Gormly's NY mayoral bid tests Gotham franchise fate
A reform candidate George Gormly denounces Gotham Freight Traction and pursues a lawful, anti graft mayoral campaign. He uses a two and a half million dollar check to challenge the council and rallies a crowd at City Hall while opponents and police clash with the mob. The scene ends with a dramatic confrontation and a promise of continuation.
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Tenderfoot
Blizzar Ut
Onty
George Ormly
Newark
Eleanor Haldane
Ormly
Haldane
Gormly
Merchant Prince
Nority Party
Sachem_Society
The
Ring
Haltane
Haldane, Jr
Reign In Party
Freight Traction Company
Sachem Society
Livingstone Haldane
Mr. Gormly
Tonneau
Gotham Freight Traction Company
New York Street Car Company
New York
Board of Aldermen
City of Gotham National Bank
Gormiy
Peter D. Warren
Connell
City Hall
London Zoo animals take to work with camel mower and llama cart
Visitors see a camel harnessed to a lawn mower at the London Zoo while a llama pulls a governess cart for children. Elephants may be asked to pull weighty lorries as part of proposed exercise schemes including an exercise circus with a circular cage and central island supervised by a keeper-ringmaster.
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Adam
London Zoo
Zoological Gardens
Commissariat Department
What Makes the Sky Blue and Why Dust Colors Daylight
A historical note explains that daily dust in the air scatters sunlight to create diffused daylight and the blue sky. It details how finer particles yield blue hues while coarser ones dim or shift colors, with examples from Paris and the Alps and measurements of dust particle counts per cubic centimeter.
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Paris
Eiffel Tower
Alps
Contested Franchise Vote Ends in Ayes Triumph
A heated city hall scene over a franchise grant ends with the administration securing passage after a divisive vote. Spectators erupt as the aldermen, including Gormly, face a tumultuous exit amid cheers and shouts.
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City of Gotham National Bank
Gormly
Heilman
Uncle Sam and His Divorces
Statistics show a high US divorce rate with about one in twelve marriages ending in divorce and two thirds granted to wives. Desertion accounts for 39 percent. desertion, contested cases, and granting rates vary by region with America leading globally except Japan.
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Uncle Sam
America
Japan
Uncle Sem
Hungary
West Australia
Saxony
Ireland
Sweden
Ancient Egypt Child Rearing Practices Revealed
In ancient Egypt infants were carried in cloths and milk fed until they could chew. Children played with hoops balls and dolls in graves and learned reading writing and arithmetic after age ten, with schooling lasting several hours daily.
Harmonious Boasting and Domestic Labor Report
Fragmentary lines describe Mrs Homely maintaining her house and public duties. The text hints at boasting about harmony and household duties as a social performance.
Sheep as burden bearers in Himalayan valleys
The Westminster Gazette notes that in northern India sheep serve as burden carriers on steep Himalayan paths. Each sheep carries 16 to 20 pounds, traveling village to village while still growing wool. Farmers shear the flock in towns and load remaining grain onto the animals for transport back home.
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India
Westminster Gazette
Himalayas
The Boy Who Tries and Triumphs in Poem
A poem extols the boy who persists through hardship and defeat. It contrasts praise for winners with deeper honor for those who keep trying. The speaker finds in the striving boy a noble virtue that endures poverty and climate, rising beyond worldly applause.
Ingenious leather loop puzzle described in figures
A puzzle uses two one inch leather squares and a long leather strip with cuts. By threading the strip through the cuts and following a sequence shown in diagrams No 1 and No 2 the final loop is formed. The solution requires guiding the free end over and under specific cuts to produce the final loop.
Bees and Wasps Store Honey in Paper Cone Nests
A brief note explains bees and wasps prepare for winter with stores of honey. Wasps are less cooperative in gathering, but the central nest of paper making wasps holds ample honey reserves.
One Busy Potato Fact From a Gardener's Insight
A quirky medieval style note claims a single good potato under a first-class gardener could yield 10,000,000 tubers in ten years. The text presents a whimsical exaggeration about agricultural potential.
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