The Tender Blossoms poem about tender death and gifts
A speaker describes a girl selecting only the tenderest buds to gift to a sick friend. She rejects withered blooms and torn peonies, saying the pure blossoms best express love. The poem ends with a reflection on angels and children, urging gentleness and reconciliation.
Whining Ruins Self and Undermines Courage
The article praises President Harding's stoic golf course composure and warns that whine and self-pity ruin character and prospects. It cites Moses' spies to illustrate how self-view shapes outcomes and urges facing tasks with honest heroism to become conquerors.
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Quixotic Advice for Courageous Climbing
The message urges resilience, urging the reader to view difficulties as small when faced with effort. It advocates determination over complaint, encouraging steady progress through hardship and a mindset of perseverance.
Caroline Neuber Pioneer of German Theater
Caroline Neuber born in 1692 to a strict German lawyer organized a troupe led by herself. She won royal permission to perform in Dresden and Leipzig, reformed plays with Gottsched, later quarreled with him, disbanded her troupe and died in poverty near Dresden in 1760.
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Erin's Parliament Opens in Convention in Dublin
Dublin June 29 Southern Ireland Parliament opened with only four of 128 commoners present and 15 government senators seated. No Sinn Feiner attended as Chief Justice Maloney warned that half the members must take oath in fourteen days or the assembly dissolves. The session lasted fifteen minutes.
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French Senate Ratifies Peace Treaty With Austria
The French Senate approved the peace treaty with Austria amid formal ratification steps. Separately at the Democratic National Convention, nominating speeches were delivered by party members outlining primary candidates.
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Birthdays and policy moves spark today’s headlines
Julius Andrassy and Rear Admiral William B Caperto mark birthday anniversaries while Halvor Steenerson Viscount Esher and others are noted. In Washington a House Ways and Means session eyed a permanent tariff bill. A New York proposal, the Bank of Nations with two billion dollars capital, would serve as fiscal agent for admitted governments under a Hitchcock bill.
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Derelict 30 ton schooner sighted off Galveston jetty
A flat bottomed schooner about 30 tons was sighted off the south jetties by Captain R. H. Bowden of the tanker Tamesi. The derelict was drifting about 15 miles southwest of the south jetty light.
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Mail Order Pioneering and the Myth of Mandeville’s Travels
A rich collage cites cow-puncher myths and historical fakery around the Mandeville travels. It notes Liege physician Johanns a le Barbe and questions the authenticity of cited accounts while tracing sources to William of Boldensele and Oderic's journals.
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Columbus and His Companions
Where Did Mandeville Get Facts
The piece discusses Sir John Mandeville a fourteenth century travel writer, noting his birth year 1300 and a life shrouded in mystery. It explains how his vivid accounts deceived scholars and educators, yet the sources of his facts remain unknown and some doubt his very existence.
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