Normal Breathing Promotes Proper Development And Health
An article argues that nasal breathing is essential for general health and development. It differentiates mouth breathers into two classes, advocates nasal exercises, avoidance of douches, and a regimen to restore nasal patency, including breathing drills and a mouth guard at night. It emphasizes teaching children to breathe through the nose from infancy to prevent chronic respiratory issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leland
Professor Politzer
Mt. Ayr Opera House
One of Our Boys General Lee Helps a Troubled Soldier
In Lexington, General Robert E. Lee pauses with friends when a dusty, ill clothed man asks at the gate. Lee gives money, calling him “one of our boys in trouble” and revealing the man fought for the other side. The scene underscores Lee’s charitable spirit despite poverty.
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Robert E. Lee
Lexington
Lee
General Lee
Proper Stair Climbing for Daily Fitness
The article urges women to treat stair climbing as real exercise only when fit and not a cause of debility. It explains how correct posture, straight spine, knee-driven motion, and deep breathing prevent panting and ensure benefits rather than drudgery for daily household duties.
The Ants and the Elephant
Eyewitnesses describe ant marches that clear obstacles by passing through or over them. The army advances in straight lines and consumes all in its path, leaving only bones behind. An anecdote notes a failed obstruction by an elephant eight hours to pass, after which only skeletal remains remained.
Beaconsfield and Lord Bury Catholic Conversion
In Magnell's Beaconsfield biography a scene shows Lord Bury later Earl of Albemarle confessing to Disraeli over his conversion to Catholicism. Disraeli remarks on the timing as politically convenient and notes a relative has also become Catholic, prompting awkward congratulations.
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Disraeli
Lord Bury
Earl of
Magnell
Beaconsfield
Cakes as Love Letters and Elopement Customs
The passage describes Hungarian gypsies baking cakes with coins to test a woman's acceptance. If she consumes the coined cake and keeps it, the courtship is favorable. if she rejects the coin, the lover faces fatal consequences. It also notes desert nomads in Arabia where a suitor approaches a resisting girl, and her forced submission to her father determines marriage, with lifelong disgrace otherwise.
Curb the Temper in Moral Character Analysis
The essay discusses ill temper as a vice of virtuous people. It notes keen, nearly perfect individuals with a touchy disposition and the paradox of high moral character coexisting with quick temper. The piece flags this as a troubling ethical issue.
A Guess at It. Teacher and Tommy Exchange
A Chicago Tribune caption shows a classroom moment with a teacher asking about parts of speech and Tommy stammering in response. The humorous exchange highlights language basics in a light, human vignette.
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Tommy
Chicago Tribune
Why Women Take a Husband’s Name in Marriage
In this reflective column a witty voice questions gender norms why a wife adopts her spouse’s surname and what it implies about property ownership identity and marriage expectations in traditional society.
Sulphur Spring Visitor Complains of Odd Taste
At Sulphur Spring a visitor remarks the water tastes like rotten eggs while a servitor replies he does not know and says he is not an actor.
Brvho Pauses in Honest Rants
The fragment mentions a man named Brvho who pauses during his honesty rants and includes a closing remark attributed to Martyn. The text is fragmented and lacks clear context or a defined event.
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Martyn
The Quality of Genius and its Limits Across Careers
In Notes and Queries a meditation on how great minds span genres. The essay argues great genius rarely spans two distinct fields such as law and poetry, politics and literature, or statesmanship and war. It notes exceptions like Sheridan but treats them as uncommon.
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Shakespeare
Bacon
Walter Scott
Thackeray
Hoffman
Chateaubriand
Lamartine
Julius Cesar
Napoleon Bonaparte
Horace
Sheridan
Steps That Betray Through Movement Cues
The passage links walking styles to inner states from energy to mystery. Quick steps show agitation while tiptoeing hints at curiosity. Slow measured strides reflect reflection. anxious, nervous steps signal hesitation or indecision.
Gumming The Stamps At 80 Degrees And 29 Gravity
The article details tight controls in stamp gumming. Workers receive 1000 sheets and twenty six pounds of gum daily, must apply evenly. The process uses precise measurements, temperature 80 degrees, gravity 29, and constant supervision to ensure uniform gum distribution across sheets.
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New York Tribune
Telegrapher Pianists and the Strain of Keys
Telegraph operators note that long years at the key dull their finger and forearm flexibility, making piano playing hard. Many men love music and own pianos but the urge to use the sending finger persists, hindering even modest piano skills.
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Chicago Tribune
Box Office Superstition Hidden in Opening Night
A newspaper man recalls a box office superstition at a popular theater on opening night. The first customer requests four seats and is told they are free due to a superstition about the buyer being cross eyed. The teller explains they avoided selling to that patron to prevent bad luck for the engagement.
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New York Times
Wasco’s Note On Wasps In Nicaragua Chapter
In Naturalist In Nicaragua Wasco describes two wasp attack styles. One crawls along hair to reach skin before stinging, the other flies straight at the face. He suggests the latter’s head-on attack arose from brain-driven discovery of the face as a vulnerable target.
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Wasco
Belt
Nicaragua
Straita
Malay Peninsula
Clark Street
Asia
New York
Texas
Thomas
Chicago Tribune
Art Treasures Secondhand Value Defined
In the Washington Star exchange, a definition emerges that an art treasure gains value mainly because it is secondhand. The dialogue highlights how perceived rarity and prior ownership raise worth in art items.
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Washington Star
Saw His Finish Excerpt Ends With Tongue Joke
An exchange quotes Mrs. Nagegs crying I’ve bitten off the end of my tongue and Naggs retorting there will be no end to your tongue. The Buffalo News presents this humorous snippet as a light moment.
A Hardware Talk
A playful exchange features a nut and a nail as the nut laments parting from the nail. The joke hinges on puns about wrenching and bolts, reflecting a lighthearted domestic humor tone.
Sweet Simplicity in a Church Pew Exchange
A humorous conversation centers on Bertie Wilson smiling at the speaker during a church service. The aunt questions the propriety while the child notes Bertie sat behind them, prompting reflections on decorum and seating.
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Bertie Wilson
Etiquette by Precedent in the Lord Chamberlain's Office
In London the lord chamberlain's office holds quiet rooms where experts in state etiquette study heavy volumes and historic court dress. They track royal functions and prepare detailed pictures of costumes for events such as arrivals of Persian, German, Siamese royalty, or marriages of royal princesses.
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Lord Chamberlin
London
Persia
Siam
Lord Chamberlain
A Carious Clock in Zurich Watch Shop
An item from London Globe describes a remarkable ball shaped timepiece in a Zurich watch establishment. The ball slides down a sixteen inch inclined plane over twenty four hours without rolling or spring and is lifted to the top to restart. The mechanism powers the hands by sliding motion along the incline, requiring no winding.
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Zurich
London Globe
Before Marriage. Foddy-There would be fewer unhappy marriages
A Bevton Transcript Q&A joke exchange notes that truthful discovery of character during courtship would reduce unhappy marriages and possibly all marriages, as Dad and daughter discuss manners of deceiving or learning an intended spouse.
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Daddy
In the Dark Corner of the Piazza
A fragment shows a playful exchange about a kiss in a dark piazza corner. The dialogue hints at astonishment and a lighthearted Chicago tone through quoted lines and a poetical caption.
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Chicago
Do Right Now Moral Prelude Warns Against Delays
A quotation notes that gospel truth reduces to doing right now with daily resolve. It observes a boy who begins the morning determined to behave typically avoids punishment by night, implying immediate ethical action leads to better conduct.
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Charles Dudley Warner
The Gift and Disposal of Poetry
A speaker argues poetry is born not learned, a gift inherent to a person. The act of creating poetry is a personal birthright, while the ending of it rests with the poet’s choices and discretion as experienced over time.
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Beaver
Indian carpenters urged to improve tools and methods
Cassier's Magazine notes that Indian carpenters neglect accurate measurement and tool efficiency, waste time, and buy incomplete outfits. Emphasizes teaching to craft labor saving tools, proper grinding and whetting, and precise sizing to produce consistent work.
Aphorisms on virtue and justice from historic writers
A collection of brief moral maxims by Bulwer Cowper Dibbes Young Plutarch Locke and Sydney Smith. It highlights how joy conscience gratitude kindness and fair treatment shape character and social perception. An inquisitive mind seeks guidance while justice requires clear consequences to be understood.
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Cowper
Dibbes
Plutarch
Locke
Steele
Sydney Smith
The Young Writer Faces Mighty Opponents
A Harper's Magazine note likens young writers to novice artists facing veteran masters. It urges modesty without dampening ardent ambition, noting that great authors began unseen before revealing mastery.
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Nile
Harper’s Magazine
Thief Hidden Diamonds While Under Police Watch
A Clerkenwell burglar concealed two diamond rings during a police search and passed one to his wife in the cell. The rings were kept under his tongue and later exchanged as he kissed her goodbye. This display of cleverness occurred under the very eyes of the law, with similar past incidents noted in courts at Birmingham and a magistrate's court.
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Birmingham
Clerkenwell
London
A Seating Lesson in Cleveland Quip on Proposals
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt shows a playful exchange where one speaker teases another about a marriage proposal. The other replies with mock bravado, ending with a humorous confession of acceptance.
Buds Stir Society Interest in Roddie
A dialogue notes that young society people called buds are showing interest in Roddie, as mentioned in a Philadelphia Ledger piece. The exchange hints at social intrigue among fashionable circles.
Safest air ship claim sparks debate
Parker and Sharpe claim to have invented the safest air ship ever heard of. Whealton objects noting it refused to fly and could not lift off, yet the inventor insists the design proves safety above all.
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Sharpe
Parker
Whealton
Mephisto Star Lewis Morrison Presents Faust Premiere
Internationally famed actor Lewis Morrison returns with a new spectacular version of Faust to be staged here in a few weeks. He will hypnotize audiences into the tragedy of Faust and Marguerite and perform Mephisto for the last time.
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Lewis Morrison
Mephisto
Faust
Marguerite
Lavative Bromo Quinine Tablets Sold With Groves Signature
An advertisement promotes Lavative Bromo Quinine Tablets with F. W. Groves’ signature on each box and a 25 cent price with a refund if not curing, suggesting a one day coupon or pharmacy sale.
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Ruggiste
F. W. Groves
Jingles and Jests in a Chicago Rerun
A satirical poem from the Chicago Record-Herald mocks scoffers at a fat pig in a trough. The verse urges lessons against pride and meddling, highlighting playful caricature and social humor of the era.
Bargain remark sparks spat in Philadelphia moment
During a brief dispute a man and woman trade lines about a past proposal. The man notes she accepted quickly, while she replies she was merely a woman and he seemed cheap. The exchange reflects domestic tension cited by the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Nursery Rhyme Verse Corrupts Classic Lines
A Chicago Record-Herald item presents spoof nursery rhymes with altered lines. It parodies Jack and Jill Mary Had a Little Lamb and other familiar verses, noting odd details like gold fleece and magical touches.
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Mary
Chicago Record-Herald
Success She And What Would You Call A Successful Poet
A witty exchange defines success for a poet as leaving enough money to bury him, a quip attributed to a judge. The remark echoes themes of art and practicality in a concise historical aside.
Short Moral Truths In Geometry
A succinct musing declaring that a straight line is the shortest path both in geometry and in morals, reflecting on alignment between ethical conduct and geometric principle.
Grandmother Confronts Boy Over Swimming Privileges
Thomas argues with his grandmother about disobeying and going swimming. He insists she did not explicitly forbid them, while she recalls telling the boys not to swim. The exchange centers on whether her warning applied to their activity.
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Thomas
Infamy recalls an Irishman’s tirade at a bookshop
Years ago an excited Irishman bought the Irish Melodies for a shilling at a secondhand shop. He turned to the bookseller and declared with passion that he could kill for selling these immortal gems so cheaply.
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Athenwum
The Difference In Slang From The Boston Journal
A cultured young woman condemns slang as vulgar. Miss Cayenne notes darker sides of slang until it gains sanction in smart society. The exchange highlights evolving language norms in elite circles.
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Miss Cayenne
Boston Journal
A Model Cook Delights Bride and Critics Alike
The Chicago Post recalls a witty exchange about cooking between a bride and a model cook. The bride praises the cook as splendid while noting the cook bears blame for failures and shares credit for successes.
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Chicago Post
Clara’s Husband Left Her Comfort, Not a Second Husband
In Life magazine style, the note asks if Clara’s husband left her enough to live on after his death. It concludes he left enough to be comfortable but not enough to support a new marriage, suggesting financial restraints for remarriage.
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Clara
Belle
Art as Man's Work Under Guidance of a Higher Power
A quotation attributes art to human effort guided by a mightier power, phrased as a reflective maxim. The line emphasizes inspiration shaping creative work beyond solo skill.
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Hare
Fourth Bank to Open at Harlan
The report states a fourth bank is planned to be established in Harlan, signaling expansion in the town's financial services sector. Local officials approve the project and anticipate new jobs and increased lending activity in the region.
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Harlan
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