Theater Lovers and Actors Recalled in Vivid Anecdotes
A fragmented reminiscence recounts George Ragland and Jay Luns of Ragland memory sharing theater lore. It notes audience reactions to a performance of Fear the Fossal Langhier and mentions misheard lines and stage mishaps. The piece highlights audience delight at lively verbal sparring and a famed mime citizen appearing in a crowd scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B
Ragland
Tate
Pan Snes Wan
George Wan
Resael Ho
The Triumphant Butcher and The Nattered Slade
Reading excerpts reveal curious phonetic errors in pronunciation lessons at a teachers institute. A later tale describes a five-legged snake versus a spider in a wheelwright shop with a fatal end for the reptile and a separate anecdote about a girl and buttered bread taught by a strolling observer.
Vall Her Hack
A fragmentary dialogue shows two speakers trading flippant exchanges about age and appearance. The rough OCR yields garbled phrases but presents a playful, teasing tone between the characters.
Animals Wanderings and the Meeg Migratory-Lemminge Race
A fragmented, early text on animal migrations describes lemming like rodents traveling south for winter and returning north as cold ends. It notes deaths en route, stories of mass drownings, and a claim that such migrations occur regularly across vast distances, with references to northern Europe and Norway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barventine
Carta
Neandinavia
Chousania
Landen
Pointed Paragraphs On Settlements And Social Ties
A collection of short, quizzical anecdotes discusses settling disputes, marriage choices, and social ambitions. It notes attorneys influence, a doctor’s timing, and a Chicago poet's publishing ploy, plus bird behavior signaling weather and a tailor seeking urgent payment.
Odd Fable of Whales and a Dutch Windmill Like Blade
A nautical narrative describes whaling near Seymour Canal Alaska where a large whale is repeatedly struck by a long club wielded by an unseen operator. The blows come at four to five second intervals as the whale surfaces to blow and then dives, with a shipboard audience including Indians watching from offshore and in the bay at night. The account notes holes and sores on whales, mentions a single legend about a clubbed canoe, and closes with observations on debt, justice, and Buddhist monks in Bangkok.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucer Marine
Admiralty Island
Alaska
Seymour Canal
Fahermen
Atervala
Conroe
Porest
Atreags
Chinese Columbus myth echoed in old priest tale
The text discusses a supposed fifth century Buddhist priest crossing the Pacific to a land called Fossog, later translated in 1701, with doubts over the 20 000 mile distance. It cites similarities to indigenous peoples and plants and references a London Telegraph quip about a well timed sermon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Acholare
Pacific
St. de Guigned
Fossog
Indiana
Pacific Ocean
London Telegraph
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Union Water Company Incorporated
Union Water Company
Westfield
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Boston
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Broad Street
Elizabeth
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Gas Light Company
N. A. Barnett
North Avenue
N. J
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Automobile
Cranford, NJ
Wo Sing
Joseph Erhardt
J.l.beauer
County Ungineer
Malin
Dix Building
Elizabeth, N. J
Robert Wakefield
Central
Masonic Building
Robert Rindell
Lehigh Coal
E. A. O'Donnell
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Tisxixa
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Ranoys
Sycam Anp Gas Fittixa
Jonnixa
Smifler
Mendel
Jobving
Realdenes
Walant Avenue
J.C. W. Rankin
Lehigh Valley Coal
Opon Chronicle
Centennial Avenue
Cesnford
Jesse Wheeler
Jesse South Ave
E Wheeler
Cranford, N. J
Burkely Hotel
Rica
Liles
Ton Inotines
Tdes
Armel
Sistine Vela
Devia
Wheelwright Shop
Slade
Tyuse
Gina
Rome
Tan
Sero
Atrlaou Globe
Chicago
Rourvet
Vielatwa
AssistenteJlere
Edittor
Calleble
Ham
Hangkok
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