The Devil Eye Hero Hawkins and His Glass Eye Tale
Tom Hawkins loses a weapon style eye in a duel goes to St Louis for a glass eye. A patch hides the scar as Indians capture him with Kennedy. Hawkins uses his patched eye and a diabolical glare to terrify attackers saving Kennedy before fleeing the region.
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Tom Hawkins
Curda
St. Louis
Tom
Ald
Hawkina
Plessire
Union Pacific Railroad
Hong
Hawkins
Denver
Tle
Aide World
Matt Kennedy
Kennedy
America
Making a Bell
The article explains bell making from mold creation to tuning. It notes alloy proportions of tin and copper, risks of too much tin, and the importance of an accurate mold. It discusses tuning by removing metal and achieving multiple harmonious tones for a proper bell chord.
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Raja Foga Messenger
DetaillePaints Under Fire During Franco Prussian War
Detaille left his mentor Meissonier to join the French army as artist soldier, sketching battles under fire to inform his later masterworks on the Franco Prussian War. After the war he sought to exhibit German Troops and Conquerors but Paris Salon 1862 barred them by government order to avoid offending the Prussians.
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Detaille
Meissonier
Paris
City editor questions Pounder material as fake story
A managing editor reproaches the city editor for not printing Pounder’s tale about a man scattering money in downtown streets. The editor believed Pounder’s report was a fake, noting that if true Pounder would still be on the story and contrasting it with the rival paper’s coverage.
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Young Pounder
Pounder
Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Unique gambling tied to cotton market quotes observed by natives
The article describes natives in India using daily five New York cotton quotations as a gambling device. They guess the total of the five figures and the closest guess wins the stakes, a simple yet absorbing game arising from the cotton market reports.
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India
New York
Defeat in Johnny’s Lesson Turns Comic Misread
A classroom scene shows Johnny misreading the word defeat as "de feat" after the teacher explains meaning. He tries to craft a sentence using the hyphenated form and, after twenty minutes, presents a mishap about feet and shoes, producing a humorous outcome.
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Johnny
Heard
National Monthly
Perils of the Circus Unmasked in Collier's Weekly
A Collier’s Weekly extract recalls the hidden dangers of aerial acts and the fear that haunts circus performers. Women backstage cope with danger and dread beneath their playful images. Performers recount net failures and injuries, revealing the brutal physics of the trapeze.
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Sarah Comstock
Collier's Weekly
Origin of heels in Persia and Venice told by Harper's
The article recalls how heels began as flat wood on Persian sandals to lift feet from hot sand and later spread to Venice. It suggests jealous husbands prompted female wearers to stay near home. Clogs evolved with vanity, sometimes gilded, with height signaling rank.
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Persia
Venice
Harper's
Fahrenheit and the origin of the zero degree scale
The piece describes how the term zero comes from Spanish meaning empty and how Fahrenheit, a Prussian merchant and observer, introduced the zero degree for a thermometer in 1795. He devised a scale rising from zero to 212 at boiling and set freezing at 32, based on mercury contraction from freezing water to zero.
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Fahrenheit
Resigning Pastor Blames Congregation for Neglect
A well regarded preacher in a frugal town announced his resignation citing contributory negligence by his congregation. The deacons questioned his claim as the church was crowded, prompting a terse exchange on responsibility.
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Lippincott
They All Write a Witty Family Riff
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip describes the Rousmittems as a literary family. The son writes plays no one acts the daughter writes poems no one prints and the mother writes novels no one reads while the father merely writes checks no one cashes.
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Rousmittems
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Standard Job Department Seeks Community News Tips
The Standard invites readers to submit every local happening, big or small, by hand or phone. The paper emphasizes reportage of all community events and timely tips to keep residents informed.
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Standard
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement and Endorsements
One hundred dollar reward offered for catarrh cure. F J Cheney & Co Toledo endorses Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally to affect the blood and mucous surfaces. Signatories attest buyer honesty. National Bank of Commerce endorses the firm. Hall's Catarrh Cure 75 cents per bottle, testimonials free, sold by all druggists. also Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
F. J. Chitney
National Bank of Commerce
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