hessian coat of arms and bullets were recovered as further digging continued under Bolten’s supervision.
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Broadway
Reginald P. Bolten
Williams. Calder
New York Historical Society
Mr. Bolten
Messrs
Bolton and Calder
General von Donop
City of New York
New York History Company
Washington
von Donop
Hudson
Harlem Heights
Wolf for hawk wedding in Oregon ends with wolf bounty
Tolley farmer Wilbur Trelcomb traded a gray wolf for a Holley hawk named Lulu G. and paid 0 cents. County Clerk Russell officiated as the couple wed, with Wilbur also claiming a $2.50 wolf bounty and sending the wolf to the state game commission for a $20 extinction premium. The wolf’s bounty and state reward may fund part of the couple’s honeymoon.
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Wibur Trelcomb
Tolley
Russell
Albany
Holley
Holcomb
Lulu G
Wilbur Holcomb
Bilyeu
Dan Cupid
State Game Commission
Oregon
Elk Herd Ravaging Gardens Prompts Governor Plea
Mrs L J Long writes Governor Stephens asking for execution of a herd of 14 elk that have ravaged Pacific Grove Cal gardens for years. She reports no relief from mayor and officials and says the elk roam the peninsula after spring grass dries and they eat gardens even with fences. She proposes killing the herd and feeding the meat to Pacific Grove men.
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Stephens
California
Pacific Grove
Cal
L. J. Long
Peninsula
Buy Goods to Help China Disclosures of Russo Chinese loan use
The 4,000,000 rubles borrowed by Chinese Mongolia from Russia to stabilize finances are revealed. A small portion funded arms, while most payments went to Russian manufacturers for 10,000 brass images of Buddha.
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China
Mongolia
Russia
Old British Soldier Letter Angrily Responds To Discharge
A discharged veteran vents fury at his late colonel saying the army should go to hell. In reply he is instructed to file any inquiries on army form 123NYZ, with a copy included.
Elephants Migrate For Jungle Project In Ceylon Or New Guinea
A movement proposes sending 20 pairs of elephants to Ceylon or releasing them in New Guinea. The plan cites elephants as superior dirt road builders and notes New Guinea's interior is dense jungle with scarce game. Elephants could help clear routes for both white settlers and local natives.
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Ceylon
New Guinea
Africa
India
Divorce Suit Ends In Suicide Of Young Chicago Lawyer
In Judge Jesse A. Baldwin's Chicago courtroom a divorce case Huszagh versus Huszagh ends abruptly when defendant Victor L. Huszagh, 29, an attorney, is found dead from suicide after learning of the divorce filing by his wife Lorena Case Huszagh. Rudolph D. Huszagh, also an attorney, discovers the body. The couple married four years earlier in a celebrated romance. Huszagh had served as an air service captain in wartime. The judge dismisses the case following the death.
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Jesse A. Baldwin
Chicago
Huszigh
Huszagh
Gus Wedemier
William F. Ader
Judge Baldwin
Air Service
Pet Rooster Pilot Travels With Family on Cross Country Trip
R J Nagle his wife and son travel across the country with a Rhode Island Red rooster perched on their car door. The trained bird serves as entertainment and a deterrent, guarding the vehicle at hotels and along 40 mile per hour highway segments. The Nagles began in Los Angeles plan to visit Philadelphia Florida and then return to California.
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R. J. Nagle
Waterloo
Rhode Island
Nagle
Kentuckians Alarmed by Whisky Evaporation in Government Barrels
Revenue officials in Lexington report whisky stored in government bar rels is leaking and evaporating. They cite 8,224,016 gallons held locally valued in the millions, with similar quantities in other districts. A Paris case from 1880 showed heavy loss when aging in old barrels, leaving only a few gallons per barrel after fourteen years.
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Lexington
Revenue Office
Paris
British Admiralty Salvage Record Reaches 440 Ships
The British admiralty reports salvaging 440 vessels and recovering property valued at $250 million over four years. From Oct 1915 to Nov 1918, British allied and neutral ships totaling 1,623,551 gross tons were salvaged, using steamers with powerful props and six lifting lifters supporting 2,000 tons.
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British Admiralty
Admiralty
Gave Fussy Baby $50 Bill Disappears
A Lawrence Massachusetts couple reports their one year old child became fussy while shopping. The father handed the baby a pocketbook holding a $50 bill to entertain him, then the money vanished fifteen minutes later.
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Mike Lizewski
Lawrence
Mass
Iis
Troney
German Town Seeks U S Loan for Food Purchase
The town of Bielefeld Germany negotiates a $1,000,000 loan from the United States to be repaid over ten years for the purchase of foodstuffs. The proposed loan aims to support local needs and stabilize supplies.
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U. S
Bielefeld
Germany
United States
Return from war brings father news of joy and death
Michael Murphy returns home with his son Sergeant Joseph T Murphy from France. The family gathers in celebration, but the father dies of happiness when Joe enters the room. A domestic tale of wartime joy and a final quiet tragedy in an Irish Chicago household.
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Michael Murphy
Sergt
Joseph T. Murphy
Chicago
France
Joe
Hindenburg
A Murphy
No Record of Lost Comet Cop Searches for Halley Flyer
A Chicago youth Arnold Carlson, eighteen, was found under an Evanston Northwestern elevated platform with binoculars while searching for Halley’s comet. Officers claimed no records of a lost comet and escorted him to the station, reflecting a quirky police encounter rather than a real scientific alert.
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Halley
Central Street
Northwestern Elevated
Evanston
Arnold Carlson
Chicago
Reminded of Hun Tank by Noisy Owl Car
Ed Kramp, ex assistant in the Toledo Ohio fuel office, recently back from overseas artillery service, woke from sleep believing a German tank had invaded when a loud owl car rattled past. He leaped up with a chair, imagining the war restarting as he fought the old battle in his room.
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Joe
Ed Kramp
Fuel Administration
Toledo
Kramp
Rich ancient mosaic found in Rome under Case Popolari
Archaeologists uncover a richly decorated mosaic in Rome dating to the Caesars era. Found under the foundations of the Case Popolari, the piece remains in near perfect preservation with elaborate geometric designs. It may have formed part of a palace floor.
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Rome
Pastor uses business methods to grow Morgantown church
Rev. R. J. Bennett has become pastor of Spruce Street Christian Church Morgantown West Virginia He promotes attendance with newspaper ads church fans and a hired brass band at services The unusual approach mirrors a modern marketing mindset in a religious setting
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R. J. Bennett
Spruce Street
Christhan
Morgantown
W. Va
Bennett
Rats Bleed Britain Over Grain Losses in Commons Drive
A bill in the House of Commons seeks a $4,000 appropriation for poison to combat rats and mice causing a yearly loss of about $100,000,000 in Great Britain. The measure notes rodents waste grain and other food products, urging action to curb the damage.
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Britain
Great Britain
House of Commons
Sleep sickness tale from a Chicago legislator
Former Alderman and Illinois legislator Theodore K. Long described his six month battle with sleeping sickness after returning from Battle Creek. He detailed visions of beaches, cathedrals, castles, flowers, and surf sounds during wakeful spells. Diagnosed as encephalitis, he spent 14 weeks bedridden, linking illness to influenza and possible African sleeping sickness germs entering the United States.
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Chicago
Theodore K. Long
Illinois
Battle Creek
Mich
St. Luke's Hospital
Andromeda the hen yields emerald ring worth $800
Hayward farmer H F Westerly killed his plain drab Buff Cochin hen Andromeda to prepare Sunday dinner. He opened her crop and found an emerald ring with diamonds worth about $800 in her grinder, likely swallowed after the ring dropped from a passing car. The ring was corroded and had sat there for about a week.
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Andromeda
H. FE
Westerly
Hayward
Cal
Love Her Only Crime Judge Suspends Bigamy Sentence
Judge McMahon of New York suspended Teresa Cleri's sentence for bigamy after she claimed her first marriage was arranged by parents in Italy and loveless. She said she later married Luigi Izzo last October after falling in love, challenging the law with her defense.
Wife vows to quit smoking after desertion case
In Birmingham England a man charged with deserting his wife argued she smoked cigarettes. The magistrate ruled smoking is not a crime. The wife promised to quit and the case was adjourned to allow the couple to settle their differences.
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Birmingham
England
Tragic suicide at sweetheart’s doorstep ends life of Hattie Radin
Hattie Radin eighteen of Great Falls Montana killed herself at her lover’s door after writing a letter in which she threatened to take her life. She took poison on the steps of her sweetheart’s home after the lover rejected her.
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Hattie Radin
Great Falls
Mont
Great Law and the Changing Seas of Progress
An old sailing skipper watches a modern engine liner and a giant aircraft race past, sensing the inexorable Great Law of progress and the end of his era as maritime power shifts toward streamlined industry and aviation. The piece contrasts fading seafaring life with relentless technological advance.
White horse carvings of Wiltshire and other hillsides
A puzzle notes the persistence of chalk hill figures in southern England including Westbury, Ethandune, Arlington, Cerne Abbas, and Wilmington. It recounts history and debates over origins, preservation, and the famed Scouring festival once held at Arlington.
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England
Westbury
Brattan
Wiltshire
Alfred
Ethandune
Arlington
Cerne Abbas
Wilmington
Proof That Seeds Breathe Demonstration From Scientific American
An experiment shows germinating peas consume oxygen and produce carbon dioxide. A jar with many seeds halts growth due to oxygen depletion, while a single seed grows. A burning match goes out in the jar, and lime water turns milky when shaken, proving carbon dioxide presence after germination.
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Scientific American
Abolitionist Greeley Hopeful for Civil War Peace Talks
Horfee Creeley receives a 1804 letter from George Saunders of Kentucky proposing that Clay of Alabama and Holemabe of Virginia meet Greeley to negotiate an end to the Civil War. Lincoln commissions Greeley to pursue the peace effort, but talks fail as Confederate delegates lack full government backing. war continues nine months more. Greeley, an anti slavery leader, favors freeing slaves by reimbursing the southern states for their loss in value.
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Tury
Horfee Creeley
George Saunders
Kentucky
Clay
Alabama
Holemabe
Virginia
Greeley
Lincoln
The Main Thing Prisoner and Visitor Cake Request
A prison visitor offers cake to a prisoner. The prisoner replies gratefully in a whispered tone. The excerpt ends with the visitor asking for preferred cake type.
Genesis Tales echoes from Babylon in ancient flood myths
A writer traces parallels between the Genesis flood story and Mesopotamian tablets from Nineveh and older libraries. The piece discusses toy ark notions, Euphrates boats, and the idea that household myths in Babylon may predate biblical tales by millennia, with references to Layard and Ashurbanipal.
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Mesopotamia
London
Euphrates
Tigris
Babylon
Eve
Poet of All Time in Yeats’s Satirical View
John Butler Yeats mocks logicians who undervalue poetry and lament a changing England as he recalls a gifted poet shaped by a nation that once nurtured Shakespeare. He warns critics who equate culture with sterile theory and notes the enduring lure of poetic genius amid shifting times.
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England
John Butler Yeats
Horn
Health in Trapshooting Inspires Nerves and Health
A Forest and Stream piece extols trapshooting for physical fitness and mental steadiness. It praises sun and air, notes low nervous strain, and claims the sport can reduce doctors' bills when practiced by patients following advised guidelines. The piece emphasizes enthusiasm and steady practice.
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Sherlock Holmes
Doubts on Troy’s Existence Fade with Priam’s City
The writer argues Tomer’s epic exaggerations aside, Troy may have existed as more than a poet’s fancy. He notes Priam’s city appears modest compared to Triad claims, but hopes readers accept that Timms likely touched on real events. Robertson supports that while exaggeration occurs, some happenings were real.
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Tomer
Boen
Troy
Priam
Timm
Hamer
Robertson
Parlor Scene Sparks A Strange Family Moment
A young man sits with a chaotic four year-old boy who pranks him while the boy’s sister quietly occupies a nearby room. The scene unfolds with the boy tugging at his tie, rummaging pockets, and the amused victim smiling broadly as if from a comic page. The dynamic hints at an unusual family bond and hidden tensions in a quiet home.
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Roy
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