Valuable course offered farmers during Oregon Farmer's Week
Oregon Agricultural College Corvallis hosts Farmer's Week starting February 14 with lectures by experts on disease in farm animals stock feeding apple packing pruning budding grafting forage crops orchard diseases vegetable gardening and other agricultural topics. A poultry show features prize birds from top state flocks.
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Atlantic Plant Plans To Sed Aloe Mater
A fragmented government text from Oregon discusses alfalfa and sericultural plans. It mentions campus entry improvements, a planned arch or pathway, and a broader movement toward institutional betterment. The language is garbled with nonstandard spellings and unclear names.
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Corvalle
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Clavete
Telegraph dispatching improves train control on northern line
The Seattle to Minneapolis Seattle line is being upgraded with telephoned dispatching between Troy Montana and Leavenworth Washington. The new system, described as simpler, reduces wrecks and congestion compared with the old telegraph method, and promises improved service for the Northern division.
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Freuch Northern
Tte
Minneapolis
Spo- Mane
Troy
Mont Ty Leavenworth
Wash
Notice of Bids for Pendleton Street Sweeping
The Pendleton city council invites bids for one year of street cleaning including sweeping hosing hauling refuse and sprinkling with drainage kept open. Bids due February 2 1910 at 6 pm filed with the city recorder. The council may reject all bids. Dated Pendleton Oregon January 20 1910. City Recorder Thos Fitzgerald.
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Pendleton
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Oregon
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City Recorder
Umatilla County Calls for Bids on Four Bridges
Umatilla County Oregon invites bids for four stone bridges over the Walla Walla river at McCoy ranch 110 feet Dry creek Blue Mountain station 60 feet Butter creek mouth 40 feet and Walla Walla river Mitton 90 feet Plans are on file January 20 1910 with bids opened February 3 1910 A 6 percent certified check accompanies each bid The court may reject any bid Dated January 13 1910 Frank Saling
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Frank Saling
Baby Turtles Learn To Paddle From Birth
A Harper's Weekly excerpt describes baby sea turtles emerging from eggs and heading to the gulf weed for shelter and food as their armor softens. It explains their cautious behavior, habitat, and feeding, noting they reach twenty five pounds and become safe from predators, with the shell turning inward for protection.
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Hoo
Harper's Weekly
Lincoln's Lesson on Proof and Discouragement
A bygone anecdote about Abraham Lincoln tracing his logical powers to initial discouragement. He left law work, read Euclid, and learned to distinguish when something is proved, after which he returned to law with a clearer sense of proof. The tale highlights perseverance and self-taught rigor shaping Lincoln’s approach to logic and judgment.
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Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
al. Lincoln
Kueld
Mseelf
Tombs of Abelard and Heloise in Paris Ancient Tomb
A fragmentary report on the tomb of Abelard and Heloise at Pere Lachaise notes the authenticity debate. It credits Alexandre Lenoir, curator, with the monument built from a Paraclete chapel and two medallions bought in Paris, while other details remain doubtful.
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Paris
Loudon Globe
Headache at the Matinee Ends in Romantic Misunderstanding
A man with a severe headache struggles to hide his worsening condition during a matinee. He asks a woman to dinner if the headache improves, but despite her concern the ailment worsens. He laments the pain as the show ends, and she half-jokingly claims she knew it would end badly.
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New York Press
Joke Exchange About Support in Marriage
A humorous exchange features Mr Hen peck reflecting on marriage. He admits he did not understand supporting a wife before marrying, and the other speaker, Indhes, tests the idea by noting that support also means endure according to a dictionary.
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Henpeck
Indhes
Birmingham Age Herald
Spoiling a Poet Quip From Pittsburg Post
A Pittsburg Post quips that a judge sentencing a poet to thirty days in default of a ten dollar fine spoils him by inflating the value of his time. The joke centers on inflated self worth and time importance.
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Pittsburg Post
I Want To See Our Family Tree
A dialogue exchanges a playful promise to reveal a family tree, with a lighthearted tone and a remark about it being a peach. The snippet is from Somerville Journal.
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Somerville Journal
One Thing He Hadn't Done Howell You Are Getting Absentminded
The exchange notes a humorous quip about absentmindedness with a remark on never having blacked teeth or applied tooth powder to shoes, reflecting a playful dialogue from the era.
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Howell
Powell
New York
Presa
New Lafayette flour mill to start operation soon
A Lafayette flour mill project advances toward readiness with construction nearly complete and machinery installation underway. Officials anticipate production ramp up shortly, signaling economic activity for the local grain trade.
Speedy Southerner's Billfold Ends In Baltimore Hotel
A famed liberal spender, a southern hotel guest in Baltimore is recognized by the hotel staff for generous tipping. A porter dismisses a card from a man named Black, doubting the guest’s stay, while the porter’s courteous misgivings reveal a sharp wit about notoriety in one day versus a year.
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Baltimore
Darky
Black
Setting Sun Theories From Antiquity On Solar Voyage
The article surveys ancient ideas about the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. It notes mythic tales such as Valean guiding the sun in a golden goblet and old physicists speculating about journeys to the north and blocking mists, all judged wrong.
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Valean
Aristotle
Tales of morale drills from distant wars and plums
A distorted excerpt recounts how leaders boosted weary troops with humor and rations. It cites a German officer promising a brewery in town to spur speed, and a Japanese commander near a plum forest urging retreat to plums, framing thirst relief as morale boosters.
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Shackleto
Isto
Tere
What West Point Does For Its Cadets
Colonel Charles W. Larned argues in National Magazine that West Point isolates cadets from corrupting influences for four years, provides absorbing work in mental and physical realms, imposes strict duties, standards, and traditions, and enforces accountability. He contends the academy offers an honorable career path and sufficient competence as rewards for success.
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West Point
Charles W. Larned
National Magazine
Silver Service Exam Question At Free Library
A young person asks for the silver service for the fire department at the free library. The desk clerk questions the meaning of silver service. A separate joke has a pastor commenting on a wife’s coughing during a sermon while noting her new hat.
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Fire Department
Newark News
His Stroke of State Better than a Burglar-Proof Home
A dialogue about romance and foresight appears in two contrasting lines. The exchange stresses restraint in love and the dangers of repeating assurances. The humor contrasts with a proverb about security, suggesting a wider theme of prudence in personal life.
Origin of stepping into an other's shoe in Norse law
The Chicago Record-Herald explains an ancient Norse adoption custom where a chosen heir stepped into a prepared shoe made from a bull’s right hind skin. The ritual required consent from younger or adult sons, witnesses to prove legality, and the father or next of kin often stepped first. The phrase “stepping into another’s shoes” derives from this ceremony.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Ostrich Fights Compared to Boxing in Feathery Showdown
A Harper's Weekly note describes ostriches as boxing like fighters on stage and farm. It notes sparring with one foot raised and wings spread, delivering blows with the force of a trip hammer. The piece notes humans sometimes suffer broken limbs in such scraps and compares ostrich power to a horse, with wings aiding speed.
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Lot Springs Ark
His Unlucky Day in the London Chronicle
A London Chronicle report notes repeated accidents on June 12 at a large city firm. An employee first injures his arm on machinery and loses his messenger job, then is run over near Strand, then slips on stairs, and finally breaks three ribs in another building incident. The firm now requires a holiday for workers on that date.
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Fim
Strand
Nesult
London Chronicle
His Second Thought on a Legislative Clerk Favor
A politician named Blink secured a clerk job during a state legislature. The grateful clerk thanked him deeply and offered future service, adding that he would do anything. At the door, the clerk corrected the name, saying he would prefer something honorable.
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Saturday Evening Post
Blank
Mr. Blank
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Night Watchman Wanted for Vigilant Service
A mock dialogue jokes about hiring a night watchman who can sleep with one eye open and stay fearless. The scene shifts to a courtroom moment where a judge warns an interrupter, the prisoner cheers, and the judge contemplates. A proverb about excess burden follows.
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Lippincott's
Intelligent person seeks monthly earnings for newspaper work
An intelligent person may earn 16 dollars monthly by writing for newspapers. No canvassing required. Send correspondence to Press Syndicate at 1708 Lockport, New Jersey.
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Heacock
Lockport, N. Y
Press Syndicate
Lockport, N. J
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