Rhode Island, Proud Little Colony of the Union
The piece extols Rhode Island as the most interesting state, noting its nickname Gun-flints and its paradox of being small yet influential. It traces names like Aquidneck and Prudence, Hope, and Despair, and recalls its early resistance to ratifying the U S Constitution before federal pressure.
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Rhode Island
New York
Cent
New Haven
Hartford
Rhode Isle
Aquidneck
Providence Plantaions
Rhode
Providence
Hog Island
Island
Great Britain
United States
Congress
Portraits by words to shape a sitter’s look
A Chicago Chronicle report quotes a photographer explaining how repeating simple words can make a portrait seem distinguished serene or noble. He notes naming cues such as brush for nobility bosom for serenity flip for a small mouth cabbage for a larger mouth kerchunk for melancholy and phoenix for pride, shaping facial expression.
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Chicago Chronicle
Polygamy in Congoland and Tribal Customs Described
The essay notes polygamy endures in Central Africa, with Christian influence needed to curb it. It describes wives bought from fathers for goats or cows, their roles as mothers and cooks, and the high status of chiefs with 30 to 40 wives. Burial practices may omit women in some tribes.
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Henry
Wellington Wack
Congo Free State
Fruit shipments flood western Colorado orchards
Forty six carloads delivering over 300000 fruit trees arrived for spring planting in local orchards. Most shipments go to eastern state men who moved to western Colorado to grow fruit, as reported by the Hotchkiss column in the Denver Republican.
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Colorado
Hotchkiss
Denver Republican
Excellent Exercise Memory Aid in a Professor's Dialogue
A professor claims memory can be perfectly trained while a scholar asks for the best exercise. The conversation pivots on what method the memory should practice, referencing a standard and time.
English Travelers Quest Respect for American Mien
English visitors increasingly travel to the United States and, despite a tendency to underrate others, admire American independence honesty and courage. An English observer notes Americans are hard to impress but hard to overlook. They value self reliance and resilience across conditions, earning favorable regard from the English.
Machine turns proverbs into silly twists
An Indiana man has built a device that perverts proverbs and twists quotations. Feed it a classic epigram and a silly result emerges, claimed to rival humorous newspaper departments and better than comic weeklies. The inventor argues it may replace many professional humorists.
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Indiana
Center of Population May Be Turning Eastward
Washington population experts believe the center of the United States may have shifted eastward after decades of westward movement. They cite growth in eastern cities and the Southeast as factors and note 1905 mid-century censuses will shed light on the center’s current location, last set near Columbus Indiana.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Republic
Columbus
Ind
Popu-Ln
New York
Atlantic Seaboard
Panmore
Jarate
Two Men Live In Open Air At Purleigh Essex
Two men have lived an open air life at Purleigh Essex for two years with a large shipline office as a possible shelter. One drifts from city life and keeps to a tent made from a tree on their estate. They sleep on ground sheets in a makeshift chamber with minimal cooking gear. Both are vegetarians and avoid animal life, claiming no knowledge of illness. One has become physically strong after being a weak member of the family.
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London
Red
Lion Square
O. P
Europe
Red Lion Square
Purleigh
Essex
Dims
Mother Whips Principal In Front Of Class
Mrs. J D Galataine, mother of a Washington Grammar School pupil, entered the school and whipped Principal Mae McCarthy after the boy misbehaved. A warrant was issued for her arrest on a charge of battery. Principal McCarthy, a cripple, had previously disciplined the boy multiple times and ordered him to stay home until he could behave.
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San Francisco
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McCarthy
Washington Grammar
J.D. Galataine
MaeCarthy
Cabanies
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J.C. Neely
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Diller
Nebraska
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Edward B. Groseman & Co
Chicago
Delingator
J.monroe Davis
First Nations Bank
Fairbory
Nob
H. A. Ball, Baroneessee Ti
M. Wright
Ilinois
Missouri Coal
Thort Gate
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Oni Fatente
Canoe Ceeney Beering Paten
Scientific American
Munn & Co
Seramine
Omce
L. P. Raymond
J. Shelden
Edwin L. Feese
Dr. Brock
Will
Dr. Neely
Bank of Ode
Diller Brothers
Bert Hiliire
Ver
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Thos. Nelson
Diller, Nebr
Agnes Westley
Wells Street Marinette
Wis
Wells Street
Marinette
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Cardus
North Wiscobam Holland Society
Thedford
Neely’s Pharmacy
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