A Tale of Lilliput and Brobdingnag Voyages and Return
An autobiographical account recounts a sailor educated in Cambridge who narrates surviving a shipwreck on the Antelope and captivity among Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians. He describes feasts for his size, political reflections, rescues, flying island legends, and his journeys back to England with his family after encounters with Yahoos and Houyhnhnms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Patrick's
Satiriste
Alllanuds
Hoey's Court
Dubilna
Stella
Vanessa
Happiscas
Thackeray
Gulliver
Cambridge
van Diemen's Land
Lilliputians
Blefuscu
Litiputin
Wade
Pu Brent
Thad
John
Epping
Surat
Glumdaleltch
Twaln
England
Glumda Telltch
Use of fruit to make jars by Banjaras in central India
A historical note describes Banjaras in central India making jars from aouth fruit. Fruit is dried boiled then pulped and shaped on an earthen vessel to dry into hard jars stamped with designs. Sizes range four to eight annas. Also mentions noula tree fruits for medicine and tanning and a asphodel root glue used by Persians and native cobblers for boiling, clarifying butter, and shoemaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Burma
Babylonian Tablet Collection at Yale Grows Rapidly
Yale University now houses more than ten thousand Babylonian clay tablets and bricks in its collection, the second largest globally after Oxford. Professor Clay emphasizes Yale’s undeciphered and unpublished tablets as the most important segment of the holdings, expanding steadily through judicious purchases.
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Yale University
Oxford
Clay
Raspberry cousin of rose in garden plant family web
An article explains how common kitchen garden plants span a wide plant family network. It notes tomatoes peppers and tobacco share genus, while potato, rhubarb, buckwheat align botanically. raspberries and blackberries link to Rosaceae. parsley and carrot sit in the same broad group. beets connect to spinach. Jerusalem artichoke and sunflower relate. lettuce sits with daisies and thistles. grains come from wild grasses and sugarcane from same order.
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Kitchen Garden
Jerusalem
Savage Lovers of Women in Ancient Tales
A widow reports a persistent admirer who threats and assaults her. The piece discusses savage wooers in history, citing King Henry VII as a stern example who indulged in forceful, deadly affection and repeated harm to his spouses.
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Savaine Wan
T Henary VII
Hak Te
Esechunge
Notice to Caroline County dog owners for licenses and taxes
The Caroline County Commissioners appoint Sheriff Owen N. Dulin as Special Officer to issue dog licenses and collect taxes under state law. Dogs over six months require a license by July with penalties for noncompliance. District sites and dates listed. licenses also available at the Sheriff’s Denton residence and additional district constable Josiah Beck handles licenses in Denton. Fees: $2 for each licensed dog, $1 for unspayed female, $25 kennel license maximum, $300 kennel license for longer terms.
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General Assembly of
Maryland
Owen N. Dulin
Caroline County
Sheri Dulin
Josiah A. Beck
Denton
AM. M. Luzaplr
Ether First Used in Boston Pain Relief Breakthrough
The article describes early experiments with ether by Horace Wells in Hartford and William Norton in Boston in 1844 and 1846, leading to dental anesthesia. It notes Wells' discovery after a lecture incident and Norton's self experimentation, plus a 1847 Massachusetts General Hospital patient etherization. It also mentions Chloroform trials by James Young Simpson in Edinburgh in 1847.
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Horace Wells
Martford
Conn
Dalton
Wells
Ife
William Norton
Boston
Mortenade
Massachusetts General Hospital
Bostomn
Shap 2On
Edinburgh
Duncan
Keith
Redfinner
Simpson
Egypts Book of the Dead and the Book of Light
Detroit News notes the Book of the Dead, also called the Book of the Manifestation of Light, an ancient Egyptian text from the fourth dynasty. It contains prayers and esoterisms for the soul’s journey and to fend off monsters, with a 1896 revised edition by M Edouard Naville and translations in several languages.
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Detroit News
Heaven
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Denton Journal
Owakryd
Melvin Slnj
Pomeon
Melvin & Johnson, Publishers
Gulliver’s Travels
Dean Swift
James E. Connolly
Post Publishing Co
Rogian Post
McClure
Central Province
Raspberry
Rose
Baltimore
Hochschild, Kohn & Co
Howard and
Lexington Sts
Doeur- Wade
J. Virgil Moore
Henderson
Harry Walls
Gribensboro
John Clark
Sherif
Burpee’s
W. Atlee Burpee Co. Seed Growers
Burpee Bldg
Philadelphia
Walter Sparks
The
New York
Life Man
Nisi
Merrick Clements Et al
Annie Carter Sinclair
Carolne County
Noolus
Stone
Merrick Clements
RL Owens
Lawrence B. Towers
Lawrence BR. Towers
Home Insurance CO
N. Y
American Eagle Fire Insurance Company
the Grangers’ Mutual QF
Middletown
Mr. Farmer
Poole
Horace B. Wright
Ella Wright
Circuit Court
Equity
T. Phony Fisher
Lawrence B. Tower
Lawrence Blt Owens
Goldsboro Bank
the Goldsboro Bank
Goldsboro, Md
Blue Bird Coaster
Smith & Walls
Daniel J. Zacharias, Miller
O. & 8. Milling CO
Greensboro, MD
Louis J. Knotts
O. G. Hignutt & Co
H. M. Richardson
T) Co
O. M. Hignutt
Williston
Cuano
W. EL Valliant & Lro
Bellevue
Egypt
Hughes Lumber and Coal Co
Ownton, Maryland
Tdeatl
Second St. Denton
W.G. Woopers
EAGLE
Eagle Pencil Company
Wesley Collegiate Institute
Henry G. Budd, D. D
Dover, Delaware
W. A. Smith
Deaton Maryland
WM. Pepper Constable
Maryland Trust
Elton
Paul Test
Timonium Fair
Equitable Bldg
Baltanore, Md
Deaters
L & Ri
Longaian & Martinez
Mokers
N.Y
Hunt
Walt Papicr
ASAGO
Hisgu
Lucus
Thomas & Messer CO
Balto
Purity Confectionery CO
W. Mulberry
Ald
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