Feud Ends Through Courage Of Peaceful Schoolteacher
In Kentucky mountains, Doane and Hackett feuds threaten for fifty years. Schoolteacher Tilda Dale urges neutrality, defuses the crowd, exposes perjury, and with a candle and keg of powder averts bloodshed. She urges both sides to end the feud, the prisoner is discharged, and peace begins to dawn.
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Tikin Dale
Kentucky
Virginia
Doanes
Hacketts
vilage
Chestnut Cove
Donnes
Wacketts
Hackett
James Doane
Doane
North Carolina
David Hackett
Lach
young Hackett
Tilda
Chestnut Cova
Donne
justice of the peace
Tench
Sacketts
Slice
Tilda Dale
Light, ether, and color theory in 19th century view
The piece explains light as vibrations in the ether producing color by wavelength and selective transmission by colored bodies. It also shares a joke about an Irishman named Pat who gets a drilling job after answering a foreman’s query at a large engineering firm.
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Pat
Remembering the heart by Bishop’s miter metaphor
Professor Huxley explained how he recalled heart valves by a bishop themed image. The left side has a two flap mitral valve and the right side a three flap valve, with a jest that a bishop could never be on the right.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huxley
From Frying Pan to Fire Life is full of contrariness and alimony
A dissatisfied woman sits at her desk the morning after a dance lamenting non payment of alimony and recalling the contrast between married leisure and solitary work. The New York Press quotes her remark on life, freedom, and daily labor.
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New York
Presa
Without Regard to Etiquette Sparks and a Heroic Rescue
Joss Brady laughs at mischief as Miss Danvers snubs him, and Miss Van Vance challenges etiquette. Brady earns a second chance by guiding a lake launch to safety during a blaze, smothering Danvers and saving her from flames. He bears burns and an awkward, hopeful confession follows. Effie and Ross declare engagement, with Van Vance hinting at deeper insight into etiquette and hearts.
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Joss Brady
Ross
Wlers
Ife
Lifie
stacs
Roos Tindy
Effie
Offie
Mrs. Lyons
Elle
Aliss Van Vance
New York
Brndy
Lille
Miss Van Vance
Brady
Stanhope
Ross Brady
Vermont
Uarvard
Ile
Httle Ife Danvers
Mike Samanthy Allen
Mr. Brady
Danvers
Van Vance
Miss Danvers
nan
Jen
Edie
Misa Von Vance
Ettie
Amusing foreign blunders in using English headline
A Boston Transcript writer recalls humorous errors by foreigners in English usage. Examples include a Hungarian journalist before an earthquake noting “the evening had passed”. a French dressmaker selling “grand, elegant and swell”. and a Parisian teacher candidate asking for “too strings to my are.”
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Boston Transcript
Cnogfis
Washington
Buffalo
Grand Canyon described as world’s deepest gulf
The article narrates vivid travel images including Pat in a crowded rail compartment with a minister asking comfort. It describes the Grand Canyon as a colossal, sunlit gulf over 6000 feet deep, comparing its vastness to Niagara and cities tossed like pebbles. It also briefly mentions a Malay dragon and a parachuting tree frog from a Wide World Magazine feature.
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Grand Canyon
Mount Washington
Niagara
E. W. G. iWweson
Drago
Malay archipelago
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