A Hindu Wedding of Anandi and Surindra Reveals Indian Customs
The piece describes the arranged match of Anandi and Surindra in Kahatriya caste, the elaborate wedding rituals led by the barber, the use of henna, rose water, and gold jewelry, and the public ceremony with drums, torches, and sacred fire. It notes the social and financial strain on families and the male guru instructing the groom on marital duties.
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India
Subhadra
Anandi
Dhola Baksh
Surindra Tagore
Surindra
Bride
Golf dream fulfilled at Rochford Hundred Club
E Simpson of Rochford Hundred Golf Club near Southend dreamed the night before he would hole out from the Pond hole on a drive over water and hedge. On the day he faced the same shot and the ball rolled 20 feet to the hole, ending in a hole in one amid cheers, while he avoided the offered bets.
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London Express
Stone Waterfall in Algeria Known as Bath of the Damned
In Algeria about sixty miles from Constantine a calcareous cascade appears as a motionless stone waterfall. Locals call it Hamman Meskhatin meaning the bath of the damned and tell of a myth that an impious tribe’s wrath turned it to stone. The feature forms from deposits of hot springs at 95 C known since Roman times, reported by Scientific American.
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Algeria
Constantine
Cirta
Scientific American
Man's will praised for quitting smoking and drinking
A wife praises her husband for giving up tobacco and alcohol and adopting a water wagon. A friend notes his extraordinary will, but the wife jokes he cannot stop nodding yes over the phone.
Slighted Johnson in Dictionary Mix Up
A man named John Johnson, newly rich and tempted by vanity, buys a library as a mark of intellect. He acquires an old dictionary that is rebound and labeled Johnson's Dictionary on its back. He erupts in fury asking why the binder did not print the full name John Johnson's Dictionary.
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Johnson
John Johnson
William Jennings Bryan Steps In For Ill Leader in Lincoln
A famed Nebraska campaign speaker canceled a Lincoln political meeting leaving William Jennings Bryan to fill the void. Nervous, Bryan faced a wary crowd as the chairman introduced him as a substitute for the ailing elder statesman.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Birds Aid to Farmer Insectivorous Birds Fight Pests
Birds greatly reduce orchard pests by eating caterpillars and larvae. Forbush notes grosbeaks visiting nests, sparrows and warblers making frequent trips for insects, and studies placing codling moth damage at 12 to 15 million dollars annually. Woodpeckers and titmice, plus sparrows, attack many pests, with some locales showing 66 to 85 percent hibernating larvae consumed.
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Edward H. Forbush
Tschuai
Forbush
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Entomology
Odd Vacuum Experiment With Glasses And Candle
A Pathfinder item describes a quirky science demonstration. Two identical thin glass cups are used with a lit candle, damp blotting paper, and careful alignment to seal an air tight joint. The candle consumes oxygen, heat expands air, and the upper glass lifts the lower one as it cools.
How to Make a Boomerang Cardboard Pattern
Instructions describe cutting a boomerang from cardboard using a given size pattern. It explains laying it flat on the back of the frost three fingers of the left hand with a sloping alignment. The passage provides basic step by step placement guidance for an improvised thrower’s implement.
Toy Boomerang Trick Teaches Return Flight
A playful guide explains how to throw a toy boomerang with the right hand using a flick of the second finger. The toy is described as flying outward then returning to the person's lap for repeated demonstrations.
Expense of Producing Eggs in Six Leghorn Pens
James S. Dryden reports in the Oregon Agricultural College Bulletin on an extended experiment weighing all feed for six pens of Leghorns over a year. Six pens consumed 664 lb wheat 296 lb corn 203 lb oats 112 lb bran and shorts 235 lb skim milk plus animal feed, with per fowl annual costs from 61 to 78 cents average 66 cents. Wheat cost 1 cent lb corn 1.25 cents lb oats 1 cent lb skim milk 0.2 cent lb bran 0.6 cent lb. animal food 5-6 cents per fowl. Wheat nearly half of total cost. Hens averaged 144 eggs per fowl.
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James S. Dryden
Oregon Agricultural College Bulletin
Walnut Shell Boats Craft Instructions
Instructions describe making small boats from walnut shells using a cardboard cover, a match as mast, sealing wax, white paper sail, and wax to seal. The shell interior is cleaned, cardboard cut to size, fixed to bottom, and the sail attached by two holes on the match.
Electricity In Rubber Demonstrates Elasticity Charge
An ordinary india rubber band stretched and released slowly yields no electricity, but a sudden contraction creates a negative charge retained for a time. The effect is independent of rubber quality and also occurs with a thin walled tube.
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India
Riddles and Wordplay Jokes From a Quirky List
A string of lighthearted pun questions and quirky answers on doctors, camels, weary wheels, water division, majesty, vowels, millers, dogs, tea costs, and tanners. Each line delivers a playful twist or phonetic pun.
Scours In Lambs And Care Methods Stated
Article outlines causes of white scours in lambs linked to eye irritation and recommends daily udder milking to prevent. It advises giving eight to ten drops of tincture of opium in milk to treat scouring and suggests warm soapy water and olive oil enema for suspected constipation.
Pea Crop Popularity Questioned by Census Data
Federal census figures credit the United States with 1,206,000 acres in dry peas, up from 968,000 ten years earlier. The Census Bureau casts doubt, noting much of the area may duplicate other crops, especially along the South Atlantic coast and several states in the middle south.
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United States
Peas. Com
South Atlantic
Middle South
Value of Wetches as a hay supplement
Wetches yield high quality palatable hay rich in protein making a strong supplement to corn silage.
Ailing Women of Middle Age Endorsing Pinkham’s Compound
A Fleetwood Pennsylvania woman, Mrs Edward B Enbert, praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief during the change of life. She reports headaches dizziness hot flashes and improved health after using the remedy and urges others to try it. The advertisement touts warnings of menopausal symptoms and asserts the tonic strengthens the nervous system.
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Mrs. Hilbert
Fleetwood
Lydia E. Pinkham
Edward B. En Bert
Ife
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