Notable German General Josiah von Heeringen Profile
A portrait of Josiah von Heeringen, praised as a premier Kaiserreich strategist. Trained under Moltke, Heeringen shares similar looks and chess like hobbies, and is renowned for his mastery of Metz fortifications. His career spans enlistment in 1867, chief of division on the staff, war subsistence director, army corps commander, minister of war, and adviser near Verdun.
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Josiah von Heeringen
von Moltke
von Heeringen
War Department
Second
Bavaria
Verdun
Boer General De Wet and Dickensian Christmas Tale Combined
A fragmented OCR blend recounts General Christian de Wet leading Boer War resistance against Britain and a Dickensian Christmas tale about Flip in Duchess Row London. The piece juxtaposes De Wet’s guerrilla tactics with Gabriel Grubb’s moral awakening through goblins and a sobering midnight visit.
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Christian Rudoph de Wet
Comet Line Sparks Coat Gesture at School Exhibition
A juvenile elocutionist at a school show attempted a dramatic gesture for the line The comet lifts its tall of fire. He raised the tail of his coat to mimic a blazing tail, drawing laughs and causing a notable interruption during the recital.
Quotations on Silence From Classic Thinkers
A collection of aphorisms about silence from Addison Carlyle Bovee and others. The excerpts praise silence as an effective response to calumny, emphasize discretion in conversation, and claim eloquence lies in quietness. The quotes underscore safety and restraint in social exchange.
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Addison
Christmas Carols and the Christmas Tree Tradition
Verses celebrate winter scenes and Christmas joys with skating and holly. The piece traces the Christmas tree’s origins from ancient European practices of gift hangings on pines to Christian gift giving, noting these customs diverged in the nineteenth century and will remain separate for years.
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Europe
Riming Dates: A Date Game in Regency Style
An old party game text describes a hostess assigning a date to a guest who must rhyme with the date and with related words. The chain then continues as each guest rhymes and names another date linked to a clue such as overflowing, heart shaped, fear inspiring, obliging, adjusting, liquidating, or anticipating. The playful exercise links dates with wordplay and social roles.
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Boston
Consoldite
Entertaining Parlor Games With Poem Drawings
Guests choose slips with birds animals and objects from a board. Each guest writes a six line poem under their drawing then reads it aloud. A second game called the Blind Artist has a guest drawing an object while blindfolded.
Christmas party Jack Horner and playful quizzes
A newspaper item describes a crape paper Jack Horner as a replica of plum pudding with holly on top, placed at dessert to share favors. It notes that this edible decor is both food for body and mind. A quiz asks jokes about Bacon, wives at pitch and toss, memory, and nose length leading to a “foot” punchline.
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Jack Horner
Norway's Gunpowder Production and Ingredients
All gunpowder for the Norwegian army is made at a government factory near Raufoss. Nitroglycerin is used in sharpshooting cartridges and progressive powder from guncotton. Both ingredients are now purchased from a factory at Eugene. Small gun powder is leaf form while cannon powder is tube form.
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Norway
Raufoss
Eugene
How Speech Changes English Words Across Parts of Speech
A historical note explains how English lost many endings that marked speech parts. The root forms now enable nouns and verbs to share words like love, with only conventional spellings preserving past distinctions. Professor Pham as Ro Lounsbury in Harpers Magazine.
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Lane
Amor
Phamas Ro Lounsbury
Harpers Magazine
Size of the Heart and a Tiny House
A girl once believed marriage required a grand home with a vast library and formal rooms. Years later she found happiness in a small frame house, proving the real measure is the heart, not the house size, as told by a Philadelphia Ledger reflection.
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Philippa
Flip
Duchess Row
London
Eflip
Cupid
Philadelphia Ledger
Vanity box reveals 4000-year-old cosmetic habits
The Philadelphia Ledger notes a complete vanity box from 2000 B C shown at the University of Pennsylvania Museum as a gift from the British School of Archaeology in Egypt. The delicately carved ivory box held paints powders and a glass container for perfumes with a concealed spring lid and a polished stone mirror.
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B. C
University of Pennsylvania
British School of Archaeology
Egypt
Philadelphia Ledger
The Prussian Guards Recruitment Tale
The article recounts Frederick the Great creating a royal guard of giants and sending agents across nations to recruit exceptional individuals. It notes extraordinary bounties offered, including a seven foot Irishman allegedly paid £1300 by the Prussian ambassador in London.
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Frederick the Great
London
Plumber Sees Missing Twenty Dollar Piece On Sidewalk
A Buffalo News item recalls a plumber meeting a distressed man asking about a lost twenty dollar gold piece. The plumber recalls seeing something on the sidewalk nearby but did not stop to check, illustrating a small moment of temptation and honesty.
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Buffalo News
City carriers urged to fix Herald delivery by 6 pm
Subscribers who miss Tuesday or Friday Herald deliveries by 6 p m are asked to call City Messenger Co at phone 72. They will deliver a copy immediately to the recipient, aiding the publisher.
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Herald
City Messenger Co
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Gabriel
Seston
Charles Dickens
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Cicero
Hannah More
John Boyle O'Reilly
Holly Oright
Conundrums
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Tlow
Louisville Courier
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Posteo
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Ash
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Wishkah Street
J. Carney
Effort
N. W. Ayer & Son
Philadelphia
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