Roman cab tale in Howells collection
In a Roman cab from Pine to church steps our return ride proves perilous yet amusing as the weary driver clings to duty. The horse staggered through Via Sistina while we overpay and finally walk to our hotel, relieved to arrive alive.
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Touchy Servants and the Nesans In Hotel Life
A St Louis Post-Dispatch excerpt on Japanese nesans and their supposed artistic temperaments. It notes both endearing traits and habitual mishaps such as arranging grooming items as still lifes and causing spills. The hotel manager remains meek, delivering ex hortations with smiles to avoid scolding and preserve comfort.
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Spotted fever treatment in Wesley journal September 1746
John Trembath suffered a second relapse of spotted fever in September 1746 as recorded by John Wesley. Wesley notes sack, cold milk and apples and plums as remedies and reflects that Trembath’s recovery seemed tied to unfinished work.
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Ancient Abraham Could Read and Write
The piece argues that literacy existed long before modern times with examples from Abraham's era, noting that people in his native town wrote receipts for garden and market products over two millennia before Christ. Dr William Hanna Thomson is cited in Designer.
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Abraham
William Hanna Thomson
Reincarnation Talk Sparks Theories In Star Quote
A Washington Star item notes a young woman urging study of reincarnation while Mr Dustin Stax counters that investigations are causing him trouble with his past. The exchange hints at curiosity about past lives and self inquiry in a newspaper blurb.
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Brandie
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Getting an Education
A Chicago News quip questions college impact as Farmer Qutcake answers with a rural joke about learning. The exchange contrasts campus ideas with frontier practicality, highlighting differing views on education from a farmer’s perspective.
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Farmer Qutcake
Chicago News
Supreme Court Work Details Opinions and Conferencing
The article outlines how Supreme Court justices receive case lists from the chief justice, hold closed conferences, assign opinion writing, and circulate drafts. It explains the drafting process from dictation to printing, the handling of dissents, and eventual publication in the United States Reports.
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United States Supreme Court
The Duchesse du Maine’s Secluded Court Joke
In a tale from A Princess of Strategy a sick Duchesse at Sceaux questions a doctor about the value of seclusion. He retorts that she currently welcomes forty to fifty people at the chateau, implying that to a princess that counts as solitude.
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Buttoning the Dress Tale Sparks Laughs
A man recalls five years of buttoning his wife's dress and a selfmade shirt with sixty five back buttons. He tried to rebutton her but slipped, and she advised leaving the rest undone beneath his coat for stealth.
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Chicago Tribune
Mehemet Ali Aims to Elect Parliaments Himself
In Mehemet Ali's view, he would establish a parliament in Egypt and even multiple parliaments. He showed two lists of names and declared he would appoint the members himself to avoid inconvenience.
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Clock repair misdirection at Lazenbee home
Mrs Lazenbee orders the clock repairman to fetch the clock from upstairs. Mr Lazenbee thinks it is not upstairs and jokes that it has run down. The exchange unfolds in a light domestic moment.
Presence of Mind. Sarah Blum-How do I look in this hat
Dialogue captures a playful fashion moment with Sarah Blum asking for opinions on her hat while Sarah Bellum inspects from behind, set in a Chicago Tribune tone of light social snappiness.
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Destiny Bears Us to Our Lot
Fragmentary line reflects fate and choice with a philosophical tone. The text hints at destiny guiding events and human will shaping outcomes, attributed to a quoted source fragment.
Worshiping idols in a city of homes and churches
A Philadelphia sermon laments idol worship in modern life quoting Exodus and noting clay idols in an idol factory. The speaker contrasts statues with human failings and questions conscience amid materialism, casinos of success, and social ills. He asks who truly worships whom.
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