Senator's Fish Story From Wyoming Trout Tale
Senator Clarence Clark of Wyoming recounts a fish story told in the senate cloak room about catching mountain trout by scratching their stomachs in tall grass near streams. Senator Frye corroborates, comparing to Maine, while Clark praises Wyoming as the greatest fishing country and rejects conventional rod and line methods.
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Wyoming
Senate
Clarence Clark
Washington Star
Frye
Maine
True Blue Origin of a Very Common Expression
The piece traces how the phrase true blue may have begun in Spain with blue blood, contrasts it with the butcher’s blue aprons, and notes a curious folk sense that some old people seem to enjoy discussing illness, framing a linguistic history of health inhumor.
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Spain
Moore
Lees
Francis Josephs Vineyards and Tokay Wine Empire
Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, owns Tokay vineyards spanning about 66 hectares in Hungary. After phylloxera damaged vines a decade ago, replanting with American stock revived production to 87,500 gallons last year. Royal cellars in Tokay hold 2,000 casks with around 65,000 gallons of wine kept for household use and gifts to sovereigns.
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Francis Joseph
Aus
Hungary
Tokay
Byal
Degree for the Ladies at St Andrew's College
A special degree in arts to be awarded solely to women at St Andrew's is announced, marking a new British university credential limited to female graduates. The DIA title will be conferred by the institution to qualified candidates.
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DIA
St. Andrew's
One-fifth the population and one-eleventh the area of Turkey in Europe
The passage surveys diverse facts from population, geography, and trade. It notes Europe’s share of Turkey’s land, comparisons of wild animals by climate, Swiss watchmakers moving to Germany for tariffs and labor, and water use in American cities, with figures for European cities and forests in various nations. It mentions Everest expedition plans, widowers and widows remarriage patterns, and the Dahlia flower’s origin and cultivation.
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Turkey
Europe
Germany
American
Brest
Venice
Marseilles
Rome
Eskenstein
Himalayas
Everest
Paris
Russia
Austria
Norway
Switzerland
France
Italy
Spain
Denmark
Great Britain
Mexico
Madrid Botanical Garden
Marconi Electrifies Without Wires in Lodgings
Rome correspondence recounts a Leghorn lodging tale where young Marconi boasts he can ring a bell without wires. Two gymnasium teachers test him with a broomstick and a bell, and the bell rings when placed, exposing their belief in invisible wires as they search the room and streets in disbelief.
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Marconi
Leghorn
Rome
London Advertiser
Remarkable Siberian Flower Blooms in January
A remarkable flower grows under difficult conditions in Siberia. It endures the coldest climate from frozen soil and produces blossoms in January. Each bloom lasts a day, resembles a convolvulus in shape, and is star shaped when open. Petals are half an inch wide and of equal length to the leaves.
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Siberia
Martini rifle bullet at 50 yards fails through four feet of earth
A Martini rifle bullet fired at a distance of 50 yards will not penetrate a well of new four feet thick earth, indicating the armor or cover provides substantial protection against that shot.
Ashbrook’s Proven Pace and Inbred Wilkes Line Highlighted
Ashbrook shows a 2:15 current record in a winning race with a 2-year and 4-year old marks noted as 2:30, 2:28, and 2:2449. His colt prospects shine as breeders seek the inbred Wilkes line, sire Ashland Willees at 2:10 and dam lines from Young Wilkes, Immortal George Wilkes family, prompting catalogue requests for pedigree extension.
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Ashbrook
Ashland Willees
Young Wilkes
George Wilkes
Wilkes
Mitchell Cash Feed Store Ad Promotes Best Feeds in Lexington
The Prants St. Feed Store advertises a wide line of feeds in Lexington. It offers a general exchange business with farmers for wheat or corn and claims its flour is the best on the market. Phone 171.
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Lexington
Prants
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