Morning on the Hilltop Courtship Ends in Teasing Power
A privileged Creighton heir awaits Meely a rural farm girl under a hilltop tree. He enforces distance and pride while she proves eager yet unsure, with social lines, class signals, and a fragile engagement looming in the backdrop. The scene ends unresolved as the couple rehearses a tense courtship.
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Dimnates
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Croix Creizhten
Iettera
Ford
Marvin
Cressing
Sam Sehwenckten
Fia
Creightons
Meely
Merly
Mrade
Sustanse
Question and quiz prompts from a historic text
A list of trivia questions covering geography history science and literature. Topics include state names Shoshone Falls patriot songs famed authors early U S presidents Civil War leaders Supreme Court justices and federal institutions. Several items request dates statutes and definitions with answers implied by the prompts.
Star Spangled Banner Whose Composer Was Not Prisoner
New historical evidence shows Francis Scott Key wrote part of the song while in a rowboat during the War of 1812, not aboard a prison ship. The account from Waomup's dome Companion says Key went to a British flagship under a truce to free a prisoner and wrote the lines as he returned to shore.
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Francia Scutt Key
Ehip
Key
Battleeore
Fort Mellenry
Cracker from Georgia Attends First Episcopal Service
A Georgia man from the piney woods visited ihla city and for the first time attended an Episcopal church service. He told a friend afterward that the experience was as exciting as a possum hunt, saying he kept his wits and rose with the crowd each time.
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Ihla City
Piney Woods
Boston Globe
Fragmentary 19th Century Trivia Snippets
A list of scattered items includes dates and names such as November 10, 1868, Sequoyah, Bubbling Over, and Whistler. It mentions the French government purchasing Whistler’s portrait, Izaak Walton’s Compleat Angler, and a plant trap in the Sutden family. Other entries reference Salt Lake, 80 foot length creature, and figures like Joseph Hopkinson.
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Sequoyah
Whistler
Lurembourg
Paria
Salt Lake
Compleat Angier
Izaak Walton
Younger Indians Turn From Faith of Fathers
A B E Fox Indians in Iowa adopted English writing via mission-initiated alphabet early. Dr Truman Michelson notes depictions of ritual shifting from solemn prayer to amusement. The young generation increasingly seeks education and the tribe competes with whites at state fairs in farming.
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Iowa
Truman Michelson
Smithsonian Institution
Bureau of American Ethnology
Doctor Mickelson
Michelson
Eastern builders boast slow minds over quicksand methods
An Angeleno mocks Eastern builders claiming they delay cement mixing while the Bostonian asserts rapid construction requires quicksand to avoid cement slumping. The exchange highlights regional pride in building methods and speeds.
Night golf with luminous balls lights up New York course
At Yao Cortlandt Park in New York City, M. J. Bloomer of Columbia University tests luminous golf balls under electric greens lights. Eight balls were driven from the first tee and all landed within six minutes as glow-worm like spheres illuminate fairways and rough alike for extended play.
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Yao Cortlandt Park
New York City
M. J. Bloomer
Columbia University
Bloomer
Freak Golf in Scotland Ends With Narrow Victory
A bizarre 18 hole golf match in Scotland at night featured players meeting by moonlight at 9 30 P M Spectators watched as a bat shaped ball left the tee and vanished. Two youths pressed ahead to guide players while electric flashlights traced balls. The match finished at 12 20 with no 4 hole in ones and the expert clinching a 93 hole.
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Scotland
All Start in Kansas Datum Point in Ogden
A landmark or datum placed at Ogden Kansas by the U S coast and geodetic survey serves as the starting point for all surveys and boundaries in the United States. The line is said to be the geographic center of the country and underpins government surveying practice.
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Ogden
Ken
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
United States
Capper
Romantic Mines Take to Film in Industrial Tales
A Popular Mechanics excerpt notes the Bureau of Mines produced a series of motion pictures titled Story of Copper. The films depict mining wealth schemes and adventure with elaborate gear including portable lighting units delivering 12 000 000 candle power and large searchlight rigs. Filming occurred with reels shot hundreds of feet underground using fifty trunks of lighting equipment.
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Bureau of Mines
Popular Mechanica Aagazine
Headache Cure Labeled BromO Quin ine Tablets
A box shows the remedy claiming to move headache by curing a slight cold. The package bears the signature of E. W. Greve and notes adv 0c or 0c-Adv. The claim targets headaches from colds and lists bromine and quinine components.
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E. W. Greve
Popular Potatoes Lead in U.S. Crops Says Expert
J. W. Strowbridge of the Division of Fruits and Vegetables notes the potato remains the most widely grown commercial vegetable in the United States as trends shift among fads and fancies. The statement comes from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
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J. W. Strowbridge
Division of Fruits and Vegetables
States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Mr. Strowbridge
Mysterious Verse Suggests Playful Alarm Prank
Brief, quirky note hints at setting an alarm for no reason and resisting sleep. A reflection on vain boasts and the humor of misused time appears in a single, coy line.
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