City Store Offers Two Week Bargain Bonanza
A coastal department store invites shoppers to Easton for two weeks of bargains on woolen dress goods, wash and white goods, dimities, batistes, foulards, and dress patterns with prices 50c to $1.00 per yard. Men’s and boys’ clothing also discounted. millinery offers at least 25 percent savings. The store promises ample space, a comfortable waiting room, and large stock, aiming to attract long-distance customers.
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Dimities
Batistes
Easton
J. Ed. Nichols
Mr. Nichols
Legend of the Lethean Berry and the coffee origin
A mid fifteenth century legend tells of a poor Arab traveler in Abyssinia who discovers fragrant half-burned berries. He crushes them, cooks rice, and later purifies water with the infusion, reviving his strength. In Aden he praises the tree and names the drink cabuah meaning foreal, linking it to coffee’s early lore.
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coffer
Charles Liash
Abyssinia
falizue
Aden
Arabia
Origin of Memorial Day In the South
In 1861 the Ta die Aid society organized to care for soldiers buried in Columbus hospitals. Ladies led graves’ beautification and graveyard visits. In January 1866 Lizzie Rutherford urged a fixed memorial day for decorating Confederate graves annually. Letters to other chapters in March 1866 spurred observances. April 26 became Memorial day for the Confederate dead in several southern states.
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South
Tadie’ Aid society
Columbus
Lizzie Rutherford
W. Jefferson Davis
Wonma
Farewell Sermon Read by Think-Tale Cleric
The Rev Septimus Smith, vicar of St Cross Newnham, admitted buying ready made sermons and play whist late Saturdays. On Sunday he found his clerk in tears as the farewell sermon was read, unnoticed by the vicar who had used an old farewell sermon in error, according to the London Spectator.
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Septimus Smith
St. Cross
Newnham
Jones
sicar
Thieves in Tangier
In Tangier the old port of Morocco, a thief caught in any offense faces a brutal custom: he must choose which hand to keep, after which the other is cut off. This extreme policy fosters a strong stance against theft and kleptomania.
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Tangier
Morocco
Sugar making claims from ancient China and travels
The article notes Chinese claims to the original sugar making process dating back 3000 years and notes the Tsino dynasty era before Christ. It mentions India’s rival claim, Greek and Judaic lack of early knowledge, Galen prescribing sugar in AD 150, and Britain’s sugar growth from a luxury to mass use with refined sugar appearing in England in 1659. It cites a Venetian merchant acquiring refining secrets for 100,000 crowns.
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China
India
Great Britain
England
Cathedral of Seville as a Marvel of Gothic Grandeur
The text praises Seville's cathedral as a colossal late medieval achievement rivaling Toledo and Córdoba. It extols the central nave's extraordinary height, vast side naves, a huge main altar, enormous organ pipes, and statues. It highlights grand ceremonies and processions that fill the city with ritual splendor and modern cultural vigor.
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Toledo
Cordova
Sevilla
Notre Dame of
Paris
Husband Uses Plain Lace Scarf to Surprise Wife
A husband, seeking a birthday gift for his wife, asks her to buy a scarf for a supposed friend. She selects a plain, inexpensive scarf after inspecting costly laces. On returning home, she claims it is very pretty and fits her taste, and her husband reveals he intended it for her own gift. London Answers.
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brussels
Amelie
London
Blacksmith Hank Offers Help as Fire Destroys Home
In dialect dialogue Hank asks Rube and Tink about the fire and loan. Rube indicates he may help by loaning money for his mother while a judge oversees the blaze threatening their house.
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Hank
Rube
Streetcar Farce Ends With Pocketbook Tumble
A young man helps a purse drop on a streetcar but is accused of ill intent by an elderly woman. As he retrieves the purse, she grabs his coat tails, shouting words heard by others. The embarrassed man blushes and nearly falls from the car amid the scene reported by Exchange.
Malay belief in charms and witchcraft traditions
The Malay relies on amulets and written charms, interweaving forest prayers and animal reverence to ward off disease and storms. Beliefs include bottle imps, paningalan spirits, metempsychosis ideas, and sacred crocodiles. elephants and tigers are often treated as ancestral beings called grandfather.
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Thompson
Maxwell
Bribery The Chinese Trader Ah Sin in Philippine Courts
Excerpt from F H Sawyers Inhabitants of the Philippines describing a Chinese merchant Ah Sin aiding officials with gifts to influence judges and Alcalde decisions. The piece satirically notes how bribes appear as routine favors, with Ah Sin supplying poultry wine cigars and carpentry to secure leniency and favorable rulings.
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Ah Sin
alealdia
Al Sin
alcaldia
F. H. Sawyer
the
Philippines
Origin of Arabic numerals and their spread
The article discusses the origin of Arabic numerals, noting Spain via Moors and uncertain true birthplace. It outlines theories that numerals evolved from geometrical figures or from combinations of lines and angles, contrasting Greek and Roman systems as different and highlighting ancient mathematicians’ possible familiarity with what we now call Arabic figures.
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Arabia
Mindustan
Spain
Europe
righaneles
supmres
East Indian Superstitions and Folk Remedies
A fragment describes beliefs linking blood from a Tare or others to curing infant illness, a black monkey used in magic to be killed on Sunday, and a peacock leg said to help deafness. It also notes Monday killings and eye removal for love spells, with dust of certain eyes used on women’s garments to influence affection or release.
A Family Name and a Brand from History
Gertie pleads for a hyphenated surname to rise in society and laughs over Smith-Brander ideas. The father discovers their ancestor was a brander, not a Brander, with the name Mulligan as he toils through genealogical searches and a history of branding criminals.
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Gertie
Peter Stuyvesant
Smith
Brander
Smith-Brander
Brander-Smith
Grant-grandfather
the
Historical society
paterfamilias
court of general quarter sessions
Mulligan
New York Sun
When He Raved. An Irishman Makes A Last Will
An Irish老man near the end calls in the parish priest and family lawyer to settle a will. Debts owed him surface as the widow hovers, with the widow exclaiming at the mentions of Luke Bowen and Michael Liffey, amid the fading humor of the scene.
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hadeen
Timothy Brown
John Casey
Luke Bowen
agin
Michael Liffey
Wordy Coleridge in a Blackwood letter
Coleridge suffers a fainting spell while with Dr. Gilman. On awakening he muses on the mystery of human thought versus fleeting consciousness, exclaiming about its imperishability and perishability. The friend consoles him, noting it is not apoplexy.
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Coleridge
Blackwood
Dr. Gilman
Lawyer Calls Witness Judge From A Shoemaker's Bench
A Staffordshire village tale describes a boy pulled from school to help in potato sorting. The schoolmaster receives a note from the boy's father reading Kept atontia uttering, later revealed as kept at home a tuttering.
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Staffordshire
Multilingual hotel riddle ends with customers as interpreters
A Paris hotel notice in broken English asks for an interpreter as a British guest queries language help. The waiter admits no translator exists and answers that the customers themselves speak the languages. The anecdote highlights the practical reliance on guest help in a busy quarter hotel.
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Paris
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