Debating in Lumen Society Ends in Comedy and Chaos
In a chaotic freshman twelve minute debate, Ramsey Ramsay shivers under a hostile crowd as Dora Yocum speaks with confidence. Ramsey stumbles through a faulty postal card assignment while the fraternity seniors coach him. Dora delivers a crisp moral argument against war, and Ramsey struggles to refute, ending in humorous self doubt and misfired conclusions.
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Mitchell
D. Yocum
Buddy
Fred
Ramsey
Lumen Society
Gabriel
Brother Colburn
Colburn
Dora Yocum
Dora
Harily
Germany
Belgium
Riage Ds
Reichstag
R. Mitholland
Mer'ly
The Debate. Ramsey Milholland’s tangled youth and loves
Ramsey Milholland grows from a Civil War veteran’s pupil to a restless teen. He dislikes arithmetic and recitations while Dora Yocum earns the nickname Teachers Pet. In high school he plots to “show” Dora, encounters Milla Rust the class beauty, and faces early romance. He later enters the state university with Dora back in the picture.
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Rameney Milholland
Ramsey
Dora Yocum
Dora
Picenic
Milla Rust
Milla
Universy
Ramsey the woman hater and the changing mind
A Chicago audience recalls Lloyd George defending changing one’s views. The speaker praises mind adaptability as spiritual hygiene and mocks those who never change.
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Lloyd George
London
Negroes in Florida 1528 to 1619 Chronology
The article traces early African presence in Florida and Jamestown from 1528 slavery records to 1619 arrival aboard the Treasurer, noting Spanish expeditions, colony attempts, and subsequent movements of enslaved people across the early Atlantic world. It also mentions a Swift poem and references to republican texts.
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United States
Narvaez
Florida
Memedez
San Miguel de Gualdape
J. J. Shea
Jamestown
Ve. H. E. Bancroft
Arigona
New Mexico
O. A. Stakely
Magazine of Anatean History
Earl of ‘Warwick
Wait a Little Lady-Tobe Splits as Wife Returns to Alabama
In a folksy exchange, Tobe informs a neighbor his wife has filed for divorce and returned to Alabama. The dialogue hints at changes at home as the speaker contemplates coping with the shift in daily life.
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Tobe
Yessum
Alabama
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Marbiehead
J. B. Spears
Dean Swift
Thomas ‘Paine
France
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Martin
Chesebrough Mfg. CO
Comsoisarast
State Street
New York
Suulogman
Thia Territory
United Tire Distributors
Akron
Ohio
Warren
Eighth Avenue
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