Polite Stranger Saves Seat On Crowded Streetcar
A well known city man, famed for intellect, drinks too much and nearly falls on a Washington avenue streetcar. A young woman recognizes him and he offers her his seat, then discovers she is his cousin. They alight safely at his stop and she accompanies him home. It ends with a Ruskin quote on pride and a note about a deep Atlantic silk works well.
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Washington Avenue
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Faireos
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Emerges
Professor Brandor Matthews in St Nicholas recounts Longfellow’s birth in Portland Maine on February 27 1807. It tracks his early literary influences Irving Bryant and the shaping of his career from schoolboy verses to Bowdoin College and a European sojourn that made him master of four major languages.
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Hannah’s Grand Tour Revelations at Twickenham and Hampton Court
Hannah recalls visiting Pope’s villa at Twickenham where she admits stealing two bits of grotto stone a laurel sprig from the garden and a bedchamber spreng she also admires Hampton Court and the museum she encounters the Duchess of Portland and attends a Garrick play noted for a fruit covered head and carrots worn by the actor in a female role.
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Garrick
Court of School Discipline Provokes Teen Confession
In a clipped basement exchange, a student named Tommy recounts a chain of discipline through the monitor, teacher, principal, and finally paw who spanks. He laments the system as maimed and overbearing in a reflection captured by the Indianapolis Journal.
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Attoc Island and Moose Island Longitudinal Contrast
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch note compares Attoc the westernmost American Aleutian island at 187 degrees 4 minutes west with Moose Island on Passamaquoddy Bay in Maine at 67 degrees west, noting a 120 degree difference and illustrating sunset to sunrise timing across the date line.
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Attoc
Aleutian Islands
North Pacific Ocean
Eastport
Moose Island
Passiniaquaddy Bay
United States
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Waiting g roers in the navy unshackled by idle orders
A study of naval officers on waiting orders, their idle periods between cruises, and the pressure of remaining reachable for new assignments. It notes the constant need to stay near Washington or New York telegraph links, the pay penalties, and the fear of being sent abroad on short notice. It cites difficulties in posting captains and mentions Frederick Douglass’s ship to Haiti.
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Washington
Navy Department
Department
New York Navy Yard
Frederick Douglass
Haiti
Douglass
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Army
Telling the Bees Death Custom Across Nations
A St Louis Republic piece surveys the ancient practice of telling the bees when a family member dies. It notes widespread fear that bees desert the hive if not informed, with examples from Devon England and practices in Austria Italy Poland and Russia, including mourning drapes and funeral biscuits.
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Europe
London
Devon
Austria
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Poland
Russia
France
Oliver
Beverley
St. Louis Republic
How arc lights form and why shadows appear enlarged
Youth's Companion explains arc lamps formed by two carbon electrodes with current from positive to negative. The positive electrode forms a cup shaped crater emitting most light, a violet axis light from the arc, and a cloud of vaporized carbon rises between electrodes. Insects cast exaggerated shadows due to craters’ concentrated light.
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Crater
Bismarck and the Embassador The Confusion
An Austrian envoy to the federalist Count Rachberg dispatches a note to influence votes, but the wrong paper lands with Bismarck. He cites a mistaken document and declines to reveal its contents, earning the envoy's thanks while concealing the error.
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