Sookearian offers tame Maine bear for sale aboard
A sailor from Edison Maine aboard the schooner Mary E Pennell now in Whale's Creek Brooklyn says he has a four month old bear cub for sale. Nash raised the animal on a bottle since birth and claims the bear is gentle as a dog and can churn butter for Mrs. Nash each Monday. Maine sailors left disappointed after negotiations failed.
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Moses
Nasbh
Mary E. Pennell
Edison
Whale’s Creek
Brooklyn
A. B
Maine
Marm
Harrington
Nash
Pucks School of Crime Promises High Earners
A spoof ad from Puck Magazine touts a “School of Crime” in New York offering pickpocketing training with bold claims. It cites notable alumni in politics and law, promises high earnings from crime, and urges immediate enrollment.
Archer on Spelling Reform Misunderstood in the States
William Archer, noted English critic, spoke at a New York reform spelling board meeting. He lamented widespread ignorance of spelling reform aims and rejected extreme proposals. He recalled a humorous misperception by two young women likening the chop to the animal leg versus the jaw bone.
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William Archer
The
Reformed Spelling Board
New York
Pronunciation of Girl Through Time in London Opinion
A London paper notes shifts in pronouncing the word girl from earlier rhymes like girlie to the modern vulgar gal. It cites Thackeray’s Mrs Bungay as an example and laments few authors now spell gurl to mark a peculiarity in speech.
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Willkins
Thackeray
Art of Skip Reading Highlighted in D-Day Era Skill
A fragmented reminiscence notes skip reading as a timed skill from the D-Day era. It describes an ordinary individual mastering rapid information extraction during wartime tasks and training, emphasizing efficiency and concentration.
City clubwomen reject baked bean stickers for Old Home Week
Delegates from women patriotic societies met at the Twentieth Century club to discuss Old Home Week in Boston. They rejected vulgar baked bean stickers and favored dignified imagery like a Faneuil Hall representation, while Mayor Fitzgerald’s publicity bureau explained quicker designs were in preparation.
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Twentieth Century Club
Boston
Faneuilhall
Thomas Anderson
Fitzgerald
Faneuil Hall
Trust and Fairness in Conferences
Governor Sheldon of Nebraska warns that conferences are beneficial only when conducted fairly and without prejudice. He cautions against suspicion and errors in judgment and shares a parable about a countryman and a free museum entry to illustrate misreading intentions.
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Gov. Sheldon
Nebraska
New York
Metropolitan Museum
Origin of Typhoid Fever and accountability concerns
Dr. Richard Cole Newton notes at a meeting of the American Medical Association that a typhoid sufferer can sue the city for contamination just as a fall causes harm, contrasting the lack of government action for human disease with the urgent response to animal epidemics and military casualties in Camp Thomas.
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American Medical Association
Newark
Thomas
Richard Cole Newton
Science Monthly
Paradox of Age Draws Crowd to Philharmonic Event
An entertainment by the Woman's Philharmonic Society boasted a dancer rumored to be too old to teach in public schools yet young enough to perform. Curious attendees packed the venue seeking insight into this age paradox, but no one learned the truth.
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Woman’s Philharmonic Society
Family sees nearly the whole city in one day
A playful tale of a city visit by a large family guided by cousins. Each child visits a different place with a cousin, leading to a humorous claim that they saw almost the entire city in a single day.
Archimedes Guided The Mind For An Hour
A fragment recalls Archimedes guiding the mind for an hour in patient focus. The remark captures a moment of thoughtful inquiry and intellectual discipline.
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Archimedes
Boxing Lessons and a Fateful Car Ride
A speaker recounts taking boxing lessons to provoke a fight on a car and trading blows with an elbow strike. A punch misses twice before a swing lands as another man lands a blow, sending him to an ambulance. He notes the other man had more lessons, 48 versus his 24.
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America
Plant Stones in the Philippines Baffle Expectation
Fascinating plant stones appear in Philippine flora. Bamboo sometimes yields a stone called Tabashiri resembling opal in color and rarity, while some coconuts contain a pearl-like secretion rivaling the finest pearls.
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Philippine Islands
Kultur and
Natur
The True Phonetic Speller and Rural Letters
A fragmentary note describes a child’s improvised spelling in letters from a woodland manor. It contrasts the earnest spelling attempts with adult skepticism about spelling as a useful skill. The piece references Roosevelt Kipling and a Cockney girl, Bessie, under convalescence and playful miswrites.
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Annie
Palace Smoking Room Tells a Quiet Windsor History
The Windsor Castle smoking room was a small chamber where Queen Victoria allowed smoking. Its blue gray walls and a single billiard table lit by six oil lamps created a homely space. The room has long held stories of emperors, kings, ministers, poets, bishops and many important figures who paused there to smoke a final cigar.
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Palace
Windsor Castle
Victoria
Her Father's Child Turns Trick to Get Candy
A famed lawyer known for wit adapts to circumstances as his young daughter Lucy schemes to reach a high shelf. She pushes a chair and climbs to obtain candy, just as her father enters the room.
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Lucy
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