Horse Tricks And The Perils Of a Trick Training Horse
General Sir Robert Baden Powell recalls a circus horse that sat down or reared on command, a dangerous habit born of a misguided lesson. The tale describes the animal's unreliable signaling and the recurring risk during hunts and parades.
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Sir Robert Baden Powell
Pearson's Magazine
John Leech
Penrose Spent $9,073.87 on Senate Reelection Campaign
Penrose spent nine thousand seventy three dollars and eighty seven cents including all primary and general election expenses for his reelection to the United States Senate. He filed the statement with the secretary of the senate.
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Boies Penrose
United States Senate
Penrose
Senate
Johnstown Jeweler Reports $7000 Diamond Robbery
Samuel Zaconic, a Johnstown jeweler, told police he was robbed of diamonds valued at $7,000. The safe drawer containing the diamond tray was missing, he said.
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Samuel Zaconic
Johnstown (Pa
Polishing Pearls Described By Scientific American
Pearls can be polished by rubbing with olive oil to remove dirt and applying red nail polish. The technique yields a burnished look and a bright glow after slight rubbing.
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Scientific American
Germany coast line and Kiel Canal lengths
The piece notes Germany’s North Sea border from Oldenburg to Schleswig spans about 200 miles. It cites the Kaiser Wilhelm canal at sixty one miles, with a cost of 40,000,600 dollars. The text presents these figures as geographic and engineering data.
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Germany
North Sea
Oldenburg
Schleswig
Kaiser Wilhelm (Kiel
Idle Curiosity About What Maids Ate Before Adem and Even
A fragment from the Philadelphia Ledger muses on the question of what maids ate before the biblical Adem and Even wore garments. The odd reflection underscores antique curiosity in an era of polite humor.
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Adem
Philadelphia Ledger
Old Time Prices Cost of Living In Early Years
A Pa subscriber shares a Berks County 1814 daybook from a Amity township general store. It shows prices like tea at $1 a pound and salt at $16 a bushel, with candles 3 to 4 cents a pound and chickens 12 to 18 cents each. The note contrasts cheap food then with high transport costs and today’s factory goods.
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Pennsylvania
Amity Township
Berks County
Toledo Blade
Newlands Wins Re election by Narrow Plurality
Newlands, Democrat, was reelected U S senator on November 3 by a 38 vote plurality over Republican Samuel Platt according to the official canvass. The rest discusses an English blacksmith who removed cataracts and later fled from the eye’s complexity.
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Newlands
Francis G. Newlands
United States
Samuel Platt
York
England
London Chronicle
How is the law made in the Senate story
In a humorous exchange a history instructor asks how laws are made and the matron corrects steps. She misstates powers and sessions, mentioning senate ratification a presidential veto and house adjournment, before recalling proper sequence with hesitation. The dialogue lightens the constitutional process.
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United States
Senate
House of Representatives
Yosth
Waiting for the Sister in a Quick Witty Quip
A humorous dialogue fragment features two speakers trading lines about waiting. One asks for timely information about a sister, while the other jests that someone has waited three years. The snippet showcases sharp, playful banter and regional speech.
A HOT ONE Mr. Borem Gude-I Smiles Through Pain
A fragment notes a character named Mr. Borem Gude-I wearing a smile despite an aching heart while Miss Caustique observes that it is the face that betrays emotion. The text preserves odd phrasing and suggests a dialogue or vignette.
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Mr. Borem Gude
Miss Caustique
Cabbage Hearts Touch Off Marital Rift
A Louisville couple, married two months, argue over love. The husband quips that instead of roses he brought home a head of cabbage, describing a terrible scene at their house.
And Catches Him Man Worm Early Bird
A tangled line from a preacher and a talking parishioner appears in the Herald fragment. The sermon tone shifts as a speaker references a chastened moral view and a joking reply from a married man in a rear pew.
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Oan Aman
Chivsuge Herald
Not a Diplomat Knicker Says Mother Is Diplomat
A fragment from the New York Sun quotes Roerker denying plans to return home after a misstep. The Milwaukee Sentinel comparison prompts pattern alignment against a gay envelope.
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Knicker
Roerker
New York Sun
Milwaukee Sentinel
Gates of old cities shape today’s urban change
The article notes that historic gates like Ludgate and Bishopsgate gave way to modern city life and that European cities widened old streets and built new ones over the past decades. It argues that cities without walls or gates must still make living spaces habitable amid rapid redevelopment and growth.
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Europe
Lud
London
Ludgate Hill
Britain
Salmon Eggs to Maine Headed from Seattle Hatcheries
The Bureau of Fisheries reports a special car left Seattle carrying 7,000,000 pink salmon eggs from Puget Sound tributaries. The eggs will go to two Maine Government hatcheries to produce fingerlings for distribution on coastal streams. The article notes pullet growth and feeding guidance for faster laying.
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Washington
Bureau of Fisheries
Seattle
Puget Sound
Maine
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