Across America by Auto Reveals Scenic East and West
The piece extols driving across the United States as an education in geography and Americanism, noting many travelers explore both coasts. It argues exploration reveals vast, spectacular scenery east of the Rockies and compares American landscapes to Europe's famed mountains. It promotes auto travel as a unifying civic experience.
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Rockies
United States
Europe
Alps
Switzerland
Bartz
Germany
Taxicab and Automobile in Relation to Big City Street Congestion
A study of street space shows pedestrians occupy four square feet each, while taxicabs and privately owned cars use far more. A cruising taxicab wastes about 75 percent of its time idle, with cruising deemed twice as congestive as waiting for fares, highlighting urban street inefficiency.
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Eusb
Stocks One of Oldest Forms of Punishment Recalls History
The article notes stocks as an ancient punishment for drunks and offenders, detailing parish requirement since 1405 and common placement outside churches. It cites Birmingham last used in 1844 and Stratford on Avon in 1868, with biblical references to Jeremiah and Paul and Silas undergoing similar restraint.
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Jeremiah
Pashur
Paul
Silas
Philippi
Much Work Involved in Making Dictionary
The dictionary and the textbook largely shape U S pronunciation and spelling. It explains a lexicographer's task to record current and obsolete words, their meanings, and uses. It notes word origins and semantic shifts over time, including when words die out.
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United States
England
We Have No Real Bananas from the Rehoboth Sunday Herald
The article notes bananas widely known in the United States come from Costa Rica and Jamaica and are harvested unripe for shipping. It explains California and Louisiana attempts to grow bananas fail due to frost, and mentions East Indies varieties that cannot be shipped.
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Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Youth and Middle Age: A Life Phase Contrast
The piece contrasts youth as action filled with energy and social gathering with middle age as reflective and moral recounting. It likens youth to a vivid, unfamiliar world and middle age to a calm, familiar life under routine observation and memory.
Two schoolboy misreadings spark classic class humor
A notice from Two Howlers reports two schoolboy errors. The first mocks a dramatic translation of Pax in bello as Freedom from Indigestion. The second parodies Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh, with an exchange misrendering Dieu et mon droit as My God, you are right, after a scene where the queen supposedly dirties Raleighs cloak.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Noted Dutch Women Scholar Catherine Tishem of Antwerp
Catherine Tishem, wife of the Antwerp burgomaster, was a distinguished sixteenth century scholar. She studied languages and Greek, fled to England during religious persecution by the duchess of Parma, and pursued studies at the University of Cambridge at a mature age, being regarded as the era’s most learned woman.
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Water as Gypsy Cure All Cited by Bercovici
Konrad Bercovici, a writer born a gypsy, notes in Hygeia that Gypsies treat water as a universal remedy. They immerse newborns, rinse wounds with water, and use water for headaches, rheumatism, and old age. They also apply fat lard, grease, and butter after washing wounds. Water is central to their rituals and beliefs.
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Worker
Hygeia
Tchluma
Two Theories as to Origin of Gazette
Two theories explain the origin of the word gazette. One claims Venice published a government manuscript weekly during 1563, the fee read as gazetta a small coin, hence gazette. The other links gazette to gazza or magpie, suggesting the name suited a newspaper.
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Gazetta
Gazette
Pathfinder
Tracts and Tracks in the Smokies
Uncle Bill Walker of the Great Smoky foot hosts Mormon missionaries who offer tracts. His brother Sammie, a wealthy local magistrate, is approached by two elders seeking to share the faith. Walker jokes that he welcomes the tracks as long as their toes point toward a gate.
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Everybody's Magazine
When a Seorchman Has No Argument to Defend His Line
A Philadelphia Ledger fragment recounts a Scot land estate owner scolding a new plowman for crooked furrows. The worker quibbles that Angus made crisper drills and that when drills are crockit the sun shines in, yielding early tatles. Tammins notes the employer’s ancestry hints at foreign strain.
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Angus
Tammins
Philadelphia Ledger
Words Misspelled and Teacher Quotation Highlight Errors
A New York Times teacher notes common misspellings in print. She cites "gange" appearing on products, adds "buoy" and "weird" confuse many, and explains why "delible" is often misspelled due to its negation "indelible" altering the word.
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New York Times
Gange
Waldo Writes Sentence With Amphibious Word
A twelve year old boy named Waldo struggled with spelling while composing a sentence that uses the word amphibious. After several teacher prompts and focus, he presented his result to the teacher who read his work aloud.
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Waldo
Philadelphia Ledger
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