Inventions and Natural Wonders Reported in 1907
A survey of early science notes recalls new alloys like Alzen two parts aluminum to one zinc and their strength and polish. notes on conductivity of wires, fossil stones in elephant stomachs, gold ballast on a Canadian railway, and a Nile drought impact. Also stories of birds aiding agriculture, high free balloon flights near Brussels, and a chestnut elm tree oddity growing inside a chestnut trunk near a historic oak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Harbord
Canadian Northern Railway
Sudbury
Vermillion River
British Museum
Egypt
Assum
H. W. Hanshaw
Brussels
Ueele
Pla
Kingston’s Aged Oak Courtains Presidents Washington Clinton
A New York man recalls Kingstons ancient oak tree under which Washington and Clinton reportedly sat during memorial day events and wartime conversations. The tree, over 260 years old, stands near the old senate house and near Stuyvesant era stockade site, its vigor intact despite centuries.
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Washington
Clinton
Kingston
New York
Sun
Senate House
Newburg
George Clinton
Jingston
Quick Wit Across Newspapers and Jokes
A jumble of humorous quotes and quips from periodicals like Punch and Tit-Bits. The selections pair teachers with students, mothers with children, and social gaffes with clever replies, highlighting humorous misunderstandings and punchline surprises.
Mud Houses Duilt by Wasps
A naturalist describes mud wasp nests made from stiff clay. Wasps roll mud balls from ponds then fly to wall sites and press the mud against surfaces. The nests form smooth cylindrical interiors with ringed exteriors as wasps inspect and smooth rough spots before hunting for spiders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dundee
Paychia Phenomenon Linked Portrait To Unknown Mother
Prof von Herkomer’s painting The Last Master drew a stranger’s letter claiming her dead mother sat for the portrait. The artist explained the figure was imagined, then found his canvas bore a perfect likeness to the stranger’s oil painting of her mother, whom he had never met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Detroit Free Press
Hver
Harper's Weekly
Bridget
Joneses
Houston Post
London
Shipwrecks and Courts Martial in Naval History
A historical note recalls the 1741 Wager wreck off Chile where mutiny claims arose as sailors argued loss of pay meant no discipline. Captain Davy Cheap condemned mutiny. court precedent followed, shaping Section 91 of the articles of war holding a ship in commission after shipwreck or capture pending inquiry.
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Commodore Anson
Chile
Davy Cheap
Christmas Turkey Gift In The Natchal Way
A Northerner in a Southern negro settlement gives a dollar to an old boy to buy a Christmas turkey. After he leaves, the woman tells the boy to take the dollar and go buy the turkey in the expected fashion. The line ends with a quip about money and a fashionable wife.
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Thomas
Success Magazine
His Angwalshed Speech and the Boy Who Loved Grapes
An oration envisions cheap products for all as a boy bootblack asks the price of grapes. A grocer quotes one dollar a pound, the boy pleads for a cent’s worth of carrots, revealing simple longing for fruit.
Big Find and a Penny Bank Tale
A quote describes a man named Brown and a toy bank given to his wife years ago. The line suggests he now heads a frugal family by using the bank. The piece ends noting mothers favor Mrs Winslow’s Boathing Syrup for teething children.
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Bank
Puck
Not Suspicious The Constable and Accused Clash
A comic exchange shows a constable and the accused denying suspicion. The prisoner protests innocence while a bystander or witness asserts the accused’s suspicious behavior. The dialogue reflects a humorous, provincial tone.
Shortest men on earth and a nerve tonic ad
The page mocks Laplanders as the shortest men while humor and gossip exchange jibes about American men after vacation. An advert urges Dr. Nees Great Nerve Restorer with a free trial bottle offer. A joke about a permanent receiver is included. An ad promotes Borax to treat dry rot and vermin on floors and in buildings.
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Stubb
John
St. Vitus
BR. H. Kline
Arch St
Philadelphia
Lost Ite Edge and the Barber Razor Remedy Speech
A fragment from a Boston Post item depicts a barber scene with a victim remarking that the razor is in terrible condition. The barber replies in dialect claiming the razor wore to a ball last night and that the grinstone is what it needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barber
Boston Post
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Claim
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated internally. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and targets blood and mucous surfaces, claimed to be a non quack prescription from a top physician. A second product, Hall's Family Pills, is recommended for constipation. testimonials are available upon request.
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S.S. S
S. S.S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Hall
Mall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Drugeists
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Science
Nautimobile
Starper
Gussy
Tom
Jimmy
Kansas City Star
American Globe-Trotter
America
Burroughs
Philadelphia Press
Washington Star
Philadelphia Inquirer
Milion
Pathfinder
Chicago Daily News
S.S.S
Hottle
Atall Grocers
Tower's Fish
A J.tower CO
Boston
U S.A
Towels
Toronto
CARL
Ola
Douglas
W. L. Douglas
L. Douglas
L, Douglas
Spark St
Breckton
Mass
Dr. Wise
Wise Dental Co., Inc
Dr. W.A Pistager
Portland
Patience
Williia
Patrice
Yonkera Statesman
the Minstrels
Tangier
George
Morocco
Rex de Rote
Clarence
Alifornia Fic Syrup Co
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