A Martined Wife and a Preacher’s Peculiarities
A Pioneer Methodist preacher in Alabama, Rev John Mathews, is remembered for strict views while his wife preferred liberal dress. She bought two hats with money from a bureau sale. Mathews coyly announced each tardy member by name, even joking about his wife Blister Mathews arriving with a bureau on her head. Also notes Philadelphia’s first book, Atkins Almanack 1680, and a printing error corrected by William Bradford.
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John Mathews
Alabama
Lippincott’s
Mathews
Blister Mathews
Throwing the Striper at a Wedding
A wedding tradition is traced to barbarous times when marriage resembled master slave relations. The bride’s father allegedly transferred power by giving a shoe to the husband, who taps the shoe on his wife’s head. The article also notes coral harvesting off Italy’s coast, where divers obtain fine coral, while boat-based methods crush delicate branches.
One View of Dialect and Slang in Communication
A compact remark on dialect tempered with slang as an admirable medium of communication between people who share nothing in common and those who claim indifference to proper speech. Attributed to Thomas Bailey Aldrich via Century.
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Thomas Batley
Aldrich
Critics Urge Abolition of High Schools in Favor of Elementary Education
A letter from Dr. W. A. Croffut, published in the Chicago Record-Herald, argues that primary and grammar schools are neglected while high schools drain resources. He cites Congressmen and urban observations about poor English, heavy curricula, and the need to convert high schools into primary facilities to serve all children.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Croffut
New York
Beston
Louisville
St. Paul
Knox
Massachusetts
Committee On Education
Old Bay State
Tawney
Minnesota
Weat Point
Annapolis
Washington Central High School
Washington
Fish Commission
Tennyson
Dickens
Macauley
Coleridge
Byron
Goldsmith
Milton
Bacon
Shakespeare
Goethe
Schiller
Cicero
Virgil
Ovid
Xenophon
Herodotus
Homer
Congress
United States
W. A. Crovart
Washington, D, D
Poets Draw for Joy of Work in Fair Realms
A poem envisions poets reading and drawing from sacred figures like Magdalene Peter and Paul. They toil eternally in a golden chair on a ten league canvas, guided by the Master. No money or fame, only joy in creation. Each poet renders the Thing as He sees It for the God of Things as They Are.
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Magdalene
Peter and
Paul
Embroidered waists and social wit in fashion and society
Fashion notes highlight embroidered waists with pure white Corticelli mellick work and dainty figures. The piece also recalls a social dinner anecdote with Mrs. Lowe and Disraeli, paired guests and shared humor, closing with a marketing plug for Mountain Tea and a beauty claim.
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Mra. Lowe
Hangman Profit Tale and Ear Study in Society
A sensational old clipping surveys a hangman profiting by executions in front of great houses, then shifts to a commentary on Darwinian ear shape variations. It notes magnates paying for postponements before the scaffold is erected in dark woods and reflects on anatomical traits linked to evolution and modern life.
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New York Herald
Microscopic Penmanship Through History
The text surveys two classes of tiny writing: penmanship and mechanical construction. It cites historical examples of extreme compression of words, from Pliny the Younger’s claim of writing to fit in a walnut shell to claims proved by Ifuet and an Italian monk who penned gospel texts within a farthing’s circumference in the sixth century.
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Pliny the Younger
Ifuet
Avranches
France
How a Dying Man Feels
Reported experiments in hospitals by scientists who tested responses at death. Findings include that a dying person may be burned without pain, consciousness can linger near dissolution, most lose thought early, and extreme suffering is often reflex action. Fear weakens muscles and hastens death, while calm may prolong life.
Excursion Tickets From Central Rysella To Northwest Tour
From August 1 to 14 the Central Rysella excursion offers round trip tickets to Portland Seattle Tacoma Victoria Vancouver for 45 dollars with return by October 15 1903. Tickets allow a stopover in both directions and passengers may choose one route out and a different return. Inquiries to A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn.
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Portland
Ore
Seattle
Lacoma
Wash
Victoria
Vancouver
B. C
A. B. Cutts
Minneapolis
Minn
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