Alarmed Guards at Treasury Fail Safe Test
Washington notes the treasury vault protection system misfired during a drill causing multiple false alarms. Officers rushed guards with shotguns and police from headquarters to the scene as bells and gongs echoed through the building. An inadvertent button press and wiring quirks triggered a dramatic, noisier test than planned. The contractors clarified the drill was underway and national guards were not facing an intruder.
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Washington, D. C
Public Treasury
Treasury Department
Washington
Department
Mac ‘Veagh
Nof
Treasury
Treasury Squad
Bella
Rex Volver
Treasury Guard
Proved Him An Impostor By Green Chalk Test
Joseph Choate recalled a 1860s case where a workman claimed blindness in one eye. The judge used green chalk and red glass on spectacles to fool the man, and the impostor admitted falsity when he could read the sentence with the left eye, the right eye blocked by red glass.
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Joseph Choate
Lenox
Mr. Choate
Buchanan Home Near Lancaster Toll Road Tale
A Saturday Evening Post piece recounts President elect Buchanan and Abraham N. Cassel, a turnpike president, discussing tolls to lure voters to Buchanan’s Lancaster area home. After the election, campaign visitors swarmed the residence, prompting further pleas to Cassel to block or raise tolls to keep crowds out.
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Buchanan
Lancaster
Abraham N. Cassel
Pennsylvania
Abe
Cassel
Saturday Evening Post
Neighborly debt dispute between Ford residents in Rye
About a year ago Sewell Ford moved to Rye New York. He learned a neighbor was Simeon Ford. The telephone exchange led to a comical bill dispute as Simeon claimed Sewell should pay his meat bill and vice versa. Simeon runs a hotel.
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Sewell Ford
Rye
N. Y
Simeon Ford
Shorty
Simeon
Exchange
Carelessness About Firearms Figures In Child Accidents
A Washington Star dispatch notes several fatal incidents where children in Brockton and Bangor used loaded guns leading to deaths. The piece argues that most gun accidents are preventable with basic common sense and stresses that storing loaded firearms in homes with children is highly dangerous.
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Brockton
Mass
Bangor
Washington Star
One Grain of Galt and a Cow Tortest Note
A dialogue excerpt shows a teller and a depositor debating a note described as a cow tortest. The teller notes its evident sign, while the depositor questions the reliance on paper notices and the possibility of bellwether details appearing in print.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Evolution of impertinent word origins through history
The passage traces how impertinent shifted meanings from not belonging to earthly lords in Wycliffe’s era to Shakespeare’s usage. It notes that impertinent meant irrelevant or absurd, marking a progression from social connotation to a broader, sillier sense.
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Wycliffe
Queer Timepiece in Singar with Sand Hour Device
In Singar, Malay archipelago, two bottles are placed neck to neck with sand. Sand pours from one into the other every half hour as bottles are reversed. A line of 12 notches marks the hours, each with an attendant bearing a gong to sound the hour.
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Singar
Malay Archipelago
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