Betsey Agnew’s scheming courtship ends in flight
In a county tale of interfamily plots Betsey Agnew schemes to marry Zed Willet to Atulka. After months of maneuvering, a Boston trip, and a staged wedding, Zed runs away with Atulka to California leaving Betsey and Eliza to face ruin as the meadow deeds vanish and Atulka’s birthday proves fatal to the plan.
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Betsey
Eliza
Atulka
Boston
Atulk
Zed
Skinner
Annsky
Atuli
Willet
Atalka
Atusky
Elza
Auburn
Attilla
Betts
Afrs
Elizy
Asa Skinner
Mr. Skinner
Mrs. Willet
Mest
Towet
Mrs. Wilet
Eiiza
El Azhar Cairo University Aged In Antiquity
A historical description presents El Azhar at Cairo as the oldest and largest university, founded in 075. It is portrayed as a national institution with the khedive as rector, requiring a minimum entry age of fifteen, knowledge of half the Koran, or the whole Koran if blind, and literacy. The curriculum centers on theology and canon law, with a fifteen year final exam of grammar, etymology, rhetoric, and logic, observed as a scene from the middle ages.
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El-Azhar
Cairo
Khedive
MISSISSIPPI CAMELS AND TANGLING GEOLOGY
Geological Survey notes from Mississippi describe the Catawula sandstone and its fossil plants including pines ferns palms and tropical species. Camel bones found nearby suggest a tropical climate when the sandstone formed roughly 5,090,000 years ago.
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Masta
Plas
le Aise
Certulin
Catawula
G. C. Matson
E.W. Beary
Geological Survey
Nutty solution to future food shortage proposed
A Topeka State Journal item humorously surveys dire forecasts of exhausted Earth food supply in 8 to 9 million years. It credits scientists for imaginative ideas from sawdust breakfast grains to nut trees that could feed the globe, joking that current people need not fear hunger that far ahead.
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Tlme
Topeka State Journal
Boundary Lines Across Nations and States
A Christian Herald summary explains how boundaries are marked by monuments, roads, fences, and strips of woodland, noting gaps in sparsely settled areas. It cites the Alaska Canada boundary, customs checks at borders, and the Great Wall of China as a famed ancient boundary, highlighting varied methods and occasional invisibility to strangers.
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Alaskka
Canada
France
United States
China
Christian Herald
Four Poster Bedsteads in Medieval Times and Lore
The article describes four poster bedsteads from medieval Ife and Scotland, featuring heavy posts and sliding panel sides for defense at night. It cites Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and London Standard references to a bedstead described as a “little closet” in the Alderman’s mansion, noting how the four posts persisted after other sides were dispensed with.
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Scotland
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Ald Mansions
Lockwood
London Standard
Wealthy speaker recalls saving his first hundred dollars
An eminent man of wealth delivers a speech on “How to Become as I Am” and vows to never forget his first hundred dollars, prompting a weary listener to interrupt and demand a chance to speak. The brief exchange highlights class and ambition in a crowded audience.
Mortified by gown price at dinner dance
A quoted remark from a Detroit Free Press item about a woman who felt mortified after revealing the price of a gown bought for 16 dollars and 50 cents. She wore it at a dinner dance with sixteen other women wearing similar gowns, causing embarrassment over the dress and its origin.
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Detroit Free Press
Douglas Jerrold Early Life and Rise in Literature
Douglas Jerrold wrote Black Ronde Susan at twenty one and later contributed to Punch with Candle Lectures. As a child he could barely read and by nine years old. He later apprenticed to a printer after a stint as a midshipman at sea, then showed marked intellectual growth.
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Dougas Jerrold
Douglas Jerrold
Punch
Jerrold
Boston business man quotes clock watching disdain
A Boston businessman laments that few things he hates more than employees watching the clock. A relieved employee replies he will alert the timekeeper to the remark, as quoted by the Chicago Herald.
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Boston
Chicago Herald
He Named It. Who can name a word with an Y In It
A Kansas City Star snippet quotes a teacher and a sharp pupil in a playful exchange about spelling and a word containing the letter Y. The child's confident answer Needle signals quick wit and lively classroom humor.
Up Against It No Poor Man Can Hire a Lawyer
A San Francisco Chronicle quotation frames the dilemma of poverty and justice noting that no poor man can afford a lawyer to prove his innocence. The exchange highlights access to legal help as a systemic issue.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Penalty of the Peach and ancient poison knowledge
The piece discusses prussic acid, noted as a deadly poison used by Egyptians and later by Romans. It cites an ancient papyrus warning against naming I A O under the penalty of the peach. It recalls Tib_ering's Roman case where a knight died instantly after drinking the poison, highlighting its almost instant effect.
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Louvre
Tibering
Why He Did Not Know A Toy Story About A Bricklayer
In a dialogue from the Philadelphia Ledger a boy, Harry, asks his father what a bricklayer is. The father dismisses the question as silly and calls him Ike a fool, noting the boy claims he is not a fool because the number 3 is not a fool.
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Papa
Harry
Philadelphia Ledger
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