Market Quotations and a Senator Culberson Resolution
Market prices for cotton corn cattle hogs poultry butter and eggs from Bryan Galveston Fort Worth and Houston are listed with ranges and averages. The article notes a shift in public reasoning about financial panics and cites Senator Culberson introducing a resolution to locate the cause and apply a remedy.
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Bryan
New York
Liverpool
Galveston
Fort Worth
Providence
Culberson
Native New Yorker and the price of extravagance
A quoted observation from I S Cobb in the New York World critiques the city's affordability and service abuses. It questions overcharging by waiters cabmen and market men and the burden on ordinary residents from biased tariffs and funeral costs.
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New Yorker
I. S. Cobb
New York World
Narrow escape from wagon incident ends with umbrella strike
Johnson recounts a morning narrow escape when a wagon nearly ran him down. Hughes shielded him by striking the horse’s head with an umbrella, which broke as the animal halted and Johnson was pulled from beneath the wheels. The umbrella’s owner, noted as having borrowed it yesterday, remains unnamed.
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Johnson
Pearson
His Method of Speechmaking Pleases Ear Without Data
The Washington Star quotes Senator Sorgum where an attentive listener notes the speech sounds fine yet cannot recall half a dozen words. Sorgum says the art lies in pleasing the ear yet furnishing no data for contradiction.
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Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
Proverbs of Siam and their people in London Scraps
A colonial era excerpt surveys Siamese proverbs and traits. It notes the Menam as Siam’s river and the elephant, tiger, and crocodile in its jungles. Sample sayings warn against careless words and bad company while praising prudence and courage in facing danger.
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Siam
Menam
Nile
Egypt
London
Friday Comes but Once a Week in Despair
A Friday run off article from the Emporia Gazette laments weekly misery across trade and life. It warns of slack markets trains and misfortunes from bricks falling and illnesses while noting a stubborn gloom and comic refrain that Friday returns weekly.
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William Doe
the Gazette
Emporia Gazette
Precautionary Deacon Humbles Household Chores
Mrs Johnston instructs children to visit grandma while Mr Johnston, a church deacon, plans a home day to tidy the house and hang pictures. An aside notes his potential to strike his thumb with a hammer, despite his church role.
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Johnston
Maria
Widow Refutes Overstated Love Claim in London Telegraph
A London Telegraph excerpt features a conversation where Samuel declares lifelong devotion, but the widow responds with tact that his promises are too thick and reminds him she remains a widow, signaling restrained affection and humor.
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Samuel
London Telegraph
Osage and Ute Quip Prompt Curious Song Parody
A Kansas City Journal snippet notes a humorous line about an Indian version of The Star Spangled Banner with a boastful remark and a dodged doorway tangent. The quoted exchange features the phrases Osage and Ute in a playful context.
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Osage
Kansas City Journal
Pascal Quote on Judges and Fairness
A terse aphorism notes that it is not permissible for the most equitable man to judge his own case, attributed to Pascal.
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Pascal
Courage at Market Street Auction Turns Into Tiny Triumph
An Philadelphia Record item describes an auction on Market Street where a watch and chain valued at 22 dollars drew no bids at first. A small boy bid five cents and kept advancing to 95 cents, finally receiving the note and a nickel change from the auctioneer who then lectured the crowd on courage.
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Market Street
Philadelphia
Saw His Own Finish
The wife of Judge Blank cooked for a week after losing her cook and earned an ermine cloak from the judge. Mrs Jerome, told the tale to her husband, asking what she would receive for a week of cooking. He replied she would get a long crape veil.
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Judge Blank
How jolly dull for George Washington story
A London Chronicle reader recalls a moral tale where a boy lies and faces rebuke. the boy wonders if heaven holds anyone who told a story and the teacher replies no, making the boy reflect on truth and imagination. The line about George Washington adds a wry twist to the moral.
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George Washington
London Chronicle
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