The Bow Knife Origin Debate Across Legends and Journals
A sprawling tale traces the Bowie knife origin from Rezin Bowie and James Bowie to blacksmith James Black and fairground lore. Conflicting reports place invention in Louisiana Mississippi or Texas with multiple claimants and names, ending with the Gonzales shop tale naming Bowie and a craftsman born from a wood pattern.
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John Lowell
Jackson
Missouri
Gonzales
Texas
Lowell
James Bowie
Bowie
Mr. Sowell
Sowell
Treasure Hunt Claims Ming Emperor's Tomb Secrets
A tunnel near Nanking is described as seven feet high and three feet wide, lined with stone blocks, believed to lead to a hidden hoard of gold jewels and jade. Historical records note 18 gates and 18 tombs for the emperor to deter foes.
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Nanking
Woman fatally crushed in threshing mill accident
Mrs. John Shillan died after stepping back into a threshing mill at Gableston Scotland when frightened by a mouse. The incident occurred recently and is under local inquiry.
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John Shillan
Gableston
Scotland
Eruption of Volcanoes Linked to Tides Theory
Scientists tie frequent eruptions to tidal kneading of the earth. Etna’s lava thinness allows gas to escape, while thicker lava in explosive volcanoes traps steam and pressure, potentially triggering violent eruptions as tides supposedly twist the crust.
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Mount
Etna
William Bowie
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Planned Green Girdle Around London by John Loudoun
The 19th century landscape gardener John Loudoun proposed a permanent green girdle for London. His 1820 plan envisioned a tree lined boulevard looping from Euston Road through Hyde Park to Vauxhall Bridge and around to Greenwich Park, with a grand viaduct crossing the Thames. Only the Oxford and Cambridge terraces were built due to cost.
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John Loudoun
London
Loudoun
Metropolis
Euston Road
New Road
Marylebone
Hyde Park
Sloane Street
Vauxhall Bridge
Kennington
Camberwell
Deptford
Greenwich Park
Thames
Edgware Road
Oxford and
Cambridge Terraces
Trouble Began Over Lipstick Whim at Tea-Dance
Bertie Baxter, recently engaged, was drawn into a tale of romance and heartbreak in Braxton when her fiancé bragged to friends about a new lipstick. A companion teased that it tasted of orange, hinting at the complications that followed in their social circle as reported by London Answers.
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Col
James Bowle
Alamo
Bowle
Mississippi
Red River
Nuacht
Bertie Baxter
Braxton
London
Perplexing Poiret Fails to Master American Fit
Parisian fashion designer M Poiret, newly opened in New York, laments language barriers after his gown fails to fit a client. He asks an American friend how to handle a patron's getting upset, admitting he will never master the language.
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M. Poiret
New York
Houses for the Soul by John Ruskio
A reflective essay urges building inner sanctuaries from bright fancies memories and noble histories. It describes the mind as a treasure house of pleasant thoughts immune to adversity, pain, poverty, and care.
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John Ruskio
Modest Arm Otto H. Kahn on Art and Box Office Ironies
Otto H. Kahn, noted arts patron, remarks that high brow artists seek only a living while low brows chase fortunes. A Greenwich Village play with a high brow label loses audiences as nights pass. The author asks the box office how the show is doing and learns attendance dwindles yet again.
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Otto H. Kahn
Chicago
Greenwich Village
Horse
Boy Says He Cannot Grow Because He Is Turned Off
A child named Rob ert, living on Newman street, tried to turn a knob on his head and declared he cannot grow now because he is turned off. The incident was described in the Indianapolis News.
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Robert
Newman Street
Indianapolis
Hasty Reply Prompts Reflective Camera Night
Mr H a genial host recalls old school days while hosting friend. The guest jokes about not posing for pictures anymore, prompting a lighthearted exchange and mutual reminiscence.
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Mr. H
Untitled exchange from a Leipzig edition
A brief dialogue fragment includes a maid naming her brother Harry as the visitor last night. The exchange appears in a translated or staged format from Der Lustige Sachse in Leipzig. The closing line adds a general English proverb about respecting differing opinions.
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Harry
Sachse
Leipzig
Variation in Sun Rotation Speeds Over Years
The passage notes that the sun’s rotation shows periodic fluctuation. It cites Dr. Charles St. John of Mount Wilson Observatory finding the equatorial speed changing from 228 km/s in 1876 to 1.96 km/s in 1915 and 1.89 km/s in 1928. It predicts a slow turn to higher speed starting 1929 toward a new maximum rotation period in coming years.
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Charles St. John
Mount Wilson Observatory
California
Silent Gypsy Smith and the Turnip Field Sermons
The evangelist Silent Gypsy Smith spoke his first sermon in his father's turnip field and later recalled addressing turnips as his most attentive audience. He grew up selling clothes pegs and singing in bar rooms to his father's fiddle, and he never used a type of lantern until he was seventeen.
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Gypsy Smith
Gypsy
Sympathy and observations in a rural scene
Sympathy Hugh visits his aunt and notes a robin's nest. He laments the robin's mate's absence and the line between care and hardship. The moral hints that money can buy health, the next best thing to happiness.
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Hugh
Sle
Robin
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