Spanish Law Showcases Harsh Cuban Prison Case
A British sailor and two companions faced heavy punishment after a street clash in Havana. Initial Spanish verdicts gave two years but a rebuke by the British consul prompted a new trial with twenty years each. One companion died in prison of yellow fever, the survivor escaped but was recaptured, and the Englishman eventually married in Spain after long confinement.
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Consulta
Cuba
Havana
Cubao
Ceuta
The Man Who Owned the Shirt In the Orient
In a smoking room aboard a Koninklijke Paket- Vaart Maatschappij coaster on a two month voyage below the equator a man who did not laugh reveals he owns the shirt. Frederick S. Isham and others reflect on the comic line and the shared bonds among English sailors and travelers.
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Equator
Malay Peninsula
Frederick S. Isham
Baltimore American
Crow Customs And Jewels Of Jest In Native Social Code
The American Museum Journal notes Crow customs include a mother-in-law taboo forbidding talk with a wife's mother and a strict moral boundary on joking. Within the paternal clan group a man may jest with relatives about faults, provided the target awaits a chance to retaliate.
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American Museum Journal
Fissures In the Rockies Mystery Cracks Endanger Livestock
In Rocky Mountain plateaus cracks up to four feet wide and eighty feet deep form deep crevices. During fierce winter blizzards the fissures widen and cattle and horses fall in, sinking in the sunless refrigerators until death. the scene reads like a cautionary tale of rugged terrain danger.
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Rockies
Rocky Mountains
Duty to Break Underweight Coins Reported in England
A Grimsby case shows distrust of coins under weight or suspected as fake. A shopkeeper tested a half sovereign, risking loss after a court ordered repayment for accepting it. The piece notes heavy coin wear, with £70,000 yearly lost to dust from circulating gold and silver.
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England
Grimsby
Pearsons Weekly
Punctuation history from Aristophanes to Aldus Manutius
The article traces punctuation origins from Aristophanes through Charlemagne and Warpefried to Alcuin and Aldus Manutius. It notes symbols evolved in the fifteenth century and spread to printers, with early manuscripts showing letters evenly spaced and lacking linking punctuation for easy sight reading.
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Aristophanes
Charlemagne
Warpefried
Alcuin
Aldus Manutius
Strict School Rules at Kingswood College 1748
John Wesley enforced rigid rules at Kingswood school promising no holidays and strict obedience. Admissions required parental agreement to all house rules and no early removal, with no play days and Friday work until 3 pm after meals, as noted by the London Chronicle.
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John Wesley
Kingswood School
A Faith Cure at St Bartholomews Hospital
Dr Josiah Oldfield recalls a student days tale from St Bartholomew's hospital. A man with an unknown injury uses a special ointment, heals rapidly after believing in the hospital's cure. Leicester doctors are contrasted with the Bartholomew’s reputation in this London Graphic recount.
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Josiah Oldfield
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
St Bartholomew's Hospital
Leicester
St. Bartholomew's
London Graphic
Two Records In A Conversation Across The Atlantic
A New York man boasts of crossing the Atlantic twenty times to a Chicago rival. The Chicago man counters with questions about trips and many states claimed, reflecting a light exchange from the Chicago Record Herald.
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New York
Chicago
Union
Chicago Record-Herald
Scheme of duplicating love letters discussed in exchange
Fragmented notes reveal talk of duplicating sonnet love letters and clever schemes. The dialogue references a lover, a fool, and a near 80 year old exchange, with mentions of schemes and catching others.
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Kcki
Atri
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsed by Marshall Resident
Mrs J M Archer of Marshall Illinois attests Doan's Kidney Pills relieve intense back pain and abnormal kidney secretions. She reports consistent beneficial effects from use and encourages public use. Sold by all dealers priced 60 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY distributors for the United States Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
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J M Archer
Sh Street
Marshall
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Master in Chancery Sale in Clark County Illinois 1911
Public notice of a decree in the Clark County Illinois Circuit Court Chancery division. Master in Chancery Arthur Poorman will sell at public vendue on August 26, 1911 at 2 pm at the east door of the Marshall Court House the 28.75 acre tract of land in Clark County Illinois described as the east half of the southeast quarter of section 1 township 11 north range 11 west lying north of the National Road. Cash in hand day of sale.
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State of
Illiois
Clark County
John T Maloney
Malissa Maloney
Arthur Poorman
Court House
Marshall
Clark
Hingis
Illinois
Ilinois
Clark Co
W. T. Hollenbeck
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Doll Grocery
Weir & Weir, Physicians & Surgeons
Weir
L. J
W. Weir
Hi G
Hershey, Florist Telephone
the Mutual Mercantile Agency
6Th St. Marshall
Nals Marshall, Illinois, U. S. A
Opera House
R. L. Thorpe
Prop
R. A. Mitchell
Public Square
Farmers
Wabash
Eastern
Hlinois
Marshall, Ilinois
Otis
Reseta
Geri Smith
Butts
Ola
Choiy
Butte
Cole Bros
Nice
Florence
Nole
S Theresermerers
Hers Ree Sps
Hall
FS Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohin
F J Cheney & Co
Mall
Pere
Nor Buasowife
K. Henry
Roachdale
Ind
Waltham
Waltham Watcher
Altham
Waltham Water
J. A. Morton
Marshall, Ill
Munn
Scientific America
Byail Newadealers N& Go
H. M. Dewey
The
Dulaney
T. J. Golden
Harry B. Dulaney
W. P. B. Bryan
Cashier
J. R. Burnett
A. Cash
T.J. Golden E. M, Duncan
W. B. Scholfield
Edwin Booth
Europe
Orient
T. Be
Ji Also Raye
Vera Labtrace
Solnie
Hes Ebon
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