When Breathitt's Best Shot Failed
Dan Simpleton prepares to leave the Breathitt mountains to exact vengeance on Doctor Hearst after a feud. Kentucky Garrettson, pledged to defend her father Ben Garrettson, shoots at Hearst at Contier sawmill, aiming to avenge injuries to her family but hits Hearst's life instead.
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Currverlands
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Dan
Daddy
Ken
Hearst
Harry
Ben Garrettson
Charlie Garrettson
Kentucky
Ontier
Charlie
Doctor Hearst
Gontier
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Sher
Kentucky Garrettson
Sallers
Kentuck
Building a Sturdy Vegetable Bin From Canned Goods Boxes
Create a vegetable bin by using five or six equal boxes laid side by side with two inch by one inch slats between them for ventilation. Leave about an inch gap to sweep dirt, nail a wood strip to the stone cellar to support the boxes, and fix legs under the front edge to the floor. Paint vegetable names on the fronts.
Protect Floors With Corrugated Rubber Under Furniture
Advice suggests placing corrugated rubber on chair and table legs to prevent scratches and securing it with strong glue. The visible tips claim this protects hardwood floors from damage while moving heavy furniture. A fragment mentions scattering charcoal in floors and shelves to purify the air in the cellar.
Simple Denim Table Cover with Fringe Border
A bedroom table can be brightened with a denim square edged in white fringe. Use solid color fabric remnants cut into leaf shapes and couch them along a linen square to create a pretty border.
Bleaching Willow Chairs With Sulphur Fumes
Instructions describe bleaching yellowed willow chairs by exposing them to sulphur fumes. Light a sulphur candle near the chair and cover with a large dry goods box before the chair dries completely.
Household Paint Stain Remedies From Old Advice
Ammonia and turpentine remove paint from clothing by saturating the stain and washing with soapsuds. Oxalic acid in hot water lifts paint from windows and brightens brasses, but handle carefully as it is a deadly poison.
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Washington Star
Orange Omelet and Coconut Cakes from a 1900s Menu
A vintage kitchen guide lists Orange Omelet made from four yolks and whites, orange zest and juice, cooked in butter and folded. Cocoanut Cakes require butter sugar milk flour eggs and coconut baked into thirty-six cakes then iced with fondant and almonds. A Chicken and Rice Cups dish uses rice shells, minced chicken, cream sauce, and optional oysters, baked and inverted for serving. POTATO SALAD describes hot bouillon poaching of uniform potatoes then dressing with French dressing and parsley before chilling.
Remarkable Missouri River Catfish Tale From Rock Port
D B Rundle of Rock Port, Atchison County, recalls a fisherman’s night on the Missouri River near their father’s farm. He set a trot line with minnows and next morning found a 140-pound catfish that had swallowed the hook. Lured by the catfish, a white perch weighing five or six pounds had also swallowed the hook, and while removing the perch’s mouth, a chub weighing one or two pounds was found that had swallowed the minnow.
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D. B. Rundle
Rock Port
Kansas City
Turbine Propellers Gain Favor in Navy and Merchant Fleet
A growing adoption of turbine propellers spreads through the British navy and merchant fleet. The shift aims to improve efficiency and speed, signaling a modernization trend in maritime propulsion.
A Counter Proposition in Ally Sloper
A humorous exchange unfolds as He tells his father he cannot live without Ally Sloper and she inquires about the reply. He reveals the father offered to pay his funeral expenses, delivering a darkly comic twist.
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Ally Sloper
Quotes on Time and Virtue From Classical Authors
A selection of maxims and sayings from Goethe Horace Plato Emerson Seneca Plutarch and Terence on time effort virtue and perseverance. The excerpts cover themes of diligence patience happiness and the practical consequences of action.
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Horace
Plato
Emerson
Seneca
Hans Andersen
The Child Mind and God in Children’s Thoughts
A Nineteenth Century discussion summarizes Stanley Hall on American children from 48 respondents. It notes many children attribute life to sun moon stars and flowers, with God central to explaining cosmic phenomena. Observations include God as a street figure and vivid personifications of natural events and objects.
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Stanley Hall
God
Boston
Papa
Santa Claus
Burnham
New Mud Volcano Island Born Off Burma Coast
A transient island formed near Burma after a December 15 mud volcano eruption. Measuring about 400 by 200 yards and rising up to 20 feet, the mud island sits at lat 19 0 6 N and long 93 24 20 E with small craters and a 148 degree mud depth. Royal Indian Marine Survey officers found it warm and flagged it for passing vessels.
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Burma
North Pacific
San Francisco
Royal Indian Marine Survey
Philadelphia Ledger
Naturalist John T. Timmons Gains Noted Reputation
Cadiz Ohio blind naturalist John Timmons is recognized beyond his hometown for his auditory skills in identifying nature. The London Lancet reports gasoline fumes harm health and fade colors of flags near motors. Rear Admiral Sir Percy Scott sails to the Mediterranean with a gyroscope gun mounting that could revolutionize naval gunnery.
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John T. Timmons
Cadiz
Ohio
London Lancet
Percy Scott
Mediterranean
River barriers shape squirrel forms in Borneo study
Dr. W. M. Lyons Jr. reports eight distinct squirrel forms across northern and western Borneo, with a large river acting as a barrier between two races. In Europe Lake Brusio hosts Europe's strongest electricity plants, using a three mile conduit to a reservoir 1280 feet above the central station for the highest known fall.
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W. M. Lyons, Jr
Borneo
Great Island
Lake
Brusio
Grisons
Europe
Peschiaveno
Peschiavo
Spelling the Countersign at West Point Memoir
A reminiscence recounts sentry duty at West Point with General Morris Schaff describing the countersign rituals. The piece recalls a murky night miscommunication over Quatre Bras spelled in French and an officer demanding precise orders as if fate hung on their exchange.
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West Point
Morris Schaff
Atlantic
John M. Wilson
Washington
Labor leader admires American unions report from New York
Alexis Aladyn head of Russia Duma Labor party tours New York and praises the power of American unions. A quoted story from the Washington Star recalls a bride crying in her club over a strike by District 4 of the Amalgamated Wives Union after a husband refuses to buy a dinner gown, illustrating union influence.
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Alexis Aladyn
Duma
Labor
New York
Labor Unions of
America
George
Henry Simmons
A Boy and a Cab
Nine year old Tommy rode a taxi home after a party and sat on the box for the journey. He found it fun and rain drenched him, despite his father’s warning to take the cab if it rained.
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Tommy
London
Mrs McKinley’s Quiet Strength At the White House
Washington spoke of President McKinley’s devotion to his ailing wife Mrs. McKinley whose thirty year illness and nervous disorder drew constant care. The first lady shared smiles with guests at receptions while avoiding hand shaking and often met children with flowers and small gifts.
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McKinley
Washington
Congress
House of Representatives
McKinleys
Mr. McKinley
White House
Executive Mansion
Antiquity of Man Traced to 60 000 Years Ago
The New York Tribune notes that tools and hunting weapons, bones of tropical fauna, and human remains found in Western Europe gravel beds imply man predates the ice age. It dates antiquity to at least 60 000 years ago, based on flint implements called chelleans found at Chelles, France, situating humans in the gemi tropical epoch of the Pleistocene.
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M. W
Gallupville
N. Y
Europe
Chelles
France
New York Tribune
Plausible Inference in Chicago Tribune Dialogue
In a short exchange Miriam tells her mother that Mr. Stapleford believes she cares enough to marry him. She notes she told him he buys too many costly flowers and should start saving his money, hinting at a cautious approach to their engagement.
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Miriam
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