One Poet Out of Place at a Royal Function
A compact selection from a 19th century piece notes Wordsworth attending a Buckingham Palace ball in 1845 as laureate, in court dress borrowed from Samuel Rogers with a sword once owned by Sir Humphry Davy, provoking dry humor about his lakeside persona at court. It recounts his tepid court involvement and his letter describing the gracious queenly reception. The piece shifts to pineapple cultivation notes and a brief anecdote from Youth's Companion about a jewelry inquest, then a reflection on garden writing and personal garden work by J. Horses McFarland.
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Wordsworth
W. Forbes Gray
Lake Land
Buckingham Palace
Professor Knight
Samuel Rogers
Humphry Davy
Haydon
Hagiltt
Gaydon
Gulaz
Belvellyn
Professor Reed
J. Horses McFarland
The Journalist's Duty Overcomes Personal Grief
A journalist recalls being urged to mock a brewer in defeat while his own grandfather lay dying. He faced competing duties, delaying tribute to family for the sake of the paper. The story underscores the tension between professional obligations and personal loss.
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Aple
What Makes a Woman Style In Clothing
An exploration of style and dress noting style is a compound quality of taste and sentiment. The French chic embodies subtlety and finesse in selection and wear, distinguishing well dressed women from those merely expensively attired.
Boxing show halted as official ends fight midround
The closing moments of a large boxing show saw an official ascend into the ring and declare that in the last round Harry Pierce injured his band and must stop. The referee said he is unable to continue and will not engage further tonight.
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Harry Pierce
The American Raven in the Rocky Mountains
The American raven, once common from New England to the Alleghenies, now survives mainly in the Rocky Mountains where it nests on cliff ledges. The bird is ugly in shape but striking in feather luster, praised by poets yet treated as a pest by gamekeepers and museum hunters.
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Safa
Rocky Mountains
Elijah
British Islands
Middle Western
New England
Truges
Allegheny Mountains
England
Allaces
Milton
British Briefs and Colonial Clarifications
The text notes Newfoundland as the oldest British colony and explains the Lower London password changes quarterly. It mentions Heelind's National Gallery began with thirty eight pictures and defines the United Kingdom as England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, excluding the British capital. It states English law has no degrees of murder with guilt determined in a binary way.
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Newfundland
London
Heelind
National Gallery
United Kingdom
England
Wales
Scotland
Eland
Telephone Calls and Golf Ball Flight Record Oddities
Reported notes on telephone density in New York with 10 lines in one office and rapid rate increases. A playful aside describes golf ball flight tests and misfires across a pond, referencing Tillinghast and a Nassie College match, with hints of historical spelling quirks like Hangnall and Ag Nail.
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New York
Worll
United States
New York City
Osford-Cambrithce
Nas
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Tvsellie
Uwen
Merley, Io
Hawaii
Julie
Pat
Arnold Bennett
Tle
Peporter
Lind Tekken
Bennett
Agnail
Hangnall
Palagrave
K Choice
Roosevelt Brothers
Foster College
J. Martin's
Rust National Bank
Cashier RT
Cox Ducks
Marshall
ED Pekarek
Manaer
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