Strange Tales and Odd News From Various Locales
A long strange miscellany of anecdotes and curiosities from American towns. A Sacramento card game ends with a loser paying, Perry Missouri robbery linked to a marriage and an attempted poisoning, Boston spinal hang therapy for a sailor, a Berlin servant’s missing jewel found in a tree, skunk antics in Wisconsin, sword swallowing mishaps in San Francisco, and dramatic shipboard weddings in Philadelphia.
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Rheims
Berlin
Wisconsin
Wiliam Chrrtis
Countess Von Amerling on Tiger Hunts and Global Travels
The Countess Pete Von Amerling of Austria, recently from Los Angeles and San Diego, details tiger hunting in India, lions in Madras, kangaroos in Australia, and hunts in Lahore. She praises her Henry rifle, recalls expert marksman training, and plans further world travel before retirement.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Ocidental Hotel
Pete von Amerling
Austria
Los Angeles
San Diego
Count von Amerling
Countes
Globe
India
China
Japan
Corea
Austraia
California
Yosemite
Lahore
Antipodes
Madras
Madre
Lioess
Euiles
Australia
Great
Great Plain
Mlymuleteer
Giant corpse flower at Kew Gardens fascinates and repels visitors
A colossal Amorphophallus titan arum flower at Kew Gardens, described as a botanical phenomenon, captivated scientists and guests with a 45 foot circumference leaf and a four foot spathe. The bloom emitted a strong odor drawing flies for pollination, while the plant's gigantic spadix reached five feet in length and six feet nine inches total height, with warnings of the overwhelming smell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Peecvari
Sumatra
Aew Gardens
London
Kew Gardens
Fruit as Medicine and the Health Benefits of Popular Fruits
The article extols grapes especially black grapes as nutritious and purifying to the blood, praises peaches for hygiene and palatability, and recommends ripe peaches at breakfast. It notes oranges for fever drinks, apples as hygienic and helpful in illness, tomatoes for liver and gastric issues, and berries and cherries as cooling and nutritious.
Counterfeiters Use Pen and Ink to Create Passe Bills
A Washington Star report describes skilled counterfeiters who photograph signs and reproduce them with pen and ink. Detectives say the forgers pass off the notes to the careless and unobservant. An old ten dollar bill shown as an example is praised as a perfect counterfeit work. The forger has allegedly used this method for nine to ten years while investigators pursue him for seven or eight years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
The Battaks of Sumatra and Their Confed eration
The Battaks are a people allied with Malays on Sumatra's western coast and Sumatran lake regions. They are described as civilized agriculturists with writing, teaching children, and forming a loose confederation under a Toba Lake connection. The text notes their enemies, criminality, and romanticized youth practices in a poetic, altered form.
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Battaks
Sumar
Toba Lake
Enue
Ives
Antique Cedar Doors Featured in Hays House Project
A pair of eight foot cedar doors, cut from ancient stock and carved with deep reliefs, were purchased by Mrs. Hays for a house being erected by Hays. The relics came from Mexico and weigh 18 pounds each with solid wood stiles and rails and coppered pivots.
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S Brook
Hays
Mexico
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Ction
Sacramento
Dlhev
Perry
Henry King
King
Poltce
Wa. B. Dany
Jaly
San Francisco
Grifin
Neiry
Atlantic
Cape Verde Islands
Scheen
Philadelphia
Switzerland
Antwerp
Marie Meyer
Eberfeld
Germany
Pauline Voiz
Fredburg
Miss Maser
New Castle
Ind
Garret
Covington
Bruin
Kioto
Wellsville
Cameron Hicklanders
Balmoral
Queen Victoria
Scotland
Cameron
Macdonald
Washington
Harrisbore
Penn
Henry Bacu
Beaver River
Adirondecks
Wis
Coe Co
Chie Acar
Thialan
Cokrels
Anson
Java
Panape
Wien
Jatya
TOR
Iali
Lwollows Bo
Battak Lani
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