Desolate Lantana Station Traps a Telegrapher’s Fate
Ferguson, a New York city telegrapher, ends in isolation at Lantana. He taunts the cliff from Gabriel's Balcony and heeds a mysterious Voice. A deadly rock slide erupts as the Eagle Limited plunges, leaving only rumors of a landslide and Ferguson missing amid the mountain’s vast solitude.
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Gabriel
Ferguson
Lantana
Fergu
Eagle Limited
Voics
New York
Pation
Sepulcher
Gradyville
Jenkins
Limited
Rawdon
Wall Street
Dobria
New Egyptian water pumping by explosion plan near Alexandria
The Egyptian government will drain a lake near Alexandria using an explosion pump system. Eighteen pumps will deliver 100 million gallons daily to about twenty feet high. The setup operates automatically at ten detonations per minute, with no pistons or moving parts.
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Mex
Alexandria
Money Under Fake Pretences
A pavement artist left his work in haste, departing earlier than usual and without erasing his bright display. The narrator wonders at the reasons behind the abrupt departure and the lure of the con behind the scene.
London Chronicle describes a street art scam by a dirty boy
A ragged boy stealthily occupies an artist’s position and pretends to be the street painter. He feigns professionalism, receives two pennies from a passerby, and then the real artist returns, while the boy winks as he passes, a sharp urban cons.
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London Chronicle
Probable First Use of Mortar In Ancient Construction
The article suggests early stone builders noticed that heated lime from limestone transformed into a smooth sticky paste after a shower. This discovery led to using lime paste to fill crevices in dwellings and eventually adding binding to produce mortar. The account emphasizes a gradual transition from simple clay packing to mortar through observation of lime reacting with water and heat.
Outdoor Baby Care For Winter Walks And Play
The piece extols outdoor motherhood, detailing winter attire for babies and children. It outlines warm layers from stockings and mittens to double faced eiderdown, a hooded wrapping, and velour curtains on carriages. It urges gradual outdoor exposure, noting by age three sweaters with caps and mittens, and stresses attentive cold weather clothing for all seasons.
Foot Comfort in Cold Weather Slippers and Bed Shoes
A period article extols warm house slippers for winter both for lounging and bed use. It describes felt slippers with leather soles, ankle high variants, knitted yarn slippers with lambs wool lining, and luxurious elderdown bed shoes in multiple colors and patterns. Emphasizes warmth and durability for men and women.
Dainty Salmon Tones Dominate Evening Gowns
Dressmakers favor salmon pinkish yellow tones for evening frocks in velvet and cloth with tulle drapery. Most gowns stay in light shades apart from a few bright infantry red pieces and black satin lace. Promet offers some all black gowns but adds a brilliant color to brighten the look. Drecoll shows little preference for black lace on jet tones.
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Drecoll
Promet
New Blood for Business Vitality Warns Against Complacency
Dr Marden urges rejuvenation of aging enterprises with fresh ideas and competitive insight. A physician notes a 26 year old horse regained vigor after a lamb blood transfusion, illustrating the need for ongoing renewal to stave off dry rot. The speech stresses ambition, overcoming discouragement, and choosing uplifting friends to foster character and success.
What Do You See in Others
A preacher urges readers to see God’s image in everyone not the faults. The piece extols broad charity and a generous, forgiving view, warning that fault finding stifles growth and that true culture lies in recognizing goodness in the seemingly mean or flawed.
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Aclven
Anid
Charity
Walt
Lowlleat
Jacob A. Bils
Grana and Grass In Ancient Diet Lore
Mil waukee Wisconsin notes a speculative link between grasses and human nourishment. The piece discusses Nebuchadnezzar’s alleged grass cure and the belief that grains originated from grasses, touching on asparagus as a modern analog and pondering if meat shortages could shift diets to plant sources.
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Nebuchadnezzar
No Other Need Apply In Retail Shoe Plot
A woman in rakish dress storms between shoe stores seeking a bald headed clerk with a bent leg. The proprietor explains the clerk moved to the rival firm, but the woman finds him at the other shop, insisting on a fitting pair of shoes. The scene satirizes retail whimsy and market winds guiding commerce.
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Patience
Monument
Optical fusion frames heroism across time in daily life
Philosophical note from Edward Howard Greggs argues that people underestimate present tasks while overrating distant events. He likens nearby mountains to everyday work and distant greatness to past deeds, claiming life is ordinary for ordinary people but becomes sublime when individuals live heroically.
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Thermopylae
Bunker Hill
Socrates
Bruno
Edward Howard Greggs
Realistic Pneumatic Scenery Enhances Stage Realism
A rubberized fabric system inflates quickly to create movable trees and scenery. Unga’s pneumatic stage forms conserve portability of flat and built-up sets. The design reproduces trees like a very real oak, collapsible for compact shipment and rapid setup.
Victory’s Moral Victory Cited in Attire Conundrum
Victory struggles with a moral victory metaphor as she frets over skirts and banners. She mutters about managing narrow garments to avoid bystanders’ judgement when posing atop banners. The remark hints at social scrutiny and personal restraint in public display.
Brutal Husband Wifey Toasts New Union in Odd Exchange
A terse exchange hints at domestic strife as newlyweds discuss chores and neighbors. The Boston Record notes a tense scene where the wife asserts independence in domestic duties and the husband questions the arrangement, reflecting strained marital dynamics.
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George
Boston Record
Doctors Have New Light On Alcohol Effects
The article argues liquor interests use a syllogism to defend drinking but medical science now labels alcohol a depressant not a stimulant. Quoting W A Chapple the piece states alcohol harms the brain liver and kidneys and can raise heart rate until control is lost, warning wine mocks no longer.
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W. A. Chapple
M. A. Co
Reina
Save the Boys and a Dry Petition Sign
A farmer visits loafers outside a village store with a state wide prohibition petition. The oldest says he is down and out and will sign to vote dry, hoping to save the boys from booze and help himself toward a sober life.
When Saloons Return 26 Subscribes End Savings Plan
In Princeton Indiana during a dry period twenty six wage earners subscribed to shares in a local building and loan to save for homes. Payments were kept up until saloons returned when 25 stopped paying and left the plan. Only one abstainer continued payments and now built a debt free home ahead of others.
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Indiana
Princeton
Ind
Who Shall Decide In Alcohol Policy Debate
The Medical Times argues that the medical profession knows the social effects of alcohol and supports prohibition. It says prohibition should be decided by those protecting public welfare, not by commercial distributors. Personal freedom ends where community harm begins.
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Medical Times
No Upheaval in Business as Liquor Trade Cited
Rev Dr Boynton of Chicago argues in a sermon that abolishing liquor would only shift 6,430 workers from distilled spirits and 54,579 from fermented liquor to other industries. He says such a economic shift would be less jarring than parcel post inaugurations or tariff revisions.
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Dr. Boynton
Chicago
United States
Lightens Farmers Taxes by Suppressing Liquor Trade
Prof John A Nichole argues liquor suppression would ease farmer taxes by reducing expenses from supporting orphans and paupers caused by drinking. He notes current liquor spending limits farmers’ buying power, estimating only 5.60 dollars return per 100 spent. Reallocation could boost farmer income.
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John A. Nichole
National Problem Prompts Government Action on Aquor
A quoted national issue calls for federal power to address the Aquor problem. James R. Garfeld urges using public sentiment to achieve national temperance and halt its manufacture and importation.
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James R. Garfeld
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