The Feller With Grit Proverb in Orange Judd Farmer
A rustic verse advocates grit and persistence as keys to success. It urges readers to avoid laziness, push through hardship, and keep digging with a cheerful heart until they reach the top and claim the biggest plum in the pie.
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Luxury
E. A. Brininstool
Orange Judd Farmer
Mystery at Bayou Woods Trial Reveals Watched Motives
The coroner's inquest hears Herbert Wright claim no intent to harm his father while witnesses link him to the murder through a stormy marriage history and a chain of pawned items. Miriam Wright testifies on family tension as detectives tie Wright to watches, buttons, and a knife linked to the crime. The jury convicts Wright's father’s death as the result of blows by his son.
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John T. Wright
Frank Bradley
Uncle Dick
Bayou Woods
Uncle Dick’s
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Young Wright
Jefferson Baxter
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Col. Franklin
Miriam Wright
Herbert
Miss Wright
Fenton
Nosenthal
Neckar
Abraham Jowatt
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Rosenthal’s
Translation Errors and Mischievous Hotel Notices Abroad
A reader shares amused mistranslations from travel notices in Europe. Examples include warnings about box valuables being illegal, not to throw jugs out windows, and not to put heads out of windows. A Genoa hotel pamphlet adds multilingual lines including ring patterns for staff and a rude jab at a servant.
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London Chronicle
Bingen
Genoa
Reflections of a Bachelor in a Witty Column
A satirical reflection on love affairs and gender dynamics notes that escaping such affairs is impossible when they succeed and jokes about flirtation, arguments, and reactions to aging and seeming force in romance. The piece criticizes insincere behavior and gendered expectations with humorous tone.
Drawing the Lines, Magistrate-Why did you ham, Unele Rastus?
A fragment from a Chicago Daily News cartoon caption features Uncle Rastus defending his family against supposed dog consumption, noting his claim that the family is starving and that he owns five dogs. The piece uses regional dialect and a courtroom stance.
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Rastus
Honner
Chicago Daily News
Pungent Paragraphs and Society Snippets
A collage of wry quips from many papers critiquing society, greed, education and everyday manners. Jests about London crowds, American jokes, society women, and dental business reflect early 20th century humor and social observation.
Global Notes on Science and Industry Trends
The article surveys patents for alcohol production in Germany and Australia, a rainmaking machine being built in Paris, and South Africa’s cycle market dominated by British and scarce American imports. It notes creosoted telegraph poles in Ireland from 1858, a strong pocket knife demand in South Africa, and frugal Kaffir knife pricing. It mentions Herschel versus Wallace on Milky Way position, Suez Canal opening dates, and British canal shares value. Capers as buds used in vinegar, harvested by women, with 44 pounds daily gain potential and California suitability.
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Germany
Akes
Australia
Paris
Ireland
South Africa
Sir John Hershel
Milky Way
Prof
Wallace
Suez Canal
France
Spain
Algeria
California
Ancient Egypt Hint Affects Clay Strength Findings
Mr E G Acheson of Niagara Falls links Exodus guidance to straw and tannin treatment of clay. Boiled straw mixed with clay increases plasticity, reduces shrinkage, and enhances sun drying versus burning, yielding tempered clay in ten days.
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Egypt
E.G. Acheson
Niagara Falls
Russia Industry Push in Manchuria Sparks Tension
Government agents and sects fast build flour mills factories meat packing plants and operate mines across Manchuria as they sell goods, a privilege not allowed to Americans according to Chicago Chronicle.
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Russia
Manchuria
Chicago Chronicle
Iian
Embryo Mosquitoes Hibernation States Detailed
Nature notes that certain mosquito species overwinter as adults, others as larvae, and some in eggs. Larvae endure winter in solid ice, illustrating varied survival strategies.
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Nature
Egyptian God Set Linked to Okapi Discovery
A New York Sun note discusses how the okapi found in Uganda might illuminate the animal-headed forms of Egyptian deities. It suggests scholars once puzzled by Set’s depictions could be clarified by zoological links, though the okapi never lived in Egypt.
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Set
Osiris
Egypt
N. Y. Sun
The Flying Machine Drafted as a Diving Device
A Chicago Post quote recalls a reckless invention attempt. A man believed he created a flying machine but tested it from a rooftop and it turned into a diving device, marking a disastrous miscalculation and public caution.
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Chicago Post
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