Oddities and local lore highlight Pennsylvania short items
Reported Lettuce heads 18 inches around and one pound from Lewis Schweyer near Hamburg. Lebanon’s William Henning claims a unusually large egg three by three inches and nine inches around. The State Forestry Department advances reforestation in Clearfield County led by W. F. Dague. Reading man John Klein loses wallet with eighty dollars. Buffalo Cross Roads near Lewisburg marks a historic buffalo killed early 1800s. I. Snyder of New Centretown Somerset shows an old railway rail from 1872 Connellsville line. Oil City pigeons fly 300 miles to Cincinnati in seven hours fifty seven minutes. Corydon Junction Indiana birds to Oil City next Sunday. Warren banker touts city wealth with deposits over two million dollars, ranking among top mining towns nationwide.
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Lewis Schweyer
Hamburg
William Henning
Lebanon
State Forestry Department
Clearfield County
Pennsylvania
Great
Buffalo
Union County
Snyder
New Centtreville
Somerset County
Connellsville
Cumberland
Pittsburgh
Oil City
Cincinnati
Thomas Anderson, Jr
Max Jacobs
Corydon Junction
Ind
Warren
City
United States
Helena
Mont
Leadville
Colo
Prescott
Ariz
Left Handed Artists and the Leonardo Mystery
A curio on left handedness notes Leonardo da Vinci drew and wrote from right to left. It cites The Curves of Life by Theodore Andrew Cook to claim lefties shade left to right and favor counterclockwise spirals. The piece discusses ambidexterity, tool design, and driving left.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Theodore Andrew Cook
Sherlock Holmes
Mr. Cook
England
Portugal
Sweden
Austria
Italy
Switzerland
Reed's Bold Move Splits House Over Quorum Rule
In 1890 Speaker Reed prepared a drastic remedy to overturn both parties' precedents. As House chaos erupted, his counting of absent Democrats triggered a fierce uproar, a ruling later upheld by his party and the Supreme Court. The episode centered on quorum rules and constitutional attendance.
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Thomas Brackett Reed
Reed
Samuel W. McCall
Dalzell
Committee On Elections
Crisp
House
Carlisle
Speaker
Feed
Lim
Supreme Court
Escape by Bass Viol Guards in a Balkan Plot
In War era Europe Petra Cocan, a Roumanian born American, tried to flee Hungary amid Balkan tensions. He recruited Roumanians posing as gypsy musicians to smuggle him past border guards in a hollow bass viol, but a dispute led to arrest before a second attempt finally brought him to Canton, Ohio.
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Europe
Wide World
T. J. Thomas
Petra Cocan
Hungary
Cocan
Covan
Coran
Canton
Prince Rules Court Aids and Inflows in Bakongo Tale
In John HL Weeks’s Among the Primitive Bakongo a scene at an African king’s court is described. The king greets with a wave of his toes and insults cause a guest to flee. Strict ceremony governs access and seating, with only his sons allowed to sit in his presence.
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John HL Weeks
Ancient King Ceremony Of Kneeling And Gifts
The article describes a ceremonial kneeling ritual for ordinary men approaching the king, with three kneels and dirt on the forehead, the king’s signaling with a specific hand gesture, and the consequences for omitting gifts or wrong moves. Chiefs and nobles also performed homage, and the king kept a sharp memory of debts and owed presents. Washington Post reprint. Read the Record.
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Wyhat
Washington Post
Indian Chief and the origin of Medicine Hat name
A long, period tone note traces Medicine Hat's name to a Blackfoot chief who wore a feathered headdress he called his medicine hat. The tale links luck, spiritual meaning, and historic clashes with the Cree near Seven Persons River, shaping a Canadian city’s identity.
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Seven Persons River
Medicine Hat
A Gust Cast by Wind Unmans Chief and His Cause
A gust swept the magic hat from the west into the swift running Saskatchewan fiver. The chief, bereft of confidence, relinquished his grasp on victory and retreated toward the Rockies, pursued by his tribe.
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Saskatchewan
Rockies
True Devotion and a Dog That Won’t Scratch
A brief comic note from the Clicagu Tribune about Little Katharine who loves her big dog. On a cold night she asks to bring him inside. Her mother agrees but warns the dog must be put out if he scratches. Katharine replies, “Oh Bertie, font scratch, tell me where it itches, and Wil scratch it for you.”
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Katharine
Bertie
Font
Clicagu Tribune
Bermuda onions and Tilies puzzle readers
A Louisville Courier item notes readers puzzled by a quoted phrase about Bermuda onions and tilies. The text questions why that portion or combination was chosen and mentions a possible odd smell offset from the other.
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Bermuda
Louisville Courier
Sonmat
Fractured Quote Dialog Attributed To Judge Gol
A cryptic exchange features a mother urging prompt action and a son referencing a thrice pie. Judge Gol expresses certainty while Emerson comments on evil as mere mortality, presenting a fragmentary historical dialogue with philosophical quirks.
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Gudge
Tyrrell’s
Usis
Tyrrell
Beck
Lititz Springs Park
Congress
Kentucky
Gol
Emerson
Agricultural Trust Company
Lancaster, Pa
Lancaster County
Lancaster City
Lancaster
Board of
Anonat
Lars
J. W. Fehl
Fehl
Martin Lefevre
Strasburg
Aaron C. Saunders
Manor Township
Albert G. Hert
Washington
F. Sweigart
Albert R. Landis
Lanc
R. D
Henry J. Gisb
Elizabethtown
Amos N. Risser
Henry L. Gise
J. P
Jobo H. Martin
Mt. Joy
Clayton J. Rover
Lititz
Lane Forney
John Mohler
Ephrata
M. H. Hottenstein
Manheim
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