Easton department store advertises clothing and millinery bargains
Easton Maryland store invites shoppers to two weeks of bargains on woolen dress goods, wash and white goods, dimities batistes and foulards with 200 styles priced from 50 to 100 per yard. Men and boys clothing offered at special prices for two weeks and artistic millinery at least 25 percent off. Store promotes large stock, low prices, and welcoming atmosphere with waiting room and spacious premises.
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Dimities
Batistes
A Real Bit of Acting at Winston Lodge Mystery
In a stormy night at Winston Lodge a blond widow pranks guests with acting while a dangerous lunatic flees from a nearby asylum. The husband battles the intruder as guests misread the danger as theater, until a desperate clash reveals the truth and a life is saved.
Dramatic Indian Mutiny Episode at Lahore
In Lahore on May 12, three days before the mutiny date, a grand ball ended at dawn with a staged parade. British forces lined a native regiment, guns behind the Eighty-first, and orders to pile arms were read. The Grenadiers hesitated, but the Eighty-first swiftly formed a shield, and 600 English disarmed 2,500 sepoys in minutes without a shot, the scene described by Cornhill Magazine.
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Lahore
Cornhill
Why Snow Is White Origins of Snow’s Color and Light
The article explains white snow results from blending all light colors by surface reflections from countless crystal forms. It notes over a thousand crystal varieties, their prisms reflecting the full spectrum and giving pink and blue tints at certain angles. Air between particles enhances whiteness and brightness under sun, sometimes painful to eyes and aiding night travel without moonlight.
Donnelly’s Icebound Ride Becomes Storytelling Journey
Ignatius Donnelly traveled to Minnesota in the fifties with family, crossing by stage on ice from Dubuque. When the party fell silent, he offered to sing to lift spirits and sparked a round of storytelling that made the crossing the jolliest trip yet described in the Minneapolis Times.
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Minnesota
Ignatius Donnelly
Dubuque
Donnelly
Mississippi
Minneapolis
What to Do If You Had Money in a New England Tavern
In a Hilltown gathering around a tavern fire, William suggests first fixing up his home then traveling. He muses that he would travel and go to Keene, a journey he calls a mighty undertaking for villagers who rarely leave their township, provoking a shared pause among the group.
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New England
William
Hilltown
Keene
Tongue Observations Linked to Fever and Digestive Health
A medical note outlines tongue conditions and their meanings from fever to liver issues. It describes a healthy moist tongue, dry white tongue signaling fever, yellowish tongue for digestion problems, and strawberry tongue indicating scarlet fever. Also notes red, brain irritation signals and liver derangement from yellow coatings, stressing teaching children to extend the tongue for examination.
Wonderful Memories of a Memory Expert Writer
The text notes M de Lacepede and Prescott as examples of writers who planned and finished works in their minds before writing. It discusses the difficulty of storing one's own writings in memory versus recalling others. It argues that powerful memory is desired for many uses beyond literature, including life conduct.
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M. de Lacepede
Prescott
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Dover, Delaware
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R, Plummer
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Alex, Noble
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Mrs. Sterling
Felix Sterling
Indy
Charlie Fleetwood
Straght
Winston Lodge
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Charlie Wiedwood
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Velix
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