Vast Century of Odd Facts and Notions Across Nations
A collage of transcribed curiosities and trivia: Dumas defends a bribe claim as a “large bribe”. Berlin’s coachmen list ex-army officers and nobles. Michigan rules a wife's earnings accrue to the husband. Norway mails by bicycle. global school counts and literacy notes. Holland ministers' church behavior. Tom Thumb versus Chang. Canon Farpar’s book list. ancient emblems and horned charms. a panorama of monarchies, explorers, and commerce. and a New Jersey Civil War enlistment record turn.
The Prisoner Poem on the Mind’s Locked Cell
A poem meditating on inner life as a prison. The skull is a lifelong jail with eye windows peering at earth and stars. The speaker notes the prisoner dwells alone, surrounded by shifting scenes, music, joy, and sorrow, yet remains solitary and unknowable to any lover. This verse by W. Foss appears in Yankee Blade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stalla
Stona
W. Foss
Yankee Blade
Thi Suipo
Woodco
Dorothea Hathaway Defies Father and Aids War Cause
In a long dark hall Dorothea Hathaway, a seventeen year old Tory, schemes to aid the American cause. Disguised in John Warren’s uniform she confronts Joseph Warren, warns of British plans to seize stores at Lexington, and helps spur the mobilization that leads to the April 19 1775 battle.
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Ita Solera
Dreas
Bho
Leraolf
Dorothea
John Fardon
Master Ethaway
Uaniah
Nereso
Master Hathaway
Dte Jerome
Mistress Hathaway
Priscilla
Trenon
Mito Epring
Pralilla Farden'a
John Faden
Perecitin
Fardeen
Dorothea Iba
Joseph Warren
John
Dorothes
Dorothea Hathaway
Mistress Furdon
Joseph Warrens
Warren
Mr. Warren
Warran
Jolt Farden
Concord
Lexington
Juli Fardon
Ita
Josaph Warren's
Mistress Farden
Osoint
Falail
Exprose
Berlin Poor Life in Meyer's Hof Tenements Described
In Berlin a reporter tours Meyer's Hof a large tenement complex housing about 1500 people in a hundred foot wide by two hundred foot deep building with six stories. He notes crowded courts small rooms and mixed classes from rich to poor, with street level shops and a barber operating in a five by six foot space. He observes families, skirted by sunlit courtyards, and recounts daily life from births to coffins amid the bustling, stratified life of a city block.
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Berlin
Frank G. Carpenter
San Fancisco
Linite
Oly
Na Teamo Jn Jann Tsyo
Meyer
Propio
Teneiments
Tn Avornage City
America
The Exquisite Pleasure of Falling Misread Fragment
An OCR fragment discusses romanticized death and ancient methods. the speaker contrasts Tarpeian rock execution with electrocution and describes faintly vivid, body breaking pain and a sense of rising fear as bones snap. It references a readerly fascination with being billed for the fall.
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Vlc
Sint
Truther
The Finest Light in the World at Chicago Exposition
The Forum extols Chicago’s fair as vastly superior to prior shows and comparable to Paris 1889. It lauds the vast scale, beauty, and grandeur, claiming no equal spectacle exists since ancient Rome and predicting immediate astonishment for visitors.
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Oura
Thia
Chicago
Yenesis
Rome
Forum
Royal Poison Trial in Dehu Court Shake Panic
A consignment of self dissolving powders is shown to the Dehu king. The twelve blue papers and white powders were mixed with water and consumed, causing a dramatic collapse. The monarch, overwhelmed by the reaction, shouted to hold him down and collapsed, a scene described amid reports from New York News.
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Dehu
India
New York
New York World
Cowboy Myth and Extinction Discussed by Henry Catway
Henry Catway argues in the Great Northern piece that the cowboy is fading, likening him to the buffalo and prairie wolf. He claims the cowboy was largely a myth crafted by earlier writers and notes danger and rarity as civilization advances. He cites Texas as still producing authentic cowboys despite changing times.
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Plains
Henry Catway
Great Northern
Hastert
Cooper
Texas
Chivago
Hints to the Women Who Sew and Fashion Notes
A collage of domestic guidance and fashion items from early society pages. It covers sewing hints on threading and wear, a wedding knot anecdote, Miss Morton's seating costume, social wear critiques, historic mask fashions, Empire pinafore trends, and a Boston lecture on Women in Century pursuits, noting Dentists Mary Sullivan and Dr. Reynolds.
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Morton
New York World
de Annie Follon Reynolds
Boston
Mung
Centutry
Ketton
de. Hobbs
Kansas
United States
Massachusetts
Vpinindelphia Colleges
Dental Association For
Mary Suliman
Ite
Raynolde
Women in Dakota farming tale and dental career ideals
An aging Boston senior, Mies Galloupe, contrasts dental instruction with other coeducational schools, stressing adaptability, tact, enthusiasm, and health. The piece narrates a Dakota woman’s frontier life, labor, and eventual marriage to a New England law student, followed by fashion notes and curious cattle history in early America.
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Mies Galloupe
Boston Dantal College
Boeton
Tom O'Faerel
Lindell Rotunda
Dakota
Boston
Coney Island
New England
Dade
Abe
Grand Cathedral
Big Bow
St. Louie
James River
Virginia
Ji Asnorica
Plymouth
England
Winslety
Cape Ann
Massachumetts Bay
Irolland
New York
Wilfront
Veador
Poetic Tea Making and Household Recipes
A collage of antiquated household guidance presents poetic tea making directions and practical steps for drying currants and seedless raisins. It includes coffee brewing methods, pot pie style notes, macaroons, sweet potato tarts, and a humorous anecdote about sound sleepers, all reflecting late 19th or early 20th century domestic lore and culinary tips.
Electric marvels and transit dreams blaze through era
A jumble of tech notes reports electric tailw yes and glass engraving at a fair. It cites New York incandescent lamp usage, Paris and London power ideas, fast elevators in Broadway buildings, and electric omnibuses. A soldier account recalls camp life and a stranger meeting on the field. The piece mentions the tomato’s name origin and a lighthearted literary exchange.
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Sheridan
Johnny
Yank
Erry
Perryville Pike
New York
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Columbus
Dumas
Loudon Even Dentelis
The
Supreme Court of Michigan
Norway
Postmentyon Bicycles
Providence Army Journal
Matthewa
Holland
Tom’ Thumb
Chang
Mat
Christ
Thomas A. Kemp
Homer
Achyloa
Thucydides
Tacitus
Virgil
Marcus Aurelius
Dante
Shakespeare
Milton
Wordsworth
Withi
Bonovia
Express
Europe
Vanderbilt
Gould
Edidon
Western Australia
South Australia
New York Telegram
Italy
Wartemburg
Belgium
Saxony
Spain
Servin
Anatrhin
Tosy
Weh Bohorla
Prager
Wallington
New Jersey
William T. Curtis
Lambertville
New Jersey Volunteera
Young Curtis
Company K
Sevenleanth U. 8
Fort Lady
Wick
Wyoming
Gage Mays
Youngo
Gaspar
July
Joseph Warrey
Lake Eerlo
Thad
Cleveland
Drofirsch
Dugres
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Theo King
uDeary
Coorg
Ehilcage News-Record
Maida of Honor
Homo Journal
Coralina
Othera
Aterwarda
Anna M. Enegerand
Mimi
Buffalo Commercial
New York Post
Denistry
Gayat
Malachusetts
Hts
Agong
Russia
Germany
France
Sclentivio
I¢ Se
Elliott Cones
New York City
Union Trust Company
Broadway
Wall Street
London
ElectroniReview
Aimeilar
Fifth Avenue Stege
Baltimore
Girard
South America
New York Sun
Fogg
Charlio
Immoense
Boston Transcript
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