Unfamiliar Facts From Early 1900s World Notes
A collection of assorted snippets notes 1907 topics from farming to technology and politics. Items include reef lemons import counts, walrus skin uses, dried currants for horses, a Nottingham miner’s safety cage claim, Lincoln’s master ringer, Nebraska wild cow yields, China bound Glusen root harvests, US Department employment figures, Tonga Islands disbanding, and naval shifts as Germany and Britain discuss Dreadnoughts and Kiel canal expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
China
Nottingham
England
Lincoln
United States Agricultural Department
Bureau of Animal Industry
Tonga Islands
Germany
North Sea
Baltic
Kiel Canal
Great Britain
Lighted Gloom of Love and Timeworn Tricks
A collection of wry aphorisms on love, marriage, jealousy, and aging from a 20th century column. Observations mix humor and caution, noting how couples misread each other and how time dims vision while cloaking common foibles in irony.
Quip Dialogue on Finance and Weddings Ends in Banter
A witty exchange mocks lawyers stock brokers and fortunes as a narrator jokes about foundations and ownership during a wedding scene. Members trade quips about timepieces credit and quick lunches, with playful references to credit and debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyce
Joyce
Bowers
Powers
Deaths in Poverty Fell Famous Figures in Debtor Prisons
The text recalls Richard Savage dying in a debtor's prison and mentions Bow the antiquarian becoming a licensed beggar, Campens in Portugal dying in an alum house after beggary, and Ben Jonson dying in poverty. It also references a last act involving a paltry sum sent from King Charles, Hutton the German, and a tramp life. fragments hint at starvation and poverty.
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Richard Savage
Bow
Campens
Portugal
Ben Jonson
Charles
Yoo Hutton
Wes
George Giselag
Extraordinary Iowa name carries long script on sign
A Clin ton Iowa grocer’s baby received a Bible inspired name that spells out “Through Trials and Tribulations We Shall Enter the Kingdom of Heaven Lindloft” but he shortened it to “T. H. Lindlof.” Known by friends as True, he signs as T. H. Lindlof, Grocer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Jows
Lindlof
Mr. Lindioff
Their Dearest Possessions and the Pipe Culture
A reflective piece on old pipes as personal treasures grown with their owners. It contrasts mature briar and meerschaum pipes with simple cobs, notes how pipes mellow with use, and warns against overuse. It also observes England’s shift toward cigarettes and the declining role of the clay pipe, framing tobacco as a social habit in transition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
London
United Kingdom
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T. Hi Townsend
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FT. Pierre
Stanley County
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Aldrich & Phillips
Philip, South Dakota
D.W. Roush & Son
South Oak
Helen Hill
Tnstreotor
WHA
Wiettecore
Aegey
Ralph Vandercook
Fort Pierre
Yankton Nursery
W. Gurney
Yankton
Dak
James C. Clark
Glassen
N. B. Gearhart
Center Street
Pine Street
Ned H. Benedict
THE
Land Men
Philip
Bouth Dakots
A. O. Putnam
Drayman
Floyd L. Harris
City Dray Line
the. Ige Man
R. B. Driver
Mr Philip
North Center Street
Atchison Globe Lights
Megiedt
Iowa
Washington
Sean
Saek
Stoermer
Gus’ Livery Barn
Leggett’s
Railroad Street
Gus Storemer
Prop
Cc. A. Knudson
Philip Grain Co
C. H. Leggett
E. H. Banks
D. Q. Jordan
U. S. Land Office
Pierre
A. A. Heinemann
Cole
Phillip
South Dakota
C. A. Lamb
the Barber
Pleane
Bank of
G. S. Larmmer
John Hayes
J. Jo Coughlin, Mer
Harris & Ping
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