Fragmentary note on religious and moral reflections
A garbled historical OCR fragment discusses belief, devotion, and community morals. It references a Bible, church, and city life, with unclear notes on personal faith and guidance. The text is too damaged for precise interpretation but conveys a theme of duty, love, and supporting others.
Fragmentary note on a fatal harm event at a church
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a fatal harm incident at a church. It is unclear who caused the incident or the exact sequence of events due to illegible text.
Fragmented OCR text on a woman and a man in prayer
A garbled excerpt mentions a woman and a man in uncertain context with references to heaven and a bounce or buoyant action. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR text and lack of identifiable names or places.
Fragmentary note on a dog and a snowy scene
A fragmented text describes a dog at a home barking as night or winter conditions unfold. Details are unclear due to OCR breakdown, but imply a dog reacting to surroundings near a dwelling during snow with a brief, reporting voice.
Woman with Three Roles in German Carnival Ball
In a Leipsic Arion ball scene Heinrich Martersteig chases a mysterious woman in black and silver while his cousin Louisa frets at a competing romance. A jealous scene unfolds as Minna guides Heinrich to box 31 where a sobbing woman in gray domino clings to him, drawing a tense, conflicted response from Martersteig and onlookers.
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Martersteig
Hein- Goerwitz
Junkermann
Minna
Sorsteig
Hein
Goerwitz
Munich
Frankfort
Kiel
Sehoulder
Heinrich
Louisa
Heingareio Fll
Gasin
Isa
Rich
Marters
Herr Marter
Fraulein Niemeyer
Fraulein Nie
Hoboken
Philolog
Hotelskhauer
Gambrinus
Box 31
Mraulein Minna
Herr Martersteig
Poe
Gambrinus Shrine
Domino
Miss Pollard Farms Solo On 320 Acres In Minnesota
Miss Sarah M Pollard has farmed near Dugdale Polk County Minnesota for nine years, managing 160 acres solo except during harvest. She wears bloomers with short trousers while plowing sowing and harrowing. She bought a quarter section after visiting a brother and has recently acquired another 160 acres adjoining. She calls herself simply a farmer and credits hard work and business discipline for her success. She questions whether a magazine should publish Lillian Russell on Has Lands that have helped me.
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Sarah M. Pollard
Dugdale
Polk County
Minn
Minnesota
Bush Massacre Compared to Custer Debacle in Africa
The piece compares Captain Wilson’s force to General Custer’s fate in the Yellowstone, noting ambush, entrapment, and hand to hand fighting by King Lobengula’s Matabele warriors. It describes the pursuit, collapse of retreat, and brutal mutilation of English troopers, and comments on the traits of the commanders and troops involved.
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Custer
Yellowstone Valley
Captain Wilson
King Lobengula
Wailson
India
Afria
How Walking-Sticks are Made in Britain
A British maker uses native beech holly ash thorn and oak for walking sticks. Timbers come sapling length with bark, then wetting and bending render them pliable. Handles are integrated parts, joints hidden by skilled work, and gas or hot sand methods fix bends for curved and carved forms.
An African Pest and the Crocodile's Threats
A historic snippet discusses crocodiles as scavengers with dangerous riverbank encounters in Africa. It recalls near misses and fatal incidents, noting tiny hatchlings along mud banks and the croc menace gripping river life, with villagers lamenting fresh victims week after week.
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Marambala
American Yankee Wit in English Courtesy Tale
Richard Grant White recounts a New England matron’s sharp reply to a British officer who complimented her English. She notes unusual advantages due to her heritage and jokes that no English missionary lived near her tribe, leaving the officer puzzled and silent.
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England
New England
Tweed
Channel
Richard Grant White
Fertilizers Promise Rich Crop With Commercial Food
A farm can be made very fertile without manure using commercial fertilizers. They supply plants with food available from start to maturity. The piece contrasts wealth and poverty with a line about a rich man and his mug at the barber shop and a poor man’s similarly.
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Tne
Lost His Whiskers at a French Restaurant Fire
Leonard Morris of Chico went to a Larkin Street French restaurant for a meal and ended up a human torch after brandy soaked whiskers met blue flame. Waiters used seltzer and a shrimp salad to extinguish the blaze. Morris avoided serious burns but strutted out singed and shaken, preferring cold food in the future.
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Leonard Morris
Chico
Larkin Street
Grove
Mr. Morris
Morris
San Francisco Chronicle
Doctor Johnsons Tenderne and the Hanna Mure story
The piece sketches Hanna Mure as a precocious poet admired by Sheridan before age 25, and notes Dr Johnson as her stern yet tender friend. It recalls his rigor over Fielding Smollett and Jansenist praise, then his emotional restraint and blessing to follow true piety. The anecdote illustrates Johnson as harsh yet deeply humane.
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Fielding
Smollet
Richardson
Johnson
Hypnosis Questioned at Kansas State Insane Asylum
Dr S C McCarry new superintendent begins hypnotic experiments on patients at the Kansas State Insane Asylum assisted by Dr Flint. Tests show only two patients showed any susceptibility, and those were slight. Flint claims the insane cannot be hypnotized and that hypnotic power cannot affect incurables. Only minds slightly affected respond.
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S. C. McCarry
Kansas State Insane Asylum
Flint
Was Homer a Plagiarist Ancient Critics Question
Ancient critics accused Homer of plagiarism. Naucrates claimed Homer stole from a prior poem. Syagrus cited a poem on the siege of Troy that preceded Homer. Suidas states Homer drew his best passages from Corrinous’s poem on the same subject.
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Homer
Naucrates
Kian
Syagrus
Troy
Suidas
Corrinous
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