Ants Thinker and War Tactics Revealed in Tiny Minds
A translated Chicago Times piece extols ant intelligence, detailing ant communication via antennae, cooperative labor, engineering feats like lime bridges and pontoon crossings, organized warfare, slave trade among Amazon ants, graveyards, and a brain weighing about fifteen hundredths of a milligram. It closes with aphorisms about small minds and vast ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Paris
Africa
Oceanica
Cymille Flammerton
Chicago Times
William Drake
Russian Bazaar of Jewelry and European Style Festooned Dinner
A long feature describes Anglomania giving way to Russomania in elite society with Russian cuisine fashion and lavish goods. It details Russian glassware, jewelry, tableware, and draped interiors, noting heavy Bulgarians and byzantine motifs, plus a social diary and editor’s notes from a Detroit Free Press writer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Chicago
A Journalists Diary Entry From Early Newsroom Life
A young reporter recalls three weeks of diary notes after college entry into journalism. March 27 sets the scene in the Morning Ambassador editorial rooms facing a smoky den, ink spills, and a wary managing editor who jokes about unpaid sheepskin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clincheil
Heroines on Foot in Modern Novels Walk Styles
A Chicago News piece surveys how heroines in society novels change their walking style by era and author. It notes Reade Thackeray Austen Braddon and others, from swan-like to stiff and proper, with Duchess heroines symbolizing new afternoon tea sway and fan fashion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Reade
London
Thackeray
George
Miss Barney
Miss Austen
Miss Edgeworth
Miss Young
Miss Braddon
Dasi
Kansas City Real Estate Pitch Goes Awry in Office Mixup
A Kansas City agent, seeking investments in real estate, encounters a mistaken office visit. An anxious caller asks for a doctor as his wife is gravely ill, and the agent promises to summon Dr. Blank while offering cemetery lots, amid a brisk, improbable exchange in a city office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Olyure
Aly
John
Dr. Blank
Omaha
Married by Accident and Lapidary of Strange Matches
A collection of curious vignettes on accidental marriages and matchmaking antics. A coastwise skipper seeks a mate at an inn and ends with two wives. a church bazaar encounter leads to a handfast bargain. a doctor accepts a token of appreciation while resisting a cash ask. a tobacconist shop romance results in a red headed match. Also: a tailor of quirks and a shoe buyer courtship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon
Mie
Matel
Onsax
Capacity of farms and adaptive planting advice
A Pittsburgh coroner’s jury recently returned a verdict on death from delirium tremens and another inquiry deemed death from consumption decelerated by prussic acid. The piece also urges farmers to study farm capacity and adapt planting to soil, recommending grasses, apples, and Roxbury russet on rocky, unproductive land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suifert
Ayoan
East Winthrop
Roxbury
F. Beaminer
Pittsburgh
Wan
All Souls' College Tumblers Inspire Oxford Lore
A lively All-Souls' luncheon tale recounts Prof Max Muller hosting Princess Alice. Guests admire ancient silver tumblers used for ale, whose balance and restocking inspired the word tumbler, later replaced by flat-based glass capaciousness in college life. The piece highlights All Souls' dining, the hall, and Blake English polish.
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England
All-Souls
Max Muller
Osford
All-Soul
Ara
Alice
Hesse Darmstadt
Victoria
de Sneste
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Valentine
Walter Clarks
Zoological Kingdom
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Huber
M. P. Besson
Firth
Snout Hill
Kern County
Globe
San Francisco
Alta
B. & L. Depot
City Court
Shad
M. E
Arthur
Mr. W
Unitarian Church
Thad
D. G. Rossetti
Lty
Associated Press Dispatch
Faul Pastner
Detroit Free Press
The
Tas
Italy
Telegram
Litle Hails
Guisepgi Graveno
Southere Lealy
Ugrot
Tome
Canahloralde
Damascus
Diates
Aml Noe Streighing
Dlicayr Journal
Robert Rickman
Detroit Five Press
Merchant Traveler
Bobby Mew
Johnny
Somerville Journal
Lowell
Jist
New York
Drute
Cunieellen
Tumbler
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