Sea legs of ships carry cattle and horses across waves
A New York dealer explains sea travel for livestock. Horses and cattle adapt to rough weather, with two animals standing while two lie down to share space. A trusted handler calms and manages them, accidents are rare but when horses or bullocks break a leg they are killed. Costs range from six to twenty dollars per cattle head and twenty seven to two hundred fifty per horse, with government crowding cuts reducing boat capacity and profits.
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New York
Ile
Lincoln Swear Word Revealed In Aboard Story
A tale from Youths Companion recounts President Lincoln and Secretary Seward escaping a pursuer then Lincoln declaring in relief that they are finally home. Seward chastises his language and Lincoln explains that "By jings" counts as swearing, learned from his mother, vowing not to swear again before the young onlookers.
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Lincoln
Secretary Seward
Sunburned Girls Mistaken For Black Children
In a Sanbearned tale, two light skinned sisters kept in sun by a mother’s warning. While visiting a neighbor they are misidentified as Mrs Black’s children, prompting the elder to correct them with “Only sunburned.” Published in the Indianapolis News.
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College Avenue
Indianapolis News
Wonderful Stones in Folklore From Chambers Journal
A Chambers Journal piece recounts myths of miraculous stones: a tortoise brain stone that suppresses fire and grants prophecy when under the tongue, a hyena eye stone with similar power, and a cat head stone imagined to grant every wish to its possessor if it existed in reality.
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Chambers
Hangry Higgins Says He Does Not Work
A housekeeper notes Hangry Higgins has a big appetite and explains that he does not work because then he would not be satisfied. The exchange appears in the Philadelphia Record as a humorous vignette.
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Hangry Higgins
Philadelphia Record
Great Men and Their Eating Through the Ages
Pepys recalls breakfast with oysters neats tongues anchovies and ale. Newton lived on bread and water and vegetables while writing Principia. Dr Fordyce kept a one meal day. Dr Parr admitted a taste for hot boiled lobsters with much shrimp sauce.
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Pepys
Charles II
Sir Isaac Newton
Fordyce
Parr
Cuban insurrection anecdote and Landseer dog tale
General Farfelen recalls firing a dynamite gun with mixed luck and fear during the Cuban uprising, ending with a triumphant grin as chaos erupts. The piece shifts to Prince Albert, Landseer, and a Windsor park dog anecdote where a dog retrieves five sovereigns Landseer claimed, prompting royal amusement and a polite correction from the queen.
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Farfelen
Garcia
Prince Albert
Sir Edwin Landseer
Landseer
Windsor
Windsor Park
Virginia Water
Tailor Boyer Sees Chance Customer Lead to Permanent Hire
A chance customer interaction at Boyer the tailor results in a permanent position for the craftsman. The brief note credits good impression and swift decision by the shop owner.
Fishes Made Blind In Nets By School Motion
An old fisherman notes that fish in dense schools are prone to eye injuries when frightened and crowded. He compares schooling behavior to stampeding cattle, explaining that injured or blind fish stay with the group and share in the catch due to their sensitivity to water movement. The eye remains especially vulnerable.
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New York Sun
Portrait of John Marshall in 1775 by James Bradley Thayer
The excerpt describes John Marshall at about six feet tall with dark complexions, agile build, and a calm, disciplined temper. He wears a pale hunting shirt and trousers, a round black hat with a bucktail cockade, and demonstrates precise manual drills before guiding his men with quiet leadership.
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Marshall
Ile
James Bradley Thayer
Atlantic Monthly
Making the Choir Sing
A church scene shows Dr. Samuel West guiding a troubled choir. After a dispute over singing next Sunday, he directs them to begin with the second verse of a hymn and the choir complies.
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Samuel West
Dr. West
God
Poker chips found in overcoat pocket
A joke overheard as a husband asks what his wife did upon discovering poker chips in his coat. She calmly traced their origin and sent a messenger to cash them, according to the Washington Star.
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Washington Star
Joke Exchange Sparks Wife Laughs Over Wordplay
A witty Kansas City Independent quip shows Willie asking how to stop his wife from embracing the term advanced woman. Wise replies that everyone assumed it meant advanced in years, turning the joke into a light domestic pun.
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Willie
Kansas City
Foley's Roney and Tar Launches Cough Remedy
Roney and Tar, a Foley medicinal product, launches with claims to ease coughs and soothe irritated throats. The medicine is marketed as a reliable treatment, aiming to attract consumers seeking dependable seasonal relief.
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Foley
Roney and
Tar
The Old Woman Couldn't Dance
A London Telegraph anecdote recalls a parish old woman urged to attend church on a Sunday. She sits in a regular attender's pew, the verger asks her to move, the harmonium starts, and she wryly declares she cannot dance.
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London Telegraph
Locke Mountain & Go Advertises Properties in Anniston
Real estate firm Locke, Mountain & Go at 1121 Noble Street announces a summer property listing push. They seek houses in West Anniston between the railroad and Brown Street, plus vice lots, farms, timber and mineral lands, and a 25 room hotel lease with furniture for sale.
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West Anniston
Brown Street
Partix
Anniston
J. D. Hunter
East Tenth Street
Wilmer Hotel
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