Smuggling, Locusts, and Odd News Across the World
Reports from Paris detail a clever contraband trick where wreaths hid brandy in wooden boxes at the Menilmontant gate. Ohio unearthed a mass grave of over fifty skeletons with beads and tools. Notes cover locust plagues in Egypt and Algeria, storming rats aboard a wrecked ship, and various curious domestic incidents and discoveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Menilmontant
Mazas
Ohio
Joshua Kelly
Union Landing
Ohio River
Africian
Egypt
Algeria
French Academy
M. Kunckel Herculais
Trenton N J
St. Mary's Island
Newcastle
England
Newcastle Chronicle
The Jokers Budget and interlude humor items
A collage of humorous comic strip snippets and quips from newspapers includes lines about a party in Denver with a lone familiar face, poets versus plumbers, a clock from Connecticut, and a poisoned bill joke. Other bits feature school misunderstandings, love and finance, and street corner banter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
East
Connecticut
Detroit Free Press
Paris's Funeral Monopoly Exploits the Dead
An exposé on Paris Pompes Funebres detailing its vast assets and profits while providing free indigent burials. It notes the city's necropolis industry, the northeast La Vuillette facilities, and the spectacle of funeral processions as part of a broader critique of lavish display. The piece ends with a New York death-rate reference for contrast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dog's Island
Anglesea
N. J
Samuel Chance
Paris
Pompes Funebres
Dharch
Patagonian
la Vuillette
The Obstinate Thing
A Manchester Times tale recounts princes testing a chapeau claqué trick with a plain hat. An attempted flourish fails then a royal joke lands as the Crown Prince salutes and says the hat would not start but they made it hum. The wrecked hat is replaced and kept as a souvenir of the future head of state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Sole
Hicountrys
Manchester Times
The Alaskan Woman's Boat and Skin-Boat Craft
The article describes the oom ak or woman's boat as a large skin boat built from walrus hide with strong lines. It notes these skin boats can carry thirty to forty people and become whaling vessels. Mr Elliott recalls initial unease at cold green water but grows confident in the craft's seaworthiness, stating skin covered boats endure more pounding than wood or corrugated iron light ers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Mr. Elliott
New York
Tim
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LIPE
Rata
Theranguis
Nimrud
Maithia
Irans
Italy
Scandinavia
Brittany
St Louis Republic
Bridget Colgan
Philadelphia Hospital
Miss Colgan
Erin
Bridget
Alps
Vprof. Moller
Shuilwatden
India
Philadelphia Zoo
Europe
America
Annie McCormick
Hawkinsville
Dispatch
Joann Soussey
South Bend
Sousley
Wropitlock
Wryandette National Bank
Kansas City
Kan
Charlies Barber
St. Mary's
Potomas
Mexico
Deming
New Mexico
B. R. Young
Mr. Young
Mary Roberts
Heiligenkreuz
Vienna
Ernest Russell
Muncie
Ind
Ree
Anatotel
Miss Litehead
Sothdigele
Sweet Eighteen
Yves
New York Weekly
Bingo
Detroit
Johnny Peastrow
Willie
Chicago Tribune
Featherstone
Ebony
Detra
Free Press
Tao
Pierebee Sa
Brooklyn
Mary
Texas
Calter
Wen
Bride
Honey
Angel
Laden
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