High School Squirbs and Local News Recap
A compilation from the Logansport area school and business notes. Sophomores host a Latin tent and study Silas Marner while juniors prep for a debate and birthday card drive. Miss Rhodes misses school due to illness as the yearball and poster programs draw interest.
Logansport Merchant Plans City Trip For Fall Goods
A Logansport dry goods merchant and wife discuss supplies for children, clothing, and home decor as they plan to visit the city to order items including costumes, a rug, and new curtains before the school term starts.
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Stanhope
Joan
Beara Signature COA SPOS BTA Notice
Public notice requests sending news items to the RECL ORD office. The line mentions Beara and The Kind You Have Always Bauatt La in a cryptic fashion without clear dates or actions. Further specifics are unreadable in the fragment.
Ghost in Liangyang Coffin Stirs Town Rumors in China
The North China Herald recounts a startling case in Liangyang where a man buried alive after a typhus death appears to reanimate when a horse trod on the grave. A crowd gathers as workers unseal the coffin revealing a hungry, living man who consumes rice soup and wine before being confined in a temple while proving his life.
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China
North China Herald
Tzi Lung
Liangyang
Chicago News
The Hero of the Day Triumphs on the Field
A poem from the New York Press extols a football player as a modern knight. It celebrates his pads nose guard and fighting spirit in scrimmages and mauls and his popularity among fans and admirers.
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Clary Othr
ReCall
the Oneen
Seo-cribe
Books Leak Joke Drawn From Prohibition Suburb Move
Winkley comments on a strange tale about Binkley as he moved to a prohibition suburb. An express box marked Books contained an ex hilaration note and a postal message read Dear sir your books are leaking Please come and get them Judge reports the odd incident with minimal clarity.
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Jagley
Binkley
Express
Last Resort and Priceman in Park Patrol Tale
A Philadelphia Press quip imagines Samson asking where to bury rubbish and a park guard called a priceman by a boy. Lip Pincott’s vignette follows with a runaway boy and a nurse, the park guard bending down to arrest the woman who trails him.
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Samson
Philadelphia Press
Seward’s Prophecy Realized on Alaska Annexation
Leslie's Weekly notes Seward predicted Alaska would prove valuable, despite early opposition in 1867 when $1 3 million was paid to Russia. The piece recalls detractors calling Alaska Seward’s Folly and credits time with vindicating his vision as the nation grew to value the possession.
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William H. Seward
Alaska
House of Representatives
Russia
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Oldest Text Book At Oxford Shifts Minds Of Nation
A revolution at Oxford sees a venerable early text discarded and replaced by a modern framework. The change, remarked as significant, is compared to the political contrast between Lord Curzon and Lord Rosebery, signaling a major shift in scholarly approach.
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Oxford
Lord Curzon
Lord Rosebery
Euclid
Monkey and Elephant Banter Spark Branching Comedy
The Detroit Tribune recalls a playful exchange where a clever monkey calls the elephant generous with big ears. The elephant replies with a joke about a trunk and makes a lunge before the monkey is tossed to the top branch of a coconut tree.
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Jumbo
Jocko
Detroit Tribune
His Possessions in Business Start
A fragment cites Dustin Stax and Miss Cayenne from the Washington Star. The dialogue notes Stax began business without two dollars of his own and contrasts that with a later position.
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Miss. Cayenne
Washington Star
Bolling Family Deaf and Blind Exhibit At Jamestown Exposition
The Jamestown exposition features a Virginia school for the deaf and blind at Staunton with a Bolling family display. The group includes John and Thomas Bolling, descendants of Pocahontas, both deaf, sent in 1775 to the Braidwood school in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Embarrassment of Riches in Proposal Dilemma
Des Moines Register quotes a man pondering why a wealthy suitor feels embarrassed to propose. The line jokes that riches create uncertainty whether the woman loves him or his money, highlighting social tension around wealth and romance.
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Rantz
Gays Mills
Wisconsin
Des Moines -Register
The Pot and the Kettle Dialogue
A dialog segment from St Louis Post Dispatch features a spoon accusing a muff of lacking tact with a pretty girl. The exchange centers on senses and gentle restraint without any kiss detail.
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Post- Dispatch
PITH AND POINT Fragmentary Quotations on Borrowing and Faults
Fragments present as a moral wistful note about usury and deceit. Quotation marks mark dialogue with admonitions to mend faults and beware life’s sacrifices for folly. Mentions opportunities to spend money and to make it.
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