Land Dreams and House Plans Turn to Hard Realities
In a reflective piece a couple debates selling land to fund a dream home while avoiding perpetual poverty. The narration contrasts frugal living with the lure of a better home, noting decades of toil, taxes, and weariness before a more comfortable future might be possible.
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Charles
Charleo
Maria
Ezra
Yeoutl
Peanuts as a Dalnty Inspire Dinner Party Debate
A stylish young woman on Walnut Street argues that peanuts can be elegant. She outlines a method to roast green or unparched peanuts, removing shells, blanching, buttering, browning, and salting to elevate the humble legume for a refined dinner party.
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Philadelphia
Queer Bikes of Bygone Days From Vevers to Dogs
The New York World notes odd bicycle designs prior to modern cycles. It recalls eighteenth century Vevers velocipede with a servant-propelled carriage, a French riderless machine, a Scottish self moving car triage, and an American dog cart cycle weighing about 200 pounds plus a 150 pound rider. The first rear driving safety emerged in 1846 by Gavin Dalziel, a Scottish blacksmith.
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New York
John Vevers
Reigate
Surrey
England
Vevers
Gavin Dalziel
Indian School Names and Americanization at Hampton
A Slim touchstone of tribal identity, the Hampton Institute catalogue shows students adopting “Americanized” names. It cites Sophia Little Bear and others as examples, noting some choose simpler labels like Thomas W. Catt after entering as Tommy Wild Cat.
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Tad
Tommy Wild Cat
Thomas W. Catt
Three Caravels of Columbus and the Palos Dockyard
The article recounts Isabella's aid to Columbus and the Palos effort to outfit three caravels. Martin Alonzo Pinzon funded and altered ships choosing seaworthy vessels, naming the Nina Santa Maria and Pinta. It notes weaknesses of the Palos vessels and Columbus's risky voyage across the Atlantic.
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Columbus
Isabella
Palos
Paros
Martin Alonzo Pinzon
Ile
Paris
Pinton
Ferdinand and Isabella
Pinson
Santa Maria
Canaries
America
Atlantic Ocean
St Nicholas
Bears and Lions Smoke at Berlin Zoo Pioneering Trial
In Berlin Zoological Gardens Prof Raul Meyerheim reports remarkable reactions from animals to tobacco. Brown bears eagerly rub against bars to inhale cigar smoke. A sleeping lion awoke with a sneeze and then raised its nose for a second dose before lying down again. Goats, stags, and marmosets reportedly enjoy tobacco and cigars.
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Berlin Zoological Gardens
Raul Meyerheim
Pearson's Weekly
A Cook Learns By Can Labels Funny Misread
A Banger family hires a cook who reads by pictures on labels and cannot read text. She misidentifies canned goods, including desiccated coconut with a monkey label, exclaiming in astonishment that she has never seen a canned monkey before.
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