Duel Proscriptions Across States Highlight Historic Codes
Many states barred office holders from dueling through constitutions or oaths. South Carolina required an oath disavowing dueling, Virginia banned it until 1928, and other states forbade legislators from participating in duels. Historical duels shaped political rhetoric and reform efforts.
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South Carolina
Virginia
Henry Clay
Kentucky
John Randolph
Graves
Maine
Cilley
Weather control schemes and a tornado busting theory
The St. Paul Pioneer Press notes a new claim from Porto Rican sources proposing underground conduits with vertical shafts to deflate tornadoes. A booster suggests sinking air along shafts could remove the vacuum tornadoes rely on, collapsing the storm.
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St. Paul
Porto Rico
Artful signposts bloom in German towns guiding travelers
Suburban Germany towns add humor to directional signs. Warmbrunn uses wood carvings turning tree trunks into life sized figures with inscriptions guiding visitors. A schoolboy holds a slate saying Fuellner Park while Ruebezahil the Silesian mountain is carved as a reaper. Other Black Forest communities follow suit.
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Germany
Warmbrunn
Fuellner Park
Ruebezahil
Black Forest
Man Tests Penny Machines At Fair
A man amused himself by trying all penny in the slot machines at a fair. He discovers one silent and asks the booth owner what the silent machine measures. The owner jokes that the silent device tests temper, while others test weight height strength sight lungs.
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Gov'nor
Spiders Cannot Fly Says Pathfinder Magazine
The Pathfinder Magazine notes that no spider has wings and cannot fly in the biological sense. It explains that some spiders travel through the air on airborne webs, carried by the wind for short distances.
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Pathfinder Magazine
Two William Jewel students relinquish comedy rights
Two William Jewel College students in Florida reportedly gave up joking about the absent minded professor. One boy forgot and mailed a letter for the girl he left behind to his parents while sending his laundry to her. Another walked from the dorm to the post office with laundry but forgot to change the address and received the bag back at his room.
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William Jewel College
Florida
Pathfinder Magazine
Privateers Fitted Out by American Colonies in War
History records 2000 plus American privateers ranging the Caribbean and Atlantic coasts. They built fleets in the West Indies, hunted British channels and the North Sea, with Beverley’s Cabots receiving 600 rifles and other prizes allocated to groups like the Gardoguis and Derbys of Satem amid prize sales.
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Channing
Nene
West Indies
Pel
North Sea
Cabots
Beverley
Gardoguis
Satem
Fruit Sandwiches for Summer Menu
A reader guide to outdoor eating with tropical fruit sandwiches. Recipes include Tropical Sandwich with pineapple and coconut, Banana Pineapple Nut, Pineapple Jam with cream cheese, and Cheese and Fruit combos. Also covers Chicken Salad Pineapple and Ham Pineapple fillings and tips to save pineapple syrup for drinks.
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Tropics
Boston
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Cy” Sprunger
Mgr
the First Savings & Loan Company
Massillon, Ohio
Wm. Penn Valve
Camp’s
Ohio Bell & Kidron
Dalton, Ohio
the Gazette Office
Ohio
Parker
Scott’s Store
Columbus
Columbias
Bath
James H. Butler
Mae
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