Mystery on a Brooklyn trolley yields cocoons from a country bag
A Sunday Flatbush line trolley ride turns comic when a well dressed stranger with a dusty bag draws curious stares. He handles cocoons and chrysalides, claiming to be a naturalist collector gathering moth and butterfly pupae from the countryside, while fellow passengers debate the odd scene.
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Brooklyn
Flatbush
Flatbush and
Flatlands
Prospect Park
Falton Street
The Decadent Hand and Its Signatures in Medicine
A Medical Record discussion outlines how hand shape, finger lengths, and thumb mobility correlate with nervous, alcoholic, and degenerative conditions. It notes that the middle finger serves as a standard and highlights common defects in ibriates epileptics neurotics and degeneratives, labeling such hands the decadent hand associated with decadence and vice.
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Hauptmann
Vicios
Pygmies Myth and Mythic Dwarf Races Across History
A summary of ancient and later beliefs about pygmies from Homeric tales to Aristotle and 19th century explorers. The text notes imagined habitats from Nile mouths to Africa’s forests, with references to Hercules, Thule, and the Orbongo pygmies described by Du Chaillu.
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Oceanus
Nile
Thule
Ganges
Hercules
Aristotle
Upper
Egypt
Africa
du Chaillu
A Unique Coat of Arms for Peter Brown
Peter Brown, once a prominent Philadelphia citizen, invented new republican arms after discarding his family’s ancestral arms. William Priest, English musician, printed Priest's Travels In the United States in 1802 with a frontispiece titled Peter Brown's Arms. It depicts Brown as a blacksmith who earned his fortune and features an anvil motif and the motto Er this I got ye.
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Peter Brown
Philadelphia
William Priest
Priest
What a Tressing Is Education in an Old Chicago School
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss educational questions and world geography with references to a colonization idea and the Great Divide. Names and exact terms are garbled, but imply a test or lesson about discovery, plants, and cities, traced to Chicago schools in a historical context.
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Szlor
The Orient Express Tale of a Shepherd on Track
Poem by Cy Warman in the New York Sun recounts a bold Bulgarin shepherd boy who lies on a railroad track to fool a train. The driver brakes, the stoker trembles, and the tar scene follows as the boy laughs then meets a fatal end as the locomotive strikes. The Irish section boss adds to the grim spectacle.
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Aslee
Orient Express
Lewide Ham
Cy Warman
New York
Sun
Marvelous Jenny Lind and the Swedish Nightingale
Cincinnati Enquirer presents John Addington Symonds recalling Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, famed singer known for pure timbre and moving artistry. He details her humble home life at Oak Lee, her captivating voice, and a charming scene with a talking blackbird that echoed her singing.
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John Addington Symonds
Mme
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt
Jenny Lind
Symonds
Mme. Goldschmidt
Preans
Grandmamima
Abé
Goldschmidts
Oak Lee
Cantatrica
Mmne
Goldschmidt
Cincinnati Enquirer
Living Stones of the Falkland Islands
A St. Louis Republic description of the Falkland Islands notes curious rock like formations called living stones. These blocks appear as weathered bowlders but are rooted like trees. The climate prevents erect trees and the odd blocks form a wind blasted forest with no usable grain and twisted woody fibers.
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Falkland
Falkland Islands
Falklands
St. Louis Republic
Soda powered engines spark a quiet rail advance
A fireless locomotive engine was recently used on the Aix la Chapelle Julich railway. The motor power comes from soda. The invention relies on caustic soda solutions that heat as they absorb steam. These engines emit no smoke or steam and run quietly. They match coal locomotives in capacity with easier operation.
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Aix-la-Chapelle Julich
How She Did It and the Thousand No’s
A London Tit-Bits note recalls Trivvet- Flop claiming a thousand marriage refusals. Dicer explains: when Callow asked, she answered no a thousand times. Also a remark on West Indies naming by Co- Tambas, and a description of the alb as a long priestly garment.
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Young Callow
London
West Indies
Co- Tambas
Indies
West
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Webster's International Atctive
Dictionary of Grand
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