Joke ends in dislocated jaw at Harlem hospital
Dr Touart treats Mrs Caroline Dressler after a joke causes her jaw to dislocate in a tenement room. Friends intone the tale while the jaw is reset. a second dislocation leads to renewed pain before the physician secures the jaw with bandages to keep the joke bottled up until release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr.Touart
Harlem
Eranwen
Caroline Dressler
Mra. Dressler
Harlem Hospital
New York
Timon
Why a Cat Falls on its Feet in Toy Aerodynamics
A placeholder acoptist models why cats land on their feet using a cardboard cylinder with wheels and a tail-like balance. The study argues that a long tail helps in turning midair and stabilizing movement, citing climbers and a squirrel as balancing examples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mambern
Prehistoric Remains Found in Coldrun Kent Excavation
Prehistoric skulls and bones unearthed on a floor of iron standstone at Coldrun Kent. Experts G Payne PF S A of Rochester and Mr Reader of London deem the find important and urge larger scale digs. Dr A Keith of the Royal College of Surgeons will study the specimens for a monograph.
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Kent
Coldrun
G. Payne
PF. S. A
Rochester
Reader
London
Pill-Rivers
A. Keith
The
Royal College of Surgeons
London Daily Madl
Changing Color Exhibition Fascinates London Society
Members of the Phyaical society in London attended a meeting on an exhibition of heat indicating paints. One paint is red at room temperature and turns black within seconds when heated to 8ng degrees Fahrenheit, while another yellow paint darkens to red at 112 degrees Fahrenheit. These paints are curiosities with potential but remain experimental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phyaical Society
London
Running for Office Innuendo and Widow Outreach Questioned
The record quotes a dialogue about a political tactic described as sending mail to widows in the district. It questions a rival’s potential use of similar outreach and whether such moves could influence voters across the district.
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Eeal
Enal
Ain
Conversation about loans and memory between Dinguss and Shadbolt
A fragment shows Dinguss asking who borrowed the last five dollar bill and Shadbolt replying he does not remember. Ning interjects that he has a strong belief the debt was not hers. The dialogue features casual questioning and vague memory cues.
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Dinguss
Shadbolt
First Homesteader Freeman Opens Nebraska Land Office
Daniel Freeman, a young soldier, filed the first homestead papers at Brownville Neb on January 1 1863 when the land office opened and the free home law took effect His filing followed midnight papers secured with settlers consent He later built a farm in Gage County with orchards timber and a brick dwelling and became a pioneer in Indian safety and church school debates in Nebraska His stance on religion sparked a notable school Bible case upheld by the state supreme court.
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Lincoln
Neb
Daniel Freeman
Freeman
Brownville
United States Land Office
Galusha A. Grow
Pennsylvania
Congress
Hrownyville
Sret United States Land Office
Land Office
Bt Lovia
James Bedford
Government Land Office
Bedford
Iwan
Beau Brum Melis
Tincle Sam
St. Louis
Ireland
Quearier
Gage County
Yollware
Nildeons
Nebraska
Drappeht Ngain
Supreme Court
Maine Star Annie Cary Debuts in Copenhagen Royal Opera House
Annie Louise Cary, raised in Maine and later married to Charles M Raymond, rose from a local student to a famed contralto. She pursued study in Portland Boston and Milan and then debuted in The Masked Ball in Copenhagen before royalty. Her debut helped repay a $6,600 debt from her musical education.
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Annie Louise Cary
Charles M. Raymond
Maine
James G. Blaine
Porthind
Misa Cary
Portland
Boston
Milan
Giovanni Corsi
Copenhagen
Royal Familly
Denmark
Minn Cary
Annie
Mise Carr
Denmeth
Germany
Miss Cary
Royal Opera House
Annia Cary
Vdea
Annie Louis Cary
Associated Literary Press
Irish Grand Prix Triumph by Eccentric Owner Conolly
In Napoleonic times an Irish Grand Prix winner, a lean roan horse, surprised many after Conolly mortgaged his lands to back it. The horse defeated the French colors and won the British Colorado, making Conolly a fortune and earning him a proud parade before the emperor and empress.
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Conolly
Bui
Napoleon Til
Grant Ingenious on Farm When Ulysses Captor of Forts
An old anecdote recalls Ulysses Grant during his marriage to Mina Julia Deni, living on the Dent farm near St. Louis. Lieutenant Sappington recounts Grant as a master of horses, seen plowing fields with a pair of blood bay horses gifted by his father for clearing land.
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Ulysses
Grant
Donelaon
Henry
Dent Farm
St. Lois
Mina Julia Deni
Sappington
St. Leia
Henry C. Aoore
Hay
Mr. Dent
Couthlaw
Fleide
Hornea
Battlefield to Boardroom Tales of Grant and Blaine
A reminiscence recalls 1882 Yorktown flag salute arranged by James G Blaine and endorsed by President Arthur. The tale follows Secretary of State Blaine drawing up the order and the quick approval by Lincoln and others, linking to Queen Victoria’s sympathy for Garfield. The article also recounts Grant guiding a harvest method, sowing grain while harrowing a field with synchronized horse team work.
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William Henry Hunt
Navy
Garfield
Arthur
St Petersburg
Ruasis
Yorktown
Lord Cornwallis
Robert ©. Winthrop
Congress
Edward Thornton
Great Brittain
Jarre
Ménard
Edward Sat
Willan B. Clyde
Fravy
James G. Blaine
Alate
Mr. Blaine
United States
Queen Victoria
Blaine
Rlaine
Robert T. Lincoln
Lincoln
BLIL
Grant
Vicleburg
BE. J. Edwards
Coal Mining of the World in Early 20th Century
A parliamentary return shows Germany and France leading coal output in 790 with record highs. The UK Belgium and the United States produced more in 1909 than in 298 but below 1907. Five-country total reached 860,906,000 tons, up 23,000,000 from 1968 but down 36,007,00 from 1807. World output cost 50,000,000 tons. UK produced over a quarter. In 1908 British coal mining employed 266,500 people.
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Germany
France
United Kingdom
Belgium
United States
Great Britain
Punishment Quip Sparks Schoolhouse Debate
In the east a school-marm proposes seating misbehaving boys with girls as punishment. A Chicago school-marm counters that in the west the girls are so pretty the plan would fail because boys would misbehave constantly.
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Toston
Daughters of Royal Blood Learn Typing Skills At Court
The 13 year old Princess Victoria Alexandra, daughter of King George, shows interest in typewriters at Marlborough House. Two lady typists aid the secretarial staff as the young royal trains to operate a typewriter with quick speed.
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Germany
George
Victoria Alexandra
Abe
Marlborough House
Primitive Indian quern found in Pennsylvania
In Labacheville, Pa., a two piece quern or primitive Indian mill, weighing seventy five pounds, was recovered in a cemetery mound. Historians recognize its significance as one of the oldest grinding relics, now exhibited by the Berks County Historical Society.
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Reading
Scotland
Indiana
Etlil
Pennsylvania
Labacheville
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Iowa
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Mrs. Dressler
James Freeman
His
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Goulde
Britain
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Bisine
England
Christien
Russia
Duchess of Cumberland
America
Quern
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