Curious Cases From Daily Life Across Towns
The article sketches odd incidents and rumors from various locales. It notes a German villagerumor of a persistent illness in a town official’s daughter, a Fresno fake petrified bodies scheme, quarrelsome sisters, and other curious tales including a London keep left sign, an age guessing bias, and a revived life episode using electricity. It also mentions misadventures with a lion kept as a pet, a lost mine mystery near Durango, and engineers shedding engine loyalties.
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Weety
Ro. Wakeman
London
Pitti Sing
Glasgow
Ocean Mariner
Wyer G. Sargent
Mexico
New York
Cape Hatteras
Dells
Cripple Creek
Col
Crow-Roost in Missouri Draws Farmer Worries
In Southwest Missouri a vast crow roost attracts farmers, who report nightly roars and damage to wheat fields. Locals consider asking the State Legislature to offer a bounty on crow heads to curb the birds and move their roosts.
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Charles Jones
Missouri
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Figs and Thistles Short Sermons from the Ram's Horn
A fragmentary front of moral maxims and quips urging faithfulness and daily virtue. A mix of religious slogans, warnings about sin, perseverance through trials, and calls to live simply and righteously. The voice is exhortative and devotional with scattered misprints.
Tar and Feathers Punishment and Calfornia Poppy Note
This fragment discusses tar and feather punishment as a historical sanction tied to public decency and theft, notes medieval origins under Richard and Philip Anguetus, and briefly describes the California poppy Eschscholtzia as the state flower with its features and varieties. It also mentions an English journal claiming most men have blue eyes.
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Richard
Philip Anguetus
California
Arges
Valiers
Foothille
Ama‘ier
None But Royal Baking Powder Praised For Purity
The Royal Baking Powder is described as absolutely pure with superior leavening strength and wholesome flavor. It contrasts with alum-containing rivals, noting that official analyses prove Royal’s healthfulness and performance, endorsed by U S and Canadian chemists, state analysts, health boards, and physicians.
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U.S
United States
Canada
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