Liberty in history and coinage ideals across ages
An essay traces the evolution of civil liberty from ancient definitions to American ideals, citing Penn and Magna Charta, and follows the evolving symbolism of the Goddess of Liberty on U S coins. It notes Greece and Rome influences, the Phrygian liberty cap, and how American coin design reflects national identity. It closes with a light domestic humor piece about a poultice incident.
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Washington
Moses
Lawwiver
Draco
Lycurgus
Solon
Charles E. Nixon
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Blackstone
Ian
John M. Bonham
Libertus
Eleutheria
Jupiter
Juno
Tiberius Gracchus
Rome
Aventine Hill
Asia Minor
Saturnius
Marius
Sylla
Cesar
Britannia
Charles II
Barbara Villiers
Duchess of Cleveland
Evelyn
Roetier
Philadelphia Light Guards
Committee of Public Safety
Philadelphia
Liberty
America
France
United States
Church of Notre Dame
Anna L. Williams
Sfiss Liberty
Martha Washington
Germania
NEW Mint
Flaxman
Argentine
Famous Poets And Their Noted Creations
The passage recounts how poets such as Cowper Gray Bryant Wilcox Lytle Brainard Perry Poe Moore and others produced famous works under mood circumstances inspiration or during particular life moments. It notes brief origins behind John Gilpins Ride Thanatopsis The Land of Nod I Am Dying Egypt Dying The Falls of Niagara After the Mall She Bells Talla Rookh and other writings with a mix of anecdotes.
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Cowper
John Gilpin
Gray
Bryant
Ela Wheeler Wilcox
Land of Nod
Gen. Lytle
Egypt
Falls of
Niagara
J. G C. Brainard
Connecticut
Mall
Nora Perry
Poe
Baltimore
Thomas Moore
Devonshire
Dragonfly Speed Estimated At 100 Miles Per Hour
The excerpt argues insects rarely move straight and uses an Autumn roadside observation of dragonflies alongside a hawk and swallow to estimate the dragonfly's flight at about 100 miles per hour when compared with faster birds.
Sweat Secrets Of Humans And Animals Revealed
A historic report notes Gaube studying sweat from man and animals. He finds human sweat acidic unlike alkaline in cows horses and others and reports digestive ferments like pepsin amylase and hydrozymates in both human and animal perspiration. He claims man contains more of these ferments than other animals observed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth
Gaube
Cotton Prices Fall as U S Share Shrinks
Southern cotton growers face squeezed profits as world production rises to 12,000,000 bales while U S output reaches about 8,000,000. share drops from 75 percent ten years ago to about 66 percent today, undermining price and market control. A separate note touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as protection against malaria and digestive ailments.
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United States
Panama
Guatemala
Tropica
Northedge overrun by would be brides after inheritance
George M. Northedge of Chicago, newly rich by an $800000 windfall, quips that old maids and pauper widows pursue him. He scatters a bushel of setters from various women on a table and complains he may have to leave the country to escape marriage offers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George M. Northedge
Chicago
Northedge
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Ideals OF Liberty
William Penn
England
fJgherty
John
Daniel Webster
Theodore Parker
John Brown
Francis Jackson
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Martineau
Abraham Lincoln
Wendell Phillips
Platea
Jupiter Eleutherius
Pausanias
Mardonius
Aristides
Mercury
Joes
Greece
Republic
Liberty Mead
Renvboth Herald
Herald
Eddie
Louty
Dr. Harter Medicine Co
Maximilian
Historical Society of
Cairo
Maximilian I
Kemp
Lethria Cox
Bybrook
Jamaica
Craxin & Co
L’a
Dobbins
Onstinath
Hally
Pize
Tropics
Beecnam
Europe
Coloravo
the iFatermeton
Roen
Dpstur
Nerveton
Tatural
Medy Fuss
St. Vital
Fort Wa
Ind
Koenig Med. CO
Ill
Druggista
Siper
J. B. van Doren Co
Fremont
Ohio
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