Kicking Odysseys and Garden Encounters In London
In the morning a restless mood and constant grumbling frame the scene as Miss Llewellyn and Mr Bradley attend a garden orchid event. A boy, Master Waller, probes Miss Llewellyn’s past while Mr Bradley recalls adventures and hints at later plans for a South American voyage.
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South America
Master Wu
Llewellyn
Kenneth
Bradley
Miss Llewellyn
W. Pett Ridge
Kenneth Waller
Mr. Bradley
Good Roads Plans and Prison Labor for Roads in News
Connecticut plans 100000 state funds plus town adds to improve about forty miles of highways and proposes a statewide east west route with low grades. The New York Tribune argues convicts should be used to build roads and notes widespread guide post rules with mixed compliance.
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Connecticut
New York Post
New York Tribune
Planing Mill Cure For Insomnia Fails In Chicago Record
A Chicago Record item recounts Mr Wingleby’s planing mill insomnia cure. He counted numbers to sleep but the planing mill, though soothing in theory, caused neighborhood objections and he ultimately abandoned the device for traditional methods. The anecdote notes their struggle with sleep disruption and a failed improvised solution.
Maine’s giant tree on Androscoggin bank measured and noted
Jay Maine claims one of the largest trees in Maine stands on the Androscoggin bank on the late Dudley Bean lawn. The tree has a circumference of 23 feet at four feet high, a diameter of seven feet, and seven branches radiating from about seven feet up, each from 18 to 24 inches thick. The branches cover a 270 foot ground circle. A band stand for 25 sits seven feet from the trunk. A Boston observer was impressed, noting its value and origin, planted forty-two years ago by Lafayette Bean when he left for California.
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Jay
Maine
Androscoggin
Dudley Bean
Boston
Lafayette Bean
California
Cows Swim to Island Pasture in Maine Tide
A North Bath milkman keeps a pasture on an island off Maine. When tides rise the fifteen cows swim to reach the island pasture, creating a noted spectacle described by the Bath Enterprise.
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North Bath
Maine
Bath Enterprise
Echo Cut Echo Theme Brings Fright to Engineer
Engineer Frank Haring on his first Big Four run from North Vernon to Louisville faced Echo Cut near McNab’s Gap Indiana. His whistle echoed back from ahead, forcing an emergency stop and leaving him prostrated, later learning it was only an echo.
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Frank Haring
North Vernon
Louisville
Echo Cut
McNab
Ind
Haring
Tod
Cincinnati Enquirer
The Trip Postponed Umbrella Scene
A humorous Mrs Stiggins quip from Harper's Bazar about delaying a trip due to a missing umbrella. Silas insists on staying home rather than crossing the wet Atlantic, noting the advertisement bans cotton on nets and his reluctance to travel without protection.
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Silas
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