Vendetta Ends in Cairo Court After Ashraf Hamidat Clash
A centuries old village feud between Hamidat and Ashraf near Keneh Upper Egypt ends in Cairo. After 71 defendants faced trial 21 men received ten year penal servitude for killings and property destruction tied to a dog bite vendetta that killed a man 150 years earlier. Women avoided violence and only engaged in verbal warfare during the decade of clashes.
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Egypt
Cairo
Hamidat
Ashraf
Keneh
Upper Egypt
Thebes
Hairpin to Mend Umbrella Ribs Repair Method
A repair method replaces broken umbrella ribs with new ones using a hairpin as a mend. The article notes umbrella ribs often rust at attachment, causing breakage and the need for sturdier replacement parts.
Diagram of Using a Hairpin to Mend an Umbrella
Popular Mechanics Magazine describes repairs for a broken umbrella rib. A hairpin is threaded around the rib wire, twisted, and fixed in the groove to hold the rib in place. If the groove is shallow, one side of the hairpin is encased while the other half wraps around the rib.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Toy Telephones Work With Three Wires and Two Cells
A simple three wire wall telephone set designed for children uses two ordinary dry cells. It mounts on a wall with two screws and requires only following plain instructions to connect the wire to each box. The system can reach about 1 000 feet with two extra dry cells.
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Scientific American
Be careful penny box remark from Althea exchange
A child Althea says if you tried the penny box scheme on her papa you’d get a lot of ordkers. The exchange notes Althea using slang during a visit and adults cautioning about inappropriate talk.
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Althea
Ordkers
Pride and a Fall Poem About a Boy and His Saw Limbs
A short verse shows a boy proud of his saw claiming joy in its use. Neighbors warn him to beware the limb he gnaws as he swings the tool. He insists it's his, but the limb breaks and he falls, lamenting the outcome in a playful quatrain.
Six Year Railroad Strike Ends Quietly
A six year strike began March 18, 1914 when 750 freight trainmen in the Monongahela division of the Pennsylvania railroad walked off. Officials call it an outlaw strike ended by railroad brotherhoods two weeks after it began, though no official notice was given until a recent meeting. Most workers have since returned.
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Monongahela
Pennsylvania Railroad
Excavation Proposed for Segontium Roman Fort in North Wales
British archeologists seek $10,000 to fund excavations at Segontium the last Roman fort at the end of the northwestern military road. The dig aims to illuminate Wales Roman occupation and fill gaps in the northwest region once unexplored by archaeology.
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Segontium
North
Wales
Caerwent
Gelligaer
Castell Collen
Caersws
Iwynnedd
Segouthum
Evening Arrangement Between Norah and Mistress
Norah agrees to take the afternoon off as Mistress asks. The exchange shows a cooperative, tentative plan with respectful undertones.
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Mistress
Norah
Columbus Rival Claim Sparks Historic Sea Tale
John Scolye a sea scarred figure from 400 years prior challenges Columbus’s discovery timeline. Dr. Lofus Larsen of the University of Copenhagen presents Scolvo as beating Columbus to America by 16 years via Greenland Iceland route landing in Labrador in 1476. J Christian Bay translates the work and vouches for its authenticity.
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Doctor Larsen
J. Christian Bay
John Crerar
Chicago
Scolve
Furlough Request In A Hair Ribbon Tale
A wartime anecdote recalls a girl asking for a furlough while looking for a dropped hair ribbon. The light moment captures how common phrases entered daily speech during conflict.
No Place for Them: Old Politics Fades From City Life
A fragment notes that aged political figures seem gone from the city scene and that familiar names and ties no longer dominate public life, reflecting a shift in local politics and social networks.
Extraordinary human powers defy ordinary steel and pain
A London correspondent recounts individuals with unusual resistances and talents. Some cannot feel pain or react to steel, one can withstand high electric shocks, another handles live dynamos without harm. A Kansas boy, Claud Bristow, charms snakes. Gilbert White notes a bee sting immune boy. Answers, London.
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Godinez
Sing Sing
Leicester
Lipscombe
Claud Bristow
Kansas
Selborne
Gilbert White
London
Cold Water Thaws Alaska Ground Faster Than Steam
Popular Mechanics reports cold surface water as a superior thawing method for mining claims in Alaska. A 2 inch pipe in Nome fed 20 gallons per minute at 52 degrees Fahrenheit thawed an 8 foot cylinder in 36 hours, while ground stayed at 28 degrees.
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Alaska
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Nome
Finch
Multiplies Too Fast at Army School
A humorous vignette from the American Legion Weekly shows an instructor clarifying fractions to a trainee. The pupil struggles with tenths hundreds and thousandths and jokes that there must be millions of ten. The piece reflects wartime training humor and arithmetic challenges faced by new recruits.
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American Legion Weekly
Mercenary maid quote sparks Socialist debate in New York
Miss Louise Bryant, notable Socialist leader in New York, declares the modern girl mercenary. A vivid exchange follows with a young Socialist and a beauty, contrasting hooks of steel with ropes of pearls as a playful retort.
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Louise Bryant
New York
Aida in Fighting Forest Fires in New York
New York forest fire stations equipped with steel towers aid quick discovery of fires. Fifty of fifty four stations use steel towers to improve detection. Last year operations reduced the number and extent of fires and the image of the forest fires in the state.
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Aida
New York
Ares
Public Questions Spark Debate Over Divorce Grounds
Mr Meekton notes heated exchanges between Henrietta and IT about public questions. He warns married couples should not lose independence of thought and hopes laws won’t grant divorces on grounds of political incompatibility.
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Henrietta
Mr. Meekton
Substitute Defense Cited as Education Safeguard
A humorous debate clip shows a horse faced speaker urging education as protection over force. J Fuller Gloom of the Kansas City Star challenges the claim, hinting at the much discussed topic of elocution versus education.
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J. Fuller Gloom
Kansas City Star
All in Harmony and New Offices Planned
A local laundry business is described as strictly up to date. The firm plans to relocate its offices to a Matiron building, signaling expansion and modernization.
Dialogue Fragments Reveal Engagement Doubt and Warnings
Conversation shows Ida insisting she is engaged to marry, while Madge warns that the fiancé may cause trouble. The pair debate commitment as risk is implied by potential threats or interference. The text captures tension over love, trust, and social consequences.
Old Ranch Houses Passing in Southern Texas
The piece laments the fade of historic ranch houses in southern Texas, noting their Spanish and feudal origins, then contrasts them with modern cattle ranching. It urges preserving memory through photographs and notes for annals as the old way yields to a more profitable, settled era.
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Texas
Mexico
Omaha World-Herald
Boys and Dog Unearth £400 Hoard in Rat Hole
Four schoolboys on Whitsuntide holiday in Mulhuddert near Dublin uncover a stash of more than £400 in sovereigns from a rat hole. A local postman claims the money and admits he buried about £150 to cover family inheritance. Volunteers probe to recover the remaining funds.
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Mulhuddert
Dublin
Edinburgh Scotsman
Surely From Boston
A humorous exchange for Boston readers opens with a playful line about love and romantic miscommunications. The dialogue features a quarreling couple and a repeated marriage proposal, highlighting humorous metaphors about courting and a witty reply about a fish’s feats.
Step by Step on a Six Hour Day Plan
A man who seeks universal happiness imagines a six hour workday and questions future revisions to the clock. He notes contentment now but worries the era could shrink an hour into 25 or 30 minutes.
Dinner Menu Items Listed in Kingston Journal
The Kingston Journal lists a recent dinner menu featuring turkey, cranberries, scalloped oysters, cracker dressing, mashed potatoes, meat loaf, celery, jelly, pickles, beans, peaches, coffee oren, fruit cake, walnuts, dates, angel cake, pumpkin pie, mince pie, seven homemade candies, oranges, bananas, popcorn, cake, and mixed nuts.
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Kingston Journal
Director and Star Debate Happiness on Low Indy Salary
The Director says happiness must be registered each appearance while the Star questions sustaining joy on the smallest leading salary on screen. Both discuss the demand for contentment amid tight pay.
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Indy
Helen Strongs earns bridesmaid role in Wurm nuptials
In a lighthearted note from the Boston Transcript, Helen Strongminds clarifies that she is to marry Mr. Wurm and that the speaker has been asked to serve as best woman rather than bridesmaid, reflecting playful social chatter.
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Helen
Mr. Wurm
Boston Transcript
After the Deluge Flood Joke Report
A London Tit-Bits joke recounts a Sunday school teacher asking the flood result and a bright pupil answering mud. The quip reflects a lighthearted, historical cartoon caption style from the era.
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London
Marbles an Ancient Game and Its Rich History
The article traces marble play from Roman times crouched by Augustus to seventeenth century verses. It explains terms alley taw and kouckle, types of marbles from prized blood alleys to common mara diddies, and notes gendered roles and material varieties from alabaster to glass.
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Dickens
Pickwick
Berdell
Airdrome Building in Jungle Air Route Work
Popular Mechanics credits three advance parties with laying out forty three airdromes for the Trans African air route. Sites were cleared by defining four boundary strips and two diagonals, then each native cleared a 10 yard square patch for ground suitability. Ant hills were removed after grass clearance.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Neighbors Find J. W. Applin in Garden At Night
Neighbors spotted J. W. Applin and a companion with a flashlight in his garden around 12 Metoek one night, sparking speculation of a hidden treasure. The next morning a neighbor asked about a missing item. Applin replied he was simply shoveling for a caller and harvesting the first tomato.
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J. W. Applin
Metoek
Tie
Treas
Obstacle in Petonia Office Sparks Legal Debate
Squire Kovrsbotfon vows strict practice of new common sense in his Petonia office, while Constable Sam T. Slackputter accuses mixing law and sense as impossible to reconcile. The exchange highlights tensions between tradition and reform in local governance.
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Kovrsbotfon
Petonia
Sam T. Slackputter
Kansas City Star
Mexican Women Bull Fighters
There are between two and three hundred women in Mexico engaged in bull fighting as slayers or mounted attendants. They are immensely popular, with earnings varying. on fate days a woman may be paid as much as $3,000 for entering the ring.
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Mexico
Front Porch Dilemmas for a Presidential Candidate
A couple debates porch versus policy as they house-hunt for a future campaigner. They weigh front porch tradition against modern living while planning for a son who could someday seek the presidency.
Yeast Buys Fierce Bonnet for Wife
Dialogue records a humorous exchange about a bonnet purchase. Yeast confirms buying the bonnet, Crimsonbeak notes it makes the wife look fierce, and Yeast replies she might have looked fiercer without it.
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Yeast
Crimsonbeak
Yonkers
Fat Man Teaches Sunday School Class
A portly man leads a Sunday school session on sin and the afterlife. In closing, he asks what would happen to him if he had led a bad life. A boy answers with a pun that the fat would be in the fire.
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Sorad
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Hanna & Huffman
Motor Express
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Automotive Industries
Smithsonian Institute
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Middle West
Michigan’ S Ave
VIA
Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company
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