Curious Old Russian Whitsuntide Marriage Market
A London Lady correspondent recalls a Whitsuntide custom in St Petersburg where marriageable women displayed themselves in summer gardens with dowries, as bachelors and brokers negotiated matches. The ritual, ending in a chosen partner if valued, faded by 1861 under European influence, while other anecdotes from Pearson's Weekly accompany the piece.
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Whitsuntide
Russia
London Lady
St. Patersburg
Recalled to Duty at Friedland Seventy-First Regiment
At Friedland General Rapp rallied a disorderly regiment, asking for the name of the unit. The Seventy-first answered. He challenged their hesitation, invoking past deeds, and the troops reformed, charged the guns, and soon held them. This moment underscored personal responsibility and courage.
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Friedland
Rapp
Seventy-first Regiment
Blue Gum Negroes and the Myth of the Bite
A New York Sun essay summarizes beliefs about blue gum negro bites and their reputed deadly effects. It notes lack of scientific basis, cites anecdotes from Georgia and Alabama, and argues the fear stems from superstition and racial tension rather than biology.
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South
Augusta
Alabama
Middle
Georgia
New York Sun
Wealth, War, and Bible Hunt in Early Atchison
A pasted fragment cites Captain Parker on war prep and national strength, then recounts a Boston visitor in Atchison seeking a Bible amid a missing Bible run and a Bible depository tale. It ends noting Calcutta as an educational hub with 20 colleges and 40 high schools and merchants urged to mind their business.
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James Parker
Harper’s Magazine
Atchison
Boston
Claflin
Central Branch
George W.glick
Mr. Glick
Cottonwood Brown’s
Virgie Parker
Parker
L. A. Anderson
Glick
Brown
Atchison Globe
Calcutta
India
Ancient Windmills and the Race of Air Power Through Time
A compact history of windmills from antiquity to modern times. It traces early Dutch engineering, English taxation fears, and the evolution of windmill designs from movable and post mounted to floating and American steel types. The piece notes widespread wind power in Europe and current use in the United States.
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Holland
France
Germany
Belgium
England
Europe
Zuyder Zee
New York
Microtomes Cut Slices One-Twelfth Thousandth Thick
The Youths Companion notes a new instrument, the microtome, capable of producing successive sections as thin as one twelve-thousandth of an inch. The knife edge appears perfectly smooth and straight at 50x magnification, enabling microscopic study of animal and vegetable tissues.
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Moen
Brothers In Adversity Invention Trade Quote
A forty-niner claims discovering a gold mine while another calls a torpedo boat invention. They reconcile, shake hands and pool capital to buy a cheap dinner in a Detroit Free Press passage.
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Detroit
Notable Quotes and Tidbits From Old Newspapers
A collection of clipped lines from early 20th century papers features humorous exchanges about a noisy cat, a canary and its singer, a claim of a massive mammoth tusk 16 feet long, and dramatic lines from stories such as She Would Not Disappoint Him and Clara and Maud.
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Clara
Maud
Old Dodderly
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the Empire
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Acent
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Ture
Frank W. Reppen
Denton
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MW. F. Towers 2 Co
Fice and Warehouse
South Charles Street
Baltimore, Md
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Wm. J. C. Dulany Company
Baltimord Street
Baltimore
Thomas H. Mitchell
Salisbury, Mar
T. H. Evans & Company
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Light Street
Wheeler Transportation Line
Great Choptank
Trappe and Tuckahoe Rivers
Oxford
Trappe
Cambridge
Chancellor's
Secretary
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Choptank
Liloyd’s
Dover Bridge
Kingston
McCarty’s
Ganey’s
Todd's
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Towers
Williston
Tuckahoe Bridge
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Coward’s
Covey’s
Hillsboro
Queen Anne
Medford’s
Qclark
KE. E. Wheeler
Pier
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Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway
Copany
Third Haven
Great Choptanke River
Easton
East New Market
Willard Thomson
JAS
Byrd
South Street
Z. T. Hutchinson
Cart
D.S. Brockway
Greensborough
George F. Dill
DS Brockway
Starry A. Roe
S. Nowell & Son
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F. W. Redden
W. F. Murphy
Murphy
Francis Kelly & Coe
Market St
Wilmington
Del
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Francis Nichols
Nichols P. D
Francois Nichols
Charles Stevens
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M. J. Cohee
Chester River
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Chestertown
Rolph
Centreville
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Vine Street
Philadelphia
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Edward P. Foote & CO
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Emory & Neayvit
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Caroline
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Centreville, MD
Will
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I*r*e* L. Cooper
Pliny Fisher
Attorney-At-Law
Denton, Mo
Ferry R. Lewis
Caroline Talbot
Execn George
Pp. R. Fisher
George & Fisher
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Main Street
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Preston
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Ridgely, Maryland
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Court House
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Caroline County
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the Best Life & Fire Insurance
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Marydel
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J.h.benjes
E. Pratt
Buck’s
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Williston, MD
Henry RK. Lewis
Atty-at-Law
J. W. Saulsbury
Aldershot
Pearson’s Weekly
America
New York Press
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