Various Global Facts and Inventions Highlight 1905 News
A montage of items from 1905 covers electricity deficits in British councils, California ebony cultivation, early news boats for intelligence, a judge’s sentencing tweak, Hartford auto firms opening chauffeur schools, a new planet near Aquarius, women coal loaders in Japan, Swiss sanatorium weight retention, the Zambesi bridge at Victoria Falls, a century-old whisky bottle myth in Fairton, auto export records, South American trade talks, the rise of picture cards in mail, and radium energy estimates.
Writer Seethes Over Editorial Courtesy and Rejections
A writer vents at the insult of polite rejections from editors who return typewritten pieces. He criticizes editors for faking kindness and failing to say plainly what they think, arguing honesty would spur more honest work and fewer submissions.
Private Denny Hogan Drives Out On Prairie Picnic
A small party including Lt. Elmore and Private Hogan leaves a border fort for a picnic. Hogan scouts from a cottonwood tree then warns of danger to protect the women and child as a sense of duty and humor mix with frontier bravado.
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Elmore
Denny Hogan
Hogan
Lieut
Alt
Denny Hogan Dies in Bold River Crossing Heroic Escape
An action packed Civil War era chase ends with Private Denny Hogan killed while guiding a wagon full of women and a child toward the fort under fire. The narrator notes the male majority in the U.S. census and cites aging trends in Success Magazine. Training, courage, and sacrifice anchor the dramatic scene amid prairie dust and river crossing. Hogan’s final stand underscores the frontier courage highlighted by Cleveland Leader.
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Hogan
Elmore
Denny
Denny Hogan
Cleveland
United States
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
Rhode Isand
Alo
Success Magazine
Cats as Food in Northern Italy
In northern Italy cats are a favored market food despite laws against eating them. Cats are fattened with care and believed superior to rabbits. They are roasted in an oven with onions garlic parsley bay leaf red wine and various herbs.
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Northern
Italy
Prize Fighters Supplied For Political Elections
In Whitechapel an old prize-ring member opens a shop supplying protectors to parliamentary candidates and others facing danger. He counts nobility and MPs among patrons as general election tensions rise. Deaf Man Hit Now He Hears. Benjamin Zehner of Ashland Pa who was deaf since typhoid was struck by an engine and thrown 30 feet. He recovered hearing and doctors expect no further trouble.
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Fairton
Hoses Husted
Robert Wescoat
Whitechapel
Benjamin Zehner
Ashland
Unusual Bits from Pulp Fame Found in Funny Vignettes
A trio of humorous clippings from old papers features a streetcar delay with soot smudges, a sales clerk advised to display outfits by weather, and a warden describing a notorious bank robber Steel and a starving thief in a short, witty exchange.
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Tims
Steel
Puck
All for Baby and Baby Whiskers inPushy Family Skit
Philadelphia Press tone sketches a humorous scene with Mrs Popley and Mr Popley discussing a baby tugging side whiskers while Mr Burn visits. The piece shifts to a clinic gag where a patient questions why surgery is needed and a young doctor candidly says money, exposing a wry medical humor moment from a judge’ perspective.
The Bosa Don't. Friend- You Appear To Think Duty
In a Cleveland Leader exchange a Drug Clerk argues the weight of responsibility lies with the proprietor while the Friend counters that any mistake could cost the clerk their job. The dialogue highlights workplace accountability and employer vs employee risk.
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Bosa
Cleveland
Great Advantage Enyclopedia Prompted Arguments
A fragment from humorous exchanges shows references to an encyclopedia used to argue, with dialogue about reading twenty volumes, a change in behavior, and reactions to a poodle with pneumonia. The notes mix newspaper blurbs and quips from various papers.
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Mia
Hogan
Family Entertains and Engagements Spark Gossip
A collage of humorous and chiding lines from multiple papers features couples discussing engagements and gifts, social norms, and fashion. Witty exchanges reflect era attitudes toward romance, money, and propriety through sketches and cross-refs from Cincinnati Enquirer The Family, Washington Star Economy, Tows Topics Hand of Custom, N. Sun Inform, and Cassell's.
Forsythe's Brave Stand At Beecher's Island Battle
In 1868 a large Indian raid on Saline and Solomon rivers provoked a scout company led by Brevet Brig. Gen. Forsythe and Lieut. Beecher. They held a river island against 1,500 warriors, suffering heavy casualties including Lieut. Beecher and Col. Forsythe. Roman Nose led the assault. Forsythe ordered a fatal defense with volleys to break the charge. A relief company arrived eight days later. Memorials fund and monument plans proceed for Beecher's Island, with a September 17, 1905 unveiling.
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Saline
Solomon Rivers
Kansas
Sheridan
Military Department of the Missouri
National Tribune
George A. Forsythe
Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Republican Valley
Spencer
Joy
Army of the Cumberland
Twentieth Corps
Joe Hooker
Atlanta
Hickory
Resaca
Peach Tree Creek
Dr. Moore
Col. Forsythe
Roman Nose
Forsythe
George Oaks
Roman Noze
George Fred
Indiana
Medicine Man
Col. Carpenter
Tenth Cavalry
Colorado
Beecher’s Island Memorial Association
Ray. Col
Grand Army of the Republic
Denver
United States
Ray
General Crawford's Pledge And The Flogging Halt
The anecdote from Wellington’s peninsular war recalls General Crawford who halted a brigade court martial after punishing two bread thieves. He praised a kindly bugler, recalling a past act of mercy in Buenos Ayres, and halted the lash sequence amid the crowd. The scene ends with Crawford noting the bugler’s faltering flogging, then stopping the punishment.
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Wellington
Crawford
Costello
Whitelocke
Buenos Ayres
Trouble He Took with Himself
A Lippincott’s Magazine anecdote recalls General Sherman stopping at a country home where a tin bastion and a roller towel served for ablutions. After two mornings the boy watched his toilet routine with curiosity until on the third day the traveler used and reset his brushes and tools, then the boy asked if the visitor was always so much trouble to himself.
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Gen. Sherman
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Williston
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Mexico
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Aquarius
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Koenigstuh! Observatory
Heidelberg
Japan
Zambesi River
Victoria Fall
South America
Lincoln Hutchinson
State Department
Rilo de Janeiro
Russia
Uergy
Private Denny Hogan
Madge
Dennny
Lorane
Collen
Agati
Mr. Makinbrakes
Cleveland Leader
Janes
Houston Post
Gladys
Tit-Bits
ENGA
Tom
Tess
Cincinnati Enquirer
Washington Star
Clara
Jack
Stella
Bella
Miss Goode
Beecher’s Island
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