A Clever Rule and a Noted Banker Ruse
A Paris merchant sought a Yokohama firm name after a local failure. He asked a banker to reveal it indirectly by judging a ten-name list. The banker warned of responsibility but agreed, and the merchant deduced only one name on the list was genuine. The other nine were fictitious, exposing the failed firm. In another anecdote, Uncle Jonas is portrayed as thrifty yet surprisingly charitable in a small joke.
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Paris
Japan
Yokohama
Hind
Uncle Jonas
Jonas
Jad
Cleveland
Georgie
Constance
Papal
Train Conductor Rules On Dog Passenger Misunderstanding
A Lehigh Valley train leaves Easton for New York with a young girl and her dog. The conductor must remove the dog to the baggage car for policy reasons, but the brakeman discovers the dog is worn and the girl insists it is for her brother in Brooklyn. The pair debate the fate of the pet as the conductor contemplates the ticket.
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Lehigh Valley Railroad
Easton
New York
Brookyn
New York Times
Acquittal in Insanity Defense Stuns Court
A man plainly guilty was acquitted after a long jury deliberation. The judge asked for the issue, learning the prisoner retained his own counsel. The jury later found him not guilty by reason of insanity. Also notes on animals and rain as Kipling describes.
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Chicago Record-Herald
A Justifiable Evasion in Classic Quips and Gracious Mischief
A collection of literary quips about authorship and anonymous work includes Sir Walter Scott denying Waverley, Sydney Smith joking about letters, and a comic scene with Little Georgie refused dessert. The dialogue features light social humor and domestic irony set in a period voice with familiar names and phrases.
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Sir Walter Scott
Mr. Gladstone
Sydney Smith
Exaggerated Report on a Teen’s Nickel Confusion
A family doctor is summoned to a tenement where a woman explains that Tommy swallowed a coin. The doctor grimly asks where he is, but the woman reveals they misidentified the coin, and it was two nickels, not a quarter.
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Tommy
Real Bravery in Women Across History
A historical reflection argues moral courage outshines raw strength and notes women’s brave acts across eras. It cites Laena, Telesilla, Theodora, Artemisia, Camilla, Boadicea, Joan of Arc, Arria and many martyrs, praising steadfast, fearless endurance of extraordinary suffering.
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Laena
Attica
Telesilla
Theodora
Artemisia
Camilla
Boadicea
Rome
Orleans
France
Arria
Mamma and boy mix up vigor with kitchen tool
In a Milwaukee Free Press extract a child asks for vigor to drive a nail, recalling a book line about meat done and potatoes mashed with vigor. The mother realizes he means the wooden pestle used to mash potatoes.
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Mamma
Charlie
Milwaukee Free Press
Foam in soda water described as gas escape issue
The passage explains foam forms when air or gas escapes a viscid liquid. In soda water the carbonic acid gas creates the sparkling head, but sweetened water alone foams little. A mucilaginous additive increases viscosity to prevent gas escape and the familiar foam.
Fishing in West Virginia Fashionable Resort Tale
An out of town guest at a West Virginia summer resort asks a local if fishing is worth his time. The native retorts the fishing is poor, then adds he is unsure how the guest values his time. A separate note describes sea birds drinking rain at sea from a distant squall, as observed by an old skipper.
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West Virginia
Lippincott’s
Aristippus Appeals to Tyrant for Favor
Aristippus sought a grant from Dionysius and prostrated himself to gain it. A bystander chided the philosopher for begging a tyrant, and Aristippus replied that the fault lay with Dionysius who carries his ears in his feet.
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Aristippus
Dionysius
Candy of Other Days From Harpers Weekly
Before sugar became common sweets were luxury items with expensive sugar valued around seven dollars fifty cents per pound. Ancient equivalents persisted as delicacies such as mic et pistache and honey nuts. Candied fruits resembled Greek and Roman dulciaria, while Elizabethan references show a rich culture of confections and sweetmeats, including comfits and aromatic cachous. A sugar packet could be a costly royal gift and the comfit box figured in Guise’s fate.
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Beaumont and Fletcher
Elizabeth
Harper’s Weekly
Forgetting What We Learned In Spelling Books
A Louisville Courier Journal observation notes widespread lapse in spelling learned in school. People often guess between e and i in tricky words like niece, trusting recipients will understand. About seven of ten guesses work, highlighting common orthography ignorance.
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Louisville Courier- Journal
Kiss Question at Church Becomes Half Fare Charge Joke
A bride to be told her fiancé to warn the clergyman she would not stand a kiss after the ceremony. The groom relayed the idea and the clergyman replied the fee would be half the usual. The piece then shifts to a note on the Symbol Speech by Alexander Melville Bell born 1867.
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George
The Use of Hats Across English History
The text traces hat use from Norman England onward, noting that men often went bareheaded until long journeys, medieval nobles wore varied headgear, and common people largely went without hats except on special occasions. It claims modern baldness partly results from widespread hat wearing in ancient times.
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England
Sealed bids sought by Glanavon School District No 4
The Glanavon School District announces sealed bids for painting one school house and outbuildings, undermining three houses, setting four hitching posts, furnishing posts, floors, flag staves, slats, rope, pulleys, two coal boxes, and slanted roofs. Bids due by 2 pm August 13, opened at Putnam school house. District reserves right to reject all bids. John Biddlecomb district clerk.
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Glannwon
Emmons
North Dakota
Putnam
Glanacon
Glanavon
John Biddlecomb
Buimons
Votonm
Glanaven
John Riddlecomb
McCully
Larvik
Chas. Dewitt
Angls-Scpet
Winona
Emtrons County
Jakob Klaudt
Suidistrict
J. House
Winona, N. 1
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