Large Omaha grain elevator fire causes heavy loss
A Sunday night blaze in Omaha destroyed a 1,000,000 dollar grain elevator, with damages totaling about 500,000 dollars.
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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1910
Page
6
Prodigy William Sidis Claims Venus Flight Feasible
The 11 year old Harvard math prodigy asserts a 20 minute aerial voyage to Venus is possible by attaching radium to an airship. Sidis says he solved aerial navigation conceptually and only needs to test it, using alpha rays from radium to propel the craft at tremendous speed. He has worked out the theory but not yet demonstrated it.
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William Sidis
Harvard
Venus
Sidis
Northwest doctor reports six hookworm cases in Weston Oregon
Dr Edwin Montgomery of Walla Walla says six hookworm cases were found in Weston Oregon the first in the northwest. The Weston family moved from Smith County Tennessee and the ten year old boy showed symptoms with worms found on examination. He notes soil transmission is possible but curable. California has recently reported cases.
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Edwin Montgomery
Walla Walla
Weston
Ore
Northwest
Smith County
Tennessee
Montgomery
California
Prize Cake Plan Exposes Inexperienced Cook
At a tea party a guest wins a guessing game and requests a slice of cake as a prize. She explains she will force her husband to eat it to prove there is a worse cook somewhere in the world.
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Pearson’s, Weekly
The English Groove Stifles Ambition Across Classes
The Manchester Mail argues that English society pressures middle class lads toward desk jobs with fixed pay and years of service. It warns social ostracism for pursuing hands on or entrepreneurial work and says class distinctions suppress romance and discourage deviation from the norm.
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England
Manchester
Wisdom and silence as substitutes from Josh Billings
An acquaintance stated substitutes in goods rise to rival originals including oleomargarine and celluloid. Billings replied there is no substitute for wisdom, but silence remains the best yet found.
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Josh Billings
Barrister Remains Defiant in Court Remonstrance
In the progress of a case Sir Charles Darling reproved a barrister for his argument. The barrister replied that Darling had argued similarly when at the bar. Darling conceded the point with a quiet smile noting that the judge at the time allowed it.
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Charles Darling
London
Fatal fear kills Prussian king Frederick I
The article recounts Frederick I of Prussia dying after fear of a haunted vision and an insane wife who once fled her keeper and, stained with blood, attacked him. He believed in the ghostly white lady and died six weeks after the incident. A mortgage on the house is noted as unrelated commentary.
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Frederick I
Prussia
Frederick
Lincoln tale on drawing inferences from Bible texts
The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph reports a story Lincoln told about a slave preacher who says he must draw inferences from Bible texts as they come to his mind. The master challenges him to infer the meaning from the line the ass snuffeth up the east wind and the slave quips about the wind’s long reach before fatness. The anecdote illustrates folk humor and the president’s use of parable.
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Lincoln
D. H. Bates
War Department Telegraph Office
Marsa
Pittsburg
Trapping a Tiger and Its Tricks
A London Globe report describes a tiger trapped in the jungle using a mouse-trap like device. The full grown male tiger roared and battered the structure in fury until hunger subdued him, illustrating that tigers can be trapped though not often.
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London Globe
Idol With Diamond Eyes And The Orloff Diamond Tale
An article recounts the Orloff diamond once set in the idol Serringham’s eye in the temple of Brahma. A French soldier feigned conversion to gain temple access and sold the gem for £2000. It passed through a Constantinople banker to the Russian empress by 1774 for £90000 and a life pension, and remains in the Russian imperial scepter weighing 194½ carats.
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Russia
Orloff
Serringham
Constantinople
Iceland Founded in A D Eight Seven Four by Norse Settlers
Ancient Iceland emerged from Norwegian settlers in A D 874. John Fiske praised the rapid colonization and growing population of about 50,000, with strong trade in fish, oil, butter, and skins. Political freedom and judicial fairness supported swift wealth and cultural growth.
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Iceland
Norway
John Fiske
Winthrop
Massachusetts Bay
Denmark
British Isles
Governor checks on chaplain at asylum
The western governor tours state institutions and asks about a chaplain appointed to an insane asylum. The guide responds that the chaplain’s preaching is “very successful,” and that the inmates especially enjoy it.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
No Apology to Offer Quote Exchange in Tribune
A Chicago Tribune exchange questions why one trains for achievement in opera or taste for alcohol without pursuing related ventures. The dialogue compares long training with the decision to avoid related careers, highlighting self-critique and irony.
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Chicago Tribune
Bill Nye Story at London Authors Dinner
The Bookman reports Bill Nye told a London authors dinner a story of meeting Abel P. Jones in Indianapolis a year earlier. Nye says Jones begged for a half dollar but Nye offered to publish his next book instead. This led to an invitation to travel Europe on Jones's steam yacht.
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Bill Nye
London
Nye
Indianapolis
Abel P. Jones
Jones
Abel
Europe
Explanation Turns on Father Mother Lies Inheritance
A boy recalls being whipped for lying and questions his parents about honesty. He wonders how a father who never lied as a boy and a mother who never lied as a girl could have a son who lies so much, ending with a child's ironic observation.
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Worthy
Plaid and tartan mix up in clothing debate
A Scots Field reader notes the confusion between plaid and tartan in Glasgow shops and in Dickens. The letter cites an Englishman asking for plaid ties and a definition of plaid as a colored square pattern, arguing the terms are not interchangeable in Scotland.
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Southrow
Hosiel
Glasgow
Dickens
Bob Sawyer
Scotland
Moonshine author Hall Caine in The Scapegoat noted
The London Star reviews Hall Caine’s The Scapegoat chapter 23 and remarks on a night scene where Israel returns from prison under an eastern, first quarter moon. The piece calls Caine one of many authors who stir intrigue by depicting moons and strange scenes.
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Hall Caine
Israel
London Star
Receipt urged for provisions on steamboat voyage
A Flushing steamboat notice requests passengers to obtain and retain receipts for all provisions taken on board, a rule Hadier points out as difficult to follow, echoing an Ostend to Dover limerick about holding out until the end.
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Hasier
Assembling Herself and Crusty Quips
A collection of short witty exchanges and quips from 1920s papers. The Louisville Courier Journal notes a playful exchange about assembling oneself with a new switch and makeup. The Philadelphia Record jokes compare dealing with Crusty to a wornout deck of cards. Abrantes offers a sharp line on prejudice.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Crusty
Philadelphia Record
Wordplay and Proverbial Insight in Classroom and Home
A London board school lesson on ability ends with a classmate quipping opposite luck nobility. A later exchange shows a father asking about a day’s work and two boys replying with humor. The snippet closes with a paper joke and a quotation on difficulties revealing character.
Frightened suitor wonders about Mamie and family support
A humorous exchange in which a worried suitor questions his ability to support a family as a magnate notes the prosperous American farmer, implying he may have missed something.
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Mamie
Illinois saloon issue swings in 260 towns
Elections across 260 Illinois cities show a shift on the saloon question with 39 dry towns going wet and 19 wet towns going dry. Of the towns, 72 wet towns kept saloons while 110 dry towns stayed dry.
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Illinois
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