New Year's resolutions as fleeting as the year
A long meditation on resolutions with a mock prophecy that about 3,000,000 people will break their New Year vows. The piece laments the cycle of pledges made at parties and the quick slips by January 1, listing common vows and the social dynamics surrounding them.
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William Jermminge
Tegan
William Howard
Theodore Hooweveli
Taft
Supreme Court of
Staten
Roosevols Ouse
Bolt
Eliixen
United States
Neo
Mother Earth
Hall of Fame
Vic
The Greek Cross and Its Geometric Puzzles
Sam Loyd discusses ancient emblems and the Greek cross as a symbol of human intellect. He explains converting the cross into a square with four pieces, notes multiple solutions, and highlights puzzles forming two crosses and varied shapes, linking symbols to geometric transformations.
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le Plongeon
Sehilemann
Prof
Wilson
Buelld
Harvard College
Harvard
Valie
Sigie and Symbols
Two Milk Thieves Named Tricky and Partner
A Battle Creek woman reports milk thefts by a neighbor’s terrier Tricky and a large hound. The dogs open bottles by pawing and rolling the cover, drinking the milk, and even loitering for more after doorbell arrests.
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Trixsy
Battle Creek
Mich
Detroit Free Press
Window Shelf for Plants That Moves Between Windows
A simple movable window shelf for winter plant care. A one inch board with projections fits sash grooves and brackets support the shelf. For a two pane sash center bracket suffices. for a single glass sash brackets at each end are needed to secure the shelf.
Short and Sweet Mama Comy Violet
Violet repeats a playful exchange about prayers as the scene shifts with social humor. The fragment hints at family banter and a domestic moment captured in a New York Herald style voice.
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Violet
New York Herald
X Ray Instrument Built by Handy Boy Demonstration
A home project describes a simple X ray device with two AA cylinder bases and aligned mirrors. Light enters the first cylinder, reflects along a chain of mirrors at 46 degrees, and exits toward an observer and object placed at X, with the ray never passing through the cylinders.
David Hero Inspires Child’s Nightime Wonder
A four year old boy named Joe imitates the biblical tale of David, waking his mother after midnight to ask if he will go to heaven and whether David might hold a sling in heaven. The child’s devotional excitement shows how Bible stories shape prayer and imagination.
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David
Joe
Ford
Mamma
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