Wealthy banker forsakes mansion to live in primitive shack
New York March 24 reports Andrew Carnegie backed orthographic reform supporters and now J Kennedy Tod of New York relocates with his wife to a crude Long Island Sound shack near Sound Beach Conn. He abandons his lavish estate with art, Persian rugs, and servants for a tented, bare camp life, cooking on tripods and sleeping in crude beds.
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Christendom
UN Uder
United States
Andrew Carnegie
Carnesie
March
American Philological Association
Lerning
Lounsbury
Yale University
Dallars
Innis Arden
Venice
Long Island Sound
Sound Beach
Conn
J. Kennedy Tod
Adirondack
Primitive lifestyle and phonetic spelling debate excerpt
The text describes a primitive camp by the water with three tents and three shacks, illustrating a simple life away from city bustle. It then pivots to a critique of English spelling reforms, quoting Rider Haggard and discussing how sounds map to letters, noting changes since Shakespeare and the Bible.
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Rider Haggard
SOME HOOSIER FACTS IN FIGURES
Indiana state statistics summarize 1800 to 1905 data on statehood dates, constitutions, geography, population, tax values, mortgage exemptions, real and personal property, railroad and steamline figures, factories, wages, and production. Leading cities, crops, coal output, eggs, butter, apples, and oil wells are listed with 1905 activity and counts.
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Indiana
Tiediana
Decatur County
Anderson
Evansville
Fort Wayne
Indianapolis
Muncie
New Albany
South Bend
Terre Haute
Anomalies of Trade That Call for Reform
Lyman J. Gage argues currency reform is needed, noting 1000 million of cash in banks backs 7000 million in credit. He claims the system fixes money supply to US bond prices, causing inappropriate contraction or expansion. He urges linking currency volume to real community needs.
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Lyman J. Gage
United States
Blindfolded wine taster defeats bet with teeth cleaner
A wine tasting expert, famed in his trade, correctly identifies 24 drinks in a row under a betting challenge. The final glass proves water, prompting the man to joke that it’s the cleaner he uses for his teeth, matching the humorous Harper's Weekly anecdote.
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Harper’s Weekly
Missionaries Transform Bondjos From Ferocious Wolves
Bishop Au gouard writes from a jungle mission about converting Bondjos, once ravening wolves, into lambs. He asserts the term ravening wolves conveys a startling truth rather than a figure of speech.
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Augouard
Dancing in India Esteemed Across Centuries
The practice described portrays Indian dance as highly valued, with women dancing among themselves while avoiding interaction with men, and performing grotesque figures as part of the tradition.
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India
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