Rural Hero Jean Pegolan Faces Village Crime
A fragmented wartime short story follows Jean Pegolan, a rural farmer, as Prussian invasion looms and guilt spreads. Pegolan contemplates confession while a murder accusation tests his conscience and family, ending with his grim return to a damaged but intact farm. The village fears execution of an unknown killer, while Pegolan sustains his household and bears quiet trauma.
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Jon I‘wgolan
Byvetis
Jean Pegolan
Paris
Juan Pegolan
Alvara
Gota
Clouda
Jan
Lim
Green Cross
Juan Pegolau
Theo
Jean Pegolau
Eithin
Mia Sify
Pagolan
How hotel visitors seek society through title draws
A seaside hotel manager explains that attracting wealthy guests hinges on using noble titles or celebrated lineage. Baronet patrons often fill rooms, while editors may boost reports of arrivals to lure more guests. The practice, though sometimes dishonest, thrives on society’s desire for status and connections.
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Tie
America
England
J. W. Bird
Pird
Our Land
Bird
Suggestions for tax reform amuse and burden the chancellor
An elderly air service clerk recalls a flood of budget suggestions to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Proposals range from taxing fools and babies to removing duties on taxed items, with curiosities such as crowing roosters, cats, false hair, and corkscrews highlighted as examples of public whimsy and pet causes.
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Air Service
Clark
Renee Nase
Caperane
Cones Homann
Costly Burial and the Case for Simpler Coffins
A writer argues against expensive funerary finery and coffin furniture. He contends custom and undertaker profit sustain costly, perishable trappings, urging a shift to cheaper coffins to save resources for the living and prompt broader social adoption.
Amusing Snippets From Laughing Pages Collide
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from various papers. Jokes about dieting and hunger, ambiguous proposals, old family stories, and social foibles appear alongside cartoons of love, marriage, and education. The tone is light and satirical.
Poultry Winter Laying Tips and Charcoal Feed Benefits
Experts say winter layers come from sitting breeds with heavier plumage for cold protection. Hatch early to reach maturity before severe weather. Charcoal aids growth and disease prevention, useful when fed crushed or mixed with soft feed. An experiment with four turkeys fed charcoal showed better flesh quality and 1 lb more weight.
The Value of Grit for Poultry Health
Poultry keepers neglect grit, but it is essential for grinding grain and maintaining digestion. Lack of grit leads to indigestive problems, eggs with shells or shell-less defects, and overall poor health. Provide hard limestone grit and shell grit for strong gizzards and healthier birds.
Broken Eggs in the Oviduct
The article explains how frightened hens may develop shell-less eggs that block the oviduct, causing distress, strains, and possible death. It advises catching the hen, locating the broken egg skin inside the passage, and removing it carefully with tweezers. Afterward, give salad oil, warm ale, and dry corn for several days to rest the oviduct and prevent further laying.
Ant Life Exhibit At London Zoo Demonstrates Colony Work
An experimental London Zoo setup shows a black wood ant colony in a large glass-topped metal case. Transparent tubes connect to a rose plant and a second pot with similar wiring, feeding a tray where ants collect materials for their brood. A return tube system completes the layout, aiming to reveal milking aphids and food transport once the ants become active.
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London Zoo
Dinner on a raft for Cincinnati leaders shocks local politics
A local politician hosted a novelty dinner for sixteen prominent citizens on a raft at the Metro pole Hotel. Waiters paddled to the diners as courses arrived, performers provided songs, and guests dove into the water between courses. A German waiter collided with an American causing a near fight, shadowing the event’s success.
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Cincimamati
Seer Tapol
Metropole Hotel
Photographs Capture Bullets in Motion at High Speed
A 100000 frame per second method used electric sparks to photograph rapidly moving bullets. A reel wheel 3 ft long rotated 6000 rpm while a reveler bullet pierced a thin wood stick, the wood splintering only after the bullet passed, revealing the speed and behavior of the projectile.
Fragmentary note on dress laws and rapid wheel reveal
The text notes a wheel turning and laws limiting actual exposure to a fraction of a second to avoid stacking pictures. It describes how rapid motion affects dress presentation and the avoidance of long sequences in images.
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Ats
Curious Dress Conventions Across Professions
A short survey notes two unwritten rules of dress in finance law and retail. Coutts's Bank requires black frock coats with trouser cuffs turned up, while Hoare's Bank has clerks wearing white ties for nearly 250 years. Drapery firms expect frock-coats for staff. The legal profession keeps a restrained attire, avoiding bright colors and wearing silk hats.
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Coutts’s Bank
London
Hoare's
Modern sponge catching advances with submersible boat
Abbe Raoul of Tunis unveils a submarine craft to harvest deep sea sponges. The sixteen foot vessel, capable of sinking and rising via ballast tanks, features a roller for seabed travel, electric lighting, and pincers to grip sponge masses. A telephonic link keeps crews connected with the surface ship.
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Abbe Raoul
Tunis
Eucalyptus Oil Industry Value in America Discussed
A fragmented report notes American interest in eucalyptus oil as a potential industry. It mentions multiple distilleries, regional restrictions, and sources of eucalyptus, with references to production in Australia and a tentative future for cultivation and export.
Eucalyptus oils praised as profitable industry growth
The article extols eucalyptus oil production from Hodalla to Eden, noting trees yield medicinal and aromatic oils for mining, perfumery, and confectionery. It highlights Port Stephens to the Queensland border as a fine field, existing and planned distilleries, and warns against damage from ring-barking while urging support to compete with America’s cultivated oils.
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Hodalla
Eden
Port Stephens
Queensland
Port Macquarie
Kempsey
America
Amusing Fragments of Clever Quips and Kitchen Table Wit
A collage of humorous exchanges and conversational gags from an old magazine. The jokes cover misheard lines, domestic mishaps, sartorial mix ups, and light theater quips. Names, places, and era flavor interweave with playful slang and social scenes.
Wash tub borrower request in tense domestic scene
Latth asks Mrs Grumpy to lend her washing tub for mother. Mrs Grumpy refuses, explaining the tub is useless with heaps off, bottom out, and filled with water.
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Huy
Weathered Virginnan grave inscription echoes a delayed reunion
A weather-beaten tombstone in a Virginia cemetery bears a tersely phrased inscription stating To await my husband. May 20, 134 Here 1 on December 14, 1801. A later handwritten note adds Late, as usual.
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Virginnan
Whist Partner Proposal Wins a Droll Exchange
A playful exchange unfolds as He asks Will you be my partner and She responds with Why should you close me. Tie replies Because you have such winning ways. The lighthearted scene captures a witty courtship moment in a social card game.
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Ty Denne
Flieyenda Blatter
Correction About Invigorating North Rail Stop
A northerly express pulled into a station early morning for a brief pause when a man stepped onto the platform and exclaimed how invigorating the air felt. The guard replied in a dry tone that they were in Normanton. The gentleman departed after the exchange.
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Normanton
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Indishapplly Journal
Jones
Smith
Mini Airess
Ruthven
Mr. Wickwire
Street & Smith
Norway
Watta—Tebson
Potte
Indianspolis Journal
Philadelphia Record
Kate Fick
Chicago
Washington Star
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Eye Army
Indianepolis Journal
AW Expert
Evgalyptus
Wo T. Bionern
Oniqitties
Devtanes
Anetealigs
Germany
Beeken
Wyalong
Mallee
Alphonso
Alphonsy
Jane
Profesor Lugwist
Edgeways
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