Inventor Plans Device to Silence Roosters in Washington
A Washington inventor proposes a noiseless device to stop roosters from crowing while preserving the birds. He argues that authorities could authorize the use of his crowless mechanism to reduce urban noise without harming the rooster.
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Washington
A Berlin Man on America Opinion from Washington Post
August Werner, a Berlin merchant, argues Americans split into two classes travelers and non travelers. He says the latter are narrow minded and overrate the United States while admitting America is a real nation likely to become foremost, though not everything here is the finest.
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Washington Post
August Werner
Berlin
Rasel
America
United States
Traveling Stage Folk Echoes From Sixty-Five Years Ago
A reminiscence recalls early touring life with rough travel from Chicago to Galena, starving mornings, and a surprising breakfast of wild turkey and prairie tea. The narrative contrasts travel luxuries abroad with harsh U S railway conditions, noting India’s luxury trains and baths as a point of taste and geography.
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June Geran
Chicago
Galena
Drudgery Behind Great Achievements Across History
A compact survey credits historic figures from Dante to Darwin with success earned through relentless labor. It cites Johnson, Lee, Carlyle, Alfred the Great, Adams, Cyrus Field, A T Stewart, Wanamaker, Angelo, Raphael, DaVinci, Millais, Darwin, Peter the Great, Demosthenes, Plato, Gibbon and Choate as examples of how discipline and toil forge achievement and fame.
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Rasselas
Lee
Carlyle
Naseby
Alfred the Great
Britain
Charlemagne
John Adams
John
Washington
Cyrus Field
A. T. Stewart
Mercantile Library
A.T. Stewart
John Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Angelo
Raphael
DaVinel
Millais
Charles Darwin
Peter the Great
Demosthenes
Plato
Gibbon
Rufus Choate
Pilot’s Clever Reply Guards the Wheel in Rough Channel
In Harpor'a Weekly an ocean steamship company president asks the elderly pilot if he knows dangerous spots in a channel. The pilot replies he does not, then explains he knows where the bad places won’t be. The exchange highlights humility and local knowledge at sea.
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Harpor'a
Ocean Steamship Company
Com Y
Snake bite price sparks old prohibition tale in Kansas
A Kansas druggist explains new prohibitive law bars whisky sales to the ill, joking that whisky can only be sold for snake bites, while a stranger asks for whiskey and learns the town has only one snake and none available for three weeks.
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Kansas City Journal
Kansas
Strang
Pigs From Hankow Under London Deptford Sanitary Check
Nearly 6 000 frozen pig carcasses shipped from Hankow China move through the London Deptford port inspection as part of a larger consignment including beef poultry deer game and eggs ready for England.
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Hankow
China
England
Port of London Sanitary Authority
Deptford
Types of Men Who Annoy the Women
A garbled essay notes types of men who annoy women including vanity types a self styled ladies man a chatterer and a constant talker who intrudes on conversations a speaker who repeats old jokes and digs up past lines a serial monogamist and a self important cad the text exits mid thought leaving incomplete examples and fragmented descriptions
The Departed Friend and Other Readings Found
A collage of verse and prose passages including Robert Louis Stevenson lines about a departed friend, a Tariff reform anecdote from Joseph Chamberlain, a playful poem about the Captain of the rocking chair, and a travel poem about Laddie at home with Hannah G. Fernald.
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Peru
Saptain
Laddile
Hannah G. Fernald
Colors for Houses in Scribner's Magazine
The article outlines house color choices beyond red including white gray yellow and brown. White suits formal country houses and stands out at a distance with surrounding trees and seasonally sparking flowers inviting attention. Gray or brown shade ugly exteriors, with gray tones softening yellows, while white roofs or square colonial forms enhance visibility.
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Scribner's Magazine
Ihe Walla
A Keen Lad Shows Early English Wit
A village doctor recalls a 12 year old Dobbs Corners boy who claimed to have measles and offered to spread it at school to keep others at home. The anecdote highlights a precocious youngster testing limits and prompting the doctor to reflect on local humor and social norms.
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Lippincott's
New
Comic misadventures in a home of friends and suitors
A Cleveland Plain Dealer piece recalls a youth smitten at a friend's house and courting on a fire escape amid family chaos. Freddie worries about moving to a new neighborhood where he fears a wild brood of kids. The Delineator excerpt notes witty lines about boring soup and dreamt castles.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Freddie
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