Birthplace of the telephone Brantford memory notes Bell residence experiments
The Brantford Expositor recalls Professor Bell's Tate Heights residence where a crude telephone was tested by local gentlemen and Melville Bell's visible speech project. It mentions a two mile free line to the city and Brantford as a birthplace of the telephone and its inventor's early connections.
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Melville Bell
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Superstitions Railroad Men Across Corsicana Region
Houston letter reports a haunted Ho and Texas line near Elm Creek a few miles from Corsicana where a convict died and locals claim a spirit haunts the rails. The piece notes repeated wrecks injuring engineers and destroying stock and merchandise and mentions a demand to exhume and bury the convict to end the curses.
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Houston Letter
St. Louis Globee Democrat
What He Did by a Rustic on Shakespeare
A humorous anecdote recounts a rustic near Stratford-on-Avon who misattributes Shakespeare's work to religious origin, after a comedian asks about the author and the rustic guesses he wrote for the Bible. The tale highlights miscomprehension of Shakespeare's influence.
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Mr. Toole
Man Demands Pancakes One by One at Grisywold Grill
A man enters a Griswold Street pancake shop and orders hot cakes one at a time. The girl serves six to eight pancakes in relays while he eats Them. He finally throws down his knife and asks for silence as he complains that everyone swallows batter all day.
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Detroit Free Press
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