A Summer Night at the Star and Garter
Sir Cyprian Davenant and James Wyatt discuss a doomed romance as Cyprian contemplates an African voyage to escape his love for Constance Clanyarde. Gilbert Sinclair hosts a social gathering where Mrs. Walsingham’s engagement rumors with the wealthy bachelor swirl amid flirtations and gossip.
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Treatar and Garter
Star and Garter
Sir Cyprian Davenant
County of
Kent
Sir Cyprian
James Morton Wyatt
James Wyatt
Davenannt
Africa
England
Davenant
Marian
Jim
Elgar
Cyprian
Cyprian Davenant
Lord Clanyarde
Clanyardes
Constance Clanyarde
Misa Clanyarde
Clanyarde
Miss Clangarde
Mrs. Walsingham
Colone Walsingham
Holy Roman Empire
Gilbert Sinclair
Sinclair
Gilert
Shy
Dragoons
Bellingham
Phirnix Theater
Janes Wyatt
Gilbert
Cotton Seed Overtakes Cotton As Farm Value In South
Describes how cotton seed rose from valueless byproduct to a major agricultural commodity. Notes price growth from 5 cents to 42 cents per bushel, seed contributing up to one third of crop value, and a single company investing heavily in seed handling. Details multiple uses including oils, lard substitutes, meal for cattle, hulls for paper, and export to Europe.
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Europe
Rotterdam
Curran Pokes Fun On Heaven and the Other Place
Curran quips to Father O'Leary that he wishes the priest were St Peter to have the keys of heaven. O Leary replies it would be better if he had the keys of the other place so Curran could be kept out. The joke highlights a witty exchange with religious figures.
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Curran
Father O'leary
St Peter
O Leary
O'Leary
Legend of the Shamrock and Artful Red and White Study
An excerpt recounts aPrimrose farm scene where an artist paints a red and white study with blue bells and moths. It also retells St Patrick's sermon on the Trinity using a shamrock as the symbol of three in one, explaining Ireland’s patron saint and national flower.
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Primrose Farm
Worthington’s
St. Patrick
Ireland
Detroit Free Press
Adele the disobedient girl and the whip-poor-will lesson
A young girl named Adele strays from a daisy field chasing a fluttering flower and is frightened by a whip-poor-will. Her mother explains the bird is a whip-poor-will and teaches that disobedience deserves punishment, urging Adele to return home and gather daisies instead. The narrative blends a folk tale with nature notes on beavers and their habitats.
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Adele
Mamma
New York Recorder
Seavers and their intricate water-edge houses
Describes seavers known for busy industry and skill in building multi-room nests by water surrounded by woods. Each structure features a central court with seven to eight foot wide interiors and three feet high, walls formed from stripped branches and tree limbs.
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Detroit Free Press
Tricks of Tipsy Rabbits at Hopkins Clinic
Experiments at Johns Hopkins Hospital test alcohol effects on rabbits. Six rabbits receive daily alcohol doses to study fatty degeneration, with a detailed method including restraint and stomach administration. Outcomes vary from lively agitation to drunken stupor and rapid breathing.
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John Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Red Hair and Sunstroke Questioned in 19th Century Note
A column questions if red headed people are protected from sunstroke noting that red hair supposedly enables greater outdoor endurance in hot weather. It cites doctors as unable to fully explain the phenomenon and references St. Louis Democrat commentary on the topic.
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St. Louis
Isobe- Democrat
Land spends $9 000 008 a year on Kage pavy
A regional land committee allocates funds totaling nine million eight dollars annually to the Kage pavy project. The item appears in a budget section detailing ongoing expenditures. Specific agency names and exact project scope are not fully listed in the fragment.
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Land
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Mr. All
Imogen
Imogen Harlow
Watson
Mary Anne
Richmond
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