The Inventor's Death Plot Turned to Love and Hope
Ralph Gordon, a moody inventor, designs a deadly dynamite bomb to die by its slow acid trigger but encounters Deborah Dene on a moonlit road. She reveals a forgery threatening their engagement, and his love for her revives him. They marry. Gordon abandons invention and becomes a successful writer.
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Small Salaries Explain Bark Defalcations Claim
A veteran banker recalls starting salary of 25 dollars a month with heavy duties including late hours and risky custody of large sums, contrasted with peers earning far more. The piece cites the hardship of living in New York and questions how workers managed on such pay. It closes with a note on Homeric diet and ancient Greek eating habits.
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Rapid Typewriting speed methods and expert practice
The New York Sun outlines how top typewriter operators reach high speeds. It contrasts piano finger agility with focused word-part recognition, noting some rely on two fingers or even the index finger. It explains keyboard layout familiarity, consistent finger use for common words, and machine advances lifting speeds beyond 16 characters per second.
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Giving the Sultan His Titles
A Turkish paper praised Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan, listing exalted titles and divine sanction. The note highlights the sultan as ruler of the two shores, caliph, and the shadow of God on earth, reflecting 19th century imperial rhetoric.
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Hoodoo charm exhibit in Bell v. Commonwealth case
A clerk at the Prank Fort Court of Appeals holds a filed exhibit described as a negro hoodoo bag containing dice a rabbit foot and other items. Edgar Bell a Black man contends the bag hoodooed him to kill a man and seeks consideration of his claim in Warren County court records reported by the Louisville Courier Journal.
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