FOR THE CHILDREN Wild Goose Hunt and Smallpox Tales
A playful party game and a nugget of history mix with a tale of Washington’s smallpox. The piece describes a “wild goose chase” style treasure path with slips directing guests to signs and favors. It also notes Washington’s smallpox illness with a diary entry and hints at editorial quirks of the era. A separate note recounts a cat rescuing four kittens from a Hartford City fire, with one kitten saved by a second cat before the final retrieval.
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Hartford City
Ind
Earnel
Tiger Tamer Leads Turkoman in Cage Demonstration
A Turkoman keeper enters a tiger cage at Khiva and, with a short stick, calmly subdues the snarling beast. The trainer strokes the tiger and slips a collar on, then drags the animal outside while a watching group snaps photos. The tiger, restrained by its collar, glares and struggles as the scene unfolds.
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Khiva
Langdonier
Century Magazine
Tiger
Oxus
The Star Mira's Dimming and Sudden Brightening Cycle
The Star Mira, known to astronomers for 800 years, varies from invisible to brilliantly visible. It spends periods of four years in extraordinary splendor before fading again, resembling a dying patient as solar activity wanes. Every about 831 days it undergoes irregular cycles with sudden energy surges.
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Tyith
Mira
Dante
Garrett FP
New York
Dialogues and cosmic musings in a fragmentary clipping
A jumble of science talk about Mira and stellar fate mixed with a humorous street scene. The skyward speculation imagines stars battling extinction while a barber and patron argue for silent service. The tone shifts between distant astronomy and everyday oddity.
The Sugar Plum and Other Ancient Candies
A historical digest traces the sugar plum to Julius Dragatus a Roman baker in 177 BC with dragati or dragees names. It notes European noble customs of gifting and the origins of pastille Prialine and Florentine pastilles by Pastille and Lassagne influence.
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Julius Dragatus
Fabius
New York Herald
Faily
Europe
France
John Pastilla
Medicis
Muila de’ Medilet
Henry TV
Pastillo
Hig Boobong
Marshal Duplessis-Prolin
Lassagne
Goudeau and the Taxman over a Paris Sheep Dog
Emile Goudeau, famed bohemian of Paris, kept a faithful black spaniel and a lamb. The tax gatherer sought payment for the spaniel as an inferior brother, noting Goudeau’s poorness and exempt status for a shepherd. Goudeau argued poets are shepherds, then paid by replacing the dog with a real sheep the next day. Taudon Sketch.
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Emile Goudeyu
Paris
Goudeau
Virgil
Theocritus
Montmartre
Duck Beset by Golden Egg Win, Nebras ka Mystery
A Nebraska duck laid golden eggs until recently and was killed by its owner Mr. Prebys who found a placer gold deposit in the fowl’s gut. Prospectors now swarm to the duck’s feeding grounds along the creek where the bird once quacked.
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Nebraska
Mr. Prebys
Mr. Proby
Whittier's First Love Through Marblehead Years
The article recounts John Greenleaf Whittier's early romance with Evelina Bray in Marblehead during spring 1828, their childhood-seeming betrothal thwarted by Quaker views, a later reunion in 1838 with no words spoken, and a 1885 reunion at Faverhill academy that inspired the poet to write Look forth once more through space.
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Marblehead
Hyreiina Bray
Byelinn
Whittier
Dyetlnn
Whittler
Morblehead
Queling
Faverhill Academy
Fee
Evelina
Gregory
New York American
Opportunity and humor shape a man’s rise in town
Aged reflections note that ambition requires action, humor signals understanding, and friendship eases conflict. The longer view warns of limited local opportunity, yet daily life offers twenty four hours of chance, as the Atchison Globe suggests in its compact observation.
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Atchison Globe
Pretty Feet Painful From Fancy Shoes Across The Nation
A fragmented clipping notes foot deformities from high arched insteps causing toes to turn under and joints to protrude, with shoe irritation and recurring pain. It also mentions a rainmaking device using ether and parachute, plus a college student dispute over cutting an allowance and a foreigner remark about a purchase in a humorous column.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Som
Vitla Journal
Curious Variations in Historic Irish English Measures
The article surveys variations in land measures across the United Kingdom, noting different miles and acres. It cites obsolete standards and local customs, including Welsh, Scottish, and English acres, and traces their origins to medieval surveying. It mentions a 1380 attempt to standardize the acre and the 1824 statute defining 4840 square yards.
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United Kingdom
Lowcashire
Cheshire
Loudon Glabe
Chinese use time sticks to mark hours for twelve hours
A 19th century note describes Chinese time sticks, nine to eleven inches long, burned to measure the day or night. Each stick lights at dawn or dusk depending on its purpose, and must burn in a vertical position in a still room as part of the timing method described by Bridges.
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Colonel Bridges
Alfred
Yowtlh
Kitchan Notes and Household Tips From an Old Paper
A column offers kitchen hacks on preventing boil overs by greasing pan edges with butter or chocolate. It suggests reviving discolored enamelware with chloride of lime and using vinegar during cabbage cooking to curb odors. An endorsement of Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea appears amid other quips.
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Kitchan
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