To Buy or Make for Christmas Ship Decor Ideas
The article discusses using ships as decorative items in homes this Christmas. It suggests hand painted scarves as gifts, lists several names on a gift list, and describes a scissor painted waste basket as a craft idea. It notes specialty shops offering hand painted articles at reasonable prices.
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Question and Answer Quiz on History and Science
A list of general knowledge prompts covering topics from names and titles to geography science and history. Questions include Stonewall Jackson first name, Aguinaldo capture, mechanics, lightweight champion, Hofman nationality, main New York river, top five US libraries, volcano definition, Supreme Court justice selection, astronomy versus astrology, Emancipation Proclamation date, Declaration signers count, champion 220 yards, artistically acclaimed film, Erie Canal, Nobel Prize woman, vultures habitat, current Secretary of War, and the hunter harvest moon.
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Incomplete History Quiz Answers Include Names and Dates
A list presents varied items with numbers from different domains such as plants, states, songs, people, and dates. It includes European specimens in the United States, figures like Harrison and Scott, authors Hodgson Burnett and Rinehart, painters Sargent, and a range of historical and scientific facts.
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United States
Reading Capital and Labor In a Wise Crank Exchange
A Madrid De Excelsior quip contrasts capital and labor with a cheeky dialogue. The joke explains capital as the $10 given and labor as what you recover from it, illustrating a playful view of economic terms.
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Madrid de Excelsior
Victor Hugo’s Early Struggles and Family Turmoil
The article traces Victor Hugo’s youth from a loving childhood to early tragedy with his mother’s death. It notes his father’s opposition to writing, their Paris attic life, and Hugo’s poverty as a brief eye opener. It also mentions his 1822 marriage and reconciliation with his father.
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Kansas City Times
Possibility of Tapping Earth's Heat for Human Use
J L Hodgson discussed tapping Earth's internal heat via boreholes four to five miles apart across land arenas. He stated heat in the interior is immense, at least 80,000,000 times coal reserves, and heat to 80 miles depth would outstrip coal for centuries, though exploitation might be on the border of practicability.
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J. L. Hodgson
Hodgson
Arees
Flapper's Clock Uses Cigarette Codes for Boiled Eggs
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip shared by Pansy of Urbana jokes about a newly married woman who uses cigarette counts to judge egg doneness. The playful line says one cigarette for soft, two for medium, three for hard boiled, highlighting modern flapper wit.
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Urbana
Cleveland Plain Dealer
War in Nicaragua Echoes War Correspondents tale
Gen. Hugh Drum compared Nicaraguan fighting to a street brawl during a Washington tea. He recalled a war correspondent joke about armies lacking uniforms making it hard to tell who is who, noting Chile versus Peruvian forces.
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Hugh Drum
Washington
Chill
Peru
Chilit
Kansas City Star
Jealousy Complaints Reflect Self-Justification
The question asks whether people who complain of jealousy have not caused it themselves. It probes the link between perceived envy and self-blame versus external factors shaping others' feelings.
Nebraska farmers raid wolf dens to kill wolf pups
Capper's Weekly reports Nebraska farmers use hounds to raid dens killing wolf pups. Farmers fear loss of spring crops and livestock as dens attract chickens and rabbits bones at entrances indicate den sites. The practice targets pockets of pups found in dens, with up to twelve pups noted.
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Capper
Laxative Bromine Quinine Tablets Ad
An advertisement promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets as a preventive remedy for colds grip or influenza. The box bears E. W. Grove’s signature and the price is 30 cents.
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E. W. Grove
Snobbishness Cited From Accent on Manners and Appearance
A fragment notes a preference for polite manners fine appearance and good sense in others describing a snobbish attitude tied to social polish and outward conduct.
Pilgrim Visits Kilburn Pub Tied to Francis Thompson
A visitor to London travels to the Skiddaw Arms at Kilburn to recall Francis Thompson the poet of the Hound of Heaven. The landlord denies knowledge of the poet and dismisses the pilgrim as a poor customer who harms the house.
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Francis Thompson
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