Special Homeseeker Excursion Rates via the Wabash
Tickets on sale the first and third Tuesdays of each month to Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Indian Territories at about one fare plus 82 for round trip. Gulf points in Texas and intermediate points to Oklahoma priced 2540 for round trip. Colorado and other points on application. Tickets valid thirty days with liberal stop overs. For information contact K W Richeson Agent.
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Reward of Faith and the Lightning Struck Church
A hilly district congregation faced two lightning fires after rejecting insurance. Wealthy member Mr Sipes refused insurance again, vowing to rebuild himself if it burned. A third strike led to shaft mining on the site, revealing ore and allowing sale of the church land for many times its cost. Brother Sipes proclaimed the Lord a better business manager than any in the church.
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Old Carlsbad Health Resort Birth of Its Famous Waters
Carlsbad in Bohemia, ancient health resort with royal Kaiser Karl I charter. initial cure lay in baths described as Hautfresser. Around 1500 Dr. Payer of Elbogen ordered Carlsbad water to be drunk, recommending twenty to sixty cups each morning, a shift from bath-only cures documented in Town and Country.
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Insect Plague and Mosquito Perils in Nyassa Trek
In Grognan's account from Cape to Cairo the Bungu fly swarms darken horizons and invade living spaces. Native methods include sweeping them up for cakes while mosquitoes drive travelers from tents at sunset. The author describes deadly bites and suffocating conditions inside shared nets.
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Cunning of Muskrats and Odd War Tale
A fragment describes muskrat behavior and winter habits, noting their under ice paths and food sources, with a pasted reminiscence of De catur’s Guerriere and a humorous anecdote about aging hands and a brisk walk from the New York Press.
Herschel Illuminates Saturn Model For Queen’s Court
William Herschel built a cardboard model of Saturn in Windsor gardens to show the planet’s ringed system. Despite windy skies, the display was lit by a lamp and observed by Queen Charlotte and ladies of the court during an evening visit.
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Westmster Gazette
Bailie Macduff loses nap wager in ham debate
The fragment recalls Bailie Macduff being lured to a friend's house where he loses 30 shillings at nap and protests after losing his last coin. The host invites him to supper with ham, but he refuses, joking about consuming 50 shillings worth. The note cites London An awers and New York Past on perpetual cooking in the city.
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New York Press
Bailie Macduff
London
Radical change in men's bats style teased by cartoon
Harper's Weekly panel humorously muses on future bat design to cover bald spots. The exchange jokes that only a invention covering the bald patch could spur a stylistic shift, stressing both private and public appearance.
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Harper's Weekly
Railroad wreckers and their perilous duty described
A. W. Roiker in Appleton's extols the life of railroad wreckers likening them to city firemen yet more strenuous. They work continuous shifts through storms and danger, racing to scenes where cars and engines crash, often enduring hours of fatigue before another alarm takes them across the country, risking life for recovery and salvage.
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Morphy Solves Devil Beset Chess Position in Philadelphia
Taul Morphy visited Philadelphia and, after viewing a painting of a chess game against the devil, claimed he could win the young man’s doomed position. He set up the board with Rev. Mr. Hi and demonstrated a swift sequence that checkmated the devil and sealed the young man’s victory.
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Insipid Company and Quick Quips from the Cleveland Leader
A compact clipping features two short witticisms. The first quotes Thomas Gray on insipid company as a companion. The second, from the Cleveland Leader, jokes about a wife’s reaction to a hat and suggests a similar gift for another.
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Thomas Gray
Agreed. Witty Exchanges From Harper's Weekly
A terse exchange recalls a humorous domestic quip about cooking and starvation. The sentiment contrasts a wife and husband preferring to starve rather than cook. A secondary note cites Emerson on action measured by depth of sentiment.
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Harpers Weekly
Emerson
Why Rice Became A Wedding Symbol Revealed
What to Lat reports a bridesmaid explain the rice tradition. An old belief tied doves to longevity and peace. frightened birds fled and throwing rice supposedly brought the birds back, leading to the rice custom signifying luck, peace, and happiness at weddings.
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Vast card variations in whist astonish minds
An exploration notes that a hand in whist has one of 635 013 550 600 possibilities and even a million players dealing endlessly for 100 million years would exhaust only a small fraction. It adds a Rome quip about visitors fleeing and returning after months.
A Great Scheme Young Husband
A narrator recalls how his wife began cooking, hosting guests daily at first, then losing visitors as meals improved. Quotes from File gende Blatter and Lavater appear, noting judgment on cooking and personal skill.
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