Spencer's Tree and the Giant Pioneer's Home
Miss O Z Bond recounts Thomas Sharpe Spencer, a towering Tennessee pioneer who in 1776 journeyed with John Halliday to Cumberland County. He found a hollow sycamore to live in for a year, sharing half his knife with Halliday, and his tree became a landmark of early frontier growth.
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Spencer
0. Z. Bond
Tennessee
Thomas Sharpe Spencer
Cumberland County
John Halliday
Halliday
Kentucky
The Office Railing Described by a New York Sun Commentator
In a New York Sun reflection the office railing is praised as an instrument of control and hospitality. It bars the uninvited yet can grant speedy access to a friendly visitor, shaping impressions and potentially easing purchases. The piece notes its dual role in gatekeeping and warming reception.
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Stiggbey
Mr. Stiggby
Mudville
Mr. Stiggbyv
Cinderella origins varied across 318 folk tale versions
Miss Cox collected 318 versions of Cinderella noting slippers appear rarely and fairy godmothers are often animals. In an ancient Malagasy tale the youngest sister is enslaved, aided by a rat, and rewarded with clothes and a golden slipper. The story ends with the elder sisters transformed into lizards.
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Miss Cox
London Chronicle
Scotch Canadian Fails Job Interview in New York Tale
A New York police official recalls a Scotch Canadian applicant who sought to join the force. After buying a respectable suit, he faced Sherlock Holmes of the department who quipped a clever line about being a mechanic, prompting the man to reply Mackenzie. The remark leads into a reflection on books and their blessing to humanity by James Freeman Clarke.
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New York
Sherlock Holmes
Force
Sherlock
James Freeman Clarke
Pulpit Stair Accident Inspires Kneeling Sermon
A short preacher failed to arrive at Westminster Abbey so a tall substitute climbed to the pulpit on his knees. The movable floor had been raised, but the clergyman adapted by kneeling and delivering the sermon unseen by the vast congregation. London Telegraph reports.
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Westminster Abbey
London
Two Gifts to the Orchestra
In a concert under conductor Hans von Bulow the composer an aristocratic amateur asked to direct a rehearsal. He opened a parcel with seventy pencils and gave them to the players to mark his mouth directives. Bulow later returned with seventy pieces of india rubber to erase the performed directions.
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von Bulow
Hans von Bulow
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Thomas Bros
the Quality House
Northwestern Title Co
Randall County
R. A. Terrill
D. M. Stewart
Wallace
A. H. Thomps
Geo. J. Parsons, M. D
Thompson’s Drug Store
F.M. Wilson, M.D
City Pharmacy
ALA
Sowder
Canyon Supply Company
5. L. Ingham
Canyon National Bank Building
A. S. Rollins
Blacksmith
Harter & Chesser
Canyon City
Spencer's
Old Tennessee
First National Bank
of Canyon
Nigger Head Maitland
Globe Cattle Dip
Crowdus Bros. & Hume Co
Canyon Lumber Co
Canyon Coal Company
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