Pompeii Lizard and Hermes Amphora Encounter
A young architect Louis B. visits an inn where a landlord presents a sealed amphora as the Pompeian scene echoes through the dim room. The amphora’s red clay paled to Vesuvian lava tones while a revived lizard studies its keeper, linking antiquity with the traveler’s thoughts of ruined avenues.
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Pliny the elder
Louis B
Pompeii
Nievoleia Tyche
signor
Louis
Zoe
Vesuvius
Tam
Nicvoleia Tyche
Nivvoleia Tyche
Julian
Caius Munatius Paustus
Caius Fausus
Wine of Cecuba myth echoes from Pompeii era jar
A damaged tale recounts a numb: a sealed amphora bearing the wine of Cecuba. Louis tastes the ancient drink and conjures Nicvoleia Tyche, a Pompeian beauty revived from the lava. Their metempsychosis and a mysterious kiss blur past and present.
Conscience fund gifts and a governor's wooden cord
A Dublin Chronicle style excerpt recounts the conscience fund, with donors sending $1,000 bills to the U S treasurer for imagined sins. It contrasts this with Uncle Dick Oplesby, recalling 1865 when as governor he tested a farmer’s cord wood by ordering eight cords before paying, then had the farmer redo the job to eight cords.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Washington
Sam
Cincinnati Enquirer
Uncle Dick
Oplesby
Fragment from a family dialogue in a London Faun piece
A child asks to visit Sallie’s house and play briefly. The mother permits. The snippet cites a reflective family exchange about independence, work, and avoiding overcrowded professions, hinting at generational advice and self-reliance.
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Sallie
Polly
London Faun
Strange Confessions of Crimes Never Committed
A historical look at false confessions under torture and pressure. It details cases from 1601 England to 1819 Vermont involving John Perry, Russell Colvin, and the Boorn brothers, where accused men confessed to murders they did not commit. The Vermont episode sparked wild public excitement as Colvin’s miraculous return was believed by many.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noeveleia ‘Tsche
Tyee
Pythagoras
Venus
Nievobial
England
John Perry
Campden
William Harrison
Harrison
Russell Colvin
Manchester
Calvin
Stephen
Jesse
Colvin
New York Evening Post
Mra Chadwick
Shrewsbury
N. J
James Whelpley
New York
William Polhemus
Dover
common council
Vermont
Stephen Doorn
College slang and potato news from old papers
A collage of notes on college slang from Vassar Yale and Bryn Mawr noting terms like grand stunt dig and half breeds alongside agricultural updates about Paris green Paris exposition Moor space for the U S exhibit clover oats barley in the Klondike and formaline as a seed potato treatment with parasitic and bee friendly notes.
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Vassar college
Vassar
Yale
Harvard
Bryn Mawr
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
eniaid
United States
Klondike
New Hampshire
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Columbia
H. M. “THOMPSON
Killsboro
avi
Keating
J. N. RICKARDS
Rincety, Mv
W. H. GOT
P. H. DENNY
S. N. SMITH, JR
W. F. PENNINGTON
EUGENE LYNCH, W.H. ANDERSON
H. C. HOBBS
W.R. PETERS
M. L. BLANCHARD
W.S. LORD
J. CULVER
CUSTIS BURTON, EB. W. INGRAM
Wye
Denton
Greenwood
Ellendale
Milton
Lewes
Queenstown
WILLIAM M. CONN
QUEENSTOWN, MD
WM. HOPPS & CO
BALTIMORE, MD
PAPE
PEERLESS TRACTION
IMPERIAL AUTOMATIC
Easton delivery
Co. M. WINCARD
EASTON
MARYLAND
FRED, K. OWENS
WALLACKH
DENTON, MARYLAND
Usu
JOS. BERNARD
Greensboro
ERED
BLOW
THOS
EL. DAY
Ridgely
ROBT. JARRELL
Goldsboro
C. MOORE
Queen Anne
LAUT
HOLSINGER
J. W. KI
ALBERT W. SILK
Preston
FLA. VORTER
Burrsville
J. FRANK LEDNUM
HY. T. NUTTY
Andersontown
WILLARD C. TODD
Williston
COVEY
Federalsburg
PIQUIE AND
CRAST
DENTON, Ma
Wilmington
Philadelphia
aes
Gus
Hamburg
JAMES H. NICHOLS
Denton Bridge
J. B. K. EMORY
EMORY & NEAVITT
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
LIGHT STREET
Baltimore, Maryland
Thomas Carmine
Caroline
adjoining
Talbot
Dorchester
Timmer Mass Goods
PIQUES
PERCALES
MATTINGS
BINDER TWINE
H. T. NUTTLE & BRO
ANDERSONTOWN, MD
PERCY DUNNING
glal
F. COUKE
J.A, LONGFELLOW
Ridgely, Md
JOURNAL
LEWIS
counties
Price
anderpres
EIULIUS HINES & SON
Baltimore
Falksville
puss
Brindle
grea
LEia M. White
Ladies’ Home Journal
Crete
tel
dogpes
Omar Khayyam
Padronel
Cicero
Pliny the younger
Marcus Spurius
Cecuba
sedile
Pansi
Chile
Pliny
siznor
padrone
The
Conscience Fund
Father
Fred
Son
dad
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