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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1908
Page
35
A described apparatus features a keel with a forward propeller, a gear wheel, and handles operated by body movement. The wearer gains backward and forward water propulsion via a Hartley motion, enabling controlled speeds and steering from a central, awkward reach.
The piece details railroad workers nearly all believing in omens and charms, recounting dramatic wrecks and encounters with lucky tokens. It notes specific anecdotes from engineers and conductors, including cursed dates, flower offerings, and a famed old mail sack saved from past wrecks, illustrating a culture rich in superstition and ritual across the railway.
A long, vivid list describes railroad workers and passengers clinging to luck charms and avoidant rituals. Tales speak of cursed engines, doomed crews, and methods to avert disaster from left handed engineers to avoiding corpses in cars, with beliefs shared by brakemen, firemen, judges, and travelers.
Wilderness fisherman recounts three week trek near Jackman and Little Fish Pond. He describes using a field mouse as bait to tempt a large trout, hooking the mouse and letting it swim over the retreat where the big fish rose and swallowed the bait, claiming the fish weighed about five pounds. He notes pride in outwitting the crafty trout.
The Springfield Republican notes Kipling Ontario and Shakespeare Oregon as curious Canadian and American place names, observing a lack of Shakespearean adoption despite many US towns bearing names from Milton, Goldsmith, Dickens, Scott, Byron, Tennyson, and Thackeray, with Browning clubs also missing.
A Philadelphia Record report explains the Colgate clock near completion in Jersey City will surpass Philadelphia City Hall as the largest clock. It describes a six ton mechanism, 88 foot face diameter, bronze gears, 1500 pound weights, a 8 foot pendulum, and a 120 foot dial with 13 foot hour hand. The piece weighs about 600 pounds on the time train and is designed for precise timekeeping with Remontoire and long winding intervals.
A spoof prospectus notes underwriters Hustlers Freres offer a block of Prince Hunwan kesha shares to defray travel and social costs. It claims the prince will sail July 1 to Newport to meet heiresses and will marry many, boosting the stock value. The piece satirically exaggerates expenses and marriage plans as a financial joke.
A long, droll tale from New Orleans describes a tropical consular post where a lazy American consul and a clever German vice consul vie for influence. The arrival of a new Wisconsin consul, Mr Thompson, sets up tension as ambitions clash and local intrigues unfold in a sun baked port on the Spanish Main.
A New York press item notes Peter Bayles an Englishman wrote the entire Bible by pen and transcribed it into an eggshell miniature manuscript. The shell, shaped like a book, contained many leaves each mirroring a Bible leaf. The piece sparked question what happened to this homeopathic literary oddity and why someone would pursue such a tiny work with no apparent money in it.
Dr Tomoya Suge offers a literary portrait to the Herald describing adventuresome religious enthusiasm with parallels among Western races. He first drew public notice by an exhibition of pain tolerance, walking barefoot over hot embers after climbing a ladder of swords, an act witnessed by interested onlookers.
The piece discusses how horse owners battle to name foals so registrars accept them, highlighting famous examples like Question Mark with a white blaze, Himyar named from a southern remark, and Peter Pan named after Miss Maude Adams. It notes Keeneland’s owner’s tradition of fitting names to skill, with other cases of misread or mis-spelled names like Notasulga, and mentions names tied to celebrities, generals, or ships, all reflecting personality and pedigree.
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