Elephants On Raid Protest Against Protection Accord
Rev Mr Grantham of the Wesleyan mission at Lomagundi forwards an account of a elephant raid that killed a native and endangered crops. He protests delays in damag es relief and argues for self defense against elephants with calves in the herd. He questions why elephants are protected while people suffer and calls for change in policy.
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Grantham
Lomagundi
Farw
Lam
Phaonin
Wen
Rhodesia
Custom at Summer Dances Ties Bottles to Window Sills
A new summer practice at some hotel dances echoes old country barn customs. A young man learns his partner plans to bring tall bottles to dances, passing them around without glasses as she invites him to partake from the window ledge. Nearby, another young woman shares in the practice.
Love Me, Love My Dog On Continental Railway
A curious incident aboard a Continental railway involves a young French woman and her dog. The train stops prompt attentive care to the pet, feeding it from a basket, and a folding travel cup used for mineral water. The scene attracts attention at each station and from onlookers.
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pet—Dundee Advertiser
Her Mistake Reveals Social Dining Gaffe
The remark centers on a hostess who hosted a supper to please friends while excluding enemies. Commentary suggests the gathering would have been more lucrative if she avoided favors for those she disliked, framing a social misstep as a potential blunder in her social calculus.
The Cure for Worry and Thought Transference
George Harvey contends worry is a disease of imagination not fact and urges reliance on nature and inner effort. He critiques seeking divine tidings yet stresses personal control, education of will, and rejection of regret to banish fear as described in the North American Review.
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George Harvey
North American Review
Rare 1580 Bible Controversy Discovered in German Edition
In Wolfenbattel Hesse Germany a rare 1580 Bible edition shows a printer wife’s malice altering Eve’s line from master to a censored word. The incident led to arrests, a blasphemy sentence, and destruction of copies except for one kept in Wolfenbattel library.
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Wolfenbattel
Hesse
Germany
Adan
The Confederate Catonel
A fragmented historical fragment discusses a southern colonel figure, contrasting manners and respect across cultural lines. It notes a Wigznified man’s polite demeanor and deference to others, with critique of colonial-era social customs and perceived superiority in dialogue and business methods.
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Heman
Elise
Niatve
New Dnelind
The Peaceful Suburbs Feud Goes to Unruly Ends
A village tale recounts a petty quarrel spiraling into a bizarre feud. Chickens hedge gardens bulldogs and a wandering circus conclude with a borrowed animal and fears of an elephant to settle the score.
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Gail
Scott
Sympathetic Hearts in Hard Times Over Rising Living Costs
A sympathetic exchange reveals strain from rising living costs and expensive jewelry. A wife laments the price hike for diamonds while her husband had planned to buy a necklace he cannot now afford. The dialogue hints at financial stress and shared concern.
Wilder Mansion Bolton A Landmark With Napoleon Legend
Historic Wilder mansion on Wattoquottoe hill Bolton famed for links to Napoleon Bonaparte and Lafayette. The old house, over 1000 years old, hosted Polite society and offered refuge plans for Napoleon after Waterloo, while Lafayette once headquartered there and McKinley was linked to it.
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Massachusetts
Wilder
Wattoquottoe Hill
Bolton
Napoleon
Lafayette
President McKinley
Boston Herald
New England
McKinley
Wilder Mansion
J. Wyman Jones
Marcus A’ Hanna
Jones
Famous &Rtate
Lancaster
Old Common
Rolton Centre
Sampson Wryting Stoddard Wilder
Wilders
England
Boston
Talleyrand
France
America
Rotten Mansion
Josiah Quincy
Waterlon
Be Yourself Listes and Moral Duty by Charles Wagoer
In this reflection the author urges individuals to imitate nature’s harmony and fragrance to reveal inner truth. Man’s duty is to manifest his best self through personal integrity and contribution to others, standing firm and speaking with honest thought.
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Charles Wagoer
Animal Existence and Modes of Action
The text divides animal movement into three classes: involuntary instinctive and rational. It states the tommer common to all vital structures and asserts instinctive tendencies arise before experience, driving self preservation and species perpetuation. Rational actions stem from instruction or deliberation and are directed toward a conscious end.
What is the difference between logic and sophistry
A fragment from a dialogue shows a professor asking the meaning of logic versus sophistry. The bright student replies that in controversy the distinction lies in the quality of argument, suggesting logic relies on sound reasoning while sophistry uses deceptive rhetoric.
Frightened Brother-In-Law Serves as Intermittent Prayer Helper
A bashful man in a Calvary church rarely attends midweek prayer meetings fearing to pray or testify. During a service he is prompted to lead prayer but freezes until his deaf brother-in-law signals for him to pray, allowing the relief of silent attendance while others perceive it as a solved dilemma.
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Mr. B
Mer
Iris Broier
Law
John
Sam
Mr. R
Dead Magician Prophesies From Rotorua War Tale
A New Zealand tohunga famed for influencing the dead beholds omen from a slain Arawa chief. During a wartime omen rite at Rotorua the dead warrior’s corpse shifts, triggering cheers as a sign of future success, an act linked to olden ntonga practices.
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New Zealand
Rotorua
Popular Hatred and the Power of Multitude
A fragmented aphoristic passage argues that popular hatred acts as a collective force far stronger than single tyranny. It warns rulers that anger from many, even if scattered, can bind the tyrant and turn on him. The metaphor compares crowd wrath to thunder, lightning, and hail.
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Africa
Self-taught Beginnings of Keir Hardie Parlor Leader
At age 12 Keir Hardie, later a Labour MP, could not read or write and had only elemental schooling. He learned reading from shop-window notices, then taught himself writing and shorthand in a coal mine using a smoke-marked white stone and a pin. By 23 he left the pit to become secretary of a miners union and by 25 was a sub-editor of a Cumock local newspaper.
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Keir Hardie
Hardie
Pita
Cumnock
Metropolitan mood at Pettyville tavern reveal curbside pride
A landlord boasts of Pettyville becoming more metropolitan while a skeptical patron questions the change. The exchange hints at local pride and underlying tensions as the town shifts.
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W. Teche
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Ass’t
Fsfe, Beckmann & Sauer
Joe Daunhauer
Kentucky
Che
Indiana
Solinger
Aine Heers
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