Rockefeller's Direct Approach to Building Ore Transport
The article recounts John D. Rockefeller in the 1890s acquiring iron ore lands and facing transportation barriers. He met with an ore transport expert, revealed his plan to enter the ore business, and offered a $3 000 050 ship order to spur boat construction. The quick negotiation, profit motivation, and personal trade form the core of his method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller
Lake Superior
Ilis
Mr. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
An Old Fashioned Woman and the Labor of Rest
An old fashioned woman works hard while her husband grows idle. He gradually hires a cook then a maid then a scrub woman, until his wife ends up serving four workers. The tale explains a man sitting on the porch to read while his wife scraps in the kitchen, seeking equal right to rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sle
Atchison Gloke
The Cost He Could Do Mere Trial Report
A chaotic court scene features a defendant whose reputation is questioned by witnesses. The judge presses for a direct answer about the defendant being a rapist, but the discussion devolves into conflicting opinions and vague responses, highlighting a tense credibility battle in the courtroom.
Language roots blur species in Shakespearean etymology
The text traces how terms like alligator and other animal names arose from mixed linguistic origins. It notes Shakespeare’s line about an alligator stuffed among fish and links etymologies to Latin and Greek roots such as os trich meaning bird.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romeo
Persian Cats Description and Breed Standards
The article outlines long haired Persian cat colors and subtypes, coat traits, ear tufts, throat frill, toe tufts, body proportions, eye characteristics, and overall regal expression. It notes the breed is loving but high strung and easily spoiled by rough handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country Life In
America
Legend of St Winifred's Well and its famed spring
The tale recounts Winifred, a 7th century British maiden loved by Prince Cradocus. After she refused him, he was beheaded and the earth swallowed him. her head rolled to a spot where a healing spring gushed forth. Saint Bueno rejoined her, and the well in Holywell, Flintshire, became famed for cures. A courthouse now stands over the once celebrated well built by the Countess of Richmond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winifred
St. Bueno
Holywell
Flint
England
Countess of Richmond
Henry VII
Birthplaces of common plants across the world
The Kansas City Journal notes the sunflower originated in Peru and lists origins for many familiar plants including celery from Germany, onion from Egypt, tobacco from Virginia, citron from Greece, pears and apples from Europe, spinach from Arabia, walnuts and peaches from Persia, and cucumber from the East Indies.
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Kansas Prairies
Peru
Germany
Italy
Egypt
Virginia
Europe
Greece
North
Africa
Siberia
Sardinia
Arabia
Persia
East Indies
Crete
China
Japan
Tibet
Kansas City Journal
He Guessed Right At The New Hampshire Circus
A crowd of boys gathered at a New Hampshire circus entrance as a bystander asked the ticket seller to admit them and count them. After all had passed, the man announced twenty eight, claiming he guessed correctly and walked away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hampshire
Harper's
Conjurer’s Hat Trick Fails As Boy Confounds With Duck Joke
A country fete features a conjurer performing the classic hat trick. He asks a boy if his mother can see without hens. The boy replies that she can because she keeps ducks, provoking bursts of laughter in London Tit-Bits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
W C T U Notes on Prohibition and Local Work
The piece highlights W C T U activity including a $15 000 bequest for a girls home by Hon L B Coffin of Fort Dodge Iowa and reports on Indiana W C T U convention in Bedford with 370 voting delegates. It urges support for prohibition and local union meetings and condemns drunkenness impact on families. It mentions humane society efforts in Mooresville to curb horse abuse and calls readers to join the movement and wear the white ribbon.
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Coffin
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Indiana
Bedford
Humane Society
Mooresville
Legend of a Church Steeple in East Bergholt
The East Bergholt churchyard houses a wickerlike bell cage holding the bells without ropes. Each bell has a dedicated ringer who operates the wheel and swings the bell. A fragment notes the unfinished tower was “dated 1525” and a chronicle mentions the devil drying the night and demolishing the prior day’s work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Bergholt
London Chronicle
Teeth Vanish Then Return Cure At Porthcawl
A visitor in Porthcawl believed he swallowed four false teeth after misplacing them while shaving. He felt severe pains and convulsions until a maid produced the missing teeth from behind the dressing table, at which moment the agony ceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porthcawl
London
Mail
Great Music Offer for Piano and Organ Roll
A promotional request offers a 20 page Popular Music Roll with songs marches waltzes arranged for piano or organ. It names Rud Knaurers Flight of the Butterflies March Manila and The Girl Be Seen as included pieces. Respondents must send three or more performer names and twenty five cents in silver or postage to receive postpaid.
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Rud Knauers
Manila
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Banner
A. L., Wheeler
First National Bank
Geo. R. Scruggs
Eli H. Anderson
H. H. Leathers
Carl L. White
W. L. Thompson
W. A. Magenheimer
DRS. Thompson & Magenheimer
Mooresville, Ind
F. N. Doubleday
3Iaine
Revie
Imon Fuwanli
Bameolee
Sarah K. Marine
Vinci
O. E. Rooker
Mooresville, Indiana
Arrang
Calvert
Popular Music Publishing Co
Indianapolis, Ind
Indianapolis
New York
Matthews
J. J. ReEv
W. EF. Hapary
J. FP. Bapeiny
Cushie
West & Coat
West
Bae
Ade
Lindley
Stark Bros Niza
Louisiana
Missouri
BR. G. 1
Hallam
Cans Certis the
The
Times Office
M. F. Brackney, Mf. D
Mooresvillee, Inprana
Terre Haute
Eastern Traction
Indianapols and
Martinsville
Undertakers
Dids H. Kuss & Son
Puonns
Resivexer
Undertaker
Frank & Carlisle
Warks
Munn & Co
Scientific American
Broadway
Wat
Wes
Suffe
Swansonr
P. S. Baxter
Kynesville
Fis
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company ‘Dept
Lake Street
Chicago
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