Jimmy's Strong Right Arm in a Harlem Apartment
A narrator recalls Jimmy Nott a meek clerk who trains one arm to overpower his wife Marion’s two boastful male escorts Cousin Ralph and Cousin Peter. When Marion mocks him Jimmy puts Ralph in the hospital with a single brutal blow, leading to a rough but lasting marriage.
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Jimmy Nott
Marion Nott
Jimmy
Harlem
Marion
Peter
Ralph
Cousin Ralph
Professor Coburn
Fach
James
Marion Cromily
Dawn
Wood Carving Through Ancient to Medieval European Art
The article traces wood carving from ancient Egypt where polychrome painted wood figures like the Sheik-el-Beled pair illustrated popular decoration, through early Greek archaic sculpture, to Christian works such as Santa Sabina doors. It notes revival in 11th century northern Europe with varied coverings and highlights German sculpture in the 15th and 16th centuries shaping stone traditions.
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Sheik-el-Beled
Greece
Santa Sabina
Rome
Europe
Scandinavia
Germany
France
Little Woman Complains on High Car Seats
A brief quarrel unfolds in a University transit car as a petite woman and her tall husband argue over seat height. The wife complains seats are too high and advocates foot rests, while the husband counters that they are low enough for the average person and jokes about velvet barriers.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Stealing Home Joke Sparks Laughing Night
In a witty exchange, Hale asks Hardy if his wife heard him entering last night. Hardy replies yes, but she mistook him for a burglar. She says she won’t scold him again since he scared the burglar away and saved her life.
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Hale
Hardy
Orang-Utan Invites Brownies to a Circus
Billie Brownie visits an orangutan at the zoo who expresses delight and curiosity about Brownie land. They plan a two week ahead circus rehearsal with the Brownies and set a date for a circus featuring orangutan and other tricks.
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Billie Brownie
Billig
Brownie
Grocer Finds $10,000 in Old Camera Belonging to Priest
A Fontainebleau grocer discovered two small bags with ten thousand dollars in gold and notes inside an old photographic camera. He returned the money to the deceased priest’s heir after learning the item’s owner.
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Diogenes
Fontainebleau
France
A Melancholy Joy in Quiet Gossip
A fragment shows a conversation about distressing gossip concerning a person named Helen and another speaker’s request for details, reflecting a private social exchange and intrigue.
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Helen
Roosevelt Praises Colonel Means Courage and Kindness
Chicago Daily News recounts remarks on Colonel Means Army surgeon praised by Theodore Roosevelt. It describes Means as fearless yet gentle, his Moro war service, his naturalist interests, and an African hunt with lions where Means advised not to shoot a lion in the head to preserve a specimen.
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Colonel Roosevelt
Colonel Means
Smithsonian Institution
Philippines
Means
Lorens
Lorrens
Chicago Daily News
Handicap in Business Life
A Cleveland Commercial opinion critiques city life bottlenecks and business inefficiency. It laments lengthy discussions, praises prompt, decisive workers, and chides those who need repeated reminders to complete simple tasks.
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Noah
Cleveland
Heat beyond the Sun Revealed by Tungsten Gas Experiments
Scientists created an apparatus reaching 40 000 degrees Fahrenheit to vaporize metals instantly. The project aimed to study metal composition by turning samples into gas, surpassing known solar temperatures and producing explosive tungsten fragments.
Odd Words of a Generation Age
An elderly columnist shares a handful of dated terms such as sniptious meaning smart and perky used in New York plus IT bonas it meaning I claim it. The note lists navelins for tasty bits at table from Long Island and gawmed up for a child’s bread and molasses face. It cites scamuljugated for two youths fond of each other and references a Boston Transcript line.
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New York
Long Island
England
John
Jane
Boston Transcript
Belief in Evil Eye In Italy Inspires Protective Charms
Italians employ coral or ivory horns on necklaces or watch chains and sling a bull's horn under wagons to guard horses. Red caps are worn by workers and babies as a remedy for tettatura, the Evil Eye, with saints and stars optional. Verdi blamed two failures on tettatura in Naples and Paris from 1876.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Luisa Miller
Naples
Don Carlos
Paris
Maestro Sale
Derelict Whale Oil Drums Drift Toward Vancouver Island
Hundreds of 112 gallon drums of whale oil are adrift after the motorship Anvil dumped cargo to save the ship near the Bering Sea. Crew labors to finish the homeward voyage while Neah Bay Indians watch offshore near Vancouver Island for the drifting drums likely to wash ashore.
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North Pacific
Anvil
Bering Sea
Neah Bay
Vancouver Island
Dinner guest uses bat joke and biscuits to amuse newlyweds
A famous baseball player at a wedding dinner explains why players take two bats, saying one feels lighter after dropping the other. He then imitates the gag by moving two biscuits to his plate and dropping one, earning amused reactions from the bride.
San Francisco man builds light yet strong barge
A San Francisco inventor constructs an 80 by 14 foot barge of balsa wood, lighter than cork yet with greater strength, for salvage work. It uses two 80 horsepower gas engines, winches, and 88 air tanks for extra buoyancy, with a central deck hole for grappling gear.
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San Francisco
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Up-to-Date Society Odd Youth Confesses Prank
In a domestic vignette Yvonne, a sixteen year old social figure, is grilled by her mother over rumors of a kiss at a party. The dialogue reveals a misunderstanding as Yvonne explains she sought a fight, not romance, and the mother concedes with a wary but easing reaction.
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Yvonne
Mrs John T Moore Praises Dr Pierce’s Medical Discovery
In Cambridge Ohio Mrs Moore, age 87 from Steubenville Ave, reports recovery from weakness, loss of appetite, and hacking cough after using Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. She credits three bottles with restoring health and urges others to seek treatment. advertisers invite readers to buy tablets or liquid and request free medical advice from Dr Pierce in Buffalo New York.
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Cambridge
Ohio
John T. Moore
Steubenville Ve
Dr. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
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