Odd Tales and Curious Feats From Wide World
A long column of miscellany reports Jerry Davis in Georgia trapping a buzzard by a improvised shirt harness and the bird’s death days later. Other items include hypnotism by Dr Feldmann, a 1000 pound moose kill in Maine, boxcar anecdotes from Vermont and Connecticut, and numerous oddities from across the U S such as a Georgia man finding gold rock and a Paris pigeon flight plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sttle
Jerry Davis
Georgia
Jerry
Berlin Medical Society
Virchow
Feldmann
Carrick
Sweet
Ashland
Fatal Mistakes in Drugs Highlight Prescription Dangers
A New York World article details how similar drug names and labeling errors cause dangerous mix ups. Experts warn clerks and physicians must label clearly and avoid hurried writing to protect patients and reputations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Landanum
Damocles
New York World
Barbarous Slavic Lover Causes Bold Rescue in Bosnia Tale
The article recounts Kate Kurezevics of Possedara in Bosuis fending off a rejected suitor and leaping from a precipice to avoid capture. Her rescue ends a violent raid by horsemen, while a Vienna Vers note cites old customs about a future husband’s family. Nebraska history notes its 76,185 square miles, settlement in 1854 at Omaha, and 1867 statehood March 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Kurezevics
Possedara
Bosuis
Vienna
Nebraska
Omaha
Dead Washington cited in strange English German exchange
At Woolbridge street station Carl Dunder discusses with Sergi Bendasil a dead man named George Washington. The dialogue shifts through comic mishearing about two men with the same name, weather strips, and a court visit, ending with Dunder planning to return to finish the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Bethlehem
Yessum
Sergi
Bendasil
Carl Dunder
Woolbridge Street
Washington
Vheil
George Washington
Sheorge Washington
Dean
Peter
Shust
Weill
Adeuian
Detrotte
Hurried Shopping in antemva Speaking of the Gneatera
A garbled diary like record notes hurried shopping and polite shoppers entering a store. The narrator mentions family members and neighbors discussing goods and weather while evaluating selections and thanking the clerk for service.
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The text provided is fragmented and unreadable. It cannot yield a coherent summary with identifiable people places or events.
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Norwich
Conn
Joe Dirre
Lecaiatiie Ky
Dietz
Louisville City Hospital
Edsert Jamieson
Chicago
Jamieson
California
West Point
Sheridan
Military Academy
Phil
Lys
Levi D. Fuuner
Corland
Ill
Mark Percy
Cox's Head
Acer Carorine Harris
Quitman County
Lafayette
Harris
Massachusitis
George G. Brogdon
Gwinnett
Champs de Mars
France
J. A. Minick
Worthington
Ind
John Hixson
Linton
Wipcats
West Stockbridge
Mass
Rockland Mills
Labrador
Niagara
Aman
Malton
Nev
Maine
Bullen’s Mills
Grorce R. Wuhr
Franklin, Ind
Grief
Kiel
Wilelmshafen
Rebecca Bouton
Lastman
Currenny
County
Nevada
Wasi
Mr. Ny
Mir
Ake dix
Tae
Antemva
Serre Anil
Werery
Howe
Tien
Thire
T, Peria
Prite
Ory
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Piatt
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