Miscellaneous Notes From Mora Cribune 1893 Highlights
A summary of varied facts cites Belgium railways under government control, aging olive trees in Jerusalem and a Dijon poplar dated to 722 A D. It notes diphtheria rising in London, early rope makers as spiders, telegraph wire reels on bicycles, sword design from shark teeth, a new Hudson steamboat costing about £1,000,000, dynamite guns tested in San Francisco, and the public warning of their alarming power since inception.
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San Francisco
My Night School Teaching Triumph Amid Immigrant Pupils
A young tutor recalls teaching at a city night school to support his education. He faces rough, multilingual classes averaging older than him, manages discipline, and earns respect from hard working pupils. A year end visit prompts him to share how he learned and grew with a diverse student body.
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Meester
Eighth Street
Jack
Jane
New Year Visitors Bring Leather Desk Gift to Teacher
A group of students surprise a guest teacher with a leather desk in a mixed scene of hospitality and awkward New Year greetings. The moment includes gifts, awkward language barriers, and a staff’s quiet gratitude as the class departs, leaving the teacher touched by the gesture.
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Nodder
Substitute talisman replaces rabbit foot in sports betting
A historical piece notes gamblers and sports enthusiasts swapped the rabbit foot for a grisly lucky charm the little finger of a colored woman. After death the finger is preserved and carried in a silver case, claimed to bring luck to a prominent sporting man who had been near bankruptcy before acquiring it.
Extravagant relic worship and curious natural oddities noted
An Englishman wears a locket containing Shelley’s charred skull fragment. The water snail and echinoceococcus are described for their peculiar locomotion and grip. Princess Maud of Wales allegedly captured another heart. Elizabeth of Hungary’s rosemary Hungary water perfume spread across Europe. Critics praise American novelists' brightness but miss deeper social insight.
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Shelley
Maud of Wales
Prince Carl
Eastern Perfume Tastes and Western Taxes Mentioned
The piece notes asafoetida as a revered perfume in Persia and Afghanistan with luxury buyers carrying it. Romania is cited as the world’s highest taxed country with every foreign wine bottle taxed a shilling and whisky from stores subject to transport and other duties. It mentions a tax on female servants as well.
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Persia
Afghanistan
Roumania
Jenny Lind’s Voice Described as Bright Soprano Wonder
The account praises Jenny Lind’s voice as a bright high soprano with sympathetic quality. It notes range from D below to F above all with the upper register stronger and clearer than the lower. Large lungs allow phenomenal breath length and the ability to softly tone a note to pianissimo without losing quality.
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Jenny Lind
New Year Song Echoes Work and Play From Laura E Richards
A fragment reads a playful verse by Laura E Richards about year cycles. The New Year voice promises school and work while the echoed responses insist on play, summer fruits and bed, capturing a light poetic mood.
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Laura E. Richards
Indomitable Bedbug Insect Becomes City Feature
A columnist extols the bedbug’s persistence amid urban neglect. Despite attempts to tram, move, or burn it, the insect thrives on coal oil and sulfur, refusing to fade. Stories recount its stubborn return to hoarded quarters and its resilience across St. Louis neighborhoods.
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St. Louis
Fourteenth and
Clark Avenue
Devel
A Real Marie Louise Gown for Sale in Rome
The Empress Marie Louise wedding dress from 1804 to Napoleon I is for sale in Rome. The embroidery is famed, with no waist and embroidered silk flowers. It passed from Parma court to a church, then into private hands, and was later offered to an Austrian museum for Vienna exhibits next year.
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Marie Louise
Napoleon I
Rome
Parma
Austrian Museum For Art and Industries
Vienna
Countesy
Featherstone and Ringway Start New Year With Fire
Featherstone tells Ringway of a new fire to begin the new year. The exchange hints at a dramatic, symbolic renewal as the old man voices a single desire for change.
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Feathrstone
Ringway
Featherstone
A Daughter's Part at Home
A Harper's Round Table talk urges daughters to greet guests warmly at home and assist their mother during social hours. It emphasizes the daughter’s duty to give attention to her father and family, offering hospitality, tea duties, and cheerful affection as a daily debt repaid with love.
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Egai Re
Harper's Round Table
Dorothea Baird Chosen for Trilby Role
The English Trilby story notes Dorothea Baird, a young Oxford girl, resembles the heroine. Du Maurier selected her on the spot after a room entrance impression. Though inexperienced as an actress, she gains public approval and is a success.
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Trilby
Oxford
Dorothea Baird
Miss Baird
du Maurier
Weighing Air: Early Experiments With Compressed Gas
The article discusses testing air weight by compressing it in vessels with an air pump. It notes increased vessel weight when filled and lighter weight after exhausting the air. It cites experiments finding roughly 0.11 pounds per cubic foot for air at sea level and 50 F, with heated air or high elevations reducing density.
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Belgium
Jerusalem
Dijon
France
London Exchange
London
Sre
Keunon
Pers
Carrie Brown
North Sixth Street
Jim Hubbard
Carrie
Jim
Sydney Dayre
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Hungary
Elizabeth
Europe
Hamilton Mable
George Eliot
Universal
England
Ellen Terry
Patrick Campbell
Beerbohim Tree
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