Advice to a Young Man 2 A Hard World For Easy Livings
A New York Weekly column replies to a 27 year old reader seeking an easy, well paid life without work. It rejects clerks, lawyers, doctors, and trades as overstocked, muses on machinery replacing labor, mocks clergymen and poets, and concludes there are no easy paths, even jokingly suggesting laudanum.
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Adamant
Nether Millstone
Evangelina
Frederick Augustus
New York Weekly
Democracy’s limits and dangers of party spirit
The text argues that faults in democracy arise more from excess party spirit than judgment errors. Autocracy and oligarchy have faults too, but democracy requires the people’s active participation, vigilant oversight, and distrust of surrendering votes to leaders. It warns that blind followership and selfish leaders betray the public good.
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Sir Henry Maine
Newfoundland Coast Wreckers and Ocean Life Note
An old-time note recalls Newfoundland coast wreckers using seaborne opportunities with divine aid. A Toronto anecdote cites Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s priest encounter near Cape Race. The text then mentions New York public schools averaging 635000 pupils, up 25000 from last year, and a claim that animal life exists at all ocean depths though vegetation cannot thrive under high pressure.
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Newfoundland
New York Public Schools
Goof Reason in Yonkers Statesman Cartoon Exchange
A humorous Yonkers Statesman cartoon captures Mrs. Crimsonbeak and Mr. Crimsonbeak in a dialogue about speaking on the telephone. She complains she could not hear him while he responds that he said nothing, highlighting a comic miscommunication.
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Yonkers
Such a Trifle Prompted Farewell in a Genteel Exchange
A fragment from a historical piece shows a senior patient addressing a professor with mock seriousness. The retour for politeness refuses further detail, while a Christian Advocate note hints at a deeper indebtedness or obligation implied by the exchange.
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Christian Advocate
Queen of Sheba Legend and the riddling visit
The Queen of Sheba story traces its post biblical embellishments from Jews in north Arabia to Arabs in the south and Abyssinia. It notes Solomon's wisdom, the legendary exchange of gifts, and the later paraphrases that add riddles and a grand, mythical court. The piece treats the tale as legendary history, not strict fact, and comments on the transmission of Sheba across cultures.
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Sheba
North Arabia
Mohammed
South Arabia
Red Sea
Abyssinia
Solomon
Jerusalem
Arabia
Yemen
Arabia Felix
Saba
David
Israel
Inter
Rawis
Garden of Eden
Not Reassuring Turnip Heist in Frosty Field
A farmer gathering turnips at dusk spots two men at the far end of the field digging with frantic haste. They rise and shout that they are merely prigging a few cursely. Washington Star.
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Washington Star
Margaret's Silent Husband and a Car Conductor
In Yonkers, Mrs Flatbush laments her daughter Margaret, unhappy with her husband who speaks in his sleep and remains hard to understand. The exchange notes that her husband is a car conductor, highlighting a cultural clash and language barrier.
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Mrs. Flatbush
Margaret
Mr. Flatbush
Yonkers Statesman
Lone farmer in Africa settles north of Zambesi
German pioneer H G Koch tills ground about 100 miles north of the Zambesi River in central Africa. Four years of farming with no neighbors within fifty miles, he praises soil types and climate. He settled along surveyed Cape to Cairo Railroad land, built a shack, and uses wagon supplies to farm.
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Tella
Chances
Zambesi
H. G. Koch
Zambesi River
Central Africa
Rhodesia
New York
Koch
Equator
Central America
Tie
Cape To Cairo
Nothing to Speak Of A village patient seeks help
A sickly man visits a village physician describing his wide range of remedies from dandeline and Smith's Healing Compound to Green's Sure Cure Pills. He lists pokeberry calamus mulled roots and rye mixtures, a gypsy receipt, quinine, elixir of hundred roots and bitters, and fears his progress is slow.
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Judge's Library
A Teat of Faith in Chicago Court
In a Chicago courtroom a bookmaker faced cross examination from a third assistant district attorney who pressed for a conviction. The defendant, under oath, stood firm despite sharp questioning, declaring his certainty and offering to bet a hundred dollars that his statement was true.
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Chicago
Gub
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