Puzzling Traits Across Nations and Oddities in Daily Life
Max Muller compares Indians and Europeans in a light, opinionated tone while Edgar L Wakeman notes a budget Europe trip for 60. Those arguing for English spelling reform claim one letter is useless. The Times-Democrat cites rising teeth prices due to platinum. Brownwood Texas hosts a vast pecan orchard. Springfield Mass boasts a huge egg collection. Chicago sewage plans face high costs with river or land options. Edward Marston recounts Stanley Wrote his Book using field notebooks and astronomical volumes.
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Edward Marston
London
Scribner's
Stanley
New _York
Dia
Correspondenta
Peru
United States Department of Agriculture
Meson
Malta
Carolinas
Tennessee
Georgia
Isle of
Tunis
Africa
Department of Agriculture
Brazil
British East Indies
Mexico
Argentine Republic
France
England
New York
Teratd
Beyond the Land of Endless Springs and Fog
A reflective poem on journeying beyond mountains and seasons to a divinely fair land, followed by a long tale of a man trapped in a coastal sand funnel near Navarro Mills. His survival, family fears, rescue, and rebuilding life with a fence, and a regional note on Newfoundland and its rugged people, lack of maps, and maritime life.
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Navarro Mills
Mendocino
California
Tim
Jon Tanne
Jake
Newfoundland
Cormack
St. Johny
New York Herald
Bulbul Birds Draw Delhi Crowds At Mosque Ceremony
In Delhi, children adore the bulbul a small ash plumaged bird with a black crest. At the great mosque gateway a crowd gathers for a religious ceremony as pairs of bulbul birds engage in mortal combat captivating spectators from street to shawled patrons.
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India
Delhi
Matiz
Tony
Vale of
Cashmere
Martin
Harper
Land of emeralds found in Arizona stones and trees
Reported observations by Colonel Manuel Gomez discuss Arizona gems including spinal rubies sapphires emeralds turquoises and amethysts. Notes large turquoise seams in the desert, petrified redwood with crystal coatings, and that ancient seas left pearls in petrified clams and oysters. Mentions a prior diamond excitement and export potential for goat products.
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Manuel Gomez
Parila
Arizona
Old Mexico
New Mexico
New York Star
Salads and Cookery Fragments From The Housewife
A collage of early 20th century kitchen notes and recipes. It lists salad condiments with egg yolk butter and anchovy, Saratoga potatoes, chicken cutlets with a rich sauce, omelet variations, meat loaf, and domestic crafts on porch decor and upholstery, all in a periodical voice.
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Boston
Brooklyn
Ladies Department scenting a toilet and masqueraded owls
A New York World note describes a pill bottle with rose attar to scent a toilet, while a Detroit Free Press item reports masqueraded white owls at a Banbury party causing amusement. The Chicago Herald notes women in entertainment and a heroic act by Mareans Kaehus's wife after a tornado, with additional fashion and science tidbits from periodicals.
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New York World
Banbury
England
Indies
Detroit
Ko’ Mars Lake
Mareans
Kaehus
Tor
Weeping Trees Reported in Washington and Africa
The Seattle West-Intelligencer notes observations of trees dripping on sunny days in Washington and British Columbia, linked to fir leaf condensation near the dew point. Hawkins voyage accounts mention a weeping tree on Ferro supplying water to people and animals, with similar reports in Guinea of different species.
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Germany
London Engineering
Queenstown
Sandy Hook
C. W. Bruce
Pickering
Milward College Astronomical Observatory
Pfeiffer
Italy
Washington
British Columbia
Oakluyt
Lawkins
Africa
America
Hawkins
Ferro
Eurther
Guinea
Urro
Seattle West
Thought It Was Larger Lord Noodlays Dialogue
A fragmentary exchange features Lord Noodlays and Captain Dazar discussing the size of America, with Lord Noodles remarking that he expected a larger country and the captain clarifying that the land seen is America. The snippet captures a humorous, archaic travel dialogue tone.
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Lord Noodles
Dazar
French Prisoner Who Befriended Rats in the Bastile
A 18th century tale from Cornhill Magazine recounts AG de la Tude, a French prisoner jailed from 1749 to 1784, who befriended a growing family of ten rats in his dungeon. He fed them, taught names, and played with them, turning captivity into a peculiar companionship despite the damp misery and isolation.
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Pers
M. de la ‘Tade
de Pompadour
Bastile
Tle
Wal
AG de la Tude
Cornhills Magazine
Hdid s Fling and a Proposed Engagement
In a Boston Chronicle snippet, Miss May Fure-Oh Edith learns Pied proposed to her last evening but she hesitates to accept. Edith recalls his threat to take drastic action if rejected, after he reportedly refused earlier.
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May “Fure
Edith
Pied
Boston Collier
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Aiddie
Maine
Southern Progress
Dixie
United States
Strasburg
Times-Democrat
F. A. Swinden
Brownwood
Texas
Murer
Springfield
Mass
Chicago
New York News
Lake Michigan
Mississippi
Illinois
Carey
BY Charles UH. Sunn
Saratoga
Washington Star
Nousenold
Ladies’ Department
Chicago Herald
Nunmsa Girls
Burmere
Joseph
New York Sun
Fritz
Hans
Wilhelm
Atlantic
Chicago Post
Samson
Mane
Victorine
Mme, Vicelorine
Burt
Nado
Avith
Minneapolis Tribune
Ladies’ Home Journal
Sarah
Kentucky
Ohio
Atlantic Ocean
Litte
TE. M. Ende
Dupont
Var Deaman
Department
Maryland
Virginia
Newton
Russian Health Society
Tuasia
Wamburg
Voomlir
Science-Monthly
Canada
Ther Tire
Montreal
Cchicarpo Lerald
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