The Catacombes Rome Catacombs A Vatican History
The Roman catacombs are vast subterranean networks outside Rome used as refuges and worship sites from early Christianity through the sixth century. They include galleries, loculi, arcisolia, cubicula, and larger chapels, with later churches built above their entrances, such as St Peters over the Vatican cemetery and St Agnes over hers.
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St. Sebastian
Appian Way
Catacundas
Peter
Paul
Rome
Aurelian Wall
Servius Tullius
St. Lorenzo Torilé Mura
Constantine
St. Peters’s
Vatican
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St. Hypolitus
St. Cyriaca
St. Agnes
Catacomb
Virgin Martyr
The Girl on High Street and the Dreaming Bowing Stranger
A 17 year old girl washing steps on High street is cheered by a passerby who imagines her future as an opera star. He predicts she will be discovered and sing in major houses, promising lavish earnings while she dismisses the chance, declaring she won’t scrub steps for those with little means.
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High Street
Weill
Toledo
New York
Italy
Mille, Pinoni
Dolly Chophouse and Tarleton’s Castle Link Found
A historic London hostelry once named Dolly’s Chophouse traced to Dolly the Castle Inn cook, linked to Richard Tarleton and Shakespeare. The Elizabethan era coffee room survived to Queen Anne’s period, with queenly likeness in a stained window. Parts of Tarleton’s castle remained until 1922 when fires ended the site, yielding Dolly’s as a bridge to literary and editorial circles.
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London
Dolly
Castle Inn
Richard Tarleton
Queen Elizabeth
William Shakespeare
Gainsborough
Queen Anne
Hames
Tarleton’s Castle
Dolly’s
Elizibethan
Calf Rearing and Farm Advice From an Early Almanac
Agriculture tips emphasize milk as essential for calf growth from days old, with stable housing, clean feed, and gradual pasture use to build robust calves by October. Weed control via salt for sorrel, peanut planting guidance, mildew remedies for grapes, flax as a versatile crop, composting leaf instructions, and sunflowers for shade and air purification.
Last slivers of Idaho lava chasms feature in scenery
The piece describes Idaho's dark rocky chasms where creeks vanish into lava tubes formed by cooling lava. Rivers burst from basalt walls high above the Snake River, plunging as cataracts into torrents below. The origins and ultimate fate of these streams are unclear, though thought to lie far north. Lava conduits trap and retain unmelted sea masses within their walls.
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Idaho
Snake
Homemade lemon pies and veal salad guide from a period cookbook
A vintage cooking snippet outlines lemon pie filling with a single lemon seventeen tablespoons of sugar and three eggs, plus meringue topping and crust. It compares veal salad preparation, warns against flavor loss from improvised broths, and lists various dessert ideas and kitchen notes in a recipe style.
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Massachusetts
PUI Faking Extra Pill Intake of Sam Jessups in 19th Century
An astonishing tale recounts Sam uel Jessups a Heckington grazier who died June 17 1817 at 85 after consuming vast amounts of pills. Over twenty one years he took 226924 pills from Bottesford apothecary at up to 78 pills daily in later years along with 41000 bottles of mixtures and electuaries.
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Samuel Jessups
Heckington
England
Bottesford
Humorous Ventures and Advertisements in a Nineteenth Century Column
A lively miscellany of jokes and quips about churchgoers mishearing bell chimes, a blunt boot fitting remark, grand hotel promotions in New York, and witty asides on bull meditations, choir rehearsals, and a famed organ maker. It also touts Sarsaparilla cures, farm tools, butter color, and novelty humor about bullfights, apples on signs, and a circular saw’s origins.
Night sweata and odd remedies flood old column
A scrambled 19th century column mocks medical cures and social chatter. The piece mentions Welly Health Renewer Night sweata with fever and headache, a sly remark about Sulletn, and jokes over fashion and waxed silk cloaks. It also features rough humor about medicines and an odd smoking cure for ham and other quips.
Elgin Man Tries Train Ride Scam Across Forty Miles
An Elgin dairyman schemes to ride a Chicago to Elgin train on a $1.10 ticket, intends to be ejected for damages, but the conductor pockets the ticket and allows no ride back. The episode, laced with quips and a string of anecdotes, reflects a pull of oddities and local humor from the era.
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Ax Tigin
Northwestern Railway Company
Elgin
Chicago
Higin
Emient
Scarvely
Wells Street
Cruel Torture Cases in Tantah Desert Prison
An anonymous telegram reported 75 prisoners tortured to death in Tantah jail, with two dead. Dr. Crooksbank found open wounds and sores. many had thumb-screw marks and signs of suspension. Rogers Bey led an inquiry, accusing the mudir of fabricating confessions after torturing 77 men. Two died. later, 29 more were mistreated in another case. Innocence appeared to be proven by release, yet many were not tried. The Kourbash had been officially banned, but cruelties persisted. The mudirs faced governance changes as central power clashed with local authority.
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Oliver
Egypt
Tantah
Crooksbank
Rogers Bey
Mudic
Sams Madir
Lord Dufferin
Eastern
Soudan
China Opens Railways to Western Influence
The article notes a shift in Chinese policy toward Western contact, aided by treaties with the United States and Europe. It highlights Li Hung Chang’s liberal statecraft and belief that foreign control may be needed for rail projects, signaling a broad opening of the empire to Western civilization and potential Christian missionary access. It also describes Professor Ewart’s fish spawning method and a quirky quote about class status, ending with a note on a mother allegedly curing her child’s smoking by laying on of hands.
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United States
China
Li Hung Chang
Winnebago Indians at Black River Falls A Pay Day Spectacle
At Black River Falls Wisconsin about a thousand Winnebago Indians attend the government annuity payment. Each person draws around sixty dollars and spends eagerly on whisky, lemon extract and other items. The scene includes dances, races and games led by Winneshick the titular chief.
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Black River Falls
Wis
California
Winneshick
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