Widespread News Snapshot From The United Kingdom And U.S. Reports
A mixed digest notes UK newspaper counts by region, advertising advice, and several U.S. items. It records coal car wrecks near Norris Town, a hermit found dead in Rockland, Pa, Mt. Gretna encampment preparations for state militia, tampering attempts in the Sharp jury case, and related political policing details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reaprxe
Lewis Hirchley
Rockland Township
Cornwall
Beaver
Hartanft
National Guard
Wiley
Hastings
Hill
Watrens
Shakespeare
Bobb
H. C. Demming
Gobin
Moyer
Robert H. Coleman
Mt. Gretna Park
Hean
Irish
Coleman
Mt. Gretna
Soldier’s Guidon Memory and The Rallying Flag
A young artillery soldier mends a worn guidon with lining cloth. He explains the flag marks the battery position when moving into action and how six guns align with it. Despite battles and noise, the horse team returns to the standard, creating a poignant image of loyalty and duty.
Blue Hen Chickens Sparked Odd Pig Feeding Scheme
A Arkansas Traveler column recounts a rural tale where a grocer sells eggs and “blue hen” chickens claimed to lay three times daily. An elderly buyer robs him with fake birds, leading to a humorous chase as the con man reappears with guineas and the grocer reveals the scam in a final street confrontation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monopolies
Pap
Caroline Welsh
North Kling
Everline
Salre River
Felow
Arkansaw Traveler
Saloon Work Ask On Street Car Sparks Banter
A pompous young lawyer on a street car boasts a $10 fee earned within half an hour. A bystander hanging on a strap asks in a hushed voice what saloon he works at, claiming to be a waiter himself, in a curious exchange captured in Puck.
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Puck
Detectives and Crooks in New York Tales
In New York letters Julian Ralph notes detectives know all professional criminals. Vignettes show Detective Prior guiding a bunco man, a shoplifter denounced by a detective, Captain Williams intercepting a thief, and Inspector Byrnes arranging escorted access for a burglar to Wall Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julian Ralph
New York
Prior
Fifth Avenue
Kid Miller
Bunco
Arion
Captain Williams
Artemus Ward
Inspector Byrnes
Police
Red Leary
Mr. Byrnes
Wall Street
Broad and
Wall Streets
Money Centre
Forms of Taking an Oath Across World History
A survey of oath traditions from China to Madagascar and Abyssinia. It notes中国 saucer swearing, goose reverence in Egypt, sovereign or mother as swearers in Madagascar, sword at throat in Niger expeditions, finger kissing in Abyssinia, Biblical hand under the thigh, and varied ancient practices among Jews Greeks Romans Germans Scandinavians Hindus and Muslims with sacred texts and objects as the oath focal points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Egypt
Madagascar
Oldfield
Africa
Niger
Iddah
Abraham
Jerusalem
Temple
Israel
Jupiter
Minerva
Neptune
Brave Sister Theresa of Tonquin Ambulances
Sister Maris Theresa a French nun and Legion of Honor recipient for forty years in army ambulances is noted for bravery and cheerfulness. During heavy fighting in Tonquin a bomb fell into an ambulance. she carried it away and collapsed unharmed after the blast saying Its only a joke. She later endured a splinter strike while tending a wounded man, again feigning calm with the same remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maris Theresa
Legion of Honor
Tonquin
Theresa
Metraille
Remarkable Cats Reach for Morning Drinks and Pool Tricks
A traveler's tale notes cats frequent drug stores for valerian extracts causing brief drunken antics. It also highlights a clever mother and son pair playing one ball pool in Cleveland hotels. In Washington a Treasury cat survives as Hector the president’s dog clashes with it, ending with a singed cat in a public flame incident.
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Cleveland
Washington
Treasury
Hector
Mary and Her Lamb Legend Recounts Real Life Origin
A historical note traces the nursery song Mary Had a Little Lamb to a true childhood incident in Massachusetts. Mary, about 70, cared for a freezing lamb, which followed her to school until the teacher sent it away. A student chronicled the moment, and the lamb’s fleece later yielded relics sold at a church fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Worcester County
Massachusetts
John Rollstone
Snakes and Scorpions Parable in Arkansaw Journal
A Rev Mr Mackwell anecdote ponders nature's balance with a circular usefulness. A conversation cites the black snake devouring scorpions and lizards, asking what use the lizards and snakes have, highlighting philosophy and human narrowness of understanding. Subscrib e for the Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackwell
Arkansaw
Fraudulent glucose and substitutes flood food supply
A shopper warning describes glucose as a cheap adulterant used to replace honey sugar and corn syrup in sweets and canned goods. It notes a $2 million capital and 50 000 workers in glucose manufacture and claims a 3 million pounds yearly export of adulterated sweetener while affirming oleomargarine cotton seed oil as inexpensive but not unwholesome. A second brief anecdote recounts a farmer confronting a courting youth with a lantern under a window.
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Corp
Also Mentioned on This Page
United Kingdom
England
London
Wales
Land
Ireland
Scotland
British Isles
The
Union
NorrisTown
Reading Railroad
Saratoga Station
Schuylkill
Linfield
the Evening Post
Martine
McLewee
Journal
Lamb
Castoria
Jacob Fisenhuth
D. I. Brown
Keystone Hotel
Selinsgrove
Pepna
Phila
F. A. North & CO
Cultural St
Philadelphia
U.S. Patent Office
U. S. Patent Office
C. A. Snow & CO
Patent Office
Washington, D.C
Police Gazette
United States
Chard KE. Fox
Franklin Squang
N. Y
Ase Domestic Me’g CO
Marion
George Stinson & CO
Portland, Maine
Cass
Baker
Buffalo
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland
Delaware
Virginia
North Carolina
AS. G. Blatchley
N. E. City Hall
Broad St
P. i
Grand Outfit
Tuve & Co
Augusta
Maine
Chestnut Street
A. North & CO
Arie
Bete Mure Furniture
W. T. Mauck
Springfield
Ohio
Pice Y Lara
Ana
Circus Enterprise Vapor Medicator Co
Union Square
New
ES. Daniels &Co
Havana
J. B. Mayer
Arch St. o_O
Keystone House
Reading
Harwood
Cushman
PALS
H. D. Cushman
Three Rivers
Marsh
Battle Creek Machinery Co
Sattle Cree
Ayer
Ayer & Son
Family Coffee Roaster CO
ST. Louis
Reading Organ CO
J. Bantner
Dr. Ward & CO
Louisiana
Jamaica
Ginger
Joseph Burnett & CO
Boston
Chicago
Senos Ergs
A. J. Weidener
Sele
Fatinfaighin
Palmer
Perth
H. Palmer & CO
Rockford
Ill
H. H. Palmer & CO
Tlt
Ater A. B. Farquiar
York, Pa
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