Cause of Improvement in a Dispensary Visit
A dispensary official returns from a month’s holiday and visits an Irish patient described as crass. The patient compliments the doctor on his improved look, joking the holiday made him darker and brighter, while the doctor teases that the patient has improved too. The exchange is a humorous banter about appearance and habit.
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Holford Investment & Mortgage CO
Massaachusetts Street
Lawrence, Kansas
Mick
Owl Digestion and Waste Ejection Described by World Herald
The Omaha World Herald explains owls swallow whole meals including dishes and utensils, with digestion finishing inside. After digestion, they expel indigestible refuse as a hard rounded pellet from the mouth.
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Department of the Interior
Omaha World-Herald
Powerful explosive lead azide described for mining use
A detailed note outlines lead azide as a powerful explosive suitable for mining and other uses. It mentions its salts such as mercury azide and silver azide, and reports that large crystals of lead azide and mercury azide are highly sensitive to shocks, with potential detonation from a single crystal break.
Truth Everlasting and Enduring Cosmic Truth
A philosophical meditation on truth as eternal and unborn, outlasting the universe itself. It asserts love as life and hate as death, enduring alongside all existence.
Welsh Applicant’s Witty Reply Lands Job in London
A young Welshman applies to a London firm and answers a query about his origin with a pun. He claims Limmimpsnaint means the place of five saints, adds there are only four since he left, and the head of the firm, from the same neighborhood, hires him.
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London
Limmimpsnaint
Fourteenth Century Love Token Presented to Lincoln
The Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society displays a fourteenth century love token gifted to Lincoln City and County. A circular brooch half an inch wide originally bore six emeralds, one missing, with an inscription on the back identifying it as a Jove token from the era of Edward III or Richard II.
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Lincolnshire
Eng
Lincoln
County
Wiuscum
Edward VII
Richard II
Unfinished Dusting Sparks Ironic Exchange
A parent recalls telling their daughter that Satan helps idle hands, only to be met with a witty reply that the parent seems to fit the description. The brief exchange ends with a humorous sting about workplace diligence.
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Mamma
Satan
The Merit of a Book
The crowning merit of a book lies in its practical usefulness. A book that makes you cheerful amiable piliful and more appreciative of beauty or more resolute to pursue virtue serves its highest purpose. Tomorrow is a satire on today and shows its weakness.
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Tenn
U. Rt
Absulutely
Journal-World
David Pryde
Daily Thought
Age of Air cited as coming era by aviation official
A prominent official of the Aero Club of America spoke at the Second Pan American Aeronautic Conference in Athletic City. He described air routes over land and sea as defined and warned that several airways are out for the United States and Canada. He said air service will require careful navigation of fog and mist and predicted commercial viability as engineering and operations mature in the age of air.
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Leons
Aeraub! of
America
Athaletic
Air-1
United States
Canada
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