Prize Fat Youth Expert On The Baseball Field
Fragmentary verse heavy with disjointed phrases and quotations referencing baseball, heat, and a lamb motif. It appears as a collage of lines about a youth expert, weather effects, and unrelated pop culture snippets. No clear news event or identifiable entities beyond generic references.
Paris Through a Prism by Samuel Hopkins Adams
A Collier’s Weekly piece jokes about English as used by Parisians and Americans abroad. It notes phrases, shop signs, and mispronunciations, with examples of bilingual mixups and humorous observations on language and manners in Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Collier's Weekly
Millionaire Schwab’s Riverside Drive Palace Opens
New York’s Charles M Schwab unveils a four story granite block estate on Riverside Drive bounded by Seventy third and Seventy fourth streets. The $5 million residence features hidden lighting central air, three elevators, and an art gallery wing with a chapel and grand hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Letter
Charles M. Schwab
Riverside Drive
New York Block
Seventy-third
Seventy-fourth Streets
West End Avenue
Hudson
Francis I
Chateau of Blois
St. Weingand
Fontainebleau
Henry II
Boucher
America
Arthur Thomas
Soul message misfired in widow's Idaho romance
Chicago widow Grace Hartman sought Senator William Borah of Idaho for help finding a husband. Borah replied in a kindly tone, but Hartman says the image of the senator eclipsed any Idaho man, admitting she was chasing a soul message that miscarried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Grace Hartman
America
William Edgar Borah
United States
Idaho
Idaho Statesman
Hartman
Senator Borah
Lost Arts and the Illusion of Ancient Mastery
A Scientific American excerpt argues that claims of ancient impossibilities persist but many supposed lost arts have been surpassed or replaced by modern methods. It notes quarrying large stones, precise pyramidwork, Damascus blades, copper hardening, and urges focusing on current knowledge rather than rediscovering antiquated techniques.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Egypt
Maine
England
France
America
Topeka Girl Recalls Sermon Text Play
A Topeka child reported the minister's text as Dont be afraid and I will get you a bed quilt after church. Investigators found the real sermon centered on Fear not and I will send you a comforter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Journal
Topeka
A Song for Summer from Rossiter Johnson
A poem fragment expressing irony and longing for extreme cold a cold world, frosty scenes and desire for relief through ice and cold imagery. The verse invites a stark contrast between summer heat and chilling fantasies, ending with a macabre note about cold fate.
Trout Climbs Hill in Incredible Jumping Tale
In Philadelphia North American memory, Doc Boyer recounts a trout that outjumped a wildcat. The fish leaped three feet to reach a pool, then four and a half feet over successive falls, turning to check the pursuer before a final ascent toward the mountain crest. The wildcat followed, undeterred, as the remarkable chase continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Leapers
Doc Boyer
Tumbling Run
Trained Trout Breaks Back in High Dive Fatality
Harvey Line of Black Run Pa trained an orphan trout that leaped 496 feet into a valley pool but broke its back during a high dive. The fish had learned tricks, swam underwater, and gathered other trout for feeding before dying from injuries to 16 vertebrae and 42 ribs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Run
Harvey Line
Mr. Line
Line
Whisky Run trout rescue by fish in drought tale
Coleman Sheets recounts how Whisky Run in Wormwood Pennsylvania survived a severe drought as trout digged a tunnel into the mountain to find cooler water. The strongest fish drilled a well, keeping the stream alive while pools warmed and many fish died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wormwood
Whisky Run
Coleman Sheets
Mr. Sheets
Big Rainbow Trout Draws The Valley’s Wry Tale
In Scaletown Pa Tom Moore recalls a legendary rainbow trout once hooked at Big Spring. The fish reportedly rose from a pool by an old mill and, after a long struggle, dwindled from three feet to 26 inches as the angler finally landed it. Locals compare it with a wheelbarrow-haul carp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scaletown
Tom Moore
Big Spring
Wicked Mr Bok tale in Ladies Home Journal
In a Cleveland Leader excerpt, Mr Bok's Naughty story shows two young ladies imitate a man’s every move at a visit. He blows his nose then they imitate, he strokes his hair they mimic, he straightens his collar they copy, until he turns up his trousers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Mr. Bok
Ladies’ Home Journal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mary
Burbank
West
Joseph F. Cummings, JR
Sunbury
Paris
le Sport
le Boxe
Jockey Club
Latin Quarter
United Stats
Query
New Jersey
Monsier
Lee
Tran
Asthus
Monsieur
Alphonse
Gaston
Lost Arts
Russell Sage
Cedar Hurst
Coldgrave
the Styx
Rossiter Johnson
Trout Dig
Rastus
Professor Johnson