Captain of Adventure Lord Cochrane's dizzy career and fame
The article chronicles Lord Thomas Cochrane, famed as the Speedy’s bold commander, his dazzling victories against Spain and Portugal, his later exploits in Chile Peru Brazil and Greece, and the mixed reception he received in England. It portrays him as genius and misfit, hero and terror, lionized then disgraced, finally restored and revered.
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Lord Thomas Cochrane
Speedy
Cochrape
Aix
Lord Nelson
Admiralty
Parliament
Dover
Napoleon
Stock Exchange
Berenger
Lord Cochrane
Cochrane
House of Commons
Bath
Henry VII
Westminst
Valparaiso
Tom Cochrane
Anarine
Jack
Callao
Valdivia
Cal
Themeral
Hl Diablo
Chili
Peru
Brazil
Pedro Primeiro
Bahia
Diablo
Portugal
Lisbon
Chile
Greece
England
Dundonald
Sebastopol
Lord Brougham
Avoiding Hydrogen Risk in Charging Storage Batteries
The Scientific American notes that a charging storage battery emits hydrogen gas from its vent. Hydrogen mixed with air may ignite if exposed to a flame, potentially blowing the battery apart. Use an electric flashlight to inspect electrolyte levels safely.
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Scientific American
Whder
Ambitious Sillicus Faces Mocking Critique at Summit
In a pointed exchange, Muggins dismisses Sillicus as an empty headed yet ambitious figure, while Buggine notes there is room at the top. The dialogue highlights contrasting views on merit and ascent.
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Muggins
Sillicus
London Court Hears Names Summer and Christmas
In a London case the complainant and defendant were identified as Summer and Christmas. The court proceedings centered on dispute over money and luck in financial matters.
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London
Hert of Kentucky Named Vice Chairman of Republican Party
Mrs Hert of Kentucky becomes vice chairman of the Republican national executive committee succeeding Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton who resigned to run for Congress. The Cleveland convention granted women equal representation on the national committee and in party affairs.
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Alvin Tobias Hert
Kentucky
Republican National Executive Committee
Harriet Taylor Upton
Ohio
Congress
Cleveland
Medill McCormick
Illinois
Senate
Ruth Hanna
Mark Hanna
Mississippi
Eeee
Emile Kuntz
Hert
Sallie Aley
Bedford
Ind
Hurstbourne Farms
Jefferson County
Edouard Herriot Becomes French Premier After Crisis
Edouard Herriot is named new premier of France under President Gaston Doumergue succeeding Millerand. He leads a left coalition government aiming to include broad participation while ready to reestablish inter allied unity in foreign policy. Herriot earlier rose as Lyons mayor and Rhone senator into public life.
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Edouard Herriot
France
Gaston Doumergue
Millerand
Herriot
Radical
General Mollet
Germany
Aan Poe
Pullule LU Sage
Lyons
Department of the Rhone
Atherton’s Fiction Mirrors Real Murder in Odd Parallels
Mrs. Atherton recalls predicting a shocking plot in The Sacrifices at Altar eight years earlier as real life crime echoes her fiction. The account recounts Louis Bac and a staged killing inspired by Leopold and Loeb case, leading to the killer’s suicide after writing a masterpiece.
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Gertrude Atherton
Mrs. Atherton
Robert
Franks
Chicago
Nathan Leopold
Richard Loeb
Burton Speech Highlights Coolidge Friendship Origin
Marion Leroy Burton, famed president of the University of Michigan, spoke at the Republican convention in a speech guiding Calvin Coolidge’s nomination. Burton, once Smith College president, recalled their long friendship and offered a personal, intimate portrait of Coolidge from boyhood to the present.
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Marion Leroy Burton
University of Michigan
United States
Coolidge
Burton
Smith ‘College
Northampton
Mass
Calvin Coolidge
St Pauls Church in New York A Colonial Landmark
St Pauls Church at Broadway and Vesey in Little Old New York is the oldest surviving Manhattan church, begun 1764 and opened 1766. It withstood a city fire, later added a steeple, features a burial yard, Montgomery’s grave inside, and a back facing the Hudson due to colonial development beliefs. A 1789 service followed Washingtons inauguration.
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St. Paul’s
Broadway
Vesey Street
New York
Manhattan Island
St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields
London
St. Paul's
Francis Dring
Richard Montgomery
Quebec
Hudson River
New Jersey Shore
George Washington
United States
The Skyscraper Church of Chicago’s Early Growth
In 1831 Chicago’s Methodists bought a downtown plot and built their first church. By 1856 they expanded, keeping property and adding business space. In 1922 attendance outgrew the 1856 church, leading to a taller, grander skyscraper church 556 feet high with 21 stories and an 1800-seat sanctuary and shops integrated into the complex.
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Chicago
America
Dark Humor From an Old Los Angeles Times Quote
A porter named Fast Black Sam asks for a job for his brother in Tennessee. The brother arrives darker skinned and the employer notes the contrast. Sam replies with a rural punchline about lightning bugs thinking it is night.
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Sam
Tennessee
Los Angeles Times
Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills Advise Relief
For bloated feeling and distressed breathing due to indigestion you need a medicine as well as a purgative. Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills are both. Adv.
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Wright
Life and Letters of J Fuller Gloom Brochure Posthumous
A quotation from a Kansas City Star column features a grim joke about publishing The Life and Letters of J Fuller Gloom after death. The speaker, described as a human hyena, offers copies for seven dollars and asks for orders.
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Tam
J. Fuller
Kansas City Star
Making a fad of obligatory tasks
A playful trend turns routine duties into a fashionable challenge. People remix chores into quick, shareable routines, sparking social media buzz as friends compare methods and timing. The idea doubles as entertainment and productivity habit formation.
Imaginative Fashion Quip Sparks Theater Slogan
The New Style Imminent mocks fashion change with a playful exchange about a dress that would transform a woman into an ungainly creature. The dialogue, attributed to a telegraph source, captures theatrical wit and trend forecasting in a comic frame.
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New York
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Bobbe-Merrill Company
Mrs. Hert
T. T. Maxey
Este
Aper Union
New York’s
Ford
Champion Spark Plug Co
Toledo, Ohio
Evers
Gloom
Meg
Naseline
Turnio, Jr
Erwin
Box
St. Louis
Pesky Davils
Quietus
Ted
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