The Two Scholars And The Raccoon Mountain Fight
In a small school on Raccoon Mountain a postwar rule against tobacco ease. A classroom dispute over a homeward scuffle led to a larger fray with Sary Camp and Tobe Mullins as principals. Sary claims she was kissed. Tobe and others retaliated with rocks and buckets. The scene shifts to a church influence as Sary defends restraint and later acknowledges a personal change.
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Raccoon Mountain
Henry
Sary Camp
Tobe Mullins
Sary
Tobe
Sarah
Henry Zeaze
Bob Taylor
Bob
Taylor Boys
Brother Henry
Taylors
Jonesea
Snary
Harry
Sery
Return to Raccoon Mountain and the old friends
A narrator recalls a ten year absence from Raccoon Mountain, returning to familiar scenes and meeting Sary and Tobe with their baby. The scene shifts to memories of children waving from the road, school bells, and the mountain’s springtime aromas. The embrace at the station reinforces the enduring bonds and a hopeful, shared future.
The Value of Condiments In Editing History
The text discusses condiments like peppers salts and celery powder as a valuable food seasoning. It compares their role to an executive officer aboard a ship and notes that normal digestive fluids cannot handle excess, while a proper mix of salt pepper and celery powder provides desirable pungency and relish without overuse.
The Donkey and Its Picture
A tale from London about a donkey picture shown at an exhibition. The late shah of Persia questioned the £100 price, noting live donkeys cost about £5. The director replied the picture costs high because it incurs no expense. They laughed at the exchange.
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Persia
London
Epitaph Holed The Music Of A Life
Oliver Wendell Holmes recalled a Mount Auburn grave with a plain white marble slab bearing four words She was so pleasant The simple inscription suggested a life richer than any detailed monument could convey to him and underscored the impact of a kindly remembered person.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mount Auburn
Canada firm touts new nursing bottle ad
A Canadian firm placed ads in Montreal and Toronto papers promoting a patented nursing bottle. The copy gave usage directions and concluded with a disturbing note: after use, the bottle should be laid in a cool place under a tap, and if the baby does not thrive on fresh milk, it should be boiled.
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Montreal
Toronto
California place names end with the letter o and s
The article surveys California geographical names ending in o and s. It notes fourteen counties end with o such as El Dorado Fresno Inyo Mendocino Mono Sacramento San Benito San Bernardino San Diego San Francisco San Luis Obispo San Mateo Solano and Yolo. It lists several towns ending in s including Acampo Alamo Bernardo Blanco Cahto Capistrano Decoto Echo El Casco Iruto Izo Jacinto Largo Llano Milo Moreno Navarro Nicasio Ono Palermo Philo Tiasto Sausalito Tropico Venado Volcano. It suggests Spanish and Indigenous origins influence these endings and remarks saints names would make the list long.
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California
el Dorado
Fresno
Inyo
Mendocino
Mono
Sacramento
San Benito
San Bernardino
San Diego
San Francisco
San Luis Obispo
San Mateo
Solano
Decoto
Echo
el Casco
Iruto
Izo
Jacinto
Largo
Llano
Milo
Moreno
Navarro
Nicasio
Ono
Palermo
Philo
Tiasto
Sausalito
Tropico
Venado
Volcano
San Antonio
San Ysidro
Kingfishers and Cormorants in Salmon Rivers
A Forest and Stream article notes kingfishers harass salmon fry and resist shooting efforts by guardians on Canadian rivers. In Tasmania cormorants are a major fish enemy with a bounty of one shilling per head for their destruction. The aim is protecting rainbow trout from the United States and sockeye salmon from Canada introduced to the southern island.
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Tasmania
United States
Canada
Not Inconsolable Cardinal Manning Visits Widow
During his Lovington tenure Cardinal Manning visits a 75 year old widow with ten children none of whom, save one daughter, remains at home as she nears widowhood. Everyone's Magazine recounts his attempt to comfort her and her sorrow at being left alone. She says she misses her children more than her "2om."
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Manning
Lovington
Everybody’s Magazine
Paraguayan lace or nanduti from spider web origin
Two centuries ago missionaries taught Paraguayans to make lace by hand and the craft remains widespread. Women and children, and many men, work at lace in several towns where it is a principal occupation. The designs are borrowed from spider webs, giving the lace its native name nanduti meaning spider web.
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Paraguay
Troubled Artists and Their Studio Etiquette
A Detroit Free Press item discusses the tensions in New York art studios where wives, chaperones, and models influence the painting process. It notes wives sit for draped portraits, while some artists use chaperones for themselves. The text claims many fashionably dressed sitters supply supposed imperfections to flatter the sitter, shaping reputations for shapeliness and hinting at class dynamics within bohemian scenes.
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New York City
East Side
New York Studios
Bohemia
New York
Paris
Detroit
Iree Press
Witty exchanges in historic English and Indian lore
A compact note on refined repartee from Voltaire to a viceroy of India. It recalls a shikarry’s polite jest about Lord Dufferin’s shooting trip offering a divine shot and divine mercy to the birds. The tone mirrors late 19th or early 20th century light commentary.
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Voltaire
Haller
Lord Dufferin
India
Dufferin
Shikarry
Hindoo
Sahib
Saturday Evening Post
A Valuable Set
A Philadelphia mother visits with her five year old son prompting compliments about his Fauntleroy looks. The clever boy replies when a woman jokes about buying him that his mother would not part with the “set” since there are five of them and she would not break it.
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Philadelphia
Fauntleroy
Waiter in a Restaurant Confusion Follows Arrest Tale
A Montreal Herald snippet presents a comic magistrate prisoner exchange about waiting for money, ending with the line I thought you knew I was a waiter in a restaurant. The other piece reflects on Day Went to Sleep with a poetic dawn and dusk, concluding with a moral about the day’s close from the New York Herald.
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Montreal Herald
New York Herald
Earnings of London Cabmen and Trade Value
The article explains cab values from £70 to £90, horses about £30, and harness £5 to £10. Total London cab trade nears a million pounds. Cabbies receive no weekly wage. owners lease stock for roughly 12s daily for a hansom, less for four wheelers, with drivers keeping the balance if any. West End yields best returns in season. typical day ends with a 5s to 6s private surplus after 14 to 16 hours.
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London
West End
Britain
Toothache Faith Jibe From Boston Herald Joke
A Boston mother tells her daughter faith would end toothaches and the daughter retorts that if the mother had her toothache she would lack faith. The brief quip appears in the Boston Herald as a lighthearted exchange.
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Boston
Boston Herald
Clergyman Ponders Confirmation in Scottish Lane
A clergyman walking near Glasgow asks a country lad if he has been confirmed. The boy, surprised, replies he has not, but quips that the game keeper has. The exchange spotlights rural church life and the odd humor found in its encounters.
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Glasgow
Thas
London
Freckles Draw Professor Into Lecture on Sun Spots
A playful exchange follows as a professor chooses to lecture on sun spots. A young woman expresses keen personal interest, claiming distress from freckles and promising to attend, highlighting a lighthearted campus moment.
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G. K. Ebling
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Sam
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Queen Anne
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Dover Street
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Anne Chester
Frederica & Pilla. Nav. CO
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S. Nowell & Son
Denton, Maryland
Tyee Cath
Baltimore
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Kaskey
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