Eaters of Clay Across Cultures and Markets
The Pittsburg Press notes a global pattern of earth eating, a craving once linked to famine but now a fringe delicacy. Germany, Sweden, Italy sell clay baked into bread and stone butter. Java sweets include red earth cakes. West Africa and India show widespread consumption, with Calcutta bazaars selling edible clay wafers.
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Germany
Sweden
Italy
America
West
Africa
Java
India
Assam
Bengal
Calcutta
Pittsburg Press
Sacred Geese of Rome and the Capitol Goose Legend
The New York American recalls Rome's ancient tale of a Gaul invasion where a silent detachment climbed Capitoline Hill. A sacred goose’s cackle alarmed the garrison, Marcus Manlius defended the wall, and Rome later honored the event with a golden goose procession to the capitol.
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Rome
Marcus Manlius
New York American
Speech and Rage Effects on Voice and Nerve Flow
The article explains how strong emotion disrupts nerve flow to muscles used in speech, causing stumbling and incoherence. It notes hoarseness from overactive organs and historic use of harsh sounds to intimidate, suggesting such utterances relieve feelings.
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Darwin
Simple plan to see the stage
A short joke about a small man unable to see the stage behind a large spectator. The tiny man asks to be lifted, is refused, and the big man suggests he should simply watch him and laugh when he laughs. The exchange highlights comic self interest and timing.
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Hardy
London Chronicle
Derivation of the Word Sunday and Sabbath Meaning
The text explains Sabbath as a Hebrew term meaning rest and its use in Sle. It notes yearly and seven year periods as characterizations and that every seventh day was the weekly Sabbath. It states Sundays were dedicated to worship and Christian nations treat Sunday as their Sabbath.
Acquaintance at New York Reception
A fashionable New York event featured a newly appointed young newspaper editor who met the hostess's thirteen year old daughter. He asked her opinion of men and the girl replied she only knows the man who delivers their paper each morning, in a blunt retort captured by Lippincott's.
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New York
Lippincott’s
The Honey in Flowers Reveals Hidden Nectar Juices
A Chicago Tribune piece describes how various flowers conceal honey and nectar in special structures. It notes six honey pits in a crown imperial lily, nectar rivers in snowdrops, horn shaped hides in columbines, tube blossoms in dead nettle, and the monkshood’s hood housing two nectar sacs nicknamed Adam and Eve and Noah's Ark.
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Arce
Job
Chicago Tribune
The Shanghai Sling Feud Among Melbourne Youth
The piece describes the sling or shanghai used by boys to shoot at birds as illegal in Melbourne, with police confiscating any they find. A five year old named Bobby asks a blue uniformed officer if they take shanghais from boys, and the officer replies that he does.
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Shanghai
Melbourne
Bobby
Bobby Junior
Attachment notice in Beat 3 Justice Court Alabama
M Cherry as plaintiff obtained an attachment on August 28 1908 against H T Fallon and wife for their estate. The levy covers a band grip suitcase trunk and box and contents. Defendants are non residents of Alabama and reside in Tennessee. Notice issued by W J Baxley,N P and ex officio J P.
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M. Cherry
H. T. Fallon
Justice Court of Beat 3
Houston County
Alabama
Tennessee
W. J. Baxley
N. P
J. P
Attachment Publication Notice in Alabama Case
Public notice in the Dothan Eagle that V. L. Groesbeck, a non-resident, has attach ments issued against him in two Houston County cases filed by Robert Blackman and B M Wadham. Property listed includes 29 logs and 1 000 feet of lumber. Publication required weekly for three weeks before September 21, 1908.
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State of
Alabama
Houston County
Robert Blackman
VY. J
Dothan Eagle
Houston
Dissolution Notice of Dothan Crate Manufacturing Co
In Dolhan Alabama two partners J N Taunton and O D Watson sign a dissolution contract. Taunton buys the firm for 125 dollars and assumes present indebtedness except certain debts listed. Exhibit A details debts. Exhibit B credits remaining. The agreement is dated August 28, 1908 and signed by Taunton and Watson.
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J. M. Taunton
O. Db. Watson
Dolhan
Dothan Crate Manufacturing Co
Pothan Crate Manufacturing Co
Do Than Crate Manufacturing Co
Exhibit next week shows Mateatic in virtual operation
R. Flowers promotes a hardware event by Than Hardware Co. at an exhibit next week featuring a Mateatic in virtual operation.
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Do Than Hardware CO
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Sacred Geese of
State of Alabama
J. N. Taunton
D. Watson
R. Flowers
THE
Giani Clothing Co
Whatley& Ward
Vothan
FE. Fournier
Lake Charles
Diet
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