Ancient Order of Loafers Draw Crowds to San Antonio Construction
In San Antonio the Ancient and Honorary Order of Loafers is blamed for crowds gathered on Houston Street in front of the Herff homestead site as excavation for a new building proceeds. Members watch tirelessly, not laboring, finding entertainment in dirt and digging, while passersby wonder at the idle spectatorship amid urban development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Andience Order of
Loafers
Norway
Argentina
China
United States
East Houston Street
Herff Homestead
Houston Street
Herff
Desperate jail escape figure wooed by hopeful bride
Margaret Ryan declares she will marry Reynolds Forsbrey despite his sensational Tombs prison escape and ongoing murder charges. Forsbrey, called the most desperate criminal, was recaptured after living with Ryan following the escape. She admits smuggling tools and acids into his cell before his isolation.
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Reynolds
Margaret Ryan
Reynolds Forsbrey
Tombs
New York
Ryan
Forsbrey
Curious London clubs reveal eccentricities of past era
The London Standard surveys historic clubs with odd names and rules. It describes the Club of the Golden Calf, Black Cat, Ghost and Sighing clubs, Abduction and No Nose groups, Surly cabmen club, and others famed for bizarre initiations, selective membership, and extreme rituals.
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London
London Standard
Black Cat Club
West End
Harley Street
Kennedy
Richard Kennedy
Thmeaden Manor
Waterford
Gerald Byrne
Gregory Byrne
James Strange Villard
Princip
Vienna
Drees
Spain
Elephants Cause Rolling Bewilderment Aboard Steamer
A cap tain recounts a queer tale aboard a trading steamboat off Zanzibar with forty elephants aboard. The ship, though in a calm sea, began to roll as the elephants swayed together, creating a rocking motion that entertained them until attendants rushed below to halt the dangerous amusement.
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Zanzibar
Hair Color and Genius in Biographies An Observed Range
The Popular Science Monthly asks if light or dark hair better signals intellect and examines biographical evidence. It lists eminent figures with hair colors from dark to brown to auburn, noting mixed authority on specifics and noting Hobbes only for beard color under legal color rules.
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Popular Science Monthly
Browning
Rufus Choate
Alexander Dumas
Elder
William Hazlitt
Washington Irving
Landor
Francis Parkman
Rossetti
R. L. Stevenson
Martin van Buren
Tennyson
Mendelssohn
Matthew Arnold
T. Coleridge
Stephen A. Douglas
Sir Thomas More
Leigh Hunt
Ibsen
Paul Jones
Charles Lamb
John Marshall
Washington Alston
Daniel Webster
J. G. Whittier
Arthur Sullivan
William Cullen Bryant
Charles XII
Sweden
Capt
Cook
Cromwell
Defoe
Longfellow
Farragut
Dean Farrar
Eugene Field
Gladstone
Gordon
Grant
Keats
Sidney Lanier
Napoleon
John Milton
Peter the Great
George Ripley
Robes
Bunyam
Andrew Jackson
James Russell Lowell
Swinburnie
William the Silent
Savonarola
Thomas Hobbes
U. S. Grant
Swinburne
Hobbes
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Ancient Order OF Loafers
P. Book
Boston
Schaefer Drug Co
Quality Pharmacy
Ave.c
Southwest
SAN Antonio Business College
Alamo Plaza
Tex
Daulton
Texas Office Machinery CO
Thos. C. Nelson
Bineda Oetas Wearingen
Me Perpdi Torgether
Digg Svonite
Henry Pettit
Club of
Aesop
Billingsgate Fish Market
Carmen
Watermen
Split Farthing Club
Our Club
Museum Club
Northumberland Street
Ars
Dickens
Douglas
Jerrold
Adasson
George Henry Lewes
Brooks
Porson
Humdrum
Ept
Seat
Kursk
E. Y. White
Schwab-McElroy
OUR Optical Department
Nyal
Nyall
Houston Alamo Plaza
Santa Rosa
Buena Vista
Houston and
Saledad
Arm
Main Ave
Romana
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