Dr Clifford barred at Birmingham mission service door
Fragment from a Brooklyn style column recalls Dr Clifford denied entry by a policeman before a sermon at S Lane Birmingham. The exchange shows a pompous claim and a quip about seating. A separate note mentions a judge in Hoyt dealing with a Swiss offender and a Swedish mental mission line for high voltages.
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How She Lost Faith in a New York School
A Buffalo Commercial excerpt describes Elisabeth, a young girl struggling with spelling in a New York school. Her failed attempts, misread letters, and the stern teacher prompt tears and a tired resolve.
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Life of David Edstrom From Ottumwa to European Art Fame
The article chronicles sculptor David Edstrom leaving Ottumwa Iowa to study art in Europe. Facing poverty and toil from youth, he sold papers and worked in a packing house while pursuing art, aided by tutor Scheine. He crossed to New York and aimed to reach Europe’s art centers to develop his latent talent.
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From Ottumwa to Paris The Early Life of a Noted Sculptor
The narrative follows a Packing House employee who becomes a renowned sculptor in Paris. It recounts his Spartan mother, years of poverty living on under three dollars a month, hospital confinement from exhaustion, patron support sending him to Europe, time among Lapland aborigines, and a stoker job on the Norge voyage to Copenhagen. He speaks of the plastic tension in sculpture and finds greater fame abroad than at home in South Ottumwa.
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Champ Clark Defends Missouri District In Letter
Champ Clark answers criticisms about his Missouri district by praising its land, brick houses, and industry. He lists crops, livestock, cement plants, car factories, and brick barns, noting extensive brick construction and progress from agriculture to manufacturing. He references Montgomery City and Bowling Green and contrasts log cabins with thriving towns and infrastructure.
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Not In The Distribution Of Patronage
A prominent New Jersey politician, speaking after dinner, lamented his county’s patronage share. He drew a parallel to Sandy at Christmas, an old plantation tale, noting unfair treatment in the distribution of favors.
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Christmas Morning Stocking Prank Reveals Race Joke
A humorous exchange shows a master asking if a servant Sandy hung up a stocking. The servant says no stocking was found and jokes that a Black person may have taken the pant leg gift, reflecting racial humor of the period.
Dont you want your aidh bread and butter Annie
A father offers Annie leftover bread and butter and she wonders if it tickled him. Anne and her father share a moment of simple kitchen humor as she seeks confirmation about a hair on the bread. The scene, from The Delineator, shows domestic dialogue.
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Poet Denied Entry for Lack of $25
The Hungarian poet Jules de Rudnyansky was refused admission by federal authorities because he lacked the $25 required by law and because he might become a public charge.
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Remarkable Washington red cedar shows 750 year old logs still sound
From the Seattle Post and Intelligencer describing shingles cut from a moss covered cedar log, encircled by a younger cedar with 760 rings indicating 750 years. The log, exposed 750 years, remains free of rot and usable for merchantable shingles. Similar decay resistance observed in cedar logs buried under alluvium along river banks.
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Breaking ranks in Yale humor told by H. H. Rogers
Detroit Free Press recounts H. H. Rogers love of a joke even at his own expense. A favorite tale involves Rogers and William C. Whitney debating Yale’s presidency with the quip that Rogers would own the ground and buildings but not be president.
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Baptism Clarifies Validating Process Amid Parish Activity
A New York World item notes a Flushing pastor receiving a visitor with a baby for baptism and a clerk correcting the baptismal records, while a separate science blurb mentions potato varietal studies and copper wire production from crude metal.
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