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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1899
Page
3
St Louis Globe-Democrat describes a car axle powered lighting system where each car holds a dynamo and storage battery. As trains reach twelve mph, power shifts from battery to axle-driven dynamo, lighting all cars automatically with no engine strain.
A drunken man in a Brooklyn saloon drops a crumpled letter and postage stamp which seem to walk the bar. The stamp sticks to a cockroach that clings to the bar while the barkeeper and patron watch in disbelief before calm is restored with seltzer and lemon.
A hotel register shows J R Pigg Windsor Missouri and C B Hogg Canton Ohio and Brown Bacon Chicago signing in together. The trio, strangers at first, soon became friends while the clerk and onlookers pieced together their unrelated identities.
A boy uptown watches a diphtheria ropeed off square where rag flags flutter. He notes two of the white rags missing from the rope near his home and declares that "Tommy Tadpole's two rags better" in a playful neighborhood moment.
Mabel frets as the curtain rises while Jack admits he remembers every line except the kiss. They agree to rehearse the kiss scene once more for the evening performance.
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