Ingenious Burglary Tricks That Foiled Pursuers
A study of clever burglary ruses with real cases from Hopwood Redditch Woburn Street London Devonport Worcester and a Worcester suburb where thieves used inside locks feigned shadows pepper attacks and papered escapes. Victims included a tradesman’s wife and a naval officer with pepper and a rope escape.
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Hopwood
Redditch
Woburn Street
London
Devonport
Stoke
Worcester
Mr. Sykes
Pearson’s Weekly
Duchess of St Albans Swore Like a Trooper in Travel Tale
Lady Login recalls the Duchess of St Albans widow of Coutts the banker traveling with eight carriages to Kenmore and Crieff. She carried chef and patissier, lap dog and parrot, while her tongue lashed husband and nieces in constant abuse.
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St. Albans
Highlands
Francis Burdett
Burdett-Coutts
Billingsgate
Login
Cornhill Magazine
Grattan Parliament Named for Henry Grattan and Its End
The Grattan parliament arose through Henry Grattan’s energy and declared independence by English act in 1782. It ended with the act of union in July 1800. In 1806 Grattan recalled sitting by its trade and following its hearse.
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Grattan
Henry Grattan
England
New York American
Jones’s Son Rings Auction Bell in Next Block
A quote from the Baltimore American notes Jones says his son makes a noise in the world by ringing the auction bell in the next block to begin now. The line follows a Plutarch quotation on clay and brick formation.
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Baltimore American
Two Apples And A Storm Tragedy From 1787 India
A Sunday school scene ends with Tommy choosing the larger apple to show practical thinking. A historical note recounts a great storm in India on October 11 1787 that killed thirty thousand people.
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Tommy
New York Globe
India
Bunsen recovers salts after spill in lab tale
The Youths Companion recounts Professor Robert Bunsen’s expert handling when a beaker containing rare caesium and rubidium salts spilled. He swiftly collected, purified, and recovered all the salts from clothing, floor, and table, proving extraordinary chemical exactness.
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Bunsen
Professor Robert Bunsen
Durkheim
Professor Bunsen
Chinese Idols Worship in China and Its Fragile Popular Faith
A missionary describes Chinese idol worship as highly exacting where offerings hinge on tangible blessings. If the idol fails to produce results, gifts stop and worship fades. Rural dissatisfaction can even lead to collective destruction of the shrine.
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China
Change in Whippings Brings Fresh Warning
An irate mother warns her incorrigible son Tommy that a good whipping will come if he misbehaves. The boy retorts that would be a change since past punishments were worse. Chicago News.
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Tommy
Chicago News
Wife finds joy in home chores in Louisville humor
A Courier Journal quip praises a wife who has discovered soap that makes washing enjoyable a sewing machine that delights and a sweeping contraption turning chores into bliss. The joke suggests life becomes a perpetual round of happiness.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Pa Knew and an Agnostic Poem Spells a Word
A Boston Transcript quip features Pa explaining agnosticism as a line in a poem where initial letters of words form a hidden message. The exchange ends with Pa returning to his reading, inviting a quiet moment.
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Boston Transcript
Tact and Triumphs Across Headlines
A wry exchange from early press quotes cites tact as covering a yawn with a smile. The Chicago Record-Herald proclaims a woman’s achievement over man, while the Cincinnati Enquirer notes the curve of civility in talk.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Unkind Criticism From Letters Pieced Together
A Baltimore American quip on concertgoers mocks idle attendance. A Carlyle quote contrasts humor with stern effort, reflecting a Victorian tone on seriousness and effort.
Slump Hits Chicago Livestock Market and Related Local Items
Livestock prices declined in Chicago with cattle nine to ten cents lower and hogs down ten to fifteen cents, the market pressured by strong receipts and bad weather. A lodging house occupant, an oil salesman, drank himself into an acute condition requiring police and medical care, aiming to return home to Britt. A Birth notices report a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Verrozen of Jump River Wisconsin. Miss Bentner sister of Mrs Elwyn Byam. The gas plant at Anamosa sold at receivers sale for 15335 dollars, burdened by mortgage. stockholders lose their shares. George Stabler Sons Co posts after inventory bargains. Miss Hemmenway to read in Monticello February 20. Water main leak hindering work on North Cedar Street.
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Chicago
John Verroren
Jump River
Wisconsin
Verroren
Anna Bentner
Elwyn Byam
Light and Heat Travel From Space to Earth
Edgar Lucien Larkin explains in the New York American that radiant energy from the sun travels as waves. Heat and light arise only when these waves strike matter that can receive and translate them into thermal or visual energy.
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Earth
Edgar Lucien Larkin
New York American
Oil Lamps Through Ancient Practice
Oil was used for burning in lamps as far back as the twentieth century before Christ reflecting early lighting technology and daily life of that era.
Noisy Noise Frightens Oysters, Killing Hundreds
A loud thunderclap alarms oysters, causing the nervous creatures to die in large numbers. The sudden shock leads to significant loss for the oyster beds and related industry observers note the vulnerability of the stock to loud disturbances.
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Parliament
Plutarch
Chicago Record-Herald
Carlyle
Great Sale
Rockford Locks
Ypo
Monticello
Ohio
Alaska
Michaels
E. T. Wright & Co
Britt
Anamosa
George Stabler Sons’ Co
Hemmenway
North Cedar Street
Space
Col. Goethals
Kansas City Times
Police Commissionership
New York
William Clancy
Texas
Washington Post
Atchison Globe
L. G. Stabler
Lovell House
Grand Streets
Mary G. Hogan
Howard County
Iowa
H. 8. Richardson
H. Cropp
Allen
Scotch Grove
Clay Township
J. B. Moses
J. G. van Sickle
Oxford Junction
Theresa Bohiken
Farma
South Dakota
J. A. Voorhees
H. Null
N. G.W. Winner
W. EB. Corbin
Scotch Grove Township
G. J. Hughes
Main Street
Peter Ommen
Rickles Gerdes
Lovell Township
Will
R.C. Valenting Company
Marshalltown
Castle Grove Township
School House
L. F. Balster
Farmers Co-operative Creamery Company
C. W. Brazelton
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