For Sale Farm and Houses Near Courthouse Town
Property listings include about 105 acres one mile from the courthouse with 25 acres under cultivation and rest in pasture fenced with six wires priced 1500. Also near a schoolhouse southeast town an area with cottage tenant house and well. Other homes include a six room house with two lots at 1250 and a half block by Allen academy at 500. Additional 13 acres south town with 4 room house and outbuildings priced 1000. Four room house with pantry and cistern 650. Reed home place quarter block with 9 room two story valued at 4250. Half block adjoining De DeMaret place at 800. Rents listed as 9 dollars monthly for one property.
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Byazos Courty Land
Court House
Main Street
Allen Academy
Joe B Reed
de DeMaret Place
Anachronisms in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
A historical critique notes how Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso blends Charlemagne with Edward I and other later figures, uses cannons centuries early, and places Moorish Spain before it existed, illustrating widespread historical absurdities in the poem.
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Ariosto
Orlando Furioso
Charlemagne
Edward I
England
Richard
Earl of Warwick
Clarence
York
Gloucester
Monk Schwartz
Spain
Africa
Prester John
Constantine the Great
Charles
Saladin
Edward the Confessor
Black Prince
Devil hunters in Tunis cause fatal mob rite
A mad dog bite leads a Tunisian woman to a circle ritual led by a witch doctor. The mob yelps like dogs, driving her to panic and suicide in a well. Her husband later vanishes and is found dead in the same well. The ritualists reportedly aimed to cast out the devil they claimed possessed them.
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Toni
Mmarket
Tunis
Westminster Gazette
Wet Weather and Camels Across North Africa
The text explains camels' sensitivity to humidity with moisture limiting their presence in tropical rains and moist regions. It notes regional variations in camel types from Tuarek deserts to Fezzan and Nile areas, linking fur length and body shape to climate, and their reduced suitability for journeys in moist environments.
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Atlas
Abyssinia
Deserts
Tuarek
North Africa
Fezzan
Tripoli
Nile
Birds Plant Trees In Arizona Pines And Forest Growth
An Arizona woodchopper recounts bluejays burying seeds and pine nuts in pinon trees, claiming thousands of trees sprout from these caches. An eastern visitor skepticism leads to a verification, showing a pine nut found a shallow depth, illustrating nature’s way of forest perpetuation.
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Arizona
Indianapolis News
How He Lost a Million by Colonel Ochiltree Tale
The anecdote centers on Colonel Ochiltree recounting a banquet with Senator Hearst. Hearst praised a red haired boy who helped across the Platte, promising a $1,000,000 gift. Ochiltree claims to be that boy and cried out I am that red haired boy. Hearst denied the claim and Ochiltree says that sealed his loss of a million.
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Colonel Ochiltree
Senator Hearst
California
Hearst
Platte
Ochiltree
The Pale Yellow Kind Beads Spark Childs Bead Confusion
A street car scene described by the New York Mail and Express features a mother and child. The girl admires an amber necklace, mistaking it for beans that her father would not eat, prompting a humorous motherly correction.
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New York Mail and Express
Superfluous Implement Pitches Odd Home Tool
A peddler at a back door touts a multifunction tool, claiming it combines a screwdriver buttonhook can opener latchkey lamp cleaner letter opener paper cutter pipe fixer and penknife. The house keeper questions its usefulness noting she already wears hairpins.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Business Man and Neighbor Clash Over Backyard Bonfire
In a quarrel overheard by a passerby, a business man accuses a neighbor of letting a boy build a bonfire in the yard. The neighbor retorts about insurance, noting the yard isn’t insured. The exchange ends with the insurance agent producing his card.
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E. N
Before and After The Adorer Insight in Love
A witty exchange contrasts romantic perception with later realized realities as an old man celebrates love and the Onlooker notes the limits of what love reveals now and what it shows later.
Billingtons Sea and the Plymouth Explorer Myth
A vignette on Billingtons Sea near Plymouth Massachusetts. S M Crothers reflects on Billington’s tree sighting and his belief he found the great south sea, noting the Pacific lay elsewhere and praising the hardy frontier spirit while jesting that the Pacific ocean does not lie near Plymouth county.
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Billington’s Sea
Plymouth
Mass
Billington
Pacific
Darien
Pacific Ocean
Plymouth County
S. M. Crothers
Atlantic
Squaring the Circle and Ancient Proofs
The article traces early attempts to square the circle from Egypt 500 years before the Exodus to Hippocrates of Chios around 500 B C. It notes Hippocrates sought to turn a circle into a crescent, showing that the area of the figure formed by two perpendicular radii equals the triangle at their junction, a result known as the lines of Hippocrates.
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Egypt
Howe
Hippocrates
Chios
Glauber
The Mastiff Name and Its Shifting Origins
The article discusses competing theories on the mastiff term origin. Some trace to Italian mastino or French mastin meaning large limbs, later morphing to masty and then mastiff. Others cite the old German masten meaning to fatten, linking to the breed’s stout appearance.
Lincoln and Douglas Debate Story By Swett
Leslie's Weekly recounts how Lincoln faced Douglas in the 1858 debates. Swett advised Lincoln that he could shape the contest by setup, while Lincoln replied he would make Douglas beat himself for the presidency.
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Lincoln
Douglas
Leonard Swett
Augustus
Buell
Abe
Senate
Mr. Swett
Len
Leslie
Inconsistent quarrel recalled by Mrs Cassidy scene
A Philadelphia Press excerpt captures Mrs Cassidy berating a daughter or servant with rough insistence about obedience. The dialogue shows tension between the domineering mother figure and the meek child who protests that past threats were issued to force misbehavior.
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Mrs. Cassidy
Little Cassidy
Philadelphia Press
Rail accident quip on car damages and removal
An old joke observes that in railway crashes the first and last cars suffer damage most. The speaker quips that perhaps those two cars should be left out of the brain entirely.
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Hundtswill
O’rourke
How They Are Kept and Healthful Eating Question
A clipped composite note references Miss De Style and Miss Gunbusta in a Smart Set tidbit and cites the Atchison Globe discussing a plan on eating while cross. The brief items hint at social wit and a healthful eating query without full context.
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Gunbusta
Atchison Globe
Unseemly Knowledge in Social Conversation
A Crothers Atlantic essay argues that revealing knowledge in casual talk kills conversation. It traces a social norm against display of expertise in leisure settings, suggesting people prefer shared ignorance to feeling outmatched by the informed. The piece links this to evolutionary ideas and the “survival of the fittest” in social ease.
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Weather Bureau
S. M. Crothers
Atlantic
Maori Wooing House and the Whare Matoro Traditions
The article describes the Maori practice of the whare matoro or Wooing house where youths met for courtship. A girl declares love in darkness and a cough or affirming word signals acceptance, otherwise silence brings shame. Mothers could intervene to propose a match for their son, with mockery if rejected.
First Recorded American Solar Eclipse Observed on Long Island
Observers from Harvard College led by B W Hollis observed the October 27 1780 eclipse from Penobscot Bay near Bounty Cave on Long Island. The totality was visible only in Penobscot Bay area and the Harvard team achieved successful results despite crude instruments.
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America
Long Island
Penobscot Bay
Harvard College
8. W. Hollis
Castine
Bounty Cave
Shubael Williams
Harvard
Remarkable river connects Lake Assal to the ocean
An unusual river on the African shore near the gulf of Aden links Lake Assal to the sea, flowing inland rather than seaward. The twenty two mile long watercourse fills a basin that lies about 700 feet below mean tide, fed by tides and balancing evaporation with inflow.
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Gulf of Aden
Lake of Assal
Lake Assal
Manx preacher's reply ends long sermon with a meat pun
A local Isle of Man preacher, splitting his sermon into many points, is interrupted by a parishioner craving substance. The clergyman retorts with a quick joke about carving meat, keeping the audience waiting for the main message.
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Isle of Man
London Saturday Review
That Blessed Baby
A Philadelphia Ledger quip recalls a frightened husband who swallows a bottle of strychnine after misplacing it near the peppermint. His wife urges silence to avoid waking the baby and the dark humor of a near fatal mistake emerges in the punchline.
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Philadelphia Ledger
The Way to Succeed Says Busy Action Wins
A Somerville Mass Journal aphorism urges that success comes from work not reading maxims or taking advice. The short quotation champions getting busy as the path to achievement.
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Somerville
Mass
Base Insinuation and Book Agent-Madam Quote Exchange
A clipped quotation exchanges between a book agent and Mrs Pepper about Bunyan and coins. The Boston Post notes a sharp jab about moral pretensions as a judge weighs in on virtue and claim.
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Bunyan
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