Sea serpent tale ends with oil barrel prize and laughter
In Quincy Harbor on a blustery autumn morning Captain Barnabas Fish and Ananias Siloe pursue a sea serpent sighting. The crew captures a staged creature using an oil barrel and seaweed as the tail, prompting a humorous reveal back home where Captain Fish presents the supposed tail tip and a lock of hair, only to be met with laughter from Maria and others.
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Barnabas Fish
Adus
Maria Fish
Maria
Ananias Siloe
Marlin
Ananias
Ananinas
High Point
Marta
Annanias
Marina
Longsland Sound
Avanias Silne
Tam
Barnabas
St. Maria
Ananias Lime
Ananiis
Quincy Harbor
Mr. Sile
Barnabas Sant
A Nor Westler
Awindis
Annunias Sihie
Aminias
Mr. Stine
Winanias
Aod Anutus
Crqueertitiin
Anantlas
Ananius
Aimunias
Leonid
Jonah
Allonius
Miu
Quincy Clarbor
Sylvester
Garnabas
Sita
Origin of perfumes in ancient times traced
The Philadelphia Record recounts how perfumes arose to mask odor from burnt flesh offerings and temple sacrifices. It notes Arabia as a historic center of scent, Egypt’s deep ‘art of perfuming,’ and how Greeks, Romans, and Cleopatra adopted fragrant practices, with Shakespeare remarking on ionic scents.
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Arabia
Macbeth
Duncan
Egypt
Old
Consolation for a Grief Stricken Grandmother
A New York Sun fragment recalls a widow mired in mysterious grief after forty years of a happy marriage. Grandma sobs beside her estate as grandson Robert escapes nurse Aunt Mandy Snadersons care, offering a harsh quip about remarrying and noting the aunt’s seven marriages.
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Mandy Snaplerson
Mandy Sanderson
New York Sun
Took It Like a Philosopher
Mrs Jones bursts into the library with wild excitement and reports Norah attempted to start a kitchen fire with gasoline. The blast blew her out the kitchen window, but Mr Jones shrugs it off as merely her afternoon out.
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Jones
Philidelplea ‘Telegraph
Descriptive Extract From Fetter Dialogue With Brother
Fragmentary OCR style line shows a phrase about a brother and a mention of Wilson and Weil. It seems to preserve a slice of argument or discussion with a touch of natural imagery. The text is garbled but indicates a historical extract or quotation from a family context.
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Frasehoolhey
Wilson
French vs American justice in murder trials
A Sioux City Tribune excerpt discusses jurist views on legal procedure. It contrasts French inquisitorial methods with Anglo American practice, noting the French system presumes guilt until proven innocent and praising Holland for giving the accused the benefit of doubt. It highlights judge mediated questioning to curb witness coercion and browbeating.
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Holland
Letina
Sioux City Tribune
Venus Hot and Cold The Planet’s Dual Hemispheres Ignite Climate
The article explains Venus as having one sunlit hemisphere and one dark, causing perpetual day and winter on the hot side and perpetual night and winter on the cold side. It theorizes extreme temperatures, heavy air movement at the boundary, and constant weather effects, noting surface features seen as a crescent through small telescopes.
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Venus
New York World
Duel avoided and other oddities from period prints
Scattered anecdotes recount a mock duel caused by a bad taste joke about Grisler a famed fencing master and a sentiment about face and tessan humor. The piece includes notes on birds largest eaters and a humorous restaurant encounter in New York with Lovell and Evans. A quip about counting to ten during anger ends the fragment.
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M. Edmi
Oped Grisler
Papi
Grisier
Grisler
M. Edmond About
About
Evans
New York
Lowell
Lovell
Pulitzer's
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