Bold Methods Save Hop Ling on Shipboard Surgery
On the Satsuma voyage from Yokohama to New York Captain Chubb and Chief Engineer Brand perform an improvised surgical cure for Hop Ling, a fireman with a hen egg sized tumor. Using shears, a needle, antiseptic, and cauterization, Hop Ling recovers within two weeks and resumes work aboard the tea laden vessel.
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Hop Ling
Bill Brand
Cephal
Brose
Satsuma
Yokohama
Hiogo
New York
A. B
Chubb
Hale Gee
Capt Chubb
Hop Sing
Capt. Chubb
Moely
Mr. Brand
Pyecroft
Theo
Pier 35
East River
Sled and Surfboard of Ancient Hawaiian Chiefess Found
Rediscovered in a Hookena cave on Hawaii, a sled and surfboard attributed to 250 to 300 years ago reveal the regalia of high chiefess Kenoamuna. Carved from breadfruit wood with coconut fiber ropes, they survived as relics with preserved condition.
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N. K Pukoi
Hawaii
Hookeens
Hookena
Keawenalaumi
Kenoamuna
Honkena
Nagled
Hookens
Honolulu
Chinese Fishing Cormorants Use Tamed Birds for River Catch
The article describes Chinese methods of fishing with trained cormorants. Birds sit on rafts with cords around their necks to prevent swallowing fish, then dive and return with catches. They release the fish into baskets after their necks are pinched. Cormorants excel at catching eels.
Ragpicker's Hidden Hoard in Braltleul Find
In Braltleul France a petty marine store owner faced police action after years of nuisance complaints. The shop was entered and cleared revealing a hidden hoard: twelve carts of rotting mass concealing two large sacks containing about 14 pounds of silver and copper coins. The owner, heartbroken, mourns the loss of his secret.
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Braltleul
France
Lived Long Over Century Shepherd Dies at 120
A Mondragone shepherd aged 120 passed away after a life marked by keen senses and unusual vigor. He rode daily, collected sticks each morning, and traveled the village streets on horseback until a fatal accident ended his long days.
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Mondragone
Italy
Curious Inscription On Unfinished 1819 House
An old house bears a tablet inscription from 1819 after a quarrel between owner and builder halted work for two years. The note advises quiet study and minding one’s own business. Peace was later restored with indemnity, and the inscription remains visible high on the wall for passersby.
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William Rushworth Field
Odd Fact of Collector Seeks Enduring Seal Collection
Parisian collector M Gustave Schlumburger has amassed fifty seals from princes and prelates tied to Crusader Syria. He plans to bequeath them to the French nation, including Amaury I of Jerusalem’s seal with Jerusalem’s three main buildings. Also notable is Balland Iberlin and a Maaraclens fortress seal.
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Gustave Schlumburger
Asprelates
Syria
Amaury I
Jerusalem
Ballan d‘Iberlin
Napleuse
Maaraclens
Costly Lord Mayor's Coach Still Used in Annual Parade
The Lord mayor's coach, originally costing over 5000 dollars, remains in use for the yearly procession. Nearly 150 years old, it has seen about 3.1 million spent refurbishing it for this sole occasion. A modern coach would cost five years of repairs, yet the ancient equipage endures in London’s November parade, likely to be used by future mayors as well. The term cotherous, from Roman equestrians, refers to a buskin reaching the knee.
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London
Strand
Trishman
Night firing drill targets Gibraltar channel fleet practice
British gunners near Gibraltar run a night firing drill using a tow target shaped like a destroyer outlined with incandescent lamps. The target can be switched on and off from the towing boat to simulate a realistic moving aggressor, appearing suddenly from darkness and vanishing minutes later to challenge aiming and reaction.
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Gibraltar
Pie Misadventure Ends Artist's Loft Dream
A distraught young artist recounts her failed exhibition hopes as a custard pie catastrophe ruins her dinner date with a potential millionaire. She narrates the dramatic pie fling that splattered the man and foiled months of hard work and rent plans.
Sharks Sense Beyond Smell Defies Explanation
A historical note describes sharks detecting distant carrion with a mysterious sense. It argues against sight and smell as the method and mentions a proposed “enrrion sense” shared with the Andean condor. The piece stresses naturalists lack a full explanation and must name the phenomenon.
Circular flat loaves found in Pompeii bake ovens
Archaeologists uncovered circular flat bread forms among the ruins of Pompeii’s bake ovens, indicating baking practices used by the ancient city’s bakers. The discovery sheds light on daily life and cuisine in Pompeii prior to the eruption.
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Pompeii
woman Bedomes Broker opens office in Cincinnati
Mrs Carlotta Thompson Brown opened a broker's office in the Mercantile Library Building Cincinnati. A former bank cashier the only woman in Cincinnati in that role she left domestic life to reenter business saying housework is tiresome and wastes ability.
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Mercantile Library
Cincinnati
Carlotta Thompson Brown
Brown
Vindictive Bachelors Farm Club Forms in Sullivan County
The New York Sun reports that ten Roscoe and Rockland bachelors in Sullivan County formed an anti-matrimony club after being jilted by summer girls. Members vow not to marry under a $100 penalty and have built a clubhouse on leased land to reinforce bachelorhood amid stories of rejections by local women.
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Bachelors Farm Club
Roscoe
Rockland
Sullivan County
Society of Ladies
Eltygiria
New York Sun
Cat Returns Home For Winter Prophecy In 1908 Pattern
Goffstown correspondence notes a yearly feline visitor at Isaac Page’s house signaling winter’s arrival. The big yellow cat, famed as a weather prophet, returns to the Breside area each year after enjoying warmth, then heads back to the woods around May.
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Isaac Page
Goffstown
Boston
Cotton Plant Blooms In Winter In Ashland
In Ashland Aroostook county a cotton plant blooms proving a curiosity. The seed came from Mrs H A Greenwood of Atlanta last winter. Planted in March the blossoms appeared on Thanksgiving day. Boston Globe reports the rare winter bloom as a notable botanical oddity.
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Ashland
Aroostook County
Mra H. A. Greenwood
Atlanta
Boston Globe
Ghost terror ends gout cure in Naples tale
In Naples Maine a tavern keeper named Chute, crippled by gout, rides with Ruggles to the graveyard after a reported ghost sighting. A shout from the grave leads to panic, but the fright proves to be two men stealing sheep. Chute departs the scene walking free, reportedly cured of his lameness.
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Naples
Chute
Ruggles
Mr. Chute
Chalk-Written Will Probated in Rebel France
A quirky will found under a bed in Donmely bequeaths all property to Ardenne borough upon condition the mayor and council pay 300 francs to local fire brigade for a bean feast. Relatives disputed, but the court ruled the document valid.
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Rebel
France
Donmely
Borough of
Ardenne
Monument to Pig in Worsley England Stirs Curiosity
In Worsley near Manchester England a unique monument honors an extraordinary pig named Polly. The pig's son, aged 15, has produced 204 progeny with four dying in infancy. The site is described as a one of a kind memorial in world history.
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Worsley
Manchester
England
Polly
Nuober
Record in Butter Making Delights Readers
In an era of creamery butter a solo maker produced 1,800 pounds in a year. Mrs. Edgar EB Chase of South Bethel Maine achieves this feat while Warren Eason of Brattleboro Vermont has given away over 400 canes. He began years ago from walnut found on Wantastiquet mountain and keeps at it.
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Edgar EB. Chase
South Bethel
Warren Eason
Brattleboro
Vermont
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Stady
Rome
Ompdian Bread
Pig
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