Feats of strength show blacksmiths outdoing monarchs
The article recalls feats of strength by craftsmen and notable men. Paris carpenter Charles Louvier rolls a tin basin into a cylinder and carries a sleeping guard to a wall. Danish locksmith Knut Knudson lifts a butcher’s load with one hand. Augustus the Strong pays with large coins, and the smith breaks them, claiming fair payment for a good horseshoe. Luigi Bertini of Milan and others perform similar demonstrations of strength. The Duke of Grammont, Napoléon III’s minister, often wowed court ladies with a twenty franc piece.
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Charles Louvier
Paris
Knut Knudson
Augustus the Strong
Saxony
Luigi Bertini
Milan
Duke of
Grammont
Napoleon III
Lightship Perils Highlight Unsung Lighthouse Heroes
A Popular Magazine profile honors lighthouse service members who guard 100000 miles of coast from Alaska to Panama. It notes 13000 aids to navigation and a $6 million annual budget. Lightships stay moored, must not sail unless relieved, and may only sink when unable to endure a gale.
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Ammong
Lighthouse Service
Life Saving Service
Alaska
Panama
Popular Magazine
Malta Hosts Remains of Dwarf Elephants Found
The island of Malta yields the only known dwarf elephant remains with numerous bones unearthed or secured in part. A full grown specimen measured under two and a half feet tall and weighed no more than 600 pounds in life.
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Malta
Fashion and Misery A Grim Tenement Tragedy
In a poverty stricken area on Fifty sixth street New York a man named John Conwell and his elderly mother were found dead from gas. Neighbors recalled his care for her and his distress at her drunken nights. Police found he wrote on men s fashion to earn a living despite ragged clothes.
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New York
Beau Brummel
Beau
Beau Brommer
Broadway
Bellevue
Fifty-sixth Street
John Conwell
Alo
Cincinnati Times-Star
Argument Overheard In Hospital Cot
A man on a hospital cot explains to a policeman that he sought to avoid a long dispute when he called his assailant a liar. The exchange highlights the tension after a confrontation.
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Buffalo Express
Curious word meanings shine in Lamb anecdote
A Dickens era tone anecdote shows how expressions shift meaning. Charles Lamb helps a destitute woman on a foggy London day then remarks its misery extends to him too. Another tale recalls a man asking what the boys are up to as they run off with fruit, highlighting language quirks.
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Charles Lamb
London
Lamb
The Hudson River Names Through the Ages
A survey traces names given to the Hudson from Verrazano to Dutch and English times. It notes San Germano San Antonio Manhattes and other tags used before finally settling on Hudson's River. mentions early explorers and commercial aims.
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Henry Hudson
Hudson
John da V
Florentine
Verrazano
San Germano
Gomez
America
San Antonio
Dutch East India Com
Albany
New Netherlands Company
Rio de Montague
Shawnatawty
Orange
New Netherlands
Hudson’s River
Nort River
Delaware River
South River
Berbers in North Africa Aids Time through Hannibal Era
The Berbers are portrayed as long established North Africans, distinct from Arabs, and historically present since Carthaginian times. The text recalls their enduring, liberty minded nomadic heritage through Hannibal and Scipio eras, then pivots to noting Ephraim Chambers as author of the first alphabetical general knowledge encyclopedia.
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North
Africa
Carthage
Boven
Talent
Christ
Hannibal
Scipio
Ephraim Chambers
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C. C
Newberg
Sorel Pecans
Lightship Perils
Edison
Yamhill Electric Company
Hudson River
Dr. Sorby
Sorby
New York Times
REX All
Lynn B. Ferguson
Newberg Lodge
W. M
R. H. C. Bennett
I. A. Hanning
A. V. Hendrickson
Peter Duranceau
Oregon Hardware & Implement Co
Wood
W. A. Parrish
McKern
C. R. Chapin
City Hall
W. A. Baker
E. R. Garner
M. Z. Shane
Dayton Ave
Oregon Hardware and Implement Co
Boan
Clarence Butt
Jersey
M. Barrell
Dundee
C. F. Yeager
Phone Blue
Graphic Office
Holstein Bull
Ira McCormack
Scholls
R. J. Forsyth
O. S. C. Pigs
C. F
Yergen
R. M. Sanders
H. S. Giles’ Packing House
John Groff
C.C. Wilmot
Blaine
Oregon
Newberg Creamery
B.A. Kirks
McMinnville
Hattie Bell
C. E. Burke
First National Bank of
D. Coulson
Lakeview
Lake County
A. S. Emerson
Lone Fir Dairy
Cummins
William Everett
Elizabeth M. Hinahan
Yamhill County
Hias
Jamhil County
New Graphic
Charles Hewitt
Wilfiaan Everett White
Ae Hewitt
Anid Estate
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