The Hodgepodge of News and Nonsense From 1909
A whimsical column from SILVER MESSENGER includes jumbled notes on weather, radium shipments to London, a Beattie cure via fasting, comet displays, a judge’s caution to a speed addict, and a forecast of a total lunar eclipse. It muses on cotton and wheat prospects, naval artillery theories, Lake Michigan boating hazards, and Yellowstone geyser quirks while weaving in random observations about farming, aviation, and astronomy.
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Lake Michigan
Motor Yechtaman
New York Millionaire Tommy Antmore in Atlanta Encounter
Synopsis of Tommy Antmore, New York millionaire and owner of Revat éatute, arriving in Atlanta in a torch of brett girl who winked at him. Two days earlier, on the depot platform, he met an old friend, Harry Griswold, a protennor at the University of Virginia, on the way.
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Tommy Antmore
New York
Revat Éatute
Carming
Atlanta
Brett
Harry Griswold
University of Virginia
Ardmore and Griswold Plot Foreign and Local Schemes
Chapter excerpt follows Thomas Ardmore of New York presses Griswold toward a bold plan to find a missing woman while balancing his wealth and a library dedicated to piracy. Griswold, a lawyer turned admiralty professor, obscures a romantic past as they argue over risk and loyalty aboard a train headed to Charlottesville and beyond.
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Thomas Ardmore
New York
Ardsley
Helways
Griswold
India
Alexandra
Ardmore
North Carolina Hill
Richmond
Admiralty
Law Department
University of Vit Marinetow
Grinwold
Henry Maine Griswold
Charlottesville
Capt
Kidd
Two Governors at War Amid Railroad Chat
Griswold reads of the New Orleans incident aboard a train as travelers joke about North and South Carolina governors. A young woman, a passenger’s ward, studies telegrams on New Orleans news, reacting with indignation to tensions between the governors while Griswold and a servant observe. Exhibition note on Maine heirlooms follows.
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Kidd
Ardmore
Griswold
Atlanta
Cotton Planters’ Association
New Orleans
North Carolina
South Carolina
Cotton Planters
Mecklenburg
Commonwealth of South Carolina
Ohio
Mecklenburg County
George the Third
Andrew Jackson
Homer
Waxhaw
Alabama
Besure
Cinema@u
South
Dangerfield
Osborne
Grinwold
High Seas
Duenna
Phoebe
Yinal Grette
North, Carolina
Gri Wold
Grizwold
Her Gaming Table di version reflects women and men roles
A quote attributes in a social critique to Mlle Sophroniales Breckenridge, contrasting men enjoying gaming tables and horse races with women forced to bargain at counters to obtain fair return. It frames gendered economic disparity and rights in social life.
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Sophroniales Breckenridge
Lomax Joins Gould Line As Passenger Traffic Chief
Edward Lloyd Lomax longtime general passenger and ticket agent for Union Pacific has resigned to become passenger traffic manager of the Western Pacific for the Gould line from East Lake City to San Francisco. His move takes effect July 1. Born in 1852 in Fredericksburg Virginia, Lomax began rail career in 1869 with the Burlington and Missouri River railroad.
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Chicago
Edward Lloyd Lomax
Union Pacific
West
Ern Pacific
New Gould Road
East Lake City
San Francisco
Lomax
Omaha
Neb
Harriman System
South
Middle West
Burlington
Iron Mountain
Union Parffic
Mr. Lomax
Fredericksburg
Burlington and Missouri River Railroad
Iowa
Suffragette Charge Draws Crowds in Rockford Illinois
The Illinois suffrage campaign reached Rockford where Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Evanston justice of the peace, spoke from a bench to factory workers and onlookers through open windows. Jennie F. W. Johnson led rally songs as suffragists sought to win timid workers’ support.
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Rockford
Minols State Suffrage Association
Timois
Catherine Waugh McCulloch
Evanston
Jennie F. W. Johnson
Boy 13 Keeps Regular Shave Despite Barber Nearby
Park avenue resident John J Kenny Jr reports his thirteen year old son from Summit visits a local barber for daily shaves. The boy admits using his father's razor unsuccessfully, then asks for 15 cents to buy his own shave. Elder Kenny questions the need as the boy explains he simply "needs one shave" to maintain his stubble.
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Summit
John J. Kenny, Jr
Park Avenue
Best Summit
Kenny
Funda
John
Fragmented Narratives From A Rusty Southern Farm Scene
A disjointed fragment recounts a scene on a southern farm where a farmer plans to strike a cow with an axe, prompting a frightened assistant to question him. The narrator recalls an awkward shot and a dog incident on a golf course, ending with a child’s grave question about heaven and a nurse’s hush.
Startler narrator chains wife after pleasant call
A London telegraph note reports a startling tale. A gentleman, told by a friend that his wife visited them pleasantly, replies that he will chain her up in the future to prevent further trouble. The story unfolds as a neighborhood terror with the dog involved.
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Loadog Telegraph
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