Blucher’s gambler son tests fortune at the dice
The story recalls Blucher famed for gambling and his son Rin ter who boasts he can beat him. After Rin ter wins rubles at night, Blucher challenges him at the table. In minutes Blucher wins all his son’s money and declares the lesson proven that the old man was right about talent and loss at play.
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Ralph Nevill
Napoleon
Duke of Wellington
Crockford
Blacher
Rin ‘Ter
Blucher
Ismailia
Port Said
Nmailia
Stoker
Reverend Wightman Imprisons Sweetheart in Coal Cellar
A London Family Herald report recounts Reverend Wightman hearing a strange kitchen sound and investigating. He locks the coal cellar, and Mary’s sweetheart is found imprisoned there all night after repeated requests for the key. The incident unfolds with dialogue over the next morning.
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Mary
State to spend 100000 on restocking fish and game in Iowa
State Game Warden Lincoln reorganizes the Iowa fish and game department to spend 100000 from hunters licenses for restocking lakes rivers and stocking game birds. Dr M W Wilson is appointed assistant warden with two men devoted to the work and Hungarian partridges and ring tail pheasants will be introduced nationwide.
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Des Moines
Lincoln
State Fish and Game Department
General Assembly
M. W. Wilson
Carroll
Iowa
An African Cannibal Race Traditions and Myths
AGeographic Journal summary describes Baamba customs including child exchange and cannibalism, Bunyoros dental modification, and Bahima beliefs in a rain-weather deity. It notes joss houses for propitiating devils linked to diseases and charms such as wooden neck amulets and goats horns worn with wire jewelry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Geographical Journal
Wisdom and silence as substitutes
An acquaintance recalls Josh Billings noting the rise of substitutes for original articles such as margarine for butter and celluloid for ivory. He jokes that though many substitutes exist, there is no truly good substitute for wisdom, and that silence remains the best yet found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josh Billings
Crawfordsville Happenings Report Weekend Visits
Crawfordsville April 21 Clem Bowers visited Mt. Pleasant yesterday and returned home today. Mrs L L Twinam Ray B Dix and Tep Riley were passengers for Washington this morning. Mrs Fitzwater arrived from Indianapolis for a several months visit with her daughter Mrs J C Currie.
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Crawfordsville
Clem Bowers
Mt. Pleasant
L. L. Twinam
Ray
Dix
Tep Riley
Washington
Fitzwater
Indianapolis
Indiana
J. C. Currie
The Flying Dutchman Sea Legend Across Stormy Coasts
The Flying Dutchman is a ship sighted from land during storms, famed for a captain cursed to roam the oceans until judgment day. It never docks and is said to sail with full canvas in strong winds, possibly inspired by waterspouts resembling ships.
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Cape of Good Tope
Fortunate remark links storm ship to Portland uncle
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune anecdote recalls a husband sharing news of a shipwreck off the New England coast during a storm. He notes the vessel belonged to his uncle Tom in Portland, prompting his wife to remark on the passengers reaching dry land.
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Indianapolis
George
New England
Tom
Portland
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
As smart as a steel trap says the trap
An elder explains to a talkative board member that a steel trap is "smart" because it knows when to shut up. The exchange ends with a prudent silence to fit the scene.
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London
Local residents visit and conduct business in city
A W D Gill of Chicago visited the city on business. Mr. and Mrs. Burrell Foster of Wellman joined friends here. Grace and Ethel Stone of Ainsworth shopped in town. Madison Klotz of Columbus Junction spent time with his daughter Mrs. F M Colton. Miles Bradford and family visited West Chester. Maxwell and Lena of Crawfordsville traveled here by auto. Mrs. J Guthrie departed for Chicago to see daughter Blanche in nurses training. W Roberts sold Jake Lilte's former residence to Curtis Wells of West Chester who plans remodeling. W C Nelson, former resident, arrived on business with General Land and Investment Co of Des Moines to open a local agency.
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W. Roberts
Jake Lilte
Washington
Curtis Wells
West Chester
W. C. Nelson
General Land & Investment Company of
Des Moines
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FOX & Dewey’s
FOX & Dewey
C. E. Goforth
North Side
the Evening Journal
Leavenworth Kansas
Son In Gaming
Dr. Wightman
Egypt
the County News
A. W. D. Gill
Chicago
Mrs. Burrell Foster
Wellman
City
I. L. Colthurst
Ainsworth
Grace
Ethel Stone
Madison Klotz
Columbus
Junc
Tion
F. M. Colton
Miles Bradford
J. Guthrie
Miss Blanche
Mr. Wells
Shuuffer
Hughes & CO
Geo. Peck
South Dakota
Stein-Bloch
Kuppenheimer Smart Clothes
Hlome
Stein Bloch
Kuppenheimer
Stetson
Wilson Bros
SOL Rich & CO
Clothiers & Merchant Tailors
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