The Right Thing at the Right Time
Mary Marshall Duffee argues guests should leave promptly to avoid wasting a hostess's time. The piece offers guidance on timely departures during visits, illness, and when hosts are pressed for time, urging consideration of the hostess and others' duties.
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Mary Marshall Duffee
Distinguishing differ from and differ with usage
The passage explains that differ from is used for unlike things or people while differ with is used for disagreeing in opinion. It notes only thinking beings can have beliefs or opinions and gives examples with John and national policy.
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Nother
John
Worth Remembering and the ethic of shared love
A reflective piece on the value of shared joy and shared grief. It argues humans are not meant for solitude and that loving our neighbor serves both self preservation and communal help. The excerpt emphasizes mutual support as essential to well being.
Feesh Trip Plan Turned Sour in Alosta Speak
A speaker in Alosta recounts a dubious fishing trip scheme with Dwanta and a crew. They plan to use flies and a spoon to catch fish, but a conflict over how to lure and trap the catch leads to confusion and tension. The narrator questions his actions and leaves the scene.
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USA
The toy zoetrope and the birth of motion pictures
A brief history notes early devices leading to cinema. W E Lincoln patented an 1867 toy advancing moving pictures from glass plates. O B Brown followed in 1869 with projection machines. Muybridge Marey and Lumiere contributed key advances before cinema arrived in America.
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W. E. Lincoln
O. B. Brown
Muybridge
M. Marey
French Institute
Lumiere
America
Edward Hadley
Towser and Jack Puppy Doomed by Garden Birds
In a farmyard tale, Jack Puppy elicits mischief by stealing food and chasing hens and ducks. The fowl hold a meeting with Towser and Old Brown Hen to curb his antics. Jack is confronted by the birds, chased away, and learns to behave as Towser notes dogs must have their day.
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Jack
Mme. Duck
Old Towser
Towser
Rooster
Jack Puppy
Brown Hen
Drake
Old Brown Hen
A Clean Strong Way How to Win the Race
A temperance lesson discusses first Corinthians guidance on the right attitude toward idols and meat offered in sacrifice. It emphasizes loving consideration for others, self control, and doing all for the glory of God, with Christ as the example.
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EA Mary
Jesus Christ
Christ
Professor Krapp and the confused author identity tale
The excerpt recalls George Philip Krapp’s career moves to Cincinnati and later Columbia, then retells a humorous classroom moment where a freshman mistook his name for a book author. It closes with notes on France’s Kerguelen island interest and potential colony prospects focusing on fauna, fisheries, and scarce timber.
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George Philip Krapp
Columbia
University of Cincinnati
Professor Krapp
Andress and
Elene
Gwan
New York Evening Post
White Plague Dying Out Reports From N T B A
National Tuberculosis Association reports that consumption may become a rare disease in the United States. Public education and medical officers' efforts have reduced spread and deaths decline yearly, contrasting with wartime Europe’s TB surge.
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National Tuberculosis Association
United States
Europe
Popular Science Monthly
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