Greek lesson amid woods and a farmer's exam
Richard Derring returns to his mother’s farm and vows to attend college. Aunt Jerusha funds his studies with a yearly $100 and reveals a will, while Richard secretly hones Greek in the woods by sawing, splitting, and reciting to the crosscut saw. He passes the oral Greek exam with a woodland rhythm the professor likens to ancient Greece.
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Richard Derring
Jerusha
Emily Hutton
Richard
Edwards
Derring
Seth Kinney
Kinney
Tom Bishop
Eben
Jow
Amanda Derring
Tom
Ashton
Massachusetts
Greece
Coins of aluminum to replace copper money
Paris dispatch notes aluminum coinage may replace copper in the near future, with penny and half penny pieces planned by year end. The alloy promises lightness and non-oxidizing cleanliness, making coins thicker yet lighter than francs and half francs, aiding easy distinction for tourists before nickel coins change the quarter franc piece.
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Tis
Paris
London Telegraph
Value of Tears as Public Health Revelation
A fragment discusses bacteriologists praising tears for cleansing the face and acting as an antiseptic bath due to salt content. It suggests tears sterilize the eye area and render harmless bacilli, though the text is garbled and unclear in places. Entities mentioned include bacteriologists and general salt effects on pathogens.
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North Carolina
Brown Tail Moth War Rages Across New England
New England battles a persistent brown tail moth invasion disrupting farms and forests. Massachusetts reports millions spent fighting both the brown tail and Gypsy moth, with caterpillars consuming leaves from orchards and trees across states including New Hampshire and Connecticut.
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New England
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Holland
France
Somerville
Mass
Cambridge
Europe
Mediterranean
Sweden
Lower
White Mountains
Brown
Gypsy
Keep Off Vermin Poultry Health Tip
Keep the flock free from lice and mites a key poultry care aim. Cedar or sassafras poles are recommended to keep vermin away and tobacco smoke is noted as a method to kill the flea or pest.
Power From Mowing Machine Horse-Power Setup
A method to convert a mowing machine into a water pumping drive by removing the drive wheel, placing the machine on its side, and bolting it between long planks secured to heavy stakes. A timber and a tug line form a sweep, with gas pipe as a tumbling rod connected to the pitman shaft. Used in coal districts around Joplin Missouri and Pittsburg Kansas to pump water from strips.
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Joplin
Pittsburg
Kan
Five Hour Cough Cure From Home Formula
A prominent physician records a home latives tonic cough syrup that promises relief in five hours. The recipe uses wild cherry bark, cardiol essence, and white pine syrup with dosing by the clock. It’s touted as a magical remedy surpassing high priced medicines. A separate Life column humorously notes a prudent Oregon statesman who offers to pay a beggar with a quarter.
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Oregon Statesman
Statesman
John
Child of the Press and Mrs. Alden’s Sun Shine Society
Mrs Cynthia Westover Alden founded the International Sun shine Society now claiming eight million members and chaired as president general after its New York christening in 1896 with eighteen sponsors. A clipping reflects on memory and forgetting alongside ad copy for Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and a cautionary line about truthfulness.
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Child of the Press
Cynthia Westover Alden
International Sunshine Society
New York City
Alden
New York
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