Prosperous Venture From a Humble Poverty Tale
A couple recounts a frugal start with limited means living in a store district, sharing a room with Nora Brandon and Nancy McMahan who later dies. Nancy's will leaves them her furniture and a curing face powder recipe, which they turn into a medical elixir promoted by a cheerful Irish promoter. The venture grows, Jay shifts from tech work to oversee production, and a large ranch houses needy orphans as profits rise. The Chicago Tribune notes their unexpected wealth and ongoing success.
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Nancy McMahan
Nora Brandon
Nancy
Tate
Jay
Phi
Nancy M'Mahan
America
McMahan
United States
California
Chicago Tribune
Smoking in Churches Across Eras and Regions
A historic survey notes smoking in churches from Sevillian cathedral abuses in 1642 to Welsh and Scottish practices in the 1800s and a Nottingham rector denying a pipe in vestry. It highlights Dutch, South American, and British cases showing long standing tolerance and ritualized smoking in religious spaces.
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Man Benn
South America
Sevilla
Urban VIII
Wales
York
St. Mary's
Nottingham
Scotland
Esquire or Mr Which Use Declares Legal Distinctions
London Daily Mail notes that esquire is legally restricted to specific ranks and offices. It lists peers, knights, eldest sons of peers, officers, sheriffs, privy councillors, king of arms, judges, and certain royal officials as eligible. All others should be styled Mr. and esquire is a general presumption.
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Oliver Cromwell
Ilka
John Brown
King of Arms
Heralds
V. P's
Queen's Counsel
Order of Knighthood
Queen’s Household
Court of Bankruptcy
Supreme Court
London Daily Mail
Damp Risks Warned By Health Misinformation
A warning cites damp linemen as causing frequent colds, consumption, and family death, claiming rheumatism from damp heat leads to incurable cases and advising drying the body with a good fire. It warns the careless will face punishment and inevitable accumulation of misfortune before it is too late.
Irrigation as a Fast Growing Idaho Opportunity
Arid lands in northern Idaho are rapidly becoming productive through canal systems and cooperative water sharing. Irrigation companies finance main canals when individual settlers cannot, offering water per acre and prompting large influx of settlers as rails advertise free pamphlets from Oregon Short Line. Public lands are expected to fill soon, making timely action crucial for eastern farmers.
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Bolsa
Idaho
Etter
Talnfall
Congress
Union
Nouthearn
Nile
Oregon Short Line
Salt Lake City
Ice Explosion on Missouri River Brings Narrow Escape
A Nebraska farmer near Banker recounts a dramatic ice blow up on the Missouri River as Banker crossed an ice bridge. Witnesses say large ice masses soared forty to fifty feet into the air, tossed by a rapid freeze and trapped air escaping violently.
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Banker
Nebraska
Missouri River
Sifely
No Name for His Colonel's Home
A retired colonel of a famed Highland regiment builds a villa called The Retreat. His old soldier gardener dislikes the name, noting you never hear pine and bugles played, implying the gate’s words miss the house’s military spirit.
Not Worth His Salt Origins in Roman Salarium
The piece explains the origin of the saying not worth his salt from Roman times when soldiers received salt as pay. It notes salarium as salt money and connects to modern phrases like salary and not worth his salt, attributed to the Golden Penny.
Let Us Gather Up the Sunbeams in Our Path
A vintage moral poem urges children to collect sunbeams and roses, discard thorns, and mind gentle words. It reflects on lost springtime joys and the childlike memory of loved ones, urging patient kindness and hopeful planting for the future.
Bear Story From Labrador Follows Boy and Grizzly
An American paper recounts a Labrador tale from Nain where a young hunter armed with a knife and a muzzle-loader pursues a thin hungry grizzly. After misfires and a fall, he discards gear to gain distance, finally fleeing toward the mission house with the bear closing in.
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Labrador
Nain
Nhat
Mission House
Thorn Drawn From Foot Grows Into Rose Tree Parable
An Arab caravan chief pauses to remove a thorn from a crying desert boy. He shares his gold then continues, years later in paradise he learns the good deed blossomed into a rose tree, proving that one kind act returns a hundredfold.
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Paradise
Paradigo
An Ege Eating Snare and the Duck Egg Mystery
A fragment contemplates how a mysterious device, likened to a duck egg in size, could be ingested or managed within a body or mechanism. The terse line hints at a puzzling trap or snare and its surprising capacity for swallowing or passage.
How Certain Lizards Swallow Eggs Without Teeth
The article explains that some reptiles like the dasypeltis lack true teeth yet manage to ingest eggs. It proposes that membranous folds at the sides of the mouth grip the shell, guiding it into the throat, while noting the stomach’s digestive juices must deal with the shell. It also describes gular teeth as tips of spines aiding shell rupture and fluid passage to the stomach.
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Madagascar
Mountain Lion Mimics Man Coat to Lure Predator
A Yellowstone Park guide recalls an amused encounter where a mountain lion stalked a coat laid on a log, mistaking it for a human, then fled after the coat’s “trick” deceived the big cat into a failed leap and a retreat.
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Yellowstone Park
Aysha
Tricky Goat Triggers Mayhem at Suburban Play Spot
A crowd of children played on a vacant suburban lot when a large white goat among spectators charged the largest boy, knocking him down and sending others sprawling. The observer attributed the incident to goat humor, noting no animal but a goat would act with such timing.
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Strick
Rannier
Fearful British General Feared Cat In Battle
General Roberts, commander of 200,000 British troops in South Africa, trembled at the sight of a half-starved black cat perched on a wagon near Cabal. The New York Herald notes no cat had entered Roberta house for years as bullets fell. A substiern drove the animal away and the general could refocus on combat.
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Lord Roberts
South Africa
Roberta House
New York Herald
Cabal
Gen
Roberta
Richard Whittington Lord Mayor of London Biography
London apprentice Richard Whittington born 1353 rose from apprentice to mercer and alderman. He became lord mayor in 1397 and served again in 1408 and 1415, earning knighthood from Henry V and dying in 1423.
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Richard Whittington
London
William Whittington
Pontrey
Gloucestershire
Richard
John Fitz-Warran
Mercer's Company
Henry V
Retort Courteous Quip Sparks Curious Exchange
A playful exchange unfolds with sharp wit as one speaker questions the other's bold claim about marriage and social behavior. The other retorts with a challenge, highlighting the gendered trope in a lighthearted, flirtatious banter.
Old Man and Child Nay Notion in Town Gossip
A fragmented dialogue shows a playful exchange about a baby and a nursing bottle with comic misnaming. Jones and Siulth contribute teasing remarks. The overheard exchange reflects local humor and casual banter in a neighborhood setting.
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Shilih
Jones
Puck
Our Nation's Wealth and Stomach Bitters Ad
The passage extols material wealth and compares it to a human body's interior strength. It promotes Host letters Stomach Bitters as a remedy for overworked stomachs, claiming it cleanses the bowels, boosts appetite, and cures constipation dyspepsia and biliousness.
Judge Hums About Matrimony Failing To Save Costs
A courtroom quip reveals a judge noting that the idea of saving money by marrying two into one is flawed. The exchange centers on marital economics and the humor of sharing a meal after a stall for two becomes one. The remark underscores practical costs of domestic life.
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Om Brabson
How to Catch Cold, Kellogg’s Early Cold Theory
Dr J L Kellogg outlines how cold exposure causes body reactions that link skin vessel changes to internal organs. He explains that chilling the shoulders chest back of neck or spine can constrict vessels in the lungs nose and throat and even the kidneys, leading to congestion if the cold persists.
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J. LH. Kellogg
Literary Men in Paris and American Authors in Stage Plans
Frank L. Stanton predicts a future where American authors and literary figures are staged in dramatic performances. He cites Goldsmith, Bruce Robson, Byron, and others as examples and imagines a lineup featuring Edwin Markham, Blink Blank, Charles Dudley Warner, Mark Twain, and Riley as potential upcoming attractions.
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Paris
Oliver Goldsmith
Bruwrt Robson
James Young Dorn
Lord Byron
Blink Blank
Edwin Markham
Moe
Charles Dudley Warner
Mark Twain
James Whitcomb Riley
Frank L. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
Coquette Neglects Suitors Until Proved Useless
A brief saying illustrates a social error where a flirtatious person delays attention to suitors until awareness of their lack of value becomes evident, highlighting caution in romantic pursuits.
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