Chattle Chips and School Orator Trials at Neptune High
Neptune High School contests end the league season with Chattle Chips playing the Neptune nine at North Asbury Park Athletic Grounds. Juniors hosted a reception for Seniors which drew praise from both classes. Senior orations feature Louise Arrowsmith on women in economics and Daniel Hager on Lincoln as an orator amid other topics.
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Louise Arrowsmith
Abbie Bor
Stewart
Ortrude Cram
Shakespeare
Daniel Hager
Lincoln
Vera Edwards
Bergen
Louis Fish
Ada George
Red Cross Society
Chip the Squirrel Outwits a Cat in a Narrow Escape
A young Irish squirrel named Chip lives with his parents in a stump near Squirreltown. After finding his missing father he searches far for food and encounters a white house with corn. A pursuing kitten captures him but Chip uses a tree escape to outmaneuver the cat, ending with the kitten bewildered on the ground.
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Chip
Squirreltown
White House
Stilts to See Far Above Crowds in Far Lands
The article notes stilts as a rare amusement in the United States while describing widespread use in Gascony France where hundreds of acres become walkable on five foot stilts. It details daily tasks done on stilts and contrasts American child play with continental custom. It also describes a game where a blind player identifies animals by sound and pins down a prisoner’s name through imitation.
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Gascony
France
Lullaby Town and the Flyaway Bird in Sleepy Verse
Fragments describe a pink purple yellow brown bird in a rolling tree and a child’s bedtime dream. Nonsensical lines mix names and images as a lullaby mood lingers with twinkling stars and sleeping thoughts.
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Ose
Gold for Jewelers and Government as Source
The article explains jewelers primarily rely on government gold for raw material deriving from old jewelry banks and refineries. Refineries recover gold from waste and burning, while government minted coins offered easy alloying. Now gold is supplied as bricks or bars with assay stamps, with banks handling large transactions.
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Government Assay Office
New York Press
Honest Farmer Defends Bushel Amid Short Weight Debate
In a tale from Youth's Companion a farmer named Giles protests a city apple buyer over a half bushel measure. He shows a hickory basket pattern made by Bill Sullivan claiming the basket holds a bushel, tested against Giles's red bucket. The exchange highlights doubt over standard measures.
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Giles
Bill
Sullivan
The Way to Bake Beans and a Hatbox Hint
A historical note teaches baked beans soaking beans overnight and parboiling then layering beans with bacon salt sugar and molasses for long baking. Also a Harper’s tip suggests a hatbox hinge modification to ease removing or replacing a hat from a shelf. The clipping includes a joke from the Indianapolis Journal.
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New Orleans
In His Line and a Note on His Estate
A quotation suggests a figure is constructing an enormous artificial mountain on his country estate, a feat noted by Puck as a natural tendency in him to bid up. The remark frames the builder as audacious in scale and taste.
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wWell
Puck
Conventions in Music and Reuse in Song Intro
A discussion of musical conventions such as using hornpipe themes in openings, open fifths in bass of rustic songs, and Irish melodies for flavor. It argues audiences expect familiar endings on the tonic with leading tones and that composers rarely break these standards on opening night.
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Old
Straw
Metropolitan Magazine
Why telescopes use two lenses in a telescope
The big end lens gathers light like a large eye forming a star focus. The small end lens magnifies the focused image for closer viewing. Herschel shifted to a parabolic mirror at the tube end and a side magnifier to view the star image.
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William Herschel
Louisville Courier-Journal
I Am Blind Beggar and the Dog Card Trick
In crowded New York streets a beggar uses a dog with a card reading I Am Blind to solicit charity. A passing old gentleman assumes the beggar is blind, but the beggar reveals the dog is the one that is blind. The piece also summarizes why horses roll and shake to dry themselves, noting open plains and desert dust.
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New York
Selborne Magazine
Wealthy man sold estate amid dispute over cash motive
A troubled deal centers on Mr. Kreezus who reportedly sold a suburban villa for money, sparking tension with his business partner who accuses him of selling the home for dirty cash. both men deny the allegations as the exchange unfolds.
Hungry Python Tunnels Through Jail Fence to Catch Ducks
A python about twenty two feet long and twenty eight inches around entered a vegetable garden at Thayet Mya jail. It grabbed a duck through a strong diamond mesh fence, then tore a 6 by 8 foot section free and returned with the belt through the cabbages. Guards opened fire and the snake died. its skin was cured and used in the jail.
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Thayet-Myo
A Competent Witness The Mule Testimony
Boston Herald reports Judge William J Pollard of a St Louis police court used a mule test to measure pain in a cruelty case. After expert veterinary testimony claimed no pain, the judge adjourned to the street and tapped the mule’s sore spot with his cane the mule kicked the wagon dashboard prompting a $50 fine for the defendant.
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William J. Pollard
Pollard
Punctual London Business Etiquette and Odd Egg Facts
Punctual business culture in London is described as systematic and dignified with strict appointments kept to the minute. The piece also explains egg shell composition and a riddle about a Scottish man praying for rain, illustrating cultural quirks and curiosities.
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London
America
England
eRehind
Longon
Joe Mitchell Chapple
National Magazine
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