Inauguration mishap tale at Verinity College president
An onlookers report from Hartford street car reveals Dr. Luther spotting a drunken student in distress. The student admits fault with a weary reply as the president responds with grim humor. A Welsh fever tale follows with fatalistic beliefs fueling infections. Street humor ends with a wedding tour hotel joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plaver
Luther
Verinity College
Hartford
Dr. Luther
New York Tribune
Swindled Grandfather Proves Value of Old Age
In Indiana County's PROGRESS, a terse exchange notes a grandfather’s long, valuable life marked by three swindles after seventy. The quip equates a man of worth to gold, enduring fashions of time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel
Jack
Stlainese Love For Gamen of Chance
The passage notes the Sianfere devote holidays and ceremonies around life events while spending vast sums. They love games and betting, with licensed gambling houses and a royal lottery in Bang Ieok. It mentions Charles Lin’s engraved portrait in St Johns college, Oxford, and a curious note about a microscopic writing image.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deelles
Bang Ieok
Finenenan
St. John's College
Oxford
Charles Lin
Muripides
Johson
Burney
Jim
An Old Time Voyage Reveals a Sudden Embarkation
A story from Success Magazine recounts a first foreign minister hurried onto a ship in New York harbor. He bought a sack of flour, three hands and a bag of potatoes then found sailors to cook meals. Five weeks elapsed before departure and six weeks at sea brought England into view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suainister
London
New York
Waveler
Vid
England
Success Magazine
New York collector’s crooked etching mystery solved
A New York man discovers his desk etching of the Leaning Tower of Pisa remains crooked because the maid adjusts it daily to make the tower appear straight when hung. Her confession explains the persistent tilt and the prank behind it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Landscape painting discussed in local exchange
Uncle Josh jokes about a landscape painter nearby while Uncle Silas praises landscape work as a healthy occupation that keeps a man outdoors and gives him fresh air. The brief exchange reflects rural attitudes toward art and labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josh
Silas
Beards and celestial pipes in Longman's Magazine
The excerpt discusses ancient beard fashions among Gauls Dacians and Romans, noting barbarians and “weavers of beards” failed to shape beards due to rudimentary tools. It then switches to a science note about a theoretical earth to sun pipe 93 million miles long, its width, and a child’s possible reach to the sun, concluding with the improbability of such a feat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
Rome
Roman Empire
Earth
Longman’s Magazine
Striking exhibit shows lungs reveal air value at university
An Adtoburgh university museum displays preserved lungs from a Tiskimo, a Londoner, and a coal miner. The lungs vary in color from pure white to dirty brown and jet black, illustrating the impact of air quality and open-air living on breathing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adtoburgh University
Timsre
When the Hand I Kissed in Europe customs persisted
In Germany and Austria upper classes still kiss the hands of inferiors among the Indies, a practice abandoned in England and other nations. Austrian women distinguish hands, offering the right to inferiors and reserving the left near the heart for equals in Paris Faubourg and other regions.
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Germany
Austria
Indies
England
Scandinavia
Spain
France
Faubourg St. Germain
Parix
Teachers Institutes and Debates in Conemangh and Young Townships
A fragmentary report outlines a teachers institutes program in Conemangh and Young Townships at New Athena school, with topics on prayer, compulsory schooling, and training. It includes named speakers such as W. Chapin, W.O A. Stgirp, and RylM thiyden, plus a discussion on wartime themes and local education challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conemangh
Young Townships
New Athena Sehool Tause
Notice from Manway Proprietor on newspaper ad changes
A fragmented notice by Manway, proprietor, projecting changes to ad services and ordering, mentioning dates, locations, and advertisement practices. It references a shopper titled The verls and names Maguper, Anderson, and CAL A, with context about phase timing and product safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diaauda Cid
T. Be. Manway
Murnay
Maguper
Anderson
Seilesinit Cal
For Sale Listings With Mixed Real Estate Phrases
An OCR damaged page shows multiple real estate and property sale items with garbled text. It mentions prices such as 80 000 and 2754, locations near Lawn Ttense and Che Genie ydow Realty, and references to George W. Wheeler & Son and Wariners' yak Unilin. The text is fragmented, but indicates various sale notices and bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WIAC
Mavlern Daipreyys
Toisesene
Aeoegd
Slo
Viareit Rune
George W. Wheeler & Son
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Goginan
Aberystwyth
Wales
London Express
Mann
Indiana County
Riday Fyening
M Ranssel
Nettle Pilgyonmild
W. Chapin
W.O A. Stgirp
ST Bewley
Knox Kermedy
Rylm Thiyden
Rowie
Anne M. Wailers
Maelodanan
Auistin
Vemie Stiley
Muaay Pal Baivany
Ray
Thurbison
Coulter
J. B. Clawson
Toefalion Preston Vey
Satu Ony Apthanoon
Revuetinn A.M
Cissy “Tonehing Proebtenk Ariihine
Karbon
Pak Mille
Prat
M. Topis
Din Gulkerson
Thvewey
Ava Trenderson
AftrepGife
Prof Tarman
Kirk Myinted
Cullinghan
Minnie Robanghy
Thats Hart
Yoersley Lewis
Tower
Nicoly Coyughi
Ellison Capers
South Carolna
Colquibbr
Capara
Columbia
Lt. McAdon
Tiliana
Thibthe
Dan
Inoyerte Lcatity
Speedy
Noth Ninth Street
Indiana
Thiol WO
Hochorspar Ade
Sburg Railway CO
Bell
Diet Court
Shatin Centar
Sigur
Ridge Brancie
Ars
ALM. I
Houth Hiaind
Tien Dwi
California
Mexico
Pietel
F. H. Tristram
Pittsburg
Rowe Building
Phila. St
J. Lawrence Ebey
Indiana, PA
J. Lawrence Ebby
North Fourth Street
Irish Point
Nottingham
Union
Wilton
Eixtra Axmninster
Eldrige
Columbia Graphophone
Soc
Columbia Machine
Henry H. Steving
Sixth Street
Penna
L. Pattison
R. R. Depot
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