The Ordinary American Worker and the Tale of Success
The piece argues that the average American worker will not achieve typical success and uses statistics from Dan and Bradstreet to illustrate low odds in business and high thresholds for wealth. It concludes that if you are the extraordinary exception, you will win, despite being among many who do not.
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Ameneus
Veip
Dan’s
Bradstreet
Soryou
United States
Studebaker
South Bend
Christian and Temperance Services Across Churches
The First Church of Christ Scientist presents the subject Reality and the Morning topic Completeness in Christ. A Baptist church hosts The Church Versus the Saloon with special temperance music and a baptism at sermon’s close. All are welcome. Seats are free and the Phil church joins at night with other churches for temperance mass at the opera house.
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Phil—chareh
Opera House
Making a Sale and a Curious Exchange on Gloves
A shopper questions glove style claiming black sid gloves differ from trends. A shopman explains tan stitches and the term view versa meaning seven buttons, leading her to buy three pairs. A German newcomer in New York is bitten by a dog, causing a bystander to rush to help.
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New York
Tans
Dina de von
Woman's Improvement Club to meet March thirty first
The Women’s Improvement Club will hold its next regular meeting at Mrs. Thompsons residence on Tuesday evening March 31. A musical program is planned and members will discuss the Panama Canal using the latest information available on this international waterway.
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Woman's Club
Woman’s Improvement Club
The Great Frost of 1683 84 on the Thames
Pearson's Weekly recalls the extreme winter that froze ink and wine blocks, with a foot thick Thames ice hosting a town of shops. Writers struggled near fires as ink froze, bread hardened, and many deaths occurred, while the poor suffered severely.
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Europe
Thames
Pearson’s Weekly
Little Great Men and a Chinese Scholar in Europe
A Chinese scholar who knew Confucius and 14 000 characters travels to Amsterdam. He speaks a little Dutch and asks for Xixofou, only to learn the author is unknown. He laments that his quest for renown has not crossed Europe’s borders.
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Europe
Amsterdam
China
Oliver Goldsmith
First American Play The Prince of Parthia at Southwark
The Philadelphia Public Ledger cites The Prince of Parthia by Thomas Godfrey as the first play written by an American produced in the United States. It opened at Southwark theater in Philadelphia in April 1767 with Lewis Hallam's company. Godfrey, a promising young poet, died young. the play is seen as notable in his collected works published in 1776.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Thomas Godfrey
Southwark Theater
Quaker City
Lewis Hallam
Philadelphia
Godfrew
The Hand That Won the Rich and the Bluff at the Palace
In old San Francisco at the Palace Hotel a poker game among Senators Sharon Stewart and Jones of Nevada and Judge Mesick drew Boston visitor Hall. A $20 000 pot built as Hall bets 15000 more and Sharon concedes. Hall then blinds Sharon with a sealed hand bluff, returning the envelopes to the hotel safe and proving the ruse with a pair of deuces and ten high after ten days.
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San Francisco
Palace Hotel
Sharon
Stewart and Jones
Nevada
Dick Mesick
Mr. Hall
Boston
Hail
Senator Sharon
Byron
Judge Mesick
Mr. Sharon
Mr.Hall
Mesick
Jones
Stewart
Hall
California
To Begin With Now My Children An Alter Late Necessity
Fragmentary notes discuss family prayers and economy as a motive force. Names like Tarper and Johuron appear in clipped quotations. The text reads like a miscellany from Tarper’s Weekly.
Magazine Ad Offers Subscriptions at 15C per issue
A periodical promotes a 150 pattern with every subscription and lists a price of 15 cents per single copy or 1 dollar for a yearly rate.
Odd Bread Use in Watch Factories Surfaces Here
A period piece notes a watch factory uses bread dough to wipe oil and chips from tiny watch parts. The dough absorbs oil and captures particles, enabling cleaning without residue. The piece also recalls a quainter compliment about Mark Twain from a Hartford clergyman on his seventy second birthday.
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Watch Factory
American Food Journal
Mark ‘Twain
Hartford
Descartes and the Cogito in New York American
The piece frames Descartes turning inward to inspect the soul like a microscope. It notes his doubt of all but his own existence and asserts consciousness as the basis of certitude. It mentions the idea of infinite perfection and argues that this implies God exists.
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Descartes
Bacon
God
New York American
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
Corona
Corona Howe. & Imp. Co
Corona, Cal
Nberty
Johuron
Scription
Buster
Brown CO. Chic
Torial Review
PAT
MAGA
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