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Epitaph From Port Royal Tomb Records Frenchman Louis Caldy
An epitaph from a Port Royal Jamaica tomb notes Louis Caldy Esquire born in Montpelier France who fled the revocation and was swallowed by the 1692 earthquake. He survived a second shock and fell into the sea where he was rescued and lived forty years afterward.
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Louis Caldy
Montpellier
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Froebel on Childhood and Education in The Kindergarten
Philosophical aphorisms extolling early childhood education as foundational to peace and order. Froebel argues that nurseries shape future virtue, liberty through discipline, and the child as teacher, blending earthly nature with heavenly ideals in a call for nurturing, lawful learning environments.
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Nature
Heaven
Froebel
Guardian Angel of the Galveston Storm Survivor
A pilot recalls a Galveston flood incident from 1893 in which a wrecked cabin held a lone boy on a raft for seven days. He refused a salvage buoy, later aiding the boy until quarantine, pondering unseen forces guiding survival and calling truth stranger than fiction.
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Galveston
Chicago
Gulf
Grand Isle
Wealth and power do not grant true greatness
Samuel Johnson argues that wealth cannot change nature and that abundance can corrupt those who obtain it. He notes rulers’ fragile impact beyond palaces and warns that wealth without true needs satisfied leads to luxury, idleness, and misery.
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Samuel Johnson
Little Miss Tardygirl Dreams of a Meadow Life
A bedtime tale from Youth’s Companion follows little Miss Tardygirl who imagines turning into a flower elf. She seeks nectar, visits a Toadstool cafe, and longs for a lily bed before waking from her vivid dream.
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Miss Tardygirl
The Goldsmith’s Dust Dollar Saver
A goldsmith keeps a dust barrel of floor sweepings believed to contain gold dust. He explains the dirt yields valuable particles collected over time, with potential profits from smelting. The corrugated floor aids catching gold dust, forming a significant, hidden source of income for the shop.
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Goldsmmith
Telephoning the Dog from Toronto
A Toronto woman forgets her brown spaniel two miles from home. Neighbors coax the dog to a receiver via a phone held to its ear, and the dog returns home at her command after the whistled cue.
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Toronto
Paddy
To Cover a Ball Using Orange Peel Construction
An instructional note describes covering a ball by slicing a round orange into quarters with numbered ends for reassembly. The pulp is scooped out and four pieces cut from a shell material are prepared to wrap the ball.
A Famous Old Tree Dies After Two Millennia in Ravenna Park
The ancient fir in Ravenna Park Seattle, long thought living, is declared dead. Forestry experts estimate its age at over 2,000 years based on nearby stump rings, making it one of North America’s oldest non-sequoia trees.
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Ravenna Park
Seattle
The Falling Soldier Game Played At Home
A playful party game describes players standing in a line and performing a sequence that ends with the line collapsing like a house of cards as each person pushes the next forward.
Mourning Colors Across Nations Noted in Historic Observation
The piece lists mourning hues by country: violet in Turkey, pale brown in Persia, earth tones in Ethiopia and Abyssinia, scarlet by a French king, scar yellow in Egypt and Burma. It notes the contrast between simple tasks and harder fashion challenges, citing a Philadelphia Ledger quotation on matching worn coats with new trousers.
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Persia
Ethiopia
Abyssinia
Egypt
Burma
Philadelphia Ledger
Self Restraint and the Virtue of Democracy
Elihu Root argues that constitutional limits are essential to liberty and order and that self restraint is the supreme virtue of democracy. He cites historical lessons on how mass action can undermine liberty and urges adherence to constitutional rules.
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United States
Elihu Root
Hill Public Accountant Booke Audited and Kept Office
Hill Public Accountant advertises audited books and kept accounts with office systems installed at 518 East Wishkah and telephone 28 providing bookkeeping services.
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Hill Public Accountant
Booke
East Wishkah
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