The Wave's Death Dream by Susan Marr Spalding
A lyrical meditation on a wave’s quest and death as it nears an elusive ideal. The speaker likens yearning to a restless soul chasing a distant, gleaming horizon and finds fate in the same final end as the sea’s last wave.
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Baggage Smasher Tale of a Devil in a Box
Conductor Tom Pope recounts how Sandy McTougal the baggage master and a haunted trunk sparked a night ride on the Air Line. A ventriloquist parrot phonograph hidden in camp meeting gear created the eerie noise leading to a comical reveal and a costly trunk claim.
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New York News
Wonders of Fluorine Gas in Crystalline Reactions
A historical note explains fluorine gas reacting with silicon producing brilliant spangles from white hot crystals that melt only above 2190 degrees Fahrenheit. It also describes lime chalk and phosphorus incandescence and mentions Prussian blue and iodine in reactive displays.
Fragments of a volatile process from Chambers' Journal
A brief excerpt notes a gas current producing four pale flames and a heavy liquid distillate that etches glass and hisses like red hot iron when immersed in water. The description resembles an experimental reacting substance with vivid sensory detail.
Gods Carvings in India Reflect Craft Castes
The article notes that temple and household images are produced by different trades. Carpenters and masons craft large wooden and stone idols, potters mold clay deities for daily worship, and brazier coppersmiths and goldsmiths forge small images in brass copper mixed metals and precious alloys.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Sunday fishing talk reflected in Kate Field's Washington
A brief dialogue where a Reverend warns against Sunday fishing and a boy explains he will wait until Monday when workers are at their tasks, as noted in Kate Field's Washington.
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Egyptian Lotus in Sitaw's Gardens and Lotus Lore
The lotus symbol links Egypt and India in sacred lore. Egyptians viewed water as origin and the lotus as dying and reborn with the sun. It bears colors white crimson blue pink and yellow and grows up to five feet deep water. The plant is grown in New York Central Park Union Square and Shaw's gardens St Louis per Vick's Magazine. Buddhistic myth parallels India's abundance of the lotus.
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Lotus Eaters in Ancient Myth and Legend
The text describes Brahmi and the lotus across a vast abyss symbolizing abundance. It notes ancient beliefs that eating the fruit brings blissful rest and forgetfulness of friends and country. It cites Homer's Odyssey and Herodotus on lotus eaters and oblivion.
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Africa
Four Color Quadrille Dazzles Court In Early Empire Era
The first quadrille after the great French revolution drew a crowd at the First Empire court. Despreaux staged four groups of eight dancers in costumes of white, red, green, and blue. Ladies wore white crape with silver embroidery and gems. cavaliers wore white velvet coats with color coordinated sashes.
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Despreaux
Shooting stars and fading lights in Lithuanian legend
A sentimental legend among Lithuanian peasants holds that newborns carry an invisible thread to a star, which extinguishes when death ends the light. A second version says each person has a light in heaven that goes out at death, making room for a new one. An acid called olese cleans brass when mixed with Venetian red and polishing fluids.
Aluminium Launch Built at Zorics for Lake Service
An aluminium launch powered by a naphtha engine has been built at Zorics for lake use. The hull is aluminium with an unpainted polished outer surface, reducing weight by about 35 percent compared with a typical boat.
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Zorics
America
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