Maria Mitchell and the Brent Beer Episode
Maria Mitchell, famed astronomer, is said to have been advised by her physician to use beer as a tease. En route to her sister Mrs Joshua Kendall in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she bought a bottle at a saloon and asked her brother in law to open it. The Mitchell family discussed the Quaker custom after the incident. Where did you get this bottle, Maria? inquired her sister. At the saloon on the corner, replied Miss Mitchell calmly. Why, Maria, don’t respectable women go there? Oh, I told the man he ought to be thoroughly ashamed of ist ratite.
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Maria Mitchell
Joshua Kendall
Camutbridge
Mass
Mitchell
Marla
Miss Mitchell
New York
Equality and Honest Labor Inspire Shared Humanity
Equality, brotherhood, and honest work bind all people as equals before God. The speaker affirms that wealth or status proves nothing before the Creator, and all deserve dignity. We should labor to ease suffering and treat every person with respect, regardless of birth or fortune. Matthias Barr.
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God
Matthias Barr
Raw Recruit King Salutes With Cigar in War Days
In the Spanish American War tale, F M King, a new recruit at Jefferson Barracks, is punished after saluting with a cigar. An officer warns him, mocks the rule, and he later repeats the act, spending three days peeling potatoes in the kitchen as punishment.
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F. M. King
Jefferson Barracks
Wing
Ning
Atchison
A Losing Dream and a Remarkable Play Tale
A commuter recalls a dream about a bank window and a wife who nudges him awake. Weedon Grossmith recounts a story of Robert Ganthony and a play that haunted him, ending with Ganthony’s lost script recovered by Scotland Yard months later.
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Weedon Grossilth
Robert Gauthony
Mr. Grossmith
Ganthony
Gantheny
Old Days Tales and a Doctor's Ruse
Two comic vignettes from early 20th century papers. A Pittsburgh worker seeks a doorkeeper job, only to be told a door is needed yet he finds none. In a second tale Patrick confronts a doctor about dispensing medicine, demanding a preview dose before trying the remedy.
Mysterious Metal Mass Drives Surgeon’s Remarkable Find
A Liverpool hospital case reveals a nasal abscess hiding a metal mass behind the nose and roof of the mouth. Surgeons removed a gun breech and iron bolt weighing a quarter pound after five years in the man’s head, with no external deformity and full recovery.
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Brealdins
Dia
London
Lindhes
Germany’s beds mock the traveler with odd sleepless comforts
An excerpt from Tarper’s Weekly notes European sleeping arrangements in Germany. Beds are unusually narrow and hard to tuck, with sheets and blankets mis sized. French pillows are often tiny and overstuffed, while wedge shaped German pillows incline toward the center of the bed. The piece mocks the acrobatics needed to stay covered and comfortable in German hotels.
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Germany
Ilabit
Paris
Same Moon Same Sands Married Tonight
A lighthearted London romance notes a sliver summer noon on familiar sands. A newlywed couple shares a playful exchange about the moon and telegraph poles, ending with a playful sharp remark as they revel in marital bliss.
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London
Dogs and Squids in Curious Tales From Alaska
Diverse excerpts describe dogs of Alaska displaying humanlike intelligence as one sled team member Tommy defied harnessing until a lesson by punishment led him to obey. The Ink Bag Squid details explain how ink escapes to confuse predators, rapid color changes, and swift attacks that sever vertebrae near the neck.
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Yukon River
Tommy
Wide World Magazine
Crederick Lolder
140 Acres of Land for Sale in Caroline County Maryland
Property comprises 140 acres in Caroline County with improved farm structures including a large eight room dwelling, barn, carriage house, granary and outbuildings. Parcel 2 offers a river fishery with water rights near Tuckahoe river. Parcel 3 is a Denton town lot at the northwest corner of Siath and Randolph streets with 50 ft frontage and 140 ft depth. Possession January 1, 1933, rents for 1912.
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Thawley’s Chapel
Saulsbury
Concord
Duihlnes
Sarfine
Albany
Durki Concord
Toenter
Town
Stone Road
R R, Shull
Greensboro
Denton Maryland Eight Room Dwelling Parcel 4 Sale
Seven room dwelling in first class repair fully renovated with electric light bath town water and sewer. A cement sidewalk on Sixth and Randolph streets. Possession from sale day. Parcel 4 describes a lot on Sixth street adjoining the High School campus about fifty feet frontage and one hundred forty feet deep, currently tenanted by D. E. Weduen with possession January 1 1913 and rents for 1912 reserved.
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Maryland
Siath and
Randolph Streets
Siath Street
Randolph Street
Sixth
Sixth Street
D. E. Weduen
Std
Deno
Allo
Gay Street
Abel
Henry R Lewis
Anna B. Cooper
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