In Bed 35 Years Adama’s Remarkable Fortunes
Joseph F. Adama of Perry township Indiana has lived bedridden since 1875 yet built a 200 acre farm valued at about 20000. Born 1841 he never relied on medicine and directed his business from bed while serving in the Forty-third Indiana during the Civil War.
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Clay City
Ind
Joseph F. Adama
Perry Township
Brazil
Mireescore
Ten
Adama
Adams
Bugar Ridge Township
Forty-third Lana
Kansas City Widow Faces Suit Over Marriage Proposal
Martin Kapp sues Minnie Bickling of Kansas City alleging she promised marriage and a business partnership with music lessons and support. He claims she offered a Main Street property worth 165 000 and sought to share in a 500 000 fortune, then reneged after meeting in October 1909 in Colorado. He seeks 50 000 in damages.
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St. Louis
St. Louisan
Kansas City
Martin Kapp
Minnie Bickling
Brooklyn Avenue
Kapp
Boy Saved by Dogs After Drowning Fall in Center Creek
Howard Bail, 14, fell eight feet from a high bank into Center Creek in Joplin Missouri. His two bulldogs barked frantically alerting passers by railroad section men who found his arm protruding from the water and pulled him to safety. he was unconscious for hours but survived.
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Joplin
Center Creek
Howard Bail
Young Ball
When Secret Methods Shape Townsfolk's Trades
A housekeeper laments craftsmen who keep hidden techniques for repairs and cleaning. She recalls a suitcase repairman who took the item home for his secret method, a pattern drafter who won’t share her waist-cutting approach, and other tradesmen guarding exclusive systems. She predicts a revolution when these secret methods are exposed.
Shock and the Hair
A German medical review cites Doctor Stelda on hair whitening after sudden deprivation of dye and notes most claimed cases are likely withdrawal symptoms. Doctor Steida says experts no longer tie psychic trauma to immediate hair blanching, though shock may seem to trigger rapid changes in a few weeks.
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Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift
Doctor Stelda
Stelda
Steida
Advice on marriage over flying machines from Elisha Chew
A Drexel Biddle anecdote recalls Elisha Chew choosing marriage over buying an aeroplane with $6,000 saved. Chew later enjoyed a California honeymoon and agreed a wife is better than a plane, though he joked he might still be thinking about the aeroplane if his wife were one.
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A. J. Drexel Biddle
Elisha Chew
Chew
California
Society and its faults as voiced by Lady Violet Greville
Lady Violet Greville criticizes modern society as a shifting mass of unexcited restless beings driven by money and the desire to advance. She laments lax principles and indifference to duty, arguing society lacks vigor, character, and religious regard, though not inherently immoral.
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Violet Greville
Willing to Oblige in Suburban Real Estate Dispute
An angry buyer accuses a seller of selling land saturated with water where fish swim. The seller promises to fix the issue and offers fishing tackle instead of returning money or exchanging the lot. The quirky exchange highlights a disputed property sale with humorous twists.
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Sgaat
Frocks for Girls Dresses in white batiste and pink liberty
Two children’s dresses described for ages 1 20 to 14 years. A white batiste dress in princess form with tucked waist and embroidery details, plus a red linen with white dots blouse and sleeves. The older girl’s frock features white dotted batiste over pink liberty, English embroidery, black velvet trim, and pink liberty sash.
Lace Headpiece A Novelty For Hats In Style
A feature on lace headpieces for formal hats describes a two inch frill attached inside the crown, its origin from Parisian lace turbans, and how it flatters the face. It also notes fashion remarks with tiny rosebuds and harmonizing plumes, plus health cautions about dieting and self control from Harper's Bazar.
Coat for Fall Wear with Kimono sleeves and Velvet Collar
Describes a fall coat in fawn face cloth with kimono style sleeves and a left side fastening. Velvet embroidered collar and matching cuffs, deep braided trim at the hem, and a straw hat trimmed with black net. Materials include 5 yards 48 inch cloth 1 yard velvet 1% yards braid and 4 yards silk for lining.
Fathers Meal Debate and Bolivian Jungle Beasts
A family dinner turns into a logic lesson as a son claims three chickens on two, while Maj. P. H. Fawcett reports deadly wildlife in eastern Bolivia. He describes an enormous anaconda, jaguars, black panthers, and swarms of insects making survival harsh in tropical forests.
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John
Bolivia
Maj
P. H. Fawcett
The
Geographical Journal
Abuna
Corumba
India
Grateful Death Tale Irony of O Rourke and O Rafferty
An archaic dialogue mocks O Rourke and O Rafferty blaming their poverty for lack of blessings. It notes the only time one rode in a carriage was to his own funeral, underscoring satire on social status and fate.
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O’rourke
O'Rafferty
Tactful Truth In Butter Joke At Banquet
An outraged hostess asks Mr Verity to judge her butter quality. He bows and answers that the truth compels him to say her butter is one of her strong points, leaving guests eager to hear Veritys response.
Frocks for Schoolgirls Trends and Trims
Frocks for schoolgirls this year favor small dresses with plain and plaid fabrics. Taffeta trims cloth and velvets pair with almost any material for touches or full portions. Old foulards can be refreshed as house dresses or repurposed for jackets, capes, or petticoats with strap-flounce bands of flowered foulard.
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Harper's Bazar
The Automobile Veil Cleaning Advice
The article extols washing a car veil to keep it clean and avoid dust stains. It advises choosing quality material from the start, using pure white soap with lukewarm water, rinsing without rubbing, and drying by pressing between thick cloths while still damp.
Chair Height For Sewing Machines
A caution on setting a sewing machine chair to the exact right height. If the seat is too low the operator tires quickly and the work becomes awkward and inefficient.
There Was a Reason and a Stately Exchange of Names
Cupid jokes about selling a trust to corner hammocks and chairs as autumn nights approach. Hymen notes the plan while a minister balks at a baby’s long list of names given by a mother driven by eight jealous aunts.
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Cupid
Hymen
Jane Dell Emily Nora Eliza Maria Frances
Sarah
Inventor's Multiuse Broom Prompts Earnings Hope
Note praises Sawyer-Twistler for a broom-cum-cane, trapeze tool, rolling pin, billiard cue, lawn mower handle and wooden leg. Gearing-He predicts money from such a broom, while Sawyer doubts how to adjust it to sweep properly.
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Sawyer—Twistler
Sawyer
A Druggist's Mistake
A drug clerk recalls nightly duties in compounding prescriptions and the risk of errors in dim light. He jokes about a plugged quarter mistake while working in semidarkness.
The Secret Crooked Grocer Rides Short Scale Vibe
The interviewer notes a successful start, while the grocer replies with a wink that he began on a liberal scale. He quickly corrects, saying he started on a short scale.
Blindness Not General Raises Moralizer Demoralizer Banter
A brief exchange casts light on perspectives, with one urging selective sight and the other defending keen perception. The quip captures a wary tone about truth and observation in a sly parley.
Dearest I’ll Love You Always and Reno Promise
A fragmentary note conveys affectionate promise with a playful aside about Reno as a constant presence. The lines suggest a loving speaker reassuring a beloved that faithfulness endures despite concerns. No further context is provided.
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Reno
England's Oldest Clock Restored at Exeter Cathedral
J J Hill and assistants have worked for months repairing the ancient astronomical clock above the Sylke Chantry in Exeter cathedral. The device, longstanding on the north tower, predates pendulums and minute hands and may date to Edward I or II.
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England
J. J. Hill
Sylke Chantry
Exeter Cathedral
Wella Cathedral
Wimborne
Lord Grimthorpe
Dundee Advertiser
Peculiar Land Law in Corfu Ties Tenants to Perpetual Leases
The German emperor's marble palace in Corfu sits beside a land regime where absentee landlords own the land but tenants hold it on perpetual leases. Rent is paid in kind and fixed as a proportion of produce, making tenants co owners who cannot be expelled for nonpayment, poor cultivation, or lease transfers without landlord consent. Rent increases require tenant approval, a system unchanged since Homeric times.
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Corfu
For His Country's Sake Chorus Girl Dowry Plea
A comic dialogue depicts a daughter appealing to her father to add 500000 to her dowry to avoid a chorus girl marriage. The father initially refuses but concedes saying there is a chorus girl famine and patriotism overrides pride. The brief snippet reflects social mores and ironies of the era.
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Chicago Record-Herald
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