Stop Blindness Infections Threaten Sight Of Babies
The Ohio Commission for the Blind urges public action against congenital syphilis and neonatal gonorrhea, noting they cause lifelong blindness in many infants and that eye infection can be prevented by early treatment. It cites Crede’s remedy and offers free leaflets to Ohio residents.
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Ohio Commission For the Blind
Lilliput
Henry Copley Greene
Massachusetts Commission For the Blind
New
Boston
Ohio
Columbus
Home Teaching for Sightless Hearts and Hands
The Ohio Commission for the Blind sends home teachers to aid blind adults in learning reader with fingers. A free library of books is provided with postage paid to readers and back. Home teachers also teach handiwork to replace idleness. funding is sought in winter appropriations.
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Ohio Commission For the Blind
General Assembly
Wedding Fracas on the Indian Belle Aboard 1860 Elopement
The piece retells a Memphis era tale of Colonel Whitman’s daughter eloping with a man who loved mint juleps. A staged wedding on the Indian Belle leads to a gunshot warning, a mock ceremony, and a long aftermath that ends with their real marriage and a tale of a bullet’s path. General B. looms in the background as the wounded tale unfolds.
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Cairo
New Orleans
Joe
Cannel
Memphis
Whitman
South
Majo Whitman
William
Bette
Ely
Rive
Indy
Majo’ Whitman
Alisa Whitman
Suppe
Rascal Joe
General B
Maniacs Poem Said to Emerge from Prison Walls
A poem scratched on a prison cell wall is claimed to express the love of God. The piece, attributed to a maniac, contends ink cannot fill the ocean nor parchment hold the scroll. The London Saturday Review notes questions about authorship but presents the tale as credible.
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Milton
2 Maniac
London Saturday Review
Bird Stories Prompt 1897 Ringed Eagle Mystery
A German journal reports a golden eagle shot in 1897 near Eszeg Slavonia with a neck ring engraved with a Slavonian family arms and the date 1640. The 1793 Gentleman's Magazine notes a hawk captured near the Cape of Good Hope and found in England with a gold collar bearing James I 1610. The text wonders if the bird truly escaped England 183 years earlier and traveled about 6500 miles.
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Eszeg
Slavonia
Gentleman’s Magazine
Cape of Good Hope
England
James
Boy Erases Name, Finds His Teacher’s Early Mark
A Kansas village school principal discovers a boy cutting letters of his name in a desk and finds, to his astonishment, his own initials carved there from when he was a pupil. The tale ends noting the principal later became a prominent judge in a great city.
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Kansas
Western School Journal
The Transcendentalist Question From A Child
A Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt features a father prompting his son Bobby to perform a task before explaining a concept. The parent says to chain the dog while he explains transcendentalism, highlighting a humorous or instructive moment about learning from a dictionary.
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Bobby
Birmingham Age-Herald
Beethoven's fits of rage during lessons and performances
The account describes Beethoven's temper as atrocious. He tore music and scattered it on the floor during lessons, smashed furniture, and exclaimed he would not play for such boors. He insulted a bassoonist and left the piano after interruptions in company.
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Beethoven
Prince Lobknowitz
Dole
Man's Funny Proposition Reads Medical Faults Differently
A quip from the Boston Transcript notes men misread medical texts to diagnose others not themselves. The line contrasts medical and moral writings, suggesting self awareness falters when judging neighbors.
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Noto
Boston ‘Transcript
Stunted Maples Provide Fine Wood for Violins
Stunted maple trees in eastern Austria's mountainous regions endure long harsh winters with heavy snow, yet these trees yield excellent wood for violin making.
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Austria
How They Would Sound In A Galaxy Of Letters
Mrs Galey muses about publishing love letters and Mr Galey jokes about publicly admitting she married an idiot in a wry domestic exchange. The brief dialogue hints at pride and humor in their marriage.
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Mrs. Galey
Mr. Galey
An Early Airship Fails to Sail from London in 1885
Peter Parley recalls in the London Standard that the airship Eagle announced in August 1885 would carry government dispatches and passengers to Paris from London. The vessel, 160 feet long and 50 feet high, sat in the Aeronautical Society dockyard at Victoria Road near Kensington Gardens, but never departed due to missing motive power.
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Peter Parley
Eagle
London
Paris
Europe
Aeronautical Society
Victoria Road
Kensington Gardens
Tagle
Lennox
London Standard
First Aid to the Injured Advised by Dr Hartung
The article details stretcher handling and rescue procedures from H H Hartung. It prescribes height balance among bearers, carrying methods, and stance rules to avoid frightening the patient. It covers ascent and descent of stairs and hill climbs, and seat positioning for leg injuries.
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H. H. Hartung
National Magazine
Origin of the Phrase He Does Not Know Enough to Come In Out of the Wet
Anecdote attributed to Athenaeus explains the saying’s origin from a Greek town that mortgaged its market portico to a rich lender. When it rained the town criers announced shelter under the colonnade, prompting visitors to joke that citizens needed to be told when to come in out of the wet.
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Athenaeus
Greece
How to Help a Dog That Is Choking
The text explains choking in dogs from a bone nail or tin piece and warns of death before a surgeon. It outlines a safe method: insert bandages between teeth over upper and lower jaws, have one person keep the mouth open, and another insert fingers to remove or push down the obstruction.
Snake Swallows Umbrella Ends Physically Split
The tale of Dr. Emil Reich recalls a rainstorm afternoon when he slept beside a bush. Awakening before nightfall he rushed to open a stiff umbrella. A tearing sound followed as a snake burst from the umbrella carcass, apparently having swallowed it whole.
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Emil Reich
Era of Good Feeling origin in Monroe era
The term Era of Good Feeling originated in the Columbian Sentinel of Boston on July 10 1817 describing James Monroes administration. It framed eight years from 1817 to 1825 as a period of public sentiment in political history as cited by the Magazine of American History.
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James Monroe
Boston
Columbiano Sentinel
Monroe
Magazine of American History
Dialogue at the Zoo Sparks Vexed Exchange
A humorous exchange unfolds as Cholly Softboy jokes about appearing angry by the monkey cage while Candid Friend teases him for seeming beside himself. The light banter captures a playful street conversation.
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Cholly Softboy
Nawsty Dick Dandy
The Lesson Comic Exchange About Marriage
The dialogue presents a barber scene where a man claims happiness comes with marriage but notes it is too late after wedding. The woman responds with a wry remark confirming the irony of married life. The exchange captures a humorous cultural view on matrimony.
No Sympathy Fly Soup Quip in Life Cartoon
A Life magazine cartoon clip depicts a waiter and diner bantering over a fly in the soup. The exchange plays on insult humor with the diner blaming the fly and the waiter making a sharp retort. No additional context or dates are provided.
Life and dreams amid waking reality
A reflective line notes life as more than a dream yet incomplete without its grand ambitions. It hints at a philosophy where purpose and aspiration give meaning to everyday existence.
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Sea of Galilee
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Equivocal
Harshberger’s
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George Roynon
Carey
Raymond Logsdon
R. J, Carey
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J. T. Myers
Jeannette DeWitt
Wagner
Ranger & Huston the Corner Hardware
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