Franklin and Poor Richard almanac noted for popularity
The piece cites Wiehard quoting Bigelow on Franklin launching Poor Richard's Almanac in 1732. It sold rapidly with three editions in a month and average yearly sales of 10,000 across 25 years. It was pressed early in October for remote colonies and translated into many languages. The passage also references debates on race improvement and selective breeding with skeptical critique.
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Bigelow
Franklin
Richard
A College Lover's Dilemma at Sylvan Cove
Berkeley Marshall, a penniless student and aspiring engineer, plans future at Sylvan Cove while wrestling love for Prudence Fairchild with fear of wealth. He weighs peddling maps, returning home, or pursuing a romance framed by her father's fortune.
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Marshall
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Miss Fairchild
Ramart
Miss Burrows
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Carrick
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Condon
Junch
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Mohammed
Mourtain
War eine Ferrara to Italy and the idle rich
A corny vignette contrasts the epicurean wartime traveler with a northern poised noble. The franc daily diet is trivial, leisure, independence, and courtly manners define him. Florence’s monuments outshine wealth while memories outweigh pomp.
Disraeli Enigmatic Figure Of English Politics
The passage portrays Benjamin Disraeli as a lifelong puzzle to both political sides and endears his memory to English Conservatives after his 19th century career waned. It notes his elevation to the peerage as Lord Beaconsfield and his withdrawal from Parliament before the news became public. It also references his death in 1881 and lingering respect mixed with perpetual intrigue. An African Sea Serpent Story is also mentioned, describing Lake Victoria natives’ claims of a large freshwater serpent and witnesses from ships recounting sightings rated as forty to sixty or seventy feet, provoking astonishment and fear among crews.
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Great Men Prodigies in Childhood Cited in Essay
A discussion of famed figures such as Mozart Macaulay Bacon Milton and others noted for early signs of genius in childhood. The piece recalls youth works and early writings as evidence of lifelong achievement, contrasting later scholars and writers.
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Macaulay
AG Seven Atouse
Bacon
Milton
Goethe
Steele
Br. Johnson
Wigner
Voltaire
Tennygon
Poe
Fenimore Cooper
Long
Doom of Corn Therapy Prop Retrieved in Odd Midnight Tale
A fragmentary and sensational passage links humorist Jerrold to Dickens through Punch editor Lemon. It also recounts a bizarre self-help routine for corn removal using mental power and a dramatic closing invocation.
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Doug Ins
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Mark Lemon
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Lemon
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A Wice Distinction In Atlantean Tale Of Nightlife
A Kansas City Star clipping recounts a man named Jones returning home drunk to his wife who scolds him from their attic perch. He drifts to sleep but awakens to her pointed remark about women and conduct. The piece reflects social friction and domestic tension in a dismissive tone.
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Bing
Rewark
Annie
Anid Jones
Kansas City Star
Curious parasitic life cycle of clams and fish
Cinme Eesn describes how clams carry eggs on their gills and release them when fish are present. Hatchlings attach to fish, feed on mucus, then drop off to burrow. The behavior hints at an ancient ancestral habit and a parasitic life stage.
One Man's Windom Quote Makers Song Laws
A fragmented Chicago News quip contrasts a saying about songs shaping a nation with the idea that laws can be evaded but popular songs endure. It mentions Green and Brown as dialogue markers and reflects on cultural influence versus legal control.
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Windom
Green
Brown
Chicago News
The Price of Vanity
The Minneapolis Journal recalls a lifeguard famed for forty one medals after a fatal launch accident. He reportedly fell overboard with the crowd's weight and sank with them in the water.
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Minneapolis Journal
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