Whipping Idol of Prize Ring Tells of Sullivan
The article recalls John L. Sullivan as a youth in Springfield facing early discipline under Professor James A. Page at Dwight Grammar School. Sullivan boasted of fights and mischief, but showed literacy gains in arithmetic and English before rough geographies. Page recounts his early corporal correction with a two-foot ruler.
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Waiters Lose Perks Under Efficiency Drive in England
The article notes that with high taxes in England the efficiency expert targets old hotel customs. Porters and waiters no longer earn by selling guest papers or corks. Management now collects these items for bulk sale to benefit the house.
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England
London
Men of Renown Renounce Self Praise
Aeschines notes that worthy men of public service should not boast of their deeds. He warns that self praise is unwelcome and undermines true merit, suggesting humility and restraint in speaking of one’s accomplishments.
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Aeschines
Radio therapy for insomnia gains support in hospitals
Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter, chief surgeon at the Third London General Hospital, advocates radio use to calm nervous conditions and insomnia. He cites patients stabilizing through hospital radios and, with Sir Henry Hadow, argues radio would be a practical medical advance today.
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Bruce Bruce-Porter
London General Hospital
Redio
Henry Hadow
Was it soup or coffee splash in hotel orchestra spill
A New York station received a letter asking whether a tray incident during a hotel orchestra broadcast produced soup or coffee. The writer claimed a family vote of two to one favours coffee, with one wife preferring soup, illustrating a playful inquiry from Collier's Weekly.
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New York
Collier's Weekly
Siphon Water to Capital Nears Completion
Popular Science Monthly reports a massive siphon near Washington nearing completion for the Great Fall conduit to supply water to the national capital. The single siphon, over 20 miles of piping, will provide momentum to deliver water and is expected to be ready for operation in May.
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Washington
Popular Science Monthly
Great Fall
National
Peculiar Mourning Rite in Coira District
In New Gainea’s Coira district, widows observe a year of mourning by coating themselves with pipeclay and keeping their toeheads bare as a sign of grief. This unusual custom highlights local ritual practices and social expectations surrounding loss.
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Coira
New Gainea
Tenacious Scout Counts Pawnee Attack in 1848
Sage recounts a Kansas prairie episode where he and Grin pursued water and forage with horses. They encounter a Pawnee party. Sage and the scout count arrows and riders, claiming forty foes when the tally reaches forty-one. The result ends in a draw as they ride on.
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Sage
Kansas
Grin
H. R. Waterman Winges
Adventure Magazine
Bert
Modern Girl Taller and Stronger Than Earlier Generations
A Ohio coeducational college reports that modern first year women are taller stronger and heavier than grandmothers and mothers at comparable ages. Study samples include 1000 women entering college in three periods 1900s 1909–15 and 1918–22 showing the average freshman height about 5 feet 6 inches previously and nearly two inches taller now with stronger tests.
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Dimas
Physical Education
Ohio
Toledo Blade
Brass and Copper Revival Shapes Home Decoration
A shift toward brass and copper accents in interior design highlights the open fireplace and candlelit ambience. Writers note these metals brighten drab rooms with scintillating surfaces, reviving colonial style metal crafts in furnishings and fixtures.
Oldest Bush Claim From Dr Wherry in Perry County
Dr Edgar T Wherry of the U S Department of Agriculture told AAAS members that a box huckleberry bush in Perry County Pennsylvania is the oldest bush in the world. The plant runs a mile and a quarter along a hill, grows six inches yearly, and may be about 12,000 years old according to his estimate.
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Edgar T. Wherry
United States Department of Agriculture
American Association For the Advancment of Science
Perry County
Wherry
Pathfinder Magazine
Evidently Latest Style Shopper and Salesman Exchange
A brief, dialog style exchange reports a shopper seeking the newest style and a salesman confirming it remains current. The piece reflects a witty, clipped conversation tone typical of hoorde era newspaper text.
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Boston
Betwixt in Wedding Word Clash Ends In Ceremony
The Toronto Globe reports a wedding where the groom, fixated on using between rather than betwixt, faced repeated attempts by the clergyman to say betwixt during the rite. After four tries, influenced by subconscious tension, the bridegroom finally spoke the word correctly as the ceremony concluded happily.
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Toronto Globe
Sheep shot after 28 mile chase by British agriculture board
Officials of the British board of agriculture shot a sheep after a 28 mile pursuit to capture it amid reports it had been exposed to foot and mouth disease. The escape led officials to end the chase and destroy the animal to prevent spread.
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Board of Agriculture of Britain
Longevity Claim Of Countess Of Desmond Noted Portrait Added
The record states that the greatest age for a woman since the Christian era is 140 years, attributed to the Celebrated Countess of Desmond who died in 1604. A portrait of the countess, a prominent sixteenth century figure, has been donated to the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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Countess of
Desmond
Natonal Portrait Gallery
London
Cortez Tree Disappears After Sheltering Legend Declared Gone
The Cortez tree known as The Tree of the Weef Night, said to have sheltered Cortez four years ago, has been taken down. Fragments are guarded as a possible trunk may be placed in a Mexican museum. The site recalls Cortez resting there after leaving the Aztec capital.
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Cortez
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