Mutual Mistake Leads to Crossed Hearts and Eye Treatment
In a Vancouver style domestic scene, Flossy and Dr. Buchanan endure eye treatment and flirtation as a mutual misunderstanding about marriage and spouses unfolds. Their shared affection blossoms when a comic misreading reveals they belong to each other, not separate partners, and a future together seems likely.
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Dagmar
Fred
Flossy
Buchanan
Longfellow
Mrs. Browning
Florida
St. Paul
Flogsy
Dr. Buchnanan
Alec
Sir William Wallace
Miss Porter
Walter Scott
Ireland
Deb Milton
Effie
Marian
Flora
Flosey
Jeremiah
Be calm in arguing for fierceness to avoid error
A miscellany aphorism urges restraint in debate. It promotes calm discourse to prevent fault and preserve truth through courteous exchange.
Questioning the Rise and Fall of Friendships Across Life
The piece ponders how friendships start in school and college and how they often shift as one person ascends in life while the other declines. It questions the authenticity of much friendship as fake and counterfeit.
It Will Do Phrase Ruins Lives and Fortunes
The passage argues the refrain It will do blights character and wrecks projects by settling for adequacy rather than excellence. It warns that accepting a makeshift signals incompetence and defeat, and condemns those who adopt the maxim It will do.
Beginning as the seed of progress in life
The passage urges starting any effort as the crucial first step toward achievement. It compares the first weed, seed, coin, and mile to a pledge of earnest effort, warning that hesitation and delay trap many into idleness and missed opportunities for improvement.
A Novel Proposition on War Proceedings
A German pamphlet argues war should spare non combatants and proposes a neutral war territory. It envisions training nurses colleges surgeons hospitals cemeteries and limb depots with fixed charges for fighting and pre payment of battlefield costs. Proceeds fund widows and orphans.
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Pali Mall
Up Brakes and Economy Panic in New York Tribune
A New York Tribune editorial argues the economy drives unnecessary fear as a chain reaction of reduced spending. It warns against overreacting to wartime debt and stresses balanced measures, noting the nation’s wealth of resources and the danger of hoarding gains while urging reasoned thrift.
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Department of Business
Carter
Pat
New York Tribune
Antonelli’s Jewel Collection at the Vatican Secretary of State
Cardinal Antonelli amassed a vast display of stones and marbles from around the world, shown in a richly furnished drawing room. He stored specimens in drawers with precise, card-shaped compartments and displayed rare pieces sent by distant priests and monarchs, including a black diamond and a large yellow sapphire.
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Antonelli
Antonio
Vatican Museum
Romana Church
Rome
Ireland
Russia
Lorenzana
London Times
Enemies and the value of opposition in character
The text argues that having enemies is natural for a strong character who thinks and speaks freely. Ignore detractors and stay focused on duty. Enemies keep a person vital, and public figures who face spite may eventually win support from former critics.
Longest and shortest days across Europe and borders
The longest day varies by city: London and Bremen sixteen hours. Stockholm and Dantzig seventeen. St Petersburg and Tobolsk nineteen. Tornes twenty one and a half. Wardouys May 21 to July 24 without interruption. Spitzbergen three and a half months of daylight.
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London
Bremen
Stockholm
Sweden
Dantzig
Prussia
St. Petersburg
Russia
Tobolsk
Siberia
Tornes
Finland
Wardouys
Norway
Spitzbergen
Hair Markets Across Regions and Practices
The text lists hair producing regions Normandy Picardy Paris Bohemia Vorarlberg Tyrol with French hair topping Swedish German Italian English. It notes buyers often hunt in couples a old woman and a decoy and claims hair from less intelligent districts is finer. It adds that cutting hair fully spoils the market so thinning yields multiple crops from one head.
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Normandy
Picardy
Paris
Bohemia
Voralberg
Tyrol
Meiggs the railroad magnate of Peru and California
Henry Meiggs, a wealthy railroad contractor born in New York born around 65, built fortunes in California and South America. He left California debts for Peru where he earned wealth, then returned to settle claims. He owns Lima and suburban residences, hosting Americans and Californians, and his Quinta sits among sixty acres of fruit and flowers.
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Henry Meiggs
South America
New York State
California
Lima
Mr. Meiggs
Quinta
Driving Horses By Electricity Inventions Take Hold
French papers describe a proposed electro magnetic system to drive horses. A coachman would operate under seat controls with wires to bit and cropper delivering shocks. A single shock could halt a run away horse, while small shocks might energize even a sluggish animal.
Irishman mocks large pills in praise of purgatives
A satirical letter from Smyena Maine criticizes drastic pills and extols Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets and other Pierce products. The writer claims pellets aid liver torpidity and constipation and notes Pierce’s memoranda and medical adviser.
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Pierce
South America
Smyena
Aroostook Co
Maine
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Catelle
Blossy
Elsie
Elsis
Dr. Buchanan
New York
Fraser
Dickinson
Jefferson
John Hancock
Charles Thompson
Thornton
New Hampshire
McKean
Parton
Philadelphia
John Bull
Franklin
Hartigan
Eldridge Gerry
Gerry
Scribner’s Magazine
R. V. Pierce
M. D
QO. Sherman
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