A Lesson in Geography and World Map Oddities
The author notes surprising map facts from Upham Adams including South America lying east of Detroit and much of it north of parts of North America. He observes Colon being west of Panama City and the Pacific rising at sunrise from Panama, arguing oceans should stay put.
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America
The
Tropics
Frederick Upham Adams
Havana
New York
Detroit
New World
South America
New York City
Southeast America
North America
Colon
Santa Marta
Colombia
Caribbean
Panama City
Pacific
Tivoli Hotel
Pacific Ocean
Panama
Travel in San Salvador by a Krooboy Guide Named Napoleon
In John H. Weeks travelogue Among the Primitive Bakongo the narrator recalls a krooboy named Napoleon Bonaparte who carried him across streams in San Salvador. Napoleon fears falling and exchanges rice for safer crossings as waters churn and swamps loom.
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John H. Weeks
San Salvador
Krooboy
Massa
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon
The Origin of Shampoo The Word and Practice
A mid eighteenth century traveler notes that shampooing was unknown in Europe and unique to China with instruments used in the process. He recalls seeing Chinese merchants shampooed and explains the term arose from India as the imperative of a verb meaning to knead.
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Europe
India
What makes some animals green and why the color?
Scientists debate why some insects worms and reptiles appear green. Green hues may come from diet or other factors. experiments show they retain color even when green food is excluded.
Giraffe Meat Described as Delicacy in South Africa
The article extols meat from young giraffes noting flesh resembles veal with gamey flavor. It highlights the tongue measuring eighteen to twenty inches as highly palatable. Marrow bones are praised as the greatest luxury for South African hunters.
Woman's aim and danger from a burglar shot
A quoted claim describes a woman's bullet fired at a burglar as traveling upward to aphelion with slowing motion and then turning a street corner to strike an innocent pedestrian in the leg nine times out of ten. The statement appears in the Florida Times Union.
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Florida Times-Union
I am an income tax collector and an artist
The London Tatler quotes two exchanges with a tax official and an artist. The tax collector declares his role while the artist asserts his vocation, prompting a brief, polite correction.
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London
Tatler
Alarming Case Hints Eclectic Occult Beliefs
Fragmentary Baltimore American line hints a dramatic alert about a son’s case linked to eclectic occultism. The quoted dialogue expresses a tense exchange between a mother Mia and a professor as the mystery unfolds.
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Mia
Baltimore American
Sizzling tales from a Tennessee man on Neal Institute relief
A Tennessee business man recounts his struggle with drink and praise for the Neal Treatment at the Cincinnati Neal Institute. After three days under Capt. Holloway’s roof in Avondale he reports renewed health, vigor, and resolve to quit alcohol. The letter urges others to investigate and request the institute’s literature.
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Tennessee
Cincinnati Neal Institute
Old John Barleycorn
Old John
Neal
Cincinnati
Capt. Holloway
Avondale
Neal Institute
Winter barley a sure Kentucky crop for fall sowing
E J Kinney, assistant agronomist at the Kentucky Experiment Station, argues for shifting from corn to winter barley and turf oats due to repeated corn failures. Barley yields 30 to 60 bushels per acre, matures by early June, provides fall pasture, serves as a nurse crop for clover and grasses, and can be sown from early September to October.
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Kentucky
Weather Bureau
E. J. Kinney
Asst. Agronomist
Experiment Station
Harris held without bail in Bath County murder case
Emmett Harris of Bath county was held to the October grand jury on charges of killing Enoch Pergram of the same county. County Judge Bullock ordered no bail.
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Emmett Harris
Bath County
Enoch Pergram
Lexington
Bullock
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Ford
United States of America
Ford Water Company
Paul Strother
Mt. Sterling, Ky
Rings
John W. Jones
Heisey
Nice
Chenault & Orear
Albert Bondurant
Aif
Floor
Walsh Co. Bldg
George E. Neal
Gor
Maple Avenue
Cineinpati
O. Telephone Aven
Ohio
Nes’ Institutes
Urumbus
Cleveland
Harris
Taleo and
Stockton’s Electric Dry Cleaning Co
N. Maysville Street
Houghton
Babcock
Peters and Staver
Prewitt & Howell
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