Hidden Heroines in Uniform Across History
Military records reveal numerous cases of women disguising as men to serve in armies, with examples from 1769 East India Company enlistment attempts to late 19th century German corps. Notable instances include a 1872 Portsmouth recruit who cried upon discovery, and several seafaring women whose true sex remained hidden for years.
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Paul Daniel
Portsmouth
Daniel
Duaniel
Germany
Grenadiers
East India Company
India
Poplar
Empress
Frederick Charles
Prussia
Sophia
Duchess of Edinburgh
Duchess of Connaught
Queen Victoria
Curious Trees Yield Bread Butter Milk Sugar Wax and Soap
The article describes bread fruit trees producing breadlike fruit. the canary weeping tree distills water from its leaves. a Sicy ash sap yields sugar. Andes wax trees yield beeswax like resin. Africa butter trees produce large salted butterlike secretions. South American milk trees yield sap resembling milk. China soil cleans and greases. a man eating tropical plant resembles Venus flytrap with a barbed trunk.
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Canary Islands
Sicy
Andes
Africa
South America
Ile
China
Tropics
Early risers set by European throne lunch lines
The German Emperor and Empress lead among European sovereigns in rising early. They retire by 10 PM, with the Emperor up at 5 AM in summer or 6 AM in winter and the Empress rising slightly later to prepare coffee and duties. The imperial children follow parental example. The Austrian Emperor also breakfasts with the lark.
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Austria
French sea captain caged burglar with pet ape in Paris rooms
A Paris resident known as a French sea captain kept a violent ape in his rooms in ruck Alesia. A burglar entered, the ape attacked, strangling the intruder before bystanders intervened. The injured burglar was taken to hospital in serious condition.
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Alesia
Paris
slaDé Vilang
Neuse
Notable Engineer Willam Young’s Political Ambitions
Willam Young, son of Ora Young and former regu lar bodicer, studied at West Point earning first honors in 15 class. He served in the engineer corps until resignation. He sought United States Senatorial election but was defeated.
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Willam Young
Ora Young
West Folnt
Phen
United States
Nat Goodwin Tricks a German Host In New York
A New York fan recounts Nat Coodwin’s playful prank at a German hostelry. The actor disputed a $50 bill, burned the check in front of the landlord, who stamped and signed the receipt, admitting defeat with a joke about clever actors.
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New York
Nat Coodwin
Nat
Goodwin
Nat Goodwin
Fellows
Grains of Gold Wisdom Snippet
A collection of aphorisms emphasizes honesty, wisdom, and self awareness. It extols private virtue, critical thinking, and restraint while condemning negligence and slander with vivid animal metaphors.
To Them Fitting is Sport in Soudanese War Folklore
A Fortnightly Review writer says Soudanese soldiers treat their rifles as life itself and worship them beyond religion. Veterans remain vigorous, with many aging but active in combat. An 80 year old officer wears a French medal earned with Bazaine in Mexico. Some fought with Gordon in Khartoum and bear pewter Stanley medals. Others served Stanley in Central Africa or the Belgians in the Congo.
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Bazaine
Mexico
Gordon
Khartoum
Stanley
Central Africa
Congo
Plucky Schoolma'ama Wins First Grade Certificate
Miss Ethel Hoskinson left Corning to take a teaching exam in Seneca. Flooded by a swollen stream her horses and buggy were washed away but she stayed calm and swam with the horses. She reached shore, borrowed dry clothes, rushed to the Court House, and earned a first grade teaching certificate.
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Kansas
Ethel Hoskinson
Corning
Seneca
A Curious Spanish River Turns Sand to Stone
The Tinto river in Spain hardens and petrifies its bed sand. If a stone falls and rests on another, they fuse into one stone within months. Fish cannot survive its waters.
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Spain
New England Leads In Manufacturing Promise
Relatively to population New England shows unmatched manufacturing promise with strong potential in various sectors, reflecting its dense industrial activity and historic strength in production.
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New England
Duped Into the Mire Incident On Van Buren Trip
A humorous tale recalls President Van Buren being dumped into a mire on a faulty Indianapolis to Terre Haute road. Stage driver Mason Wright allegedly planned the stunt with payoff, using a Quaker settlement and elm roots to topple the coach as the President and his secretary slid knee deep into the mud. An old woman aided cleanup at the scene before the President reached the Mc Cassin Hotel for a bath.
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Whitmeen
Indianapolis
van Buren
William Hale
Terre Haute
Vallecrey
Mississippi
Hale
Mason Wright
Plainfield
Wright
McCassin
The Origin of Mr and Mrs in Historic Names
The article traces how early ordinary men bore only given names and how nicknames based on trade dwelling or quirks led to distinct identities. It explains the shift from plain John Smith to Maistre and Maister with gendered forms as wealth and status grew, shaping the modern Mr and Mrs.
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William
John
John Smith
Maistre
Maister
Maister Smith
Maistress Smith
Courting Under Difficulties in Dover Plains Romance
In Dover Plains Dutchess County New York Miss Minnie Reimer an heiress and Archie Hoffman a bank clerk have twice failed to elope. Deputy Sheriff Frank Fen over 300 pounds guards the couple under scrutiny on the marble horse block in front of Reimer Sr residence as they persist in marriage plans despite obstacles.
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Dover Plains
Dutchess County
N. Y
Minnie Reimer
Archie Hoffman
Reimer Pere
Frank Fen
Papa Reimer
Mr. Fen
Miss Reimer
Forest Giant Redwood Cut Down In Washington
A redwood tree in Washington was felled and stood 465 feet tall with a first limb at 220 feet. Its base circumference measured 33 feet 11 inches. If sawn, it would yield 96 345 feet of lumber enough for eight two story cottages with seven rooms each. The age is given as 684 years.
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Washington
Mosquitoes Said to Kill Infant in New Jersey Bay Shore
A Swedish woman near Union, New Jersey, left her baby in a hammock for an hour or two while picking berries. Upon return she found the infant dead, reportedly stung to death by mosquitoes.
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Baty
Bay Shore
Union
N. J
Mars Man Reputed Nova Scotia Champion of All Time
A hunter tells of a boy driver in Nova Scotia who gains fame for a boastful tale about knowing the sun’s distance and Mars canals. The humor ends with the driver labeling the visitor the biggest star in Nova Scotia, while the hunter leaves with an unintended local legend.
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Nova Scotia
Jupiter
Earth
Mars
Haskins
Aphorisms of Wisdom From Various Thinkers
A collection of maxims attributed to Voltaire Henry Fuller Cotton Hazlitt Cervantes Rochefoucauld Seneca Bulwer Confucius De May Emerson Henry Clay. The rules of life are stated in concise, pithy lines urging prudence punctuality civility and prudent pleasure.
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Voltaire
M. Henry
Fuller
Cotton
Hazlitt
Cervantes
Rochefaucauld
Emerson
Henry Clay
Odd Facts and Records From a Bygone Era
A collection of curious statements cites national customs and trivia. Items include Norway limits spending at public houses, Britain winning 82 percent of wars, the Raffiesia flower at nine feet, pigeons avoided by Russians for sacred reasons, free artificial teeth for wounded soldiers, a pin drilled from head to point, the kestrel supersonic at 150 mph, a Nice French lawyer jailed as a spy, and York Beach’s sea serpent made by toy barrel models.
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New York
Nice
France
Italy
York Beach
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