Pandora and the Pandora captains in legend of the sea
The 1912 tale recounts the Pandora a 36 foot yawl under Captains Blythe and Arapakis sailing from Perth to New York after a perilous voyage around Cape Horn. A mighty storm wrecked gear yet the vessel survived and pressed on to London, earning medals from Greek associations and leaving behind a mystery of the voyage and the fate of its crew.
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Yorl
Bret Ehatry
Pandora
Parth
Australia
Blythé
Arapaktia
New York
London
Maritime
Akipper
Atlantic
Pandor
Ekippera
New York Harbor
Sargasso Sea
Samuel Blythe
Peter Arapakia
Perth
Nea
Cane -Horn
Pacific
Abe
Straits of Magellan
Parker House
Atlantia Yacht Club
Arapakis
Darwin
Spencer
Kipling
Kingsley
Blythe
Ji Forbes Blythe
Coventry
England
Custom House
Vensel
Years Devoted to Sleep in A Lifetime
A London answer piece calculates life spent in daily routines. It cites a seventy year old general average of 23 years asleep, about a year spent eating, roughly five years walking to work, seven years dressing, and 600 pairs of boots or 600 dresses worn across a couple. The piece frames these figures as a whimsical look at time used.
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D. H. Farrington
Wiscohetn Agricultural College
S.mall
Farrington
Chicago
Averyone
Ady
George
London
Making Yourself Fit for Proper Clothes by Design
A Life piece suggests that rather than relying on ready made garments, one can have a tailor design a model fit to the body. It notes sculptors and scientific craftsmen can determine proportions and create patterns to ensure proper waistcoat, coat, and trouser fit, with various professionals able to assist.
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Agatn
Life
Costa
Unclear Genlue and Marriage Quoted by Helen Gould
Miss Helen Gould rebukes a Colorado parson over old maids and marriage norms at a musicale. The dialogue questions a man’s identity after marriage, with a quip about the husband of a famous contralto and the evolving status of wives.
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Helen Gould
Colorado
Wang
Vivevoce
Detective Game Reveals Long Marriage Through Ring Size
In a curious aside, a jeweler notes a woman’s marriage length by her wedding ring. The jeweler explains rings change style roughly every five years, and the woman’s current ring matches a style from about fifteen years ago.
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Sharlock Holmes
Castoria and patent medicine lines from old ad copy
An old advertisement fragment touts Castoria as a safe infant remedy and promotes various tonics and syrups. It also disparages women handling family tasks and jokes about mortgages, with other product lines and dismissive social notes woven through the copy.
Delinester Memoir Mentioned In A Geography Lesson
A geography class incident reports a pupil astonished by a line in the book about a South American region inhabited by monkeys that speak. The student allegedly read aloud a garbled phrase and was corrected by the teacher as the class watched.
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Ong
Claus
South America
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W. L. Douglas
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Corey
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Alesa
Putnam
Monroe Drug Company
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Sariatiel
Origen
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Pauly
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