Eating in Africa described through travel notes
The excerpt recounts Marty Hall’s observations in British Central Africa comparing African market and kitchen life to Western norms. It includes a cautionary tale about a native butcher’s notices and a feversick traveler who orders eggs boiled to a deadly miscount, ending with a humorous, perilous cooking anecdote.
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Africa
Marty Hall
Wieman
Cape
Cairo
British Central Africa
Bets to avoid if overconfident in feats
A compact discussion warns against bets on feats such as hopping fifty yards in a race, breaking a wooden match with a finger grip, crushing an egg with clasped hands, rising from a chair without moving, touching room wainscoting with both feet, and standing blindfolded for five minutes. It notes few can win when challenged by strong legs and lists several seemingly easy bets that are unlikely to succeed.
Very Different in Real Life from a Novel
The passage contrasts fiction with reality noting that in novels a rich man easily places kin in banks and sends a son to study art, returning as a great artist, while real life proves vastly different. It laments the ease of plotting wealth and talent in fiction against actual obstacles.
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Italy
Little Marie Returns from Sunday School Visit
A four year old, Marie, reports her first Sunday school visit and jokes about the next lesson. Her mother asks what to study, and Marie quips that she already knows all about the catakissin. The note captures a playful exchange from Lippincott's.
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Marie
Interest in Stax compares to busy bee storing goods
Mr Dustin Stax declares his work ethic and industrious nature while a Washington Star reporter notes the analogy. The exchange hints at a sharp pun about stings for those who try to store him.
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Dustin Stax
Busy Bee
Ife
Washington Star
Force of Haiti Captain Stutters in Wartime Jest
A London Punch quip mocks a signaling corporal as Captain Higgins is said to stutter. The report notes a blaze that destroyed four million feet of luether between Cranbrook and Wardner B. C. last week.
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Haiti
Higgins
London
Luether
Cranbrook
Wardner B. C
Daring Buccaneer Blackbeard and the 1718 Maynard duel
The account recounts Blackbeard's career and his death in 1718 during Lieutenant Maynard's punitive expedition. It describes the capture of prizes, the bitter clash at sea near Virginia, Maynard’s pistol and sword duel, Thatch's sixteen wounds, and the pirates' subsequent execution along with Israel Hands's fate.
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Allan
Atherica
Jamatea
Sisie Bunnet
Tues
Phateb
Bonnet
Bernmdas
Charles Eden
Eden
Tobias Rideht
Thatch
Virginia
Pearl
James River
Maynard
Balltown
Leutenant
Film
Bathtown
P Blackbeard
Israel Hands
Trenaeure Island
Hands
Chatch
Losdon Globe
Affable Clerk Offers Room With Bath in Quirky Exchange
An affable clerk asks if a room with a bath is desired while a man with a canvas telescope replies with a humorous mispronunciation about it being Tuesday. The exchange captures a light, era-specific tone and village whimsy.
Paritish Capitalists Invest Heavily in Prines Rupert Property
Paritish capitalists invest heavily in Prines Rupert real estate and ness enterprises, signaling strong market interest. The note frames investors as engines of development in the region while readers are urged to consider prudent growth.
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Prines Rupert Property
Ness Enterprises
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Geocerefes
I. J. Ablstt
Hamicia
L O.L
T. J. Caves, WM
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McLear
Saie
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S.c.e.b
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Orange Tall
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H. H. Jones
H. Kites
Drs. Kennedy & Kennedy Cor
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Q Griswold Sts
Betroit, Mich
Machine Works
Sports
Knights of
Pythias Hermione Lodge No, LO
Orange Hall
So'else
P.m
M.A. Whinstes
J. Rost. Beut
C. K
A. Malcolm
Ey Saes
J. Anderson, N.G
Court Hamiota No 381
J. A. Simzwaer
WM. Allshire
Jerome Junior
G. A. Warren
Western Canada Flour Mills Co
Rh Scott
C. Howden
Gatcher Alurders
Edward Thatch
Wais Keawa
Blackbeard Pirate
Baynard
Uend
Mr Pa
Joubert
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