Petrified Redwood Stump Remains A Colorado Oddity
The colossal petrified stump near Florissant Cripple Creek Colorado weighs about 440 tons, stands ten feet high and 60 feet in diameter. Attempts to move it for exhibition failed due to its immense weight, including a planned display at the 1904 St Louis exposition. The region lacks giant redwoods nearby, suggesting climate change altered local vegetation.
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Cripple Creek
Col
Dameter
St. Lovin
Owier
Rocky Mountain
Royal Etiquette Masters and Precedent in Mayfair Rooms
In Household Words the quiet rooms of the lord chamberlain’s office house experts who study court dress and royal function. They possess heavy volumes detailing every occasion and readiness for events from Persian visitors to Siamese monarchs. Their records define precedent and guide flawless ceremony across centuries.
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Derlnin
Oo Weiter
Persia
Siam
Jom Chamberlain
Indomitable Paul du Chaitin Faces Final Crisis
The veteran Pennsylvania Railroad conductor Paul du Chaitin was famed for calm humor in danger. On his death, a New York Tribune tribute recalled a near collision where he asked for chalk to mark body parts, illustrating his fearless, unperturbed nature amid peril.
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Paul du Chaitin
New York ‘Tribune
Pennsylvania Railroad
du Chailly
Indians Prove Cowardice With Glove Strike in Kansas City Journal
A Kansas City Journal tale recalls an Indian who identified a cowardly white man by sight. He struck him with a rough glove, bit him, then walked away. The white man offered no beat for insult, explaining his cowardice. The piece also notes a sultan famed for revolver skill and a palace shooting incident.
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Kansas City Journal
Brown
Virtues of Ivory and Historical Medical Use
Ivory was once used as a medicine into the 18th and early 19th centuries. Historical texts note its supposed properties for jaundice, strength, digestion, and various ailments, with preparations including epodium and troches of spodium of ivory.
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Castello
Schroder
T. Bateson
Expression in the Hand and Nonverbal Grace
A column extols the expressive power of handshakes and gestures as a key to humane communication. It suggests women should cultivate hand presence, noting skin quality and grace as markers but prioritizing expressive touch and sympathy over mere appearance.
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Washington
Growth of America and population expansion since 1700
The article traces U S territorial growth from 827844 to 3640000 square miles and county rise from 607 to 2467, with population increasing from 3020214 to 70309087. It contrasts wartime gambling among American soldiers with minimal gambling in Great Britain and mentions Mosely commissioners in Deitala.
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America
United States
Great
Deitala
Desperation and hardship in remote living areas
Fragmentary OCR report notes extreme hardship in isolated places driving people to desperation. Mentions burns cuts wounds and a rough supply line. Partial references to a location and a few names appear, but many details are garbled.
Odd Japanese timepiece fascinates Newark reader
A Newark man recounts a remarkable Japanese clock framed as a landscape with a sun, tortoise hands, a singing bird, and a mouse in a grotto. The mechanism marks hours with a moving tortoise and delicate sounds, set in a vivid miniature scene alongside a running brook and distant hills.
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Japan
William T. Crews
Newark
N. J
Washington Post
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