Trout Tie Breaks Suitors in North Point Love Tale
A Canadian tale from North Point near James Lake recounts three suitors vying for a girl on her eighteenth birthday. The daughter binds her answer to a trout with a knot in its jaw, declaring the first to land a trout in fair fight wins her hand. Peter Landes wins by finally landing a trout with the message, and the couple wed days later.
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North Point
James Lake
Ontario
Anite
James
John
Michael Penitent
Bin
Peter
Iandad
Hook
Wildcat in tennis match ends with police shootout
A wildcat four feet long attacked players and spectators at the Country club of Westchester County, sparking a chaotic scene before police shot and killed the animal. The incident, witnessed by Beatrice Hoyt and others, ended when the cat fell near Pelham Bay and was secured as a trophy.
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Westchester County
Beatrice Hoyt
Kelly Scott
C. F. Weston, Jr
Scott
Charles Jack
With
Pelham Bay
Broox Zoo
Trained Skunk Drives Off Tramps in Maine Woods
Farmer trapper Joseph Quantraly reports a new method to deter trespassers near Molunkus woods. He tested a box trap and skunk deterrents after repeated thefts of his chickens and threats to his family. Residents unlikely to widely adopt the plan.
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Joseph Quantraly
Inge
Molunkus Woods
Wilae
Quantramn
Dia
Skunk experiment keeps tramp predators away
An unconventional Maine experiment trained a pet skunk to act as a deterrent for nocturnal trespassers. The animal greeted strangers only at night, chasing off prowlers and teaching locals that pawprints and scent warned intruders away.
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Polerat
Quantrain
Woman Dies by Self-Inflicted Nail Injuries in Arkansas
Mrs. Tompking of near Paragould Arkansas died after sixty hours suffering from nails driven into her brain. The elderly blind woman, in a distressed state, attempted self harm and left nails and coins embedded in her skull before a coroner ruled death by self action.
The first armored ship and its legendary lead armor
The article recounts an early armored vessel launched around 1530 by Knights of St. John, described as entirely clad in lead so thick it could supposedly absorb hits. It notes later uses of armored ships by France and Spain during sieges and the decline of wrought iron plate armor after the Crimean War.
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Knights of St. John
Gibraltar
Jumpers of the Sea and a Mass Bet on Eggs
The article notes airborne sea creatures called jumpers like tarpon and tuna, praising their leaps and foam spray in Pacific waters. It also recounts Thomas O'Brien of Blackstone Massachusetts winning a five minute bet by swallowing eggs, five dozen initially and then extra eggs, leading to his demise in a later recount.
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Pacific
Thomas O'Brien
Blackatone
Mass
Brien
O'Brien
O'Brice
Man Rescued After Hanging From Live Wire in Philadelphia
Fred Lockhart a 25 year old lineman for the Hell Telephone company dangled from a live crossarm at Forty fifth and Regent streets for about a half hour. Firefighters freed him after cutting the wire and turning off the current. He was taken to University Hospital with three fingers amputated.
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Fred Lockhart
Forty- Fifth
Regent Streets
Philadelphia
Fiftieth Street
Baltimore Avenue
Lockhart Ja
Hell Telephone Company
Weat
Forty-11th Street
Daisen
Prigorsky
Polieyman
Student confronts father over allowance threat in humorous misread
A college student recalls telling his father that a joke made him seem to cut up and prompt him to threaten to cut his allowance. The exchange ends with the foreign listener asking what was said.
Belgian hare theme in Chicago divorce case draws crowd
Mrs. Jones testifies in divorce against Fred Jones of Chicago manager for London Liverpool and Glebe Insurance. Desertion cited as ground. She jokes about her husband preferring his Belgian hares and insists he wear a nightcap in bed. Judge Kavanaugh watches with amusement as tale unfolds.
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Lis
Dodge Kavanaugh
Jonea
Oll
Robbed Grave To Get A Coat Sparks Outrage
Ignatius Thasaseparle of Budapest confessed to breaking into a noble family mausoleum, disturbing a deceased count, smashing the coffin lid, and undressing the corpse to obtain a Prince Albert coat white silk vest and gold buckled pumps. He wore the stolen clothes to a dance a day after the crime. The body was decayed and the odor betrayed the concealment.
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Ignatius Thasaseparle
Budapest
Szechenyl
Prince Albert
Ignatius
Tim
Jordahly
Tf Ignation
Harbors and rivers shape shipbuilding and city life
The article compares the Elbe and Clyde as narrow waters with vast maritime activity. It notes how dredging transformed the Clyde into a ship launching hub, while the Elbe remains modest near Hamburg despite global sea trade. It also mentions a clock tower in Harrison New Jersey showing erratic speed bursts from pigeons.
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Glungen
Shere
Elbe
Hamburg
Glasgow
Clyde
Tots Scalded in a Bathtub Tragedy in New York Home
Mrs. Emil Orlinsky left two children with Lena, four, and Benjamin, two, who turned on a hot water faucet. Lena and Benjamin suffered severe burns. Benjamin died at Bellevue Hospital an hour after the ambulance left. The mother collapsed at news of the tragedy.
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Emil Orlinsky
New York
Ida
Lens
Benjamin
Mia
Urlinaky
Lena
Mrs. Klein
Cigarette Set Woman on Fire in Philadelphia Street Incident
Miss Margaret McLoughlin was briefly engulfed when her hat ignited on Juni per street near Chestnut as two friends watched. A bystander tore off the hat and others beat out the flames. she suffered pale facial burns and hair damage. Police attribute the blaze to careless discarding of a cigarette from the Hale building.
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Margaret McLoughlin
Juniper Street
Chestnut
Philadelphia
Yong
Miss McLoughlin
Keardon
Hale
Indiana's Heaviest Man Buried At Anderson Cemetery
Crowds gathered in Anderson Indiana for the funeral of Joseph Rodecap a farmer reputed to be the heaviest man in Indiana weighing around 400 pounds Eight hundred Red Men escorted the procession a three by seven by twenty eight inch casket faced difficulty lowering into the grave and ten pallbearers were joined by sixteen men required to complete the burial The event occurred amid a long newspaper wade of unrelated text and jokes from other columns
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Corpae
Anderson
Ind
Joseph Rodecap
Indiana
Kentucky Beauty Escapes Rest Cure Suitors Arrest Drama
Seventeen year old Leda Anklin, held in the Steinway rest cure house of Mme Julia Mays, escapes with Curtis Day after a staged romance. The pair flee through a drainpipe and over a fence, pursued by authorities and an anxious aunt as a cab carries them to freedom.
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Leda Ankrin
Kentucky
Steinway, N
Curtis Day
Miss Anklin
Day
Catlettsburg
Saf UL
Mme
Julia Mays
Steinway
Misa
Hazel Ankrin
Slater
Buda
Hef
Mays
Misa Hazel
Miss Luda
Mme, Mayr
Eighteenth Century Letters Show Montagu Beset by Illness
From Elizabeth Montagu's letters we glimpse eighteenth century life as she endures a swollen lip and back blister treatments prescribed by Dr. Mead. She notes limited baths and privacy constraints, eating plain foods and drinking only water. A separate item reports seven year old William Brons of Wilson New York fatally exposed to carbolic acid while playing doctor, dying within hours.
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Elizabeth Montagu
Ragland
Dr. Mead
Bester
William Brons
Wilson, N. Y
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