Spectacle of Trained Animals and Theatrical Acts
Marion Sheridan and her troupe of performing lions headline a grand display with Buckley’s herd including Duchess the elephant and JAKE the largest gorilla. Other acts feature 250 horses and ponies 400 people 20 clowns Prof Wheeler’s military band and a free street parade starting at 10 am Two daily shows at 2 pm and 8 pm Baby friendly program with camel lions and monkeys entertainment aims to thrill crowds at the showgrounds.
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Marion Sheridan
Buckley
Duchess
Jake
America
Wheeler
Dream Food and the Opium Like Drug Trade
Damaged OCR text describes a plant and its use as a sleep inducing drug. It notes a hog and branches cut near the root, seeds separated, ground, and dried powder linked to sleep and trance. It mentions Washeedh devotees and export restrictions from Greece to Egypt for hasbeesh users abroad.
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Ita
Greece
Egypt
Austria
France
Bright Sayings and Historical What Might Have Been
A collage of witty sayings and imagined outcomes. The piece recalls a sultan gifting a diamond bracelet and a Turk remark about wives, then shifts to Robert Lowe and his quip about endowment. It ends with Lord Rosebery’s Glas ton university speech imagining Pitt’s policies sparing colonial strife and Britain becoming a supreme European outpost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Rosebery
Glaston University
Pitt
George II
England
America
Empire
Atlantic
Britain
The Roman Forum and its Functions in Rome
The Forum Romanum was the first and central forum in Rome serving trade, public meetings, and administration of justice by consuls and magistrates. As fora expanded to about twenty across the city they divided into spaces for public law and market needs, resembling the Greek agora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
New York American
Remarkable Blindness Cure Story From Medical Record
The medical record recounts a man cured of blindness by a surgeon famed for his unassuming looks. After the operation fully restored sight, the patient told his benefactor he would not have consented if he had seen him beforehand, expressing gratitude.
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Tision
Humiliation inalled by a porter and a boot incident
A fragmented quotation contrasts a porter blocking boots with a last night humiliation. London Telegraph and Washington Star style lines hint at a joke about authenticity and storytelling. The piece reads like a compact snipe or satirical quip.
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London ‘Telegraph
Gun of Possibilities Fails Harsh Indian Tests
A London Sketch report recalls a proposed cannon tested in India that endured mountain trails and precipice drops yet was rejected after a war office official doubted its drop test. The episode left the Indian army with outdated weapons, highlighting bureaucratic caution over innovation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tateeah
Napoleon III
Paris
War Office
India
London
Arctic Cold Descriptions From Old Travel Tales
Pearson's Weekly recounts extreme frost effects from explorers and sailors. Ice on skin inside cabins and shipboard performances shows how a few tens of degrees below freezing produced instant freezing and dramatic condensation.
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Tare
Russia
Leopold ‘McClintock
Pearson'’s Weekly
A Piece of Street Graft and Ink Stains in Old Time Press
A Boston Post item recounts a boy moistening old papers to simulate fresh issues for a sale, a benevolent observer dies, while a London writer notes the St Patrick order dates from 17th century and contrasts its blue ribbon with the Thistle’s green. A New York Times anecdote shows a child prying loose a tight biscuit at table.
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Dr Press
Boston Post
Order of St. Patrick
St. Patrick
London
George Til
Order of the Thistle
James I
Tito
St Patrick's
Irish Guards
Scotland
Erin
Jeannette
Mother
New York Times
Not a Matter of Choice Colleague Exchange
A fragment from the New York Tribune captures exchanges between Columbian and Cornell alumni about a woman on a team and a worn delmie item. The brief dialogue hints at tensions and social norms among alumni in a mid century newspaper snippet.
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Columbian
Delmie
Cornell
Marriat
New York Tribune
Three Periads Fragmentary War of Words
Fragmentary archaic dialogue from The Three Periads. lines hint at mistaken speech and rhetorical challenge. The piece uses playful mispronunciations and mock exclamations. It reflects early modern poetical style with puzzled dialogue and typographical quirks.
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Pollard Bros
Hardwrare
Oxfords
Pritchard-Horton Co
Britchard, Horton Co
One Price Cash Shoers
Howe
Durham
Mandy
Oes
Turkey
Spain
Ion
Robert Lowe
Lowe
Frederick the Great
Gat
Hugh Elliott
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff
Washington Star
C. E King & Sons
West Main Street
the Cable Co
Church St
N. C
M.T. Langley, M’g’r
Lpia
Johncom Studie
Katie L. Johnson
East Main Street
Durham, N. C
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