Jupiter Jenkins and the red headed pupil in class
In a rural schoolroom Jupiter Jenkins disciplines the bright Geraldine Coffin who secretly nicknames him Jupiter. He schemes to mold her into a teacher while she quietly grows, impressing him with her unusual mind and defying his control. The story centers on power, ambition, and a pupil’s quiet resilience.
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Mr. Jenking
Jupiter
Geraldine Coffin
Earth
Geraldine
Jupiter Jenkins
Mr. Jenkins
Iife
Loved You Always Geraldine Jenkins Ends In Wedding
In this Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune excerpt, Jupiter Jenkins recalls his harsh schoolmaster days and admits he loved Geraldine Coffin. Geraldine, once wayward, years later earns top marks in normal school and returns to city life where Jenkins proposes. She accepts, sealing their union.
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Mr. Jenkins
Geraldine
Jupiter
St. Geraldine
Worthy
Jupiter Jenkins
Seaport
Ife
Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune
Prolific Life in Alaska by John Muir Relentless Arctic Atrue
John Muir extols Alaska as a vibrant Arctic reserve teeming with whales seals walruses white bears and vast herds of reindeer and wild sheep. He notes abundant birds including hawks eagles warblers thrushes and finches migrating from warmer regions to breed and sing across tundra and forests.
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John Muir
Atlantic
Arctic
Florida
Mexico
Central America
New
New England
Vaudevillainy Dialog Reflects Mortification and Color
An excerpt from the Cincinnati Enquirer features a vaudeville style exchange about jaundice and mortification, with a bald wigged man doubting the illness and a pea green whiskered man attributing the mortification to the Irishman’s color. It then shifts to a remark on a woman’s desire for a man to have a protector when he travels.
Ancient and modern marvels described in science notes
A compilation of observations spanning astronomy, zoology, paleontology, and communication. Topics include star magnitudes, strange fish that cannot swim, tuberculosis in goats, Irish horse skulls, Western Union’s direct Mexico City link, pendulum traces in a capitol dome, hornet spread near New York, bird wing functions, animal dermatology, mammal postures versus bats, and Devonian sharks found near Norway and Madeira.
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Ireland
Western Union Telegraph Company
New York
Mexico City
L. O. Howard
New York City
Europe
America
J. Carter Beard
Norway
Prince of Monaco
Madeira Islands
Adams and Neptune: a historic astronomical calculation
The piece recalls Adams spotting Uranus anomalies and the Berlin observer Gale turning a telescope to the predicted sky spot where Neptune appeared, sixty times Earth's size and 2.5 billion miles away, a feat described as bordering on the supernatural. It ends noting a college graduate and a church festival free lunch drawing crowds.
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Prof
Adams
Uranus
Gale
Berlin
Neptune
Pittsburg
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