Night Before Surrender The Lee Longstreet Tent Scene
Major Rawson recounts General Lee and General Longstreet in a rain soaked tent the night before surrender. Lee debates a last strike, while Longstreet warns of wasted lives. Rawson, exhausted, is sent to rest as dawn brings no attack and the Confederate fight ends.
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Rawson
Lee
Mana RL HL Transon
Harper's Magazine
Major Ranson
General Longstreet
General Lee
Lea
The Art of Embalming in Ancient Egypt
The piece notes that modern embalmers have not recaptured the ancient Egyptian craft. It explains mummies from 8000 or 4000 years ago remain perfectly preserved and links embalming to a religious belief that the soul would return to the body after death.
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New York American
The Lovely Cheese Debate at the Shop
A polite salesman and a boarding school tone clash over language. A girl asks for good cheese and the salesman defends using lovely only for living things. She changes her wording. he insists on sticking with lovely for cheese.
Humble Wisdom After Losses, A London Tit-Bits Quip
A clipped exchange notes a blunt response from Little Man and a calm denial from Big Man about informing Mr. Walker. The line suggests Mr. Walker may not want disclosure, paired with a Franklin ditty about men growing humbler and wiser after crosses and losses.
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Pfranklin
Five Years In the Sudan Describes a Flogging Rite
The excerpt recounts a Sudan village rite where a young man seeks the title of uckou binat by enduring twenty five whip blows from a chosen fighter. The ceremony unfolds with drums and applause as the participant, stripped to the waist, endures each stroke, remaining stoic while spectators judge his courage.
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Sudan
Edward Pothergil
Uckou Binat
The Deer Hunt Wager Between Bruce and St Clair
The Dog Lovers Book recalls the tale of King Robert Bruce and Sir William St Clair staking their heads on a hunt for a white deer on Pentland hills. Hounds Help and Hold pursued the deer then forced it back at the brook, and the animal was killed within the agreed boundary.
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William St. Clair
Robert Bruce
Edwin Noble
Roslin Chapel
Pentland Hills
Pentland Brook
Bruce
Pentland Moor
Sir William
St. Clair
German Titles and Witty Self Descriptions
A London Chronicle note contrasts German and English title conventions. It cites a German sender calling herself a wife of a razorblade works manager and another card naming her as widow of a national debt office official.
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London
National Debt Office
London Chronicle
Envy and excess in a wry exchange over affliction
A thin man envies a very fat man who jokes about stomach ache. They swap quips on suffering and wealth, with a jab about a supposed young millionaire buying an airship before bankruptcy. The banter echoes cynical humor from a New York Journal snippet.
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New York Journal
Poetry’s Power Illuminates Voice Across Ages
A compact aphoristic reflection on poetry as the supreme form of expression. The text links poetry to clarity and impact, noting enduring value across time and human conflict, attributed to the quotation style of Arnold and Hillard.
Graft in Persia Explains Persian Criminology
Leon Medemix of the New York World details Persian graft and coercive methods used by governors and their deputies to extract money. He explains the system from official salaries to fines and taxes, the use of underlings to surface debts, and the brutal interrogation practices including the bastinado and head punishment to force confessions.
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Motherland
Persia
Cook
Officer of Justice
Criminology
Fnl
Leon Medemix
New York World
Community Organization Meeting Schedule in Lititz
Local groups including Littiz Lodge No 253 K of P and I O O F meet weekly in Rudy's Hall and Garfield Castle with others such as Morning Star Temple Ladies of GKE and Washington Camp PCOA holding regular sessions in local halls. Borough and school boards convene monthly in council chambers and high school buildings.
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Littz Lodge
KX. of
Thorney
Rudy’s Hall
le Lititz Lodge
Rudy's Hall
Garfield Castle
K. GE
Morning Star Temple
Ladies of the G. KE
Udy's Hall
Washington Camp
P. C
Rothsville
Swan Hotel
Py - Stevens Post
Brobst’s
M. Lititz Springs Council
Lititz
Council Chamber
Lititz Hose Company
Orange Street
Warwick School Board
Warwick House
Lititz Agricultural Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Y. M. C. A. Heems
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Loyal Temperance Legion
OM Court Lititz
F. of A
Rudy's Hal
High Grade Goods on Hand for Customer Satisfaction
We offer a large stock of coal in all sizes from Company Coal-Hard to Soft, lumber varieties, durable slate, top plaster blends, pewter sand, roofing materials including Granite and Monarch, various salts, and high grade phosphate by Griffith and Boyd.
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Victor
Lancaster and Lititz Bus Schedules Across Week and Stops
Lancaster Lititz and nearby towns operate a shared bus schedule with first departures at 5 A M from Lancaster and 5 45 A M from Lititz, continuing hourly until late evening with additional fluctuations on Saturdays and busy days. Sunday services start earlier with Lancaster at 7 A M and Lititz at 8 15 A M, and a separate Lancaster Petersburg Manheim route runs on a similar cadence including late night and weekend adjustments.
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Lancaster
Lititz
Lancaster At & A
Petersburg
Manheim
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W. D. Fichthorn Ranch
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Hiram Holtzhouse Stead
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Frank Kline, M.D
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Rade Hark
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Lancaster’s Best Jewelry Store
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M. M. Souders Electrical Contractor
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