End of Highland Dress Ban Celebrated in Scotland
Visitors packed a Highland exhibition in Inverness as a Gaelic proclamation dated from before 1746 declared the act banning Highland dress abolished. Rev. RL Richte of Creich, Sutherland, circulated the copy with phonetic Gaelic spellings and an English translation praising the return of trews, kilts, and tartan without fear of law or rivals.
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Highlands
Tnverness
Scotland
RL. Richte
Creich
Sutherland
Britain
Chief Justice Taft Receives Humble Honor
A tale from Collier's Weekly recalls former Secretary Tumulty meeting Chief Justice William Howard Taft on Connecticut Avenue. Taft politely aids a puzzled motorist asking for 700 California Avenue and is thanked with the casual title Chief.
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Taft
Joseph Tumulty
Woodrow Wilson
Connecticut Avenue
Tumulty
Guy
California Avenue
Ohio
William Howard Taft
Collier's Weekly
Spider Web Construction Described In Natural Study
The text explains how a spider lays a foundation line by attaching a line at the departure point and crawling while spinning it, then stabilizes the foundation by reinforcing it. It notes the spider can emit silk to reach distant lines, aided by wind, a behavior common in early life stages of many spiders.
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Ele
Budget's Opened Origin and The Cat In The Bag
The Montreal Family Herald explains the word budget traces to bulga a leather bag from Celtic Gaul and English bouge meaning bag. The phrase budget opened appeared in 1733 in a Walpole excise pamphlet and later signified a chancellor of the exchequer presenting tax proposals.
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Gaul
Robert Walpole
Montreal Family Herald
Transportation of Criminals to America Emerges
The passage traces English transport of criminals from 1597 banishments to Charles II empowered banishment to America as substitute for death. In 1717 transportation was authorized for non hanging punishments and the contract system of transporting convicts for labor began. Protests from America were common but unsuccessful, with most colonies receiving convicts.
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England
America
Early carbonated waters and the birth of soft drinks
Aerated waters began with Priestley's 1772 method imitating mineral springs. Paul founded large scale production in Geneva in 1790, followed by Schweppe in London. In the United States Dr. Philp Syng Physick inspired Townsend Speakman to make carbonated water for patients, with Speakman adding fruit juice and launching the modern soft drink era in 1807.
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Priestley
Paul
Geneva
Schweppe
London
United States
Philadelphia
Philp Syng Phystck
Townsend Speakman
Speakman
Chinese Breeders Make Varieties of Goldfish
Chinese breeders develop numerous goldfish varieties through deliberate interbreeding. Historical notes place goldfish in Europe by 1691 via St. Helena and trace its Chinese origins, with Darwin cited on domestication and purposeful cultivation producing diverse forms.
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Europe
St. Helena
Berthold Taufer
Field Museum News
Bavaria
Java
Charles Darwin
China
Burning Spring and George Washington Gas Venture
George Washington explored a tract near Charleston West Virginia in 1775 after witnessing a burning spring caused by escaping gas. He bought the property and presented it as a natural park. The first well in this area was drilled in the early 1800s by David and Joseph Ruffner, opening a gas well in the Kanawha valley.
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George Washington
Charleston
W. Va
David
Joseph Ruffner
Kanawha
West Virginia
Pay to Enter Own Door at St. Bride’s Vicarage
The vicar of St Bride’s Fleet Street must pay a toll to access his home. Bridewell Place adjoins the vicarage on land once part of the Bridewell foundation, leaving no free right of way and charging a guinea yearly. Bridewell’s past includes palace, hospital, workhouse, and prison uses. it ceased prison status in 1864 with Holloway, yet a still-unused apprentice cell remains.
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St. Bride's
Fleet Street
Bridewell Place
Bridewell Foundation
Bridewell
Holloway
London
Westward Hoe in Shakespeare and Jacobean Terms
The note traces nautical phrases westward and eastward ho used by Thames boatmen and in Twelfth Night. It cites 1605 plays by Chapman Marston and Jonson titled Westward Ho and a 1852 Kingsley work Westward Hoe. The Shakespeare line likely dates from 1601 to 1602.
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London
Thames
Olivia
Viola
Chapman, Marston
Ben Jonson
James K. Paulding
Sir Amyas Leigh
Charles Kingsley
Shakespeare
Wandering Jew Legend Gains Life in Sixteenth Century Germany
The tale centers on a man in Hamburg who called himself the Ewige Jude and claimed to be Ahasuerus the Wandering Jew a former Jerusalem shoemaker who allegedly struck Jesus and forced him to move on Jesus reportedly answered that he would rest at the last day The story was later published by a Lutheran clergyman who said he met the Jew in Hamburg.
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Germany
Ewige Jude
Gamburg
Ahasuerus
Jerusalem
Christ
Jesus
Hamburg
Buckingham Palace origins from Mulberry Gardens to royal residence
The site at London known as Buckingham Palace was once Mulberry Gardens during the reigns of Charles I and II, then Arlington House stood on the land before being demolished in 1708. John Sheffield built the red brick Buckingham Palace, later bequeathed to his widow, a natural daughter of James I, and finally bought for the royal family by George VI and settled on Queen Charlotte.
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British Royal Palace
Buckingham Palace
London
Mulberry Gardens
Earl of Arlington
Arlington House
John Sheffield
Duke of Buckingham
James I
George VI
Charlotte
Push Brings Success Hustle for Better Jobs
The saying emphasizes that true advancement comes from push not pull. Hustle means preparation diligence industry and trustworthiness. It argues many blame lack of pull while the real barrier is insufficient effort and persistence.
Notice of Appointment of Executor in Warm Sapp Estate
Public notice from the District Court of Winnebago County Iowa appoints B-4 EF SAPP as Executor of Warm Sapp deceased. Claimants must file sworn statements with the Clerk to be allowed or proved. Creditors urged to pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Forest City May 20 1931.
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District Court
Winnebago County
State of
Iowa
Warm Sapp
Forest City
Town
Sapp
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