Pompeii Finds Include Casca Tablet and Vivid Frescoes
Excavations at Pompeii reveal a three legged marble table with each leg carved as a lion headed support and the word Casca on the resting blocks, suggesting possible ownership by Casca the Caesar killer. Frescoes in the house remain bright, showing Narcissus by a doorway and Pyramus and Thisbe.
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Pompeii
Casca
Julius Caesar
Rowe
Narcissus
Pyramus
Thisbe
Rodomont and Braggadocchio as Literary Boasters
The piece traces Rodomont, Moorish king of Algiers in Boiardo and Ariosto, whose name yields rodomontade for boastful bluster. It parallels English Braggadocchio in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, from which bragadocio, meaning empty boasting, derives.
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Rodomont
Rodomontade
Algiers
Boiardo
Orlando Furioso
Ariosto
Braggadocchio
Edmund Spenser
Westinghouse Memorial in Schenley Park Pittsburgh
The George Westinghouse memorial in Schenley Park Pittsburgh features a 20 foot bronze statue on a Norwegian granite base. It includes a skilled workman and an engineer at the sides and an American youth studying achievements facing them. Designed setting by Henry Hornbostel. Models by Picarelli brothers. Panels by Paul Fields. Subscriptions by Westinghouse employees funded the memorial.
Relics Display Marked Speyer Cathedral Anniversary
Centuries ago the domnapf a wine basin in Speyer Cathedral was filled with wine and drunk for the bishop’s health. For the cathedral’s nine hundredth anniversary it was moved near the main portal. Also shown were Holy Roman Empire insignia the Kaiser Conrad II crown and scepter cross imperial apple and Charlemagne sword from the Hofburg in Vienna.
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Speyer
Germany
Holy Roman Empire
Kaiser Conrad 71
Charlemagne
Hofburg
Vienna
Love and advertising mix in Brooklyn marriage broker pitch
The New Yorker notes a Brooklyn broker named A Rubin selling air time for a radio program. He opens with a talk on marriage, followed by an orchestra playing Deep in the Arms of Love, then urges listeners to contact him to get “deep in the arms of love.”
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Mr. Rubin
Brooklyn
A. Rubin
The
New Yorker
Barber's Mistake Leaves Bobby Feeling Embarrassed
In the southeast part of town Bobby returns from his first barber visit and laments to his mother that the barber tried to feminize him by perfuming his hair and powdering his face with a brush, a remark reflecting youth culture of the era.
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Bobby
Indianapolis News
Federals Glean Silk Dress in Last Confederate Balloon
An excerpt recalls Civil War balloon use by the Union led by Gen Fitzjohn Porter and Count Von Zeppelin. It notes a patched silk dress balloon captured after a barge incident on the James River and mentions Zouave regiments in flamboyant French colonial attire with fez and red-dominant uniforms.
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Fitzjohn Porter
Count von Zeppelin
Richmond
York River
James
Angry tree of Central America shocks campers
A curious ten foot acacia named the angry tree in Central America curls its foliage at night and shakes its branches when touched. S. Leonard Bastin notes in St Nicholas Magazine that prospectors first observed the tree while camping and left after a pungent odor forced relocation.
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Central America
S. Leonard Bastin
St. Nicholas Magazine
Chinese Bride Wears Crown
A wedding in China varies by locality with days chosen for luck, a two day feast often held, and the bride wearing a red gown and crown while she mostly observes modest silence and makes no vows.
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China
Snobbish Folly Revealed in a Rat Catcher’s Tale
The late Andrew Schroeder, Houston’s official rat catcher, treasured his trade and told a story about snobbery. He recalled a city missionary hosting a famous missionary bishop with two locals, a garbage collector and a rat catcher, who refused to sit with the rat catcher, spoiling the party.
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Andrew Schroeder
Houston
Ruminating Animals and Digestive Tract Details
The text explains cud chewing in ruminants. It lists sheep goats camels Yamas giraffes and deer as having a multi chamber stomach. It notes cud regurgitation during rest and thorough mastication before final digestion, while rabbits are not ruminants.
French Sisters Charged Over Aged Father’s Death
Three peasant sisters named Merdier at Le Pey-en- Velay in central France faced charges of cruelly abusing their father to force him to sign a property deed. He died from the conduct. The eldest sister received one year in prison while the other two were dismissed.
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Merdier
le Pey-en- Velay
France
Secret Birthday Surprise From Elderly Husband
An elderly man plans a surprise for his wife by proposing to hand her ten dollar bills for each year of her life. The wife expresses delight but pleads that the checks remain unseen. The moment ends with affectionate embrace and a lighthearted caution.
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Henry
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Bass
A. F. Schemmer
Swieers Garage
Kiei
Fred Smits
J. A. Gartland, Jeweler
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Merry Christmas
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