Kaisers Long Pedigree at Potsdam Palace
A New Palace intrigue in Potsdam reveals a genealogical tree with King David at its root and the Kaiser atop, tracing the royal line through his mother’s kin. The chart claims Britain’s royal house descends from David via Zedekiah’s elder daughter, who fled to Ireland with Jeremiah and wed Jerome, king of Ulster.
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Potsdam
David
Great Britain
Zedekiah
Ireland
Jeremiah
Jeremon
Ulster
Stolen Kiss Question Triggers Return of Stolen Night
A terse exchange asks if stolen goods must be restored and whether the speaker should reclaim a kiss from the prior night. The dialogue centers on reciprocity and romantic propriety.
Allen's Foot-Ease Advertisement Promotes Comfort
An old advertisement urges use of Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder to shake into shoes for tired feet. It claims relief from bunions and aching feet and invites a free trial by mailing a address to A. G. Olmsted in Le Roy New York with a 25 cent price and substitutes discouraged.
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Allen
Fitting Fate
A fragment from a period article notes a curious event as authorities prepare to muzzle a protruding hatpin. The remark indicates mixed feelings with a character expressing, I am glad it is stuck, reflecting local humor and tension.
Fires Kept Many Years Oldest Flame Witnesed Worldwide
The article recalls fires kept burning for centuries in Siam Sicily and Persia. A Siam temple guards a 500 year old sacred flame renewed every four years. In Sicily vendetta fires symbolize vengeance. A Palermo murderer claimed thirty years with a home fire. Persian fires in Sarahad honor service to the grand vizier and remain lit for a century.
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Baykoh
Siam
Sicily
Palermo
Sarahad
Persia
Shah
Shows Growth of London by Modern Directory Size
A comparison of London's directories shows dramatic expansion from the 1677 first London directory printed for Sam Lee to the latest edition. The newer volume contains 3,656 pages, 14 pounds in weight, and 120 pages in the old edition.
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London
Sam Lee
The Lost Giant Mount Mazama and Crater Lake
The article explains that Mount Hood is Oregon’s highest now but once a colossal volcano named Mount Mazama rose far higher, collapsing to form Crater Lake. Its caldera rims stand nearly four thousand feet, the lake reaches two thousand feet deep, and the extinct peak may have neared fifteen thousand feet in height.
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Oregon
Mount Hood
Mount Whitney
California
Mount Rainier
Washington
United States Geological Survey
Mount Mazama
Crater Lake
United States
Hogs Grind Their Own Feed at South Dakota Station
At a South Dakota agricultural station experiment swine are shown to grind their own feed using a hog motor. A stationary burr in a rotating drum causes grain to grind as hogs push to expose meal, aiding digestion and conditioning hogs for market.
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West
South Dakota
Bath Benefit for Harrison Bros. 700 Workers
Harrison Bros. & Co offers every man at their plant 15 cents for each bath taken in their in house bath rooms. A check is given after bathing and can be cashed on pay day. Dr. Francis D. Patterson oversees welfare. Patterson, former police surgeon, is a Penn football and rowing alumnus.
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Harrison Bros. & Co
Francis D. Patterson
Fromer
Patterson
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Dispatch
New York Tribune
Nothing to Fear
A humorous dialogue where a daughter worries about her future husband’s drinking. George admits occasional drinking and reveals the father’s reaction when confronted, expecting disapproval but learning the father approves with a lighthearted remark.
Fire without flames invention heats to 3200 degrees
An engineer proposes a device that mixes inflammable gas and air in a porous plate to burn with a surface flame initially. When ignited the flame vanishes but heat increases, claiming a temperature of 3200 degrees though practical use remains undecided.
Tower of Lions at Tripoli in Syria
The Tower of Lions is a famous Crusader fortress in Tripoli Syria guarding the Mediterranean coast. The article notes Tripoli becoming more accessible via the Bagdad railway project under construction by the Germans.
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Tripoli
Syria
Mediterranean
Bagdad
Nose worth three thousand a year for Chicago teen
Miss Edna Paulson, seventeen, of 3449 West Monroe Street, Chicago, earns about $3,000 annually from copies of her nose after an artist recognized a Roman character in its shape. Previously mocked, she now treats the feature as her most valuable asset as artists from Paris request copies.
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Edna Paulson
West
Monroe Street
Chicago
Paris
Card fragments and curiosities marked by local notices
A brisk compendium of clipped phrases from various papers notes a window card about a jour suit pressed between trains, a sensational line about a gambler with sleeves, a South Wales Echo birthday shout for Mrs Polwarth and her twin, a Vancouver restaurant sign, a women's paper description of a velvet hat, a shift in hat trimming, and a Boston Transcript quip about meat for pies and a stray 8 P C A reference.
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The
South Wales Echo
Boston Transcript
Talking Lunch Etiquette in a Genteel Exchange
Gag panel satire suggests a business man avoid lunches with his stenographer to prevent rumors. The barber shop banter notes abstaining from cocktails reduces talk, framing office romance as social peril.
Cheetahs Taught For Sport In Kathiawar India
The article describes cheetahs used for hunting leopards and blackbuck in Kathiawar India. It notes the hooded cats driven from bullock carts to stalk deer, then roared loose to chase and kill. When not hunting they come to food at bugle call and are walked for exercise.
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Kathiawar
India
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