Anecdotes of George Prince of Wales and a Busy Reading Plan
A midshipman prince attends a Portsmouth ball tests a name trick and reveals the family name Guelph after a chaperon hears his message. A Clin echonati Gazette reader describes a mother led reading plan with a list of popular children’s books and a Welsh rarebit burlesque.
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Prince George of Wales
Portsmouth
Ife
George
Christ
Tom
Guelph
Prince George
Duke of York
Theey Querry
Howe
Clinechonati Gazette
Tiwest
Acluiman
Robbie
Nellie
United States
Joe
Miss Alcott
Mother Nature
Jane Andrews
Hhild
England
Charles and
Mary Tamb
Lord Fauntleroy
Mrs Burnett
Sophia Herrick
Longfellow
Madame How
Kingsley
Mace
T. Miller
Royal Courts
Abnott
Ancient Teacher Dove and a Mock Punishment Folklore
A column from Youth's Companion recounts Charles Thomson boarding with a school teacher named Dove. Dove used satire and public shaming rather than corporal punishment to discipline pupils, including sending scholars with a bell and lantern to escort late students.
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Charles Thomson
First American Congress
Dove
Mitch
Nevada Prospectors famed for mineral wealth and rugged virtue
A Cassier’s Magazine excerpt praises Nevada’s prospectors and mineral riches. It argues that arid lands become habitable with water, irrigation, and settlement, noting the prospector’s role in building empire through the Comstock lode and related development while defending rugged character and patriotism.
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Great Basin
Nevada
Central Pacific
Nevadins
Stave
Cayuse
Atlantic
Pacific
East
Calmstock Lode
Comstock
Mackey-Bennett
Mills Building
New York
Palace
Baldwin
Grand Opera House
New California Theater
San Francisco
Cassier
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Gravesend
French
Greenhorn Vaidvice
India
Ganges
Colgong
Clackwood
Prospectors
Weaith
Hinck Koot
Michael
Errs
Lele
Detroit
Jewel T
Kips
Fremontle
Goodrich and Myers
Coldwater
Goodrich & Myers
Mopecmatee
U.S
Washington
U. S
C.a.snow&co
Washington, D.C
A. Pilliod
Hilton House
Fremont, Ind
R. Heberling
Prop
City of
Fort Wayne
Star Restaurant
West Main St
Guo
H. Skanoun
Prop'r
Webster’s
Adee AG
Atheis New
Bof Tha Tim Banca
Watno
Gap
OG. & C. Merriam Co. Publishers
Springfeld, Mass
Bank OF Fremont
Fremont, Indiana
Gao
F. Hac
Newt. G. Hart
Cahier
Doesa Genere
Giveg
Paywest
Scientific Americas Agency
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