The Worlds Greatest Park Fairyland at Riverview Amusement
The piece extols Riverview as a vast, magical amusement world in Chicago, a sprawling sectional city with towers, pavilions, lagoons, and dozens of attractions. It promises 600 feet of cascading fountains, a booming world of theater, broncho rides, a naval battle play, wild animal displays, and futuristic rides under an opalescent night sky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Oma
Cairo
Riverview
Bolimir Kryl
West
Babylon
Big Otto
Miss Dixie
Monitor
Merrimac
Kyfhausen
Barbarossa
Paul Revere
Amusing school blunders on old time learning
A collection of student misreadings and garbled answers from historical English schooling, with lines about Julius Caesar, Hannibal, Cicero, biblical misstatements, and odd mottoes. It lampoons how early learners mixed languages, geography, and history, producing humorous misinterpretations and typos.
Diamonds Burn Under Sun Using Burning Glass
The Chicago News recounts Davy and Faraday proving diamonds burn. In Florence, a burning glass focused sunlight on a platinum rod supporting the diamond inside a hydrogen filled globe. After repeated heating the gem lit, glowed scarlet and purple, then fully burned after four minutes of blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davy
Faraday
Sir Humphry Davy
Michael Faraday
Florence
Duke of
Tuscany
Chicago News
How to Test a Restaurant
A man touts a new restaurant saying it is the best he has eaten in months. His friend cautions that extreme hunger can distort judgment and advises trying the place again when not ravenously hungry. The exchange ends with a warning against judging by a single, extreme dining experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press
I Am The Coolest Man In The Car
A congressman aboard a wrecked train recalls the shock and a passenger pitched over seats to reach a water cooler that tipped and drenched him with ice water. A heated fellow passenger urged composure while he claimed two buckets of ice water had just been dumped down his back.
Quotation Fragments Tie Up Mixed Wedding Tales
Fragmented lines from multiple papers hint at witty but misspelled musings about marriage and wealth. The snippets reference a young widow, a boastful bachelor, a Chicago News style remark, a Manchester Union thought, and a Spanish misquote about a wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Alpine Giants and Legends of Swiss Peaks
The piece recalls the Matterhorn, Jungfrau, and Titlis with legends of Theodule pass and Saint Theodule, recounts Whymper’s 1865 ascent, notes Engelberg Nessonnes, and contrasts with Disraeli and Gladstone in a column of curiosities about mountains, monarchs, and animal speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannibal
Tullus Caesar
Sclasa Confederacy
Matterhorn
Little
Republic
Theodure
Piedmont
Italy
Valais
Breithorn
Theodule
Sion
Rhone
Tie
Alps
Satan
Slon
Prince of Darkness
Cockcrow
Meyers
Aarau
Whymper
Engelberg Nes
Switzerland
New York Tribune
Anachronistic Snippets From A Drowsy Era
A collage of quick dialogue and verse panels toys with social pretenses and gender roles. Vignettes reference vice societies, frugal Skinners, a millinery bargain, and seasonal comforts like pie and pork with greens. Light humor contrasts with idle aspiration and romantic small talk across unnamed voices.
Pert Paragraphs on Gender Roles and Fortune Telling
A fragmented reflection on why women deter understanding, noting some men vary in wisdom and handsomeness. It argues necessities create problems, mocks fools, and hints at artists and homes as retreats. It questions fortune telling as a vicarious thrill and critiques wealth acquisition and appearances of success.
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J. M. Wauser Company
Fort Madison
Jaws
Carey Henduohy
Foley
Foley‘s
Foley & Company
Jehovah
Stohn Pallos
Curzan Hall
Birmingham
Cicero Wasio
Xenophon
Suci
Liverpool
Lot
Own
Manchester Union
THE
Alpine Giants
Disraeli
House of Commons
Mr. Gladstone
Wallachia
Moldavia
Gladstone
Cladstone
Rdell
Giankind
T.hey
Julya
By Duncan M. Smith
Him
Antivice Society
Willliner
Wang
Wwe
Bome Urs
Yoo Drors
Rreepe
Samuel Pateber Humphin
Rochelle Sirks
Anise Sood
LL Folan
New York
Astoria
Bears
Castoria
the First National Bank OF
Estherville
Iowa
H. W. Johns-Manville Company
Claybourn St
Milwaukee, Wis
Typewriter
Remington Typewriter Company (Incorporated
the Vindicator and Republican Co
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