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A London householder claimed his tomcat begged for cheese, ate it, then went to a mousehole and breathed heavily down it — apparently trying to lure the mice with the smell.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 27, 1926 · p. 4
Open the original newspaper ↗The experimental propeller could take off with two blades and then bring two additional blades into use at altitude, changing its working configuration in flight.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 27, 1926 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗The newspaper looked back to an extraordinary Napoleonic-era episode in which Iceland briefly had a self-proclaimed ruler of its own. The paper put his reign at about two months.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 27, 1926 · p. 4
Open the original newspaper ↗Princeton graduate student William N. Creighton was reported to have made fireflies glow continuously by injecting them with adrenaline, replacing their normal intermittent flashes with sustained light.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 27, 1926 · p. 4
Open the original newspaper ↗Fakir Tahra Bey reportedly allowed himself to be buried in a coffin under sand for ten minutes. When dug up he was unconscious, then recovered within minutes.
Record-Journal · Sept. 27, 1926
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