Next Blue Book Compilation Under Census Bureau Chief
The Census Bureau begins preparing the next official register or blue book listing all federal employees as of July 1 1911. Howard M Pruden now heads the project, succeeding a long line of White House and Senate service. Data will be collected on forms filled by each employee and abbreviated for the directory.
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United States
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Liszt and Rubini Surprised by Town Supper Invitation
An Italian review recounts Liszt and Rubini touring to a town with only fifty attendees. Rubini balked at singing, but Liszt calmed him and invited the audience to supper. The meal cost 4200 francs, and the next concert sold out with packed halls and standing room only.
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Liszt
Rubini
Hibini
Rubisi
Lisat
Hosta
Richi
The Smallest Pension in Britain Causes Sailor’s Loss
A British sailor receives a pension of only fourpence eight per year due to factors affecting naval pay. On each quarter day no official notice arrives to mail stamps, and he takes leave to convert the pension at the post office. He then spends the entire sum in New York ribune fashion.
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Great Britain
New York
Not Playing Fair and Odd Jumbles in Local Note
A fragmented item from the Uhbicaso Record-Herald mentions a child, a dispute with Kheyre over pockets, and a misread line about George. The text shifts to a swordfish incident near Jamaica in November 2805, with a vessel held fast for six hours.
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Kheyre
George
Uhbicaso Record-Herald
Jamaica
Customs and beliefs of the Patagonian Indians
The article surveys the Tehueiches or Patagonian Indians, noting their peaceful yet impulsive nature, suspicion under alcohol, and brutal acts when intoxicated. It describes family ties, tribal chiefs, spirits, and rife myths tied to celestial bodies, with bir th, marriage and death rites including horse singing and blood drinking. It cites Magellan’s era population around ten thousand, now reduced to about six hundred.
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Strait
Rio Negro
Littoral
Pampas
Andes
Harper's Magazine
Wordsworth Lost Sense of Smell Only Once Recorded
A London Standard note recalls that Wordsworth, lacking a sense of smell, found fragrance in nature as vision. The poet admitted smelling onions at a midday family dinner when a leg of mutton was stuffed with onions, revealing his rare moment of scent.
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Wordsworth
Aubrey de Vere
London Standard
Beards Taxed by Peter the Great for Citizens
Peter the Great imposed a beard tax on Russian subjects to force beards from faces. Those with beards faced forced shaving or hair removal, turning many Russians beardless as a result of enforcement.
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Peter the Great
Russia
Russias
Bank Leaders Question Church Choir Suspicions
A humorous exchange notes the bank president and vice president discussing a cashier in church yesterday. The vice president says he dislikes the cashier's singing line about being missed when gone, in a witty Puck caption style.
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Puck
Seizing the Opportunity in a Curious Exchange
A fragmentary dialogue contrasts credit with choice as a wife and husband debate purchasing a new item. The exchange hints at economic strain and value, wrapped in a proverb about life and poverty.
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Crabshaw
Mrs. Crahbshaw
Why Littl Men Have Big Appetites
Louis Lapicque, a French scientist, explains why smaller beings eat more relative to body size. He notes digestive efficiency is not the sole factor. smaller animals require more intense internal work. He cites pigeons and Bengalis to illustrate rapid, high-energy needs and suggests extreme eating patterns would be required if extended to humans.
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Louis Lapicque
Lapiegne
Hense
Power of an Audience Inspires Speaker’s Magnetism
The piece argues that audience power is vital to a speaker’s impact, creating inspiration beyond solitary practice. It describes the collective force of attentive faces as awakening ambition, confidence, and creative vigor that no cold rehearsal can match.
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Adora
Solemn Moment on Great Main Steamer in Midoclan
Passengers witness a stop in the middle of the ocean as the steamship’s screw slows then ceases. A bishop conducts a burial at sea while the ship holds position, later resumes course, and passengers return to routine aboard the vessel.
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Midoclan
Eskimos and the Bible Anecdotes Stir Interest in Mission Work
In the London Weekly item Frank Croas, a missionary among Eskimos, cites two stories to illustrate Bible translation challenges in arctic life. An interpreter renders a common text as dried apples used for food and fuel, while another case shows theft and law as concepts absent among Eskimos. A Philadelphia Ledger note adds a suffrage anecdote about a woman using her husband’s stationery to write to headquarters.
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Frank Croas
Arctic
T. Pro London Weekly
Vne Catastrophe at Browns Home
A joke exchanges about a baby bottle causing a funeral mishap. The setup has Mrs Browns baby affected by a bottle accident, described as a catastrophe in a sly narrative. No real persons or places are confirmed beyond the Browns.
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Browns
Not Just What She Maarn t A Community Pew Church Promise
A small colored community raised funds to build a pew church and planned the dedication for the next day. A schoolteacher asked a girl where she was going tomorrow and she replied with a bright smile that she was going to the church dedication.
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Abe
Marmma's Joke Sown in Yonkers Statesman
A scrambled quip from Marmma and a garbled line about a vacuum cleaner appears in the Yonkers Statesman. The fragment hints at a family joke and a misread caption or script, reflecting light local humor and era-typical newspaper whimsy.
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Marmma
Yonkers Statesman
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