Vermont Spirit From Republic Days Echoes In State
The article recounts Vermont as the old Republic of Vermont in Ethan Allen era before union, noting Vermonters shared a free, independent character and were among the first to join the thirteen states after the constitution. It highlights the state as agriculturally based with little foreign admixture, and cites a Vermont judge refusing a slaveholder’s bill of sale with the quip that only a bill of sale from God Almighty would be acceptable.
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Ethan Allen
Republic of Vermont
Green Mountain
John Blark
Canada
Vermont
Bolivia Mystery Sparks Country House Guests
Suarez, a Bolivian charge d́affaires in London, recalls a tale of a country house party where guests pressed him to specify his origin. After he wrote Bolivia, a guest asked for “Something else?” and he replied South America, revealing the ladies had doubted Bolivia’s location and expected him to be dressed in feathers.
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Co. Suarez
London
England
Bolivia
South America
Pohemia
Invention meaning through history and discovery
The piece explains how invention once meant finding or discovery, tracing this sense through historical phrases such as St Helena’s cross festival on May 3, Hooker on truth, Burton on geometric problems, and Willis on the nervous system, showing shifts in usage over centuries.
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Jerusalem
St. Helena
Hooker
Burton
Willis
Scholastic Record Notices Jubilee Of Coyton Schoolmaster
Mr John Smith of Coyton by Ayr Footland celebrates his jubilee as schoolmaster. His predecessor served Coyhton fifty two years as schoolmaster. John McClymont held the post fifty two years and Hector Walker fifty four years. Three men occupied the post for a total of 156 years.
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John Smith
Coyton-by- Ayr
Footland
Coyhton
John McClymont
McClymont
Hector Walker
Coxylou
Too Optimistic. Mitchell Interview With Heir in Philadelphia
The piece recounts Dr. S Weir Mitchell interviewing a young Philadelphia heir who travels from Newport to his uncle to hear of the estate. The nephew bursts into the sickroom, jokes about appendicitis while the uncle reveals a different diagnosis. The uncle cautions the youth not to be overly optimistic about the uncle getting better.
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S. Weir Mitchell
Newport
Ehd
Fought with Trout and a Safety Pin Saves Ananias
Denver Post recounts a wild camp story in which guide "Truthful" James Smiley tells of killing a grizzly with a hat pin. Ananias Jake Smith interrupts to share his narrow escape from a monstrous trout, saved by a safety pin that jammed its mouth and bits, ending with a chorus of mockery around the campfire.
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Ananias
Jake Smith
James Smiley
Denver Post
Ananias Jake
Prince Chooses Love Over Kaiser's Bidding in Denmark Row
The German crown prince defies his father Kaiser Wilhelm by refusing an arranged betrothal to Princess Thyra of Denmark. He admits affection for American opera stars and insists on marrying for love, not state demands. The Denmark match collapses as a result.
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Royal Opera House
Berlin
Gall
Wormwood
Thyra
Denmark
German Empire
Woman's Gifts to New York
Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson of New York funds major gifts for education. She built a physical culture building at the Teachers College costing 350000 dollars, gave a library building at Vassar for 500 dollars, and plans a Williams College chapel at 109000 dollars to be dedicated soon.
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New York
Frederick Ferris Thompson
Teachers’ Collegc
Vassar
Williams College
Those Made Werks at Ocean Crest Summer Visit
A reader quote reflects plans to visit Ocean Crest for a summer stay. The speaker considers trying Sunday trips next week to gauge conditions after only one prior visit last year.
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Ocean Crest
Railway Mail Clerks Lodging House at Vesey Street
Railway mail clerks who operate in traveling post offices near New York maintain a lodging house at 26 Vesey Street. They charge 12 dollars a year per clerk, covering accommodation for about 700 clerks at the New York end of their runs. This equates to just over 3 seats per night per clerk.
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Railway Mail Service
posto@ces
New York
Vesey Street
Sentenced Man Freed by Arkansas Sheriff Joke
A former Arkansas judge recalls a humorous early era justice tale. After sentencing a man to three months for larceny, the sheriff explains they had no one else in jail and gave the convict a jail key to sleep there at night, so the sentence effectively went unexecuted. The anecdote, from the New York Times, illustrates informal methods in frontier days.
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Arkansas
Congress
State of
Jedge
Ortoner
New York Times
Woman Apple Grower at New Country Place
Mrs. Thomas Shaw Safe, connected with apples since the early days, plans to cultivate apples and other fruits at their upstate country place. Mr Safe delves into squab and cattle raising, promising a friendly rivalry. Any surplus will be sold, a fashionable move though not out of financial need.
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Thomas Shaw Safe
New York
New Country
Upstate
Safe
England
High speed on railways limit shows need for separate tracks
A study of German Berlin Zossen experiments concludes that speeds above 100 mph are possible only on dedicated lines with long blocks and unobstructed signals. Mixed traffic, weather dependent signals, and lane sharing would ruin safety and cause Freight and passenger flows to require separate tracks with no grade crossings.
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Berlin
Zossen
Frederick Schultz
New York Times
Do Their Own Stretchin With Harlem Household
A Harlem apartment mistress tests a new live‑in girl by asking if she does her own stretchin’. The girl twists the term to question whether all meal tasks are shuffled and stretched to table time. The household learns a new word as they seek a helper willing to wait on the table and cook.
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Glel
Harlem
New York Tribune
Largest Newspaper Office Competition Shifts to Edinburgh
The Scotsman building in Edinburgh, with thirteen stories and 261,787 square feet, surpasses the New York Times in size. London Tit-Bits notes America’s claim is overturned as the Scotsman edifice outgrows the former world’s largest newspaper office.
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America
New York Times
Scotsman
Edinburgh
London
Some Bird Neighbors in Garden Birdhouses
St. Nicholas notes wrens chickadees bluebirds martins and crested flycatchers visit garden birdhouses. Houses should not be too new or exposed and must be protected from coats and squirrels. Watching them through the season teaches more than books about nests colonies and preferences of water birds.
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St. Nicholas
Things Well Worth Knowing Remedies for Household Accidents
A Good Housekeeping style note recounts practical fixes for domestic mishaps from a visiting science graduate. It covers stopping a broken pitcher with cornstarch and gelatin cement, sealing edges with hot water, and using gum arabic plaster for durability. It also describes removing dye and stains from fabric using starch and sun, plus a hot iron substitute when sun is unavailable.
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Paris
Painting Reversed Fortune Exposed As Upside Down
A rough impressionist artist hung a volatile work at an exhibition. A friend praised it as valuable and gift worthy, while the hanging committee displayed the piece upside down. The original price was 19 dollars, and an hour later it sold for 61 dollars, illustrating fickle taste.
Night Gate Echoes in Silent Garden
Poetic fragment recalls a moonlit garden farewell where lovers say good night at the gate. The scene shifts to an abrupt distant sound, a gate slam, and a brief, tense moment as one resists parting amid whispered pleas and a final, abrupt end. The narrator hints at a sharp, intimate moment implied by the surrounding tension.
Futility of Fox Hunt by John Burroughs Criticizes Sport
The famed naturalist condemns fox hunting as cruel describing a red faced squire chasing a fox as an unspeakable pursuit of the uneatable. Burroughs smiles at the blunt imagery and dismisses the sport as edifying or pleasant.
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John Burroughs
Mr. Burroughs
Her Rival In Ridiculous Colors And Witty Putdowns
A satirical verse ridicules a rival for lacking beauty, style, and sense. The speaker mocks the rival’s appearance, dress, and wit while claiming personal superiority and noting male observers’ foolish tastes. The piece hinges on sharp, humorous jabs and exaggerated critique.
Duties of a Missionary in Korea
Miss Margaret Edmunds describes the role of a missionary in Seoul outlining duties such as directing classes caring for the sick buying provisions managing a horse and repairing buildings she also serves as organist in the native church book keeper letter writer and often acts as a supreme judge resolving petty disputes in the church.
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Margaret Edmunds
Korea
Seoul
Churchill Teases Minor Poets At A New York Luncheon
Winston Churchill taunts minor poets over vanity indolence and malice. Two poets near him traded sly jabs about a sonnet in a Trash Magazine and a compliment that sparked a rueful exchange during a luncheon in New York.
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Winston Churchill
Mr. Churchill
New York
Art and Actuality in the Country Siesta
A petulant poet, with long hair and dreamy eyes, abandons his pen after two hours of trying to write verses on The Lowing Kine. His wife suggests country inspiration, but a cow in the pasture distracted him, breaking his poetic flow and halting his muse.
Chinese Tigers Kill Over Two Hundred Peasants in 1908
Reports from China say man-eating tigers in Luchau Ching killed more than 200 peasants in 1908. A government tiger hunt last year resulted in about 100 tigers killed, many of them confirmed man-eaters.
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China
L’uchau
Ching
Speaking of scorn. A soldier passes a militiaman during celebration
A sharp scene of a real soldier moving past a militiaman on crowded streets during a public celebration, illustrating tension between military authority and militia symbols. The moment captures contrasting reactions among onlookers amid the festive atmosphere.
Anonymous letter lauds remedy to drive whip-poor-will away
A New York paper receives anonymous complaints about a night calling whip-poor-will. A second anonymous note proposes a home remedy, stating when three explosive rosin is burned in the tree nightly from 10 to 11 pm the bird will quit the place.
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New York
Pater Familias
A Broken Dream on the Staircase Dream Vision
A poetic scene from New York Herald describes a speaker seeing a pale white figure descending a stairway. The air carries perfume and incense as the vision of innocence enchants, but the moment ends with a playful tumble down the stairs while recalling earlier tobogganing.
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E. K. Pierson
New York Herald
Motive Power to Pike's Peak by Gasoline Dynamo
The Pike's Peak railroad now uses a steam cog system but plans to install a 300 horsepower gasoline dynamo. The change aims to halve travel time for Colorado Springs visitors yearly and streamline the ascent to the summit.
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Pike’s Peak
Colorado Springs
Whitechapel Becomes Calm After Police Reforms
Whitechapel London once plagued by crime including Jack the Ripper murders has been transformed into a more respectable district under police reforms. The area’s reputation has shifted as security measures and steady policing improve daily life for residents and visitors alike.
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Whitechapel
London
Jack the Ripper
French Colonial Receipts Claimed From 1815 Treaty
The French colonial budget lists four tacs of sicca rupees yearly, about 143,135 dollars, paid by the British Indian government. Under a treaty of 1815 France granted Euland the exclusive right to purchase salt from the remnant French territories in India.
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France
Euland
India
Railroad Timetable North Bunct No 25
Daily schedule shows Scoot Passenger No 19 at 11 10 a m with Saxon copper country links No 15 Danity and No 21 Scoot Passenger 5 00 p m No 23 9 28 p m copper country at Saxon and No 55 Way Freight 10205 a m SOUTH ROUND No 32 7 03 a m Scoot Passenger No 34 12 34 p m No 24 4 31 p m Scoot Passenger No 26 6 12 p m Scoot Passenger No 28 16 27 p m Scoot Passenger No 54 Way Freight 2 55 p m
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North Bucnt
San
Saxon
Copper Country
Danity
Sum-jigg P. A
Escanaba
Og P. m
Scoot
Ax. Sen
Crains
Saxom
Duluth
West
Sanday
Calumet Houghton
Ishpeming
Marquette
C.& NW R’ys
Calumet
Houghton
Sault Ste Marie
Montreal
East
Lower Michigan
N. Bessemer
Jhaluth
Ishpeaming
Negaunee
CLM. XS
Olson
Bessemer
No 6
North Bessemer
Joan A
Ouara
Mich
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