Marble relics and fabled stones across time and places
The article recounts ancient carvings and miraculous stones from Italy and Constantinople, noting a St Anthony stone at St John in Pisa and a camel-skin image of St John the Baptist. It also describes a Johnstown flood related marble slab showing ruins and landscape, praised by experts as a remarkable natural formation.
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Pisa
Italy
St. John’s
St. John the Baptist
St. In
Constantinople
Johnstown
Wingrove
Baltimore
America
First nails through history from bronze to iron and machines
The article traces nails from ancient bronze and wooden pins to iron forging and the shift to machines. It notes Jael’s tent peg, Bronze nails in Swiss lake dwellings, and the leap to 1775 Jeremiah Wilkinson cut nails and 1795 Percins machine producing 200 000 nails daily.
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Jael
Sisera
France
Valley of the Nile
Jeremiah Wilkinson
Rhode Island
Percins
Senator West Cheers Crowds at Moberly Fair Grounds
During the 1892 campaign West spoke from the grandstand at the Moberly fair. As horse races drew cheers, he joked about waiting until racing ended. A Missouri supporter urged him to continue, shouting that he wasn’t bothering anyone with his talk.
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West
Missouri
Shall We Call Shall We Wait Awhile In Village Romance
A short romance from a small town tells of a newlywed couple who move to a roadside house. The wife dies or leaves, and a visitor learns of her loneliness. The narrator regrets delaying help and recalls the sorrowful scene and the auntie tale of a child asking about death and salvation.
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New York Tribune
Presbyterian Church
Beliefs Around Death In Old Folklore And Customs
A look at lasting but fading death superstitions including stopping clocks on death and turning mirrors to the wall. The practice stems from royal records needing exact death moments and from myths about mirrors housing a second soul lingering after death.
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Germany
Venice
England
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