Parral and Durango Reveals Mexico Gold and War Histories
A National Geographic bulletin highlights Parral Mexico as a center of Francisco Villa operations near silver and gold mines, detailing La Iglesia de la Virgen del Rayo, native miners wealth, a millionaire mine owner, and Parral’s historic role in the Durango mining region with Durango city climate and notable local customs. It notes Durango’s rich resources, forests, cattle, and the Nile of Durango Nazas river with spring floods turning land to bloom.
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Arral
Mexico
General Pershing
Republic
Aragon
Castile
Francisco Villa
National Geographic Society
Parral
Sierra de la Cruz
Parra
Minas Nuevas
Santa Barbara
United States
Europe
la Iglesia de la Virgen del Rayo
la Pamilla
Little Palm
Alaska
Chihuahua
Coahuila
Sonora
Yeaxas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Colorado
Durango
Nazas
Lake Habas
Egypt
Sunshine
Ibarra
Pedro Menendez de Aviles
St. Augustine
Mercado
Paradise
Santiago de Papasquiero
Spain
Magistrate Guillot’s Trick Reveals Guilty and Innocent
Le Cri de Paris recounts Adolphe Guillot a noted institute member and criminologist using a pen drop test. He believed criminals show obsequious politeness by reaching for a dropped pen while the innocent leave it. The method aimed to reveal guilt through small reflex choices during examination.
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Monsieur Adolphe Guillot
Institute
Cri de
Paris
Women shine in arts and high rank among performers
The article elevates women in dance, musical reproduction of great composers, and stage acting of classic dramatists, praising their high and even highest rank before noting a shift beyond mere statement of merit.
Odd Dog Deal Stirs Auction Room
A seller tried to peddle a dog described as a handy legged brute with motor car stopping bite. The old lady and the fancier argued over value until she asked if the dog could bite. The fancier answered that its meat would be for tramps and a deal was struck.
Women in Literature Compared with Great Masters
The passage argues that in fiction women like Chaminade, George Eliot, Jane Austen and others rival the great male writers, while in other arts the same esteem does not apply. It contrasts fiction with other creative arts and mentions figures such as Beethoven, Shakespeare and Michelangelo.
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George Eliot
Jane Austen
George Sand
Madame de Stael
Navarre
Scott
Dickens
Hugo
Cervantes
Boccaccio
Dinner Compliment Sparked Dry Family Joke
Father brings home a bachelor guest to dinner. Mother cooks with care. After the meal the guest praises it as the best he has had in a long time. Little Willie adds that it is the best they have had too.
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Little Willie
From Our New Dictionary P S
A satirical list redefines common terms with sharp, gendered witticisms. It mocks domestic roles and social expectations by pairing everyday words with humorous, often pointed definitions.
The Kitchen Cabinet Wisdom on Self Discipline and Efficiency
A column reflects on success through low competition, ready giving, and efficient effort. It contrasts great minds with those who merely wish, urging purposeful action.
Health Advice From A Grim Joke Verse
A biting quatrain style jokey admonition mocks medical wisdom with absurd remedies and dangerous notions. It riffs on toe removal, carpet cures, sandpaper for complexion, drunkenness aiding police diagnosis and extreme procedures, satirizing medical authority. Judge.
From the Pencil's Point and Social Observations
A string of witty maxims on gender, marriage, work, and public life. The piece lampoons promises, meddling, strikes, dieting, and widowhood with humorous generalizations and pointed quips. It reflects a period voice and social commentary style.
Household Cookery From Garden to Table Dishes
A vintage guide shares practical steps for growing cabbage and preparing dishes like Stuffed Cabbage Fried Cauliflower and Pumpkin Souffle. It details sowing timing, storage, and kitchen methods including butter sauces and browning breadcrumbs.
Lemon Desserts and Uses in Old Recipes
The text discusses lemons as a versatile fruit with antiscorbutic value, flavoring various dishes, and aiding seasickness. It provides two lemon pie recipes, Queen of Lemon Pie and a meringue variant, detailing crusts, fillings, and baking steps.
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Thompson
Anon Quote on Laughter and Wishes
A reflective line recalling that the most lost day is one without laughter and wishes, attributed to Anon.
Quote about happiness from R L Stevenson
A reflective line on happiness notes that joy brings unseen benefits to the world and to ourselves, suggesting happiness yields value beyond perception. The aphorism attributes these unseen gains to the act of happiness itself and to Stevenson’s insight.
Wise and Otherwise Observations and aphorisms
A collection of maxims on human behavior and advice. The pieces explore prudence, pride, and practical wisdom in social and personal dealings with notable humor and caution.
Expert Performances Amid Shifting Fates
A compact list of dynamic actions and challenges spanning sport, science, and social life. The verses sketch bold efforts to conquer fate, pace trends, and disrupt established order through decisive acts and daring risk taking.
Hamburg Luncheon Dish and Veal Pot Roast and Salmon Loaf
The article outlines three main dish recipes: Hamburg Luncheon Dish mixing salt pepper and ham burg steak with bacon potatoes and soup. Pot Roast of Veal browning veal with suet then stewing with tomatoes carrots stock and Worcester sauce. Salmon Loaf combining shredded salmon eggs yolks crumbs butter and stiff egg whites baked until firm.
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Hamburg
Fish Dishes: Balls and Black Bass Baked
Remove skin and bones from a three pound fish then shred it fine. Mix with water onion crumbs sugar salt pepper egg whites and melted butter, shape into balls, simmer in onion butter liquor, thicken yolks with egg, pour over balls. Bake three pound bass on brown paper with butter salt and pepper eight minutes per pound. Bananas fried with lemon accompany fish.
Brief Decisions From A Judge On Everyday Law
A humorous judge weighs common sayings on money, fashion, eugenics, and advice. He notes that a man who pays as he goes is a rising figure, and a lawyer’s skill is needed to extract someone from trouble. The piece blends wit with legal insight.
Hits and Misses on Charity and Bargains
A reflective column notes skepticism about charitable giving and the church’s emphasis on collections. It mocks worldly ministers and notes many lack Bible certainty yet trust Alma nac. It observes how women readily spend on bargains, framing thrift and faith as intertwined in daily life.
Weddings in Elizabethan Era Custom and Ceremony
Old service books show the bridegroom promising to take his bride for richer or poorer and for fairer or fouler. Rings were once distributed at weddings, and over £4000 worth was given away at one Elizabethan wedding. Music accompanied all weddings, with the couple escorted to and from the ceremony regardless of status.
Alma Mater Names On Campus Stirs Debate
An old janitress overhears a group discussing a $10,000 gift from a wealthy alumnus to the college. She notes pride in giving but opposes having donors’ names publicly displayed, remarking that Alma Mater herself has a name at the campus entrance.
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Alma Mater
Cleaning advice for sewing machines with alcohol
A reader recommends using alcohol rather than kerosene to clean a sewing machine. Alcohol cleans oil and dust quickly, leaves no residue on fabric, and avoids staining unlike kerosene. Use absorbent cotton with forceps to apply and keep fingers clean.
Daily Thought on Confidence and Understanding
A concise aphorism attributed to Emerson notes that the greatest success lies in confidence or perfect understanding among sincere people. It reflects a belief in trust and clarity as keys to achievement.
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Emerson
Majesty of Calmness Declares Quiet Dignity as Power
The piece extols calmness as a source of poise and majesty. It contrasts calm individuals with worriers and urges steady, sane effort without haste.
Red-Headed Greats Across History and Myth
A compact survey notes famous red-headed figures from history and legend. Julius Caesar Robert Bruce Queen Elizabeth Helen of Troy Dido Cleopatra Alexander the Great Thomas Jefferson Swinburne John Bunyan and Schiller are cited as having blazing red hair.
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Julius Caesar
Robert Bruce
Queen Elizabeth
Helen of Troy
Dido
Cleopatra
Alexander the Great
Thomas Jefferson
Albemarle County
Swinburne
John Bunyan
Pilgrim’s Progress
Schiller
Utility of Gasoline
A single gallon of gasoline will milk 300 cows, bale four tons of hay, mix 3 cubic yards of cement, move a ton truck 14 miles, plow three fifths of an acre of land, or illuminate a farmhouse for 30 hours.
Authorities name two animals as dumbest in world
Ellen Velvin an authority on zoology author of From Jungle to Zoo states there are only two absolutely dumb animals in the world the giraffe and the kangaroo
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Ellen Velvin
Basement Bargains and Caution in a Bargain Hunt
A lighthearted noted exchange about bargain hunting and value, comparing a merchant's wrinkles as trademarks and a woman drawn to bargains while warning that price tags may mislead. It uses playful tone to reflect on judgment of value versus actual quality.
What are luxuries in a world at war
The Detroit Journal argues that calling for pared down living to fund war is misguided. It defends luxury as essential to civilization and happiness, noting variety in goods fuels human joy and that economic necessity shifts from reform to wartime sacrifice. It urges abolishing war and war debts instead of erasing luxuries.
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Europe
Detroit Journal
Fire Ends Ape’s Mischief Career
Ralph Gregor’s trained monkey Ralph died after starting a fire in Gregor’s home. The creature eluded its owner during work hours, disturbed residents by peering into bedrooms, and used matches from a coat pocket to ignite a blaze that firemen contained to one room. The charred remains were found among the ruins.
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Ralph Gregor
Ralph
Jack
Gregor
York
Dispatch
Philadelphia Record
London Submerged Prophecy From Earth’s Core
A 19th century prophecy warns that in a century cities worldwide will sink into vast lava-filled chasms. Grant Allen and Oscar Frichet described an earth fissure near Cookham in the Thames valley that erupts lava, burying London and surrounding towns in a desert.
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London
Grant Allen
Thames Valley
Cookham
Merry England
Thames
Finis
Oscar Frichet
National Magazine
Manna From Bitlis Exports Under Russian Control
Bitlis, now under Russian hands, is noted for its manna exports. Science calls it a tree saccharine exudation, while locals claim it is windborne aromatic residue from Arabia. They say it lies on any plant, with greater deposits in dry years, and that Bitlis exports white and green manna derived from leaves.
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Bitlis
Arabia
Congregation Weighs Pastor and His Wife After Visit
In Escondido the Congregational church invited a visiting clergyman but first interviewed his wife. She preached, impressing the congregation who then decided to call the husband while signaling their appreciation of his wife. The note suggests such a church would be a joy to any preacher.
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Escondido
Congregational Church
Los Angeles Times
Yale Names New Librarian With Humanist Reform Afoot
The newly elected Yale librarian is praised for deep book knowledge and administrative reform. The note compares Yale favorably with other colleges where library leadership emphasizes economics over humanities.
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Yale University
Yale
Christian Science Monthly
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R. L. Stevenson
Vetere Wear Weil
Detroit
Ape
Monkey
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