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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1910
Page
31
An illustration depicts the largest shell and the sixteen inch gun at Sandy Hook Proving Grounds. The armor piercing shell weighs about 2400 pounds and can travel over 20 miles. The powder charge nears 300 pounds and firing cost is substantial.
An examination argues that Chicago workers eat more beef than Boston or Seattle workers, linking meat intake to vitality. It critiques vegetarian fads and praises red meat for workers, noting Chicago’s access to affordable beef, urban diet pressures, and healthier physiques among meat eaters.
The tale, told by Ralph Nevill, follows an Englishman in a ruined Australian settlement who hosts two tramps for a card game. A muddled paper land title becomes the stake, and after luck shifts, the host wins a sequence of fortunes that ends abruptly with dawn.
A battered tale describes a stranger’s obsession with a scrap of paper said to prove a mine title in Australia. The Englishman’s cautious bargaining reveals fat sums won after the paper exchange, and the narrative shifts to famed gamblers like Mellish and Brummell, illustrating a long chase of luck and loss across historic games and wagers.
A New York Press account recalls a 1900 Berlin riot at Post Office No 99 amid a picture postcard craze. Thousands flooded Unter den Linden and outlying districts to slam stamps with Berlin 99 markings, believing the stamp would bring a rare thrill that would not recur for a century.
An article discusses smoking not for nicotine but for sensory and motor effects. It cites doctors who doubt nicotine drives pleasure, notes eye strain theories, and argues smoking supplies mental occupation and distraction, comparing tobacco to wild bayeeed and Pituri.
A curious mash of natural history fantasy and early 1900s romantic advice. The piece blends legends of the guascuts and horned beasts with whimsical notes on wireless telephones, urging lovers and husbands to keep lines open. It contrasts past and present tech while offering cautionary domestic anecdotes about miscommunication.
The narrator and companions stalk a legendary gyascuptis in the veld using a Tolley express rifle. After initial missteps and a wound, the beast is finally fired upon, with commentary on the creature’s anatomy and origin. The tale blends hunting bravado with comic pseudo natural history and local color.
Chicago Venay Sam Schildkret leads the Hungarian Orchestra at a Chautauqua event. The performer, famed for an enchanted flute solo during a low lit encore, captivates with barbaric rhythm and ethereal melodies. His past fame includes Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s wedding attendance.
Cedar Grove reports Squire Hake Baltwin equips a deaf horse with railroad style semaphore signals for day and night use. Baldwin bought the horse in Newark, learned it is deaf, and after trials with signals the horse reliably responds. He values the trained animal at far above $100.
Clover Ridge proprietor M C Brown reports hens producing eggs that ease the famine with unusual shells. One egg had four yolks, all enclosed by soft shells inside a soft outer shell. Another egg measured 7% by inches with soft shell containing a whole egg with a soft shell and inside it a second egg. A pullet lays eggs measuring 64 by 8 inches.
Chicago settler Chafin inherits a six inch Hercules bronze from a mysterious Greek laborer. The 100000-dollar artifact prompts Greek officials and collectors to intervene as revelations trace its excavation from a hidden mine to Kansas City and then Chicago. The owner fears extradition and Greek anger while authorities debate ownership and return.
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