Beauty Who Turned to Stone in Venice Legend
Ghita Gherardini, niece of the doge, grows enamored of her own beauty after a moonlit vision. She neglects faith, stares at a mirror in church mass book, and a deadly gaze is reflected. A statue in San Giorgis Maggiore is said to be her petrified form, a cautionary tale from Venice.
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New York Herald
Onion Verse Promises Health Beauty From May Onion
The Onion as dietary subject inspires doggerel noting health and beauty benefits. One old verse touts fat onions in May and another links fresh onion eating to a new complexion in a week.
Volcano Lava What It Does
A classroom dialogue shows a student named Robert and the teacher agreeing on a brief explanation of a volcano's lava behavior. The exchange highlights a simple teaching moment about volcanic activity.
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Suited Him She Oh I Detest Sofa Pillows and Tidies
Fragmentary dialogue references domestic life and a marriage proposal from a Chicago Record-Herald excerpt. It also notes a demographic stat: of 100000 children ten years old, 31 243 will survive to age seventy.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Household Hints and Parenting Reflections
A collection of home remedies and childrearing advice notes. Tips include turpentine for coughs, a makeshift corkscrew, and cautions on neuralgia treatments, plus guidance on gentleness with children and avoiding harsh discipline. It blends practical tips with moral commentary on parenting and affection.
Pointed Paragraphs From Atchison Globe
A reflective noted paragraph about a good girl, family influence, neighborly amusement, and paths to wrong choices. It discusses happiness versus wretched times, and how death reveals neighbors, time, and the clock, as seen in the Atchison Globe.
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Atchison Globe
Fruit’s fresh flavor fades with hours, not digestion
The saying gold in the morning silver at noon mul Jerd at night refers to fruit. It notes that freshly gathered produce is most palatable and valuable, with value deteriorating as hours pass, a rule also applying to vegetables, fittingly eaten directly from garden to table.
A Northern Tribute to Dix ary 1¢
The Indianapolis News praises a Northern tribute to Dixie, saying the song endures since the Civil War and rekindles passion on both sides. It calls Dixie lively, serene, and nation shaping, likening its aura to the Marseillaise and noting its survival power beyond war.
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Indianapolis News
Notice to Debtors and Creditors in Lumpkin County Georgia
All persons having claims or demands against the estate of W. E. Head, late of Lumpkin County Georgia, deceased, are required to render to the undersigned an account of their demands and all indebted to said estate must settle. This 17th day of May 1905 Isaac M. Heap Executor of WK Head deceased.
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Georgia
Lumpkin County
W. E. DP
Isaac M. Heap
Deepest Net Haul Reaches Four Miles Down In Pacific
Americans off Tonga islands set a world record with a net reaching 23 000 feet deep in the south Pacific. The trawl found animal life amid near freezing water under 9 090 pounds per square inch pressure, returning after a full day of work. California gel production topped 85 099 000 dollars in a single year.
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Hanliver
Tonga Islands
South Pacific
St. Nicholas
Sheriff’s sale of unreturned wild lands in Lumpkin County Georgia
Sheriff JM Davis sells unreturned, unoccupied lands in Lumpkin County for 1904 taxes. Numerous land lots across the 4th to 12th districts in Lumpkin, each 40 acres more or less, plus several 250 acre and 30 acre tracts, will be sold at public auction at the Lumpkin County courthouse on the first Tuesday in June 1905 for cash to the highest bidder. The action follows a fifa issued against KE Walden, J.C. of the county.
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State of Georgia
JM. Davis
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John H. Moore
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