The Patience Goodman Candle Test
Patience Goodman of Philadelphia faces two suitors Benediction and Pardon after her husband Enoch dies. To avoid painful choices she proposes a candle test. Both candles burn similarly until Pardon’s candle burns slower due to a salt trick, revealing his win and prompting their marriage.
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Patience
Enoch Goodman
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Benediction
Goodman
Purdon
Beetle Bits Coined From Insect By Saratoga Inventor
Ransom Cook, a little known Saratoga craftsman, invented a carpenter bit after observing a beetle boring a smooth horizontal hole in a log. He studied the beetle’s jaws under a microscope and replicated the mechanism with side by side blades. The resulting "beetle bits" launched his fortune.
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Cook
Ransom Cook
Saratoga
New York Press
Speed of a Train by Rail Joint Clicks
A London Answers reader describes a method to estimate train speed by counting rail joint sounds. By timing 22 clacks in 15 seconds and using rail length 60 feet, he computes about 88 joints per minute and 65 280 feet per minute, equating to one mile per minute.
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London
Holyhead
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The Chancellors and a Countess Dog Plea
Bismarck, known for his sharp treatment of strong minded ladies, visited the Russian embassy in Berlin. He flung snubs at guests, then departed amid barking from the household mastiff. The Countess Schouvaloff pleaded softly from the window, Do not bite my dog.
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Bismarck
Berlin
Schouvaloff
M. le Chancelier
Course of the Sun and a Circular Motion Debate
Edgar Lucien Larkin argues that the sun may move around a center or travel straight, but probabilities favor motion. He notes no detectable turning with telescopes yet suggests stellar gravity bends paths. he compares solar travel to a bee in a swarm and equates a 12 mile per second traverse over 300 years to a cut inch on a mile.
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Edgar Lucien Larkin
New York
Select Trees With Care In Choosing Street and Lawn Trees
Trees for streets and lawns require careful study for generations of life. Americans often overspend on furniture while neglecting tree selection, where a single dollar can decide the tree chosen. This reflects a Kansas Industrialist stance on prudent landscape investments.
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Kansas
Builder Avoids Patterson Daughter Due to Fire Risks
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item notes a jokey exchange where a builder of fireproof structures says he cannot ask Patterson for his daughter because Patterson is a fire insurance agent. The quip blends professional roles with romantic hesitation.
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Old Patterson
Cleveland
Quote Exchange On Birth For Poets In Milton Echoes
A fragment from Harpers Bazaar features a dialogue where Miss Gusher asks if poets must be born and The Poet's Wife replies poets are born with. The exchange cites John Milton noting even virtuous men may transgress yet still keep the law.
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Gusher
Harper’s Bazar
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