From Alpha to Omega by Eberbert Quick
A hard luck tale set in mining schemes. Bill, a narrator, recalls the Golden Fountain Mine con, a Swede Pete Peterson and widow Brady, lawyers, and a web of schemes. Key figures include Sile Wilson, Lucy, Lungy Addison, and a crooked Jackleg. Pete wins the mine in a tense, wily caper.
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Alpha
Omega
Eberbert Quick
Oklahoma
Iowa
Ufe
Golden Fountain
Pete Peterson
Brady
Sonomia
Pete
Peterson
Sile Wilson
Tangy
Sile
Lucy
Langy
Addison
Old Sile
Langer
Law Department
Missouri
Bane
Widow
Norsky
Mangan
Faller
van Gare Wistifkit Bane
Yuni
Peter Peterson
Brady Mae
Lunger
Bill
Lungy
Jackley
L Lungy
John Johnson
Peterson Vs
Leggerkin’ Bane
Paradise
Trick Jug Tale Prompted Kentucky Senator Flashback
A Pittsburgh or Philadelphia Telegraph reference recalls a Kentucky mountaineer story about a jug of whisky left at a corner grocery. The man marked the jug with the six of spades bearing his name, then returned to find another shopper had claimed the jug with the seven of spades.
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Bradley
Kentucky
Jim
Seth
Jake Howell
Philadelphia Telegraph
What Is Taste According to Burke
Burke argues taste is not a simple idea but blends primary imagination pleasure with reasoning about relations to human passions and actions. He asserts the ground work of taste is universal in the human mind through shared sensory origins and common grounds for pleasure.
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Edmund Burke
Gentle Brazilian monkey described by Humboldt
A diminutive Brazilian monkey captivates with an almost human conduct and birdlike agility. Its velvet black coat, large dark eyes, and childlike expressions inspire admiration, with Humboldt noting its capacity to weep and its innocent, intelligent smile.
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Humboldt
Harper’s Weekly
Ade recalls early struggles and selling space for dollars per mile
George Ade spoke at the Chicago Athletic Club about his hard early days. An editor asked how he sold his work and what space rates he received. Ade answered the rate was a dollar a mile, not five dollars a column.
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Lungy
Jackley
Pete
Bill
Kansas City
Denver
George Ade
Chicago Athletic Club
The Impossible Doctor Orders Unusual Shore Leave
A dialog humorously portrays a doctor who prescribes patients impossible tasks. One patient recalls the order to visit the sea shore for a month, and to leave his wife at home, prompting discussion of the doctor’s exacting expectations.
Quotations on Women and Driving Men Scene
The excerpt presents a sharp exchange about gender roles, with one line claiming women cannot drive a nail and another retort asserting women influence men as they wish. It captures a confrontational tone focusing on power dynamics between genders.
Prisoner Strikes Defender Between The Eyes
A courtroom exchange records a prisoner denying striking the defender during an argument but acknowledging he struck him between the eyes. The vivid phrasing highlights a moment of alleged violence within the dispute.
Mean of Maud
Ethel and Jack were involved in an incident where a kiss from Alice sparked tears with Maud questioning what happened and expressing disbelief. The moment centers on interpersonal tension and reaction among the trio.
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Maud
Ethel
Jack
Alice
Toy shocking coil provides kids with a harmless electrical prank
A 1918 article details building an induction coil interrupter toy. It describes parts a boy can assemble, including a carriage bolt core primary coil, magnet wire, and a bicycle taped coil assembly, plus a base, binding plates and a crank interrupter to deliver shocks to the user in a controllable, non-graphic manner.
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A. Neely Hall
Lightly used term friend exposes shallow bonds across life
The essay questions calling everyone a friend as shallow given tests of time and fortune. It contrasts surface affinities with lasting loyalty, noting many have been labeled friends only to fade away, while true friends endure through good and ill.
Luckiest Wedding Days and Ancient Superstitions
The article explores Roman and church beliefs on unlucky wedding times the calendar year. It notes May and February as unlucky months, restrictions from Advent to Trinity, a superstition that growing moon days bring happiness, and warns May 14 and Childermas Day bring misfortune, with year end weddings said to bring great misfortune.
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Alladin & Co
Virginia
The
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Jackleg
Lung
Fallar
Mr. Peterson
Liungy
Peter
Quagy
Whatreasey
Handy Boys
By A. Neely Hall
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