Long Favorite of Emperor Recalls German Court Anecdotes
Mme de Hegermann-Lindencrone recounts her Harper's Magazine writings on the German court. The Kaiser praises her articles at a court ball in Compiegne and recalls childhood memories, noting he reads her pieces aloud to the empress and wishing he had met Napoleon III.
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Harper’s Magazine
Mme. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
Compiegne
Harper’s Monthly
Napoleon Iit
Nice
Emperor
Oldest Connecticut timber house preserved at Bride Brook
Connecticut restored the Thomas Lee house of Bride Brook once owned by a 1641 emigrant builder and 1676 legislator. The structure, connected to Royalist and Revolutionary eras, received aid from colonial groups and the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. A speaker praised its role in imparting a sense of ancestral achievement to visitors.
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Alice Meynell
Connecticut
Thomas Lee
Bridebrook
England
Saybrook
Edmund Andros
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Lee
Appomattox
New England
Society For the Preservation of New England Antiquities
How to sharpen a wire point for detectors
A brief tip from Popular Electricity explains that to obtain a fine point on a wire for detector use one wire from an electrolytic interrupter is removed and connected to the wire to be pointed. The wire is dipped into the interrupter solution with current on just until it barely touches the surface, then sputters for a few seconds and is removed, yielding a sharp point.
Changed Minds Stirring a Marriage Request
A judge records a lighthearted exchange where Jack proposes, one party refuses, and the other retracts the refusal by phone, prompting a comment that both have changed their minds. The humorous legal remark ends with the judge noting mutual change.
Parent Learns Net Loss As Kids Grow Up
A playful exchange shows Patience lamenting her children growing older while Patrice jokes that grows up means paying full fare, a light domestic moment echoed in daily life.
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Patience
Patrice
Bananas Imported Could Supply 100 Slides Per Person
A historical note claims that last year's banana imports to the United States were ample to yield banana peels for about 100 slides per person, illustrating the scale of fruit intake.
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United States
Sleepwalking Soliloquy Sparks Theatre Banter
The line from The Solution has Lady Macbeth wandering in her sleep and commenting that her day gowns are too tight. This quirky exchange reads like a stage aside with Puck noting the remark.
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Lady Macbeth
Puck
Enigmatic Remark Sparks Banter on Swiss Navy Service
A witty exchange questions a man about avoiding duties and jokes that he could enlist in the Swiss navy. The remark implies avoidance of obligation while playful punchline points to a specific national service tradition.
Memorials of Red Indians by Edward Warren Sawyer
Briggs Davenport praises Edward Warren Sawyer a Paris sculptor for creating medallic portraits of Native Americans. Sawyer traveled reservations from Missouri beyond to obtain life studies, cast medals in Paris, and self-financed the project after mortgaging his future. Born Chicago 1876, he studied in Paris and Rome and won a bronze medal at the 1904 St Louis exposition.
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Edward Warren Sawyer
Paris
Briggs Davenport
Missouri
Rue Filguiore
Sawyer
Arizona
New Mexico
Wyoming
Oklahoma
Montana
South Dakota
Mr. Sawyer
Chicago
Rome
No Charm In The Wild Rose
Minnesota University agriculture experts label the wild rose a perennial pest and recommend eradication by thorough plowing. If done in August or early September with repeated disking, the deep underground roots will be cut off and destroyed.
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Minnesota University
Minnesota
Prairie
Andrew Ross
Aftermath of Graduating Son Draws Attention
Willis jokes that his graduate son attracts little attention, while Gillis notes the aftereffects of his homecoming: three big-league events, four cops, two waitresses and their lawyers, and many bill collectors have already visited the house.
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Willis
Gillis
Puck
Senator Sorghum Returns Amid Mixed Reception
A visitor greets Senator Sorghum with hopes of a homecoming gathering at the station. The senator’s reply signals concern over possible unrest, pondering whether a reception committee will form or if a mob may assemble.
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Sorghum
Real fruit on the women's data latest remark
A quip about real fruit in a discussion on women’s data prompts a pause as hats in the icebox become a joking aside. The items reflect a playful, offbeat exchange in a late era column.
Fragmented Quote from Loud Slumbers Scene
A garbled dialogue captures a line about a husband in a found sleep and a responding remark. The fragment hints at a domestic exchange, unclear setting and speakers, with no further context or identifiable names or locations.
Pleasant picnic at Russell house near Sugar Creek
A large Sunday gathering at the old Russell house near Sugar Creek included Elmer Alward Warren Heath Eck Hadley Fred Harvey Sam Ratcliff Dr F S Cuthbert and W O Mendenhall with twenty three people enjoying a fine outing. Exhumations occurred of Zeikel and Mrs Thomas Glascock moving to Fraternal cemetery. Community notices include land for sale hedge and stump pulling and various local movements and visits.
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Russell House
Sugar Creek
Elmer Alward
Warren Heath
Eck Hadley
Fred Harvey
Sam Ratcliff
Dr. F. S. Cuthbert
W. O. Mendenhall
Zeikel
Thomas Glascock
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Progressive
Countain
Kingman, Indiana
Claude B. Philpott
Himan W. Newln
Aytica
Indiana
Fountain County
R. H. McKinney
Circuit Court
Newtown, Ind
Panama Canal Region
San Francisco
Panama Canal
Canal Region
Bureau of Pubications
Exposition Building
Kaiser Wilhelm
Banana Statistics
T.M. Jackson
Kingman, Ind
Melvin Light
Kingman
O. S. Douglas
Covington
Ind
J. T. Redman
W.M. di
India
Schmae
Victor Ladies Tailoring Co
Alice M. Howell
O. C. Deselms
Optometrist
Attica
Geo. W
Hays, Kingman
Ind. R. R
Sugar Creek Township
G. H. Chaffee
Bloomingdale
R. R
Robert Campbell of
Cates
S. D. Alexander
Frankfort
Harry Dixon
Mecca
H. M. Brown
Miss Fanny
Ruby Sowers
Veedersburg
Charles Manwarning
Indianapolis
Crawfordsville
Cory’s
Steve Myer
C. M. Spencer
E. A. Keller
Dr. A. L. Ratcliff
Kingman Bank
DR. F
Cuthbert
Cas
Doora East of
Kingman Hote
Adam Bonebrake
Kingjaan
Drayman
W. R. Massey & Son
Yount Building
Kineman
Ulot Lindley
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