Canal Feats and Historic Locks Across Continents
The article surveys ancient and modern waterways, noting the Suez and Corinth canals with their locks and lengths, and describing links between seas and lakes. It mentions Manchester’s canal to the Mersey, and Welland’s twenty seven mile route with twenty five foot locks, highlighting global canal engineering feats and milestones.
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Corinth Evaral
Sugz
Patersburg
Cline
Ain
de Kronstadt
Bay Chaste
Coimmercia
Kronsttadt
Corinth Canal
Adriatic
Manchester
England
Atlantic Ocean
Manchester Canal
Mersey’ River
Great Lakes
Welland
Lake Ontario
Lake, Erie
Courage Beyond Color in Orakan Tale of a Youth Hero
A colonial era incident near Orakan depicts a gallant young native youth who sacrificed his life to shield fleeing elders from pursuing soldiers. He fired no shots, enabling two old men to escape while he perished, his act cited as a supreme display of devotion surpassing race.
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J. G. Wirth
Orakan
Devoton
Auy Coat
Sparta
Jesus
Hell
Bethel on the Hill and the Path to Home
A reflective meditation on Bethel Hill with forested slopes, distant ships, praying saints, and the quest for spiritual home. The piece contrasts old stone walls with a world of nature and glimmers of heaven, urging devotion and personal sacrifice for Christ. It pairs lyrical muse with a brief anecdote of a dying man awaiting salvation.
A Fragment from a Moral Reverie on Faith and Duty
A long reflective passage blends biblical allusion with devotional thoughts. It discusses comfort from God and motherly tenderness, contrasts human will with divine aid, quotes Ruskin and Macdonagh, and urges daily holy living as a ladder to heaven.
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Earth
Heaven
Once a Davis Slave Richard Sam Davie and the Wind River mine tale
Sam Davie, once a Davis slave, is described as a prospective mine owner near Warm Springs Creek and Wind River Mountain. Reports say he traveled to Shoshoni to order machinery worth about 10,000 dollars, including a ten-barge power engine shaft and compressed air drill plant, aided by a New York World correspondent.
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Sam Davie
Warm Springs Creek
Wind River Mountain
New York World
Rammel Jefferson Darla
Briarfeld
Mississippi
Jefferson Davis
Col. Davis
Mississippi Rifles
Buena Vista
Sam
Mr. Davis
Jefferson
Davis
Samuel Jefferson Dayla
Millidgeville
Confederacy
Hhm
Cheyenne
Edmund Ko. Clutre
Trench
Arapahoe
Whlepertog Wind
Queer, Indeed Pun Pow? Oddities From a Torn Page
A fragment from Kansas City Times hints at weather notes and quirky lines about bull terriers and punny phrases. A woman’s idea of wisdom is linked to detecting cotton in wool, reflecting the era’s casual wit and garbled OCR.
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Kansas City
Unpublished Bronte Manuscript and De Morgan Legacy
A century old note in Putnam’s Monthly mentions an unpublished Charlotte Bronte manuscript owned by a city gentleman who may publish it later. It also covers Tennys on wife’s poem, Spirit Lake by Arthur Heming, DeMorgan’s Joseph Vance lineage, and the decline of pottery and tile offshoots, noting literary and artistic careers and shifts in crafts.
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Charlotte Bronte
Putnam’s Monthly
Foye
Tennyson
Arthur Heming
Spirit Lake
Spirit Lake Ia
Canadian Northwest
Fur Company
Mr. Heming
Haming
William French DeMorgan
Joseph Vance
Alicefor Short
Augustus DeMorgan
Old East India Company
University College
Gower Street
London
Royal Academy
DeMorgan
Setreta
Ag Lttla
Mr. DeMorgan
Daniel Defoe
Self Denying Loyalty At Mission Lunch
In a village scene Mrs. Brower presents Julie with four baskets of strawberries saying she shared the morning harvest. Julie praises the fruit and jokes about pudding. Julie bakes a delicate lemon cream but discovers Mr. Brower and Mrs. Brower later accept their gift with some reserve. The tale ends with a note of disappointment.
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Mr. Brower
Julie
Kadles' Guild
Brower
June
Joe
Pena
Lemon Pie Secrets And A Quiet Farewell
A Brower family tale unfolds as Mr Brower shares a lifelong lemon pie secret and a playful vow to Miss Julie. Julie laughs, then offers pie as a parting gesture while a hinted loyalty lingers across the morning visit. He leaves with a soft, grateful farewell and a memory of a humorous deception.
Humble Science and a Young Questioner at Mann Lecture
A Berkshire Historical Papers memoir recounts a PlittsHeld Teachers Institute lecture by Horace Mann on astronomy. A country lad bravely questioned an apple analogy, prompting a rebuke from a trustee before Mann praised the remark and Governor Briggs offered the boy college access the next day.
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Briggs
Massachusetts
Berkshire
Teachers’ Institute
PlitsHeld
Horace Mann
Ene
Board of Trustees
Governor Briggs
Mann
Picture Taken Not For Trifling Mothers Demand
Mrs Hobson insists the photographer capture her son James Henry for his grandfather. The boy resists as the mother pushes him forward, seeking a portrait despite a wary photographer. A traveling tin-type man had previously failed to secure a likeness without a fine suit.
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James Henry
Father
Himma Jane
Lantern Trick Solves Egg Larceny by Hens
Hiram Scott, in an odd experiment reported by MekKeever correspondents, discovered hens lay eggs only under lantern light. He left a lantern burning overnight in the henhouse and found a dozen white eggs in nests, repeating with more eggs when the lamp remained. By repeating the setup he proved hens respond to artificial night, though they sleep most of daylight.
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Dtenw
Hatl
Hiram Scott
N. Y
New York World
Scott
Mr. Scott
Unlikely Tales From a Basement Mill Pond and Kitchen
A narrator recounts releasing a large spider into a pond and watching it cast a web to shore, then haul its imaginary bark toward land. Several kittens wander, a mother cat disciplines, and a baker’s missing rolls mystery is solved by a dog and a dogged foxlike thief named Mac. The tale blends whimsy with small domestic curiosities.
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Grasa
Mace
Mac
Kindergar ten teacher asks about sap sources in class
In a classroom dialogue Judge notes a kindergarten teacher explaining how trees provide food. The children discuss tapping maple for syrup and speculate that oaks might yield tapioca, reflecting a playful, educational moment about plant-derived foods.
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Olive
Fact and Fiction in Short Stories from Hartimore American
A fox terrier questions the labeling of narratives about him as short stories. The terrier argues that abbreviated tall tales fit the examples, prompting a playful exchange about naming and classification.
Ite Awakening and Love Metaphors in The Baltimore American
A weathered fragment presents a sentimental line about love and a jab at marriage likened to a malfunctioning alarm clock. It also quips that a material woman resembles a loaded gun, calling it dangerous to handle, in sharp, sardonic tones.
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Gream
Baltimore American
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