Fragmented notes on laws and industry in 19th century notes
A garbled compilation mentions Alabama laws about carrying a pistol, a Beulah stake, corn husks used for tamales, and various manufacturing items. It cites Oakland California materials, asbestos, shingles, and electric meat saws with broad references to government land, forest reservations, and railroad branches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connors
Alabama
Beulah
Oakland
Cal
Indus
Pennsylvania
Poethine
Philadelphia
Proverbs and Phrases Round The World
A garbled collection of maxims and quotes from various sources with spellings and fragments. It cites Italian, Hesion, Goldsmith, Adlismith, Herodotus, Cowper, Bulwer, and Euripides among others. The text blends aphorisms on generosity, temperance, love, vanity, and passion, with several garbled phrases and misspellings.
Napoleon of Outlaws Dominates Early Montana Axis
The article recounts Henry Plummer once Nevada City marshal who became Beaver County sheriff in Montana. His gang, deputy sheriffs, and brutal campaigns terrorized towns, with murders of Jack Cleveland and George Tre, trials and acquittals, and eventual capture and execution of Plummer and accomplices. It also includes a political aside on tastes and a humorous exchange about marriage and a camera.
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Wis Ganz
Montana
Wis
U'S
Denver
Mit
Leutenants
Lear
Geo Tres
George Carhart
Tre
Lyon
Plummer
Virginia City
John A. Creighton
Lammer
George Tyes
Nevada City
Ives
Crine
Feecue
Phimmer
Quotations on Industry and Virtue From Noted Thinkers
A collage of maxims from Bovee Carlyle Martineau Buckminster Landor Shakespeare Emerson and others extols industry action honesty kindness and charitable deeds. It asserts doing over thinking and connects personal virtue to public benefit. The piece emphasizes self-improvement through practical conduct and moral courage.
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Carlyle
Martineau
Buckminster
Nother
Rochefoucauld
Ruskin
Unfamiliar Facts and Noted Medical Claims in Brief
A mix of odd figures on acre cultivation and German exports is followed by notes on a Belgian bacteriologist Dr. Leon Bertrand claiming a powerful pneumonia cure serum. He describes a bactericidal serum that dissolves and resurges starfish, with skeptical remarks on patient beliefs in baths and cures.
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Kin Ale Janeiro
Leon Bertrand
Hinus
Re Murrty -Lesiie
Incorporated Institute of Hygene
London
Fragmented Quotes on Land, Democracy, and Sea Life Reflections
The text offers a collage of remarks from various speakers including Simpson and Joyce, touching on land surveying, predestiny, politics, summer leisure, and dreamlike questions. It moves through musings on posters, charity, and the Republican party, interleaved with imagined underwater life and practical submarine living conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bilis
Simpson
Slippers and Comfort: A Conversation on Foot Ease
The excerpt features Mr. Miffington praising slippers over smoking jackets as daily comfort. He extols feet as intelligent and responsive, noting how slipping into slippers at night brings cheerful consciousness and relief after a day in hard shoes.
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Miffington
The Awkward Age and Moral Appetite for Novelty
A discussion of adolescence led by Dr. G Stanley Hall highlighting boys intense curiosity about adult topics, resistance to structure, and preference for varied experiences. Anecdotes include a Midwestern editor recounting a contrite apology published abroad and a note on Malacca beauty customs with a metal neck collar.
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G. Stanley Hall
Elis
Malacca
Counterfeit Money Threats in Circulation Highlighted
Government secret service records and the Bankers' Association warn that queer money in circulation has grown less in proportion to total supply over twenty years. Experts note counterfeiters are now “cheap skates” driven from the trade by vigilance and bank scrutiny, with two main lines of illicit work: reproducing currency and extracting precious metal from coins.
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Secret Service
Bankers’ Association
Uncle Sam
Mellallic
China
Ridicule and Dream Theories Clash in Early 20th Century Letters
Yale President Hadley laments idle rich culture amid college life, noting ridicule could spur undergraduates to industry. A witty anecdote contrasts a decadent poet's tirade with a robust novelist, while Dr. Quackenbos discusses dreams and fear at Sunapee estate.
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Hadley
Yale
New Haven
Philadelphia
Seldon
Seldon, Brown
Tntlex
Taramuari of Mexico a shy {unreadable} people of Chi huahua
The Taramuari in Chi huahua Mexico are a reclusive mountain people. They avoid towns and rely on small settlements with sentries for warning. They hunt with bows and arrows, craft violins, live simply away from luxury, and blend Catholic rites with tribal beliefs.
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Tacimuanrin
Mexico
America
Taramuaris
Chihuahua
Taramuari
English King Angered by Deafness Rumor at Royal Events
During President Fallieres visit to England rumors spread that King Edward VII was ill. The king, though healthy overall, is troubled by deafness and complained that opera prices exclude the aristocracy, preferring state functions to remain exclusive.
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President Fallieres
France
England
Edward
Covent Garden
Biarritz
Tijesty
Tetrazzini
Melba
Oh George! Thunderstorm Leaves Woman Dumb in News Narrative
The bride reads a paper noting a woman suddenly stricken dumb during a thunderstorm. Her question about her husband’s love prompts a flippant remark from George, who says any man who would not love his wife still deserves bachelorhood.
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Bren—Bailey
Cowper
Wren
Uripides
George
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Crema
Atchison Globe Sights
Jman
Toye
Amuste Eneher
Evers Dwre
Hesion
Goldsmith
Herodotus
Napoleon OF Outlaws
I. D Money
Mississippi
West Indies
West ‘Indies
Central
South America
Houston Post
Emerson
Junius
Argentinas
Germany
Joyce
Joel Chandler Harris
Remus
Transvaal
G. P. Bezukienhout
C. du Plessis
John Duncat Quackenhof
New York
New Hampshire
Dr. Quackenbos
Dreas
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