A Palace of Salt Wieliczka Mine Delights With Salt Carved Chambers
Harper's Weekly reports Wieliczka salt mine near Cracow reaches over 1000 feet depth after seven centuries of work. Carved salt stairways and three fields hold hundred foot chambers, with a ballroom and the famed St Anthony chapel where walls, floor, and statues are solid salt and glow like jewels when lit.
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Galicia
Cracow
Wieliczka
Austria
St. Anthony
L. G. Randall
Harper’s Weekly
Perfect Numbers and Their Rare Count
A historical note explains that a perfect number equals the sum of its proper divisors plus one, listing six and twenty eight as examples. It states ten known perfect numbers including 496 and larger figures, and suggests undiscovered numbers would be larger than those named.
Night Books Revealed In Office Tale
Mrs Ayers asks about books on her husband desk and learns there are day books and night books. He explains the night books are used for work after 1 or 2 o clock in the morning when detained at the office.
Hatred of Tobacco Tells of a Killing Attempt
Henry M. Stanley recalls a 1863 Brooklyn stay with Judge X. where a drunken judge tried to kill his wife with a hatchet. After suppressing the attack, Stanley lit a cigar in the parlor and the wife insulted him for smoking in her house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry M. Stanley
Brooklyn
N. Y
Judge X
Dust and Sand Sweep Central Asia Deserts
In arid central Asia the air is thick with fine dust and yellow sediment. Dust drifts burying objects and obscuring the sun in Kho tan, where reading requires a lamp at midday.
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Asia
Central Asia
Khotan
Old Time Punishment On a November Stocks Day
A library of congress record recounts Flubbard sentenced in Boston to the stocks for ill temper. A pig drove by, a dog, a crowing cock, taunts, fetid toadstools, a dead snake, and an Indian with a tomahawk all roamed near. An old bull then charged, tore the corner post, but spared the prisoner as sleet fell that day.
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Library of Congress
Flubbard
Boston
Hubbard
Music as a distinct art of inner feeling
The piece defines music as sound used for artistic expression beyond literature sculpture painting acting or architecture. It describes music as embodying inward feelings and the attempt to express the deepest human aspirations and fears beyond other arts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York American
Umbrella Misunderstanding Sparks Fame Hatpin Mix Up
A shopper observes a rainy store exit where an umbrella yields a jewel tipped hatpin gloves and two men’s handkerchiefs. The woman claims the items belong to Mary and George, turning a suspected theft into a humorous misunderstanding reported by the New York Sun.
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Mary
George
New York Sun
The True Education A Quote From Ohio State Journal
A passage praises a well rounded education through beauty and virtue over flawless algebra or Latin parsing. It argues parents and educators should value experiences like sunsets roses and acts of kindness as essential to true education.
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Ohio State Journal
Why She Wept At A Wedding And A Gentle Interruption
A wedding ends with tears from the bride mother and bridesmaids. A groomsman jokes I’m not your wedding prompting a sorrowful reply. In Newcastle a meeting during a general election is interrupted by a heckler who is silenced by Sir Charles Hammond a magistrate.
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Sir Charles Hammond
Newcastle
Charlie
Sir Charles
London
Tatler
Gasoline’s Rise From Lamp Fuel to Petroleum Czar
A compact history tracing gasoline from a dangerous byproduct of crude oil to the dominant force in petroleum commerce. It notes early disposal problems, Hull’s vapor stove, 1903 car engines, and gasoline replacing kerosene as the main Illuminant and fuel, ending with gasoline as king of the oil industry.
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Pennsylvania
Hull
Cleveland
Torrest Crissey
Saturday Evening Post
Old Moon Belivers
The passage discusses beliefs that the moon influenced health, growth, and character in children and animals. It claims birth signs determined outcomes, with favorable signs yielding well formed traits and unfavorable signs predicting troubling dispositions. It associates misfits and troublesome animals with the dark moon and sign placements.
Cuba's Silent Forests Expose Quiet Wilderness
A traveler notes Cuba's vast forests are almost silent with no birds or creatures making sound. She observes few song birds and a scarcity of venomous snakes or pests, describing a world where living beings glide unseen through the quiet verdure.
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Cuba
The Trial of Life and Material Worth
The passage argues that without pressure, different materials or people appear equal. It uses examples like broom splinters versus ash and lead versus steel to claim only under tested strength do true qualities emerge, asserting character is revealed by life’s trials.
He Got Her In A Parlor Exchange
A flirtatious parlor scene unfolds as a young man admits he has forgotten the girl and asks to take her for himself, prompting a tense yet playful exchange about affection and exclusion.
Woodcarving for ships by Willian Rush noted
A Washington Star summary recalls the almost forgotten craft of ship carving with Willian Rush of Philadelphia praised as the era’s greatest carver. Rush produced lifelike figureheads such as Nature for the Constellation and The River God for the Ganges, with figures nine feet high that could be removed for repairs or action.
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United States
America
France
Mars
Wisdom
Miladelphia
Willian Rush
Rush
Washington Star
Barring Out the Wolves in Siberian Villages
The piece describes villages ringed by ten to fifteen foot stockades to keep livestock from forests with wolves. Each village holds many wolf hound dogs for protection, prized yet ownerless, and kept well fed. It adds a Ro ttsseau quote on occupation, solitude, and social chatter.
Hills of trouble and rivers to cross in hard times
A poignant reflection from the Atlanta Constitution on human troubles and relief. The piece likens life to hills to climb and rivers to cross, noting people seek cheaper comforts after joyous times and pray for favorable weather, even as winds blow against them.
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Atlanta Constitution
Chinese Ear Tickling and a Roman Gladiator Statue
A humorous passage notes a Chinese ear tickler business and a museum visit to a damaged Roman gladiator statue labeled Victory. The narrator quips about who won the imagined contest. The piece blends odd cultural observations with light mockery of relics.
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Leslie
E. J. Crary
McDonald
Choteau, Montana
Henry D. Robison
Pres
Jas, T. Robison
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The
Teton County Abstract Co
Choteau
Montana
H. J. McGregor
Mary Rudor
Cathleen Twete
C. J. B. Stephens
Graduate University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Chateau
A. F
A.M
S. Jameson
WLM
Martin Read
Fidelity
OES
T. O. Larson
W. M. Wes
E. E. Crawlord
A.C. Warner
U. S
Notary Public
Mont
Odd Fellows
Choteau Lodge No. 1
James Smith
N .G. GH. Connor
Seu's
Queen Rebekah
Choteau Encampment No. 11
G.t.rhoads
Jourdonnais
Scribe
Burbank
0. C
A. C, Warner, K
Glasgow
E. T. Glasgow Hodgskiss Building
Main Ave
N. W
Spring Creek Dairy
John Lyon
Harmony
Rhoads
Sooson, Prop
South Main St
Choteau, Mont
A. Deyong
J. W. McGowan
Second Street
South
Great Falls
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Lewis Thompson
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