Drag Road Repair Promises Modern District Improvements
A guide outlines building and using a split log and plank drag to maintain clay roads with minimal cost. It stresses correct hitching, weather timing, and gradual work across sections, noting drags suit clay soils and can cut maintenance costs while improving drainage and crown over time.
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Ayres
Orton Agricltural College
Pimps Simal
D -Ward King
Missouri
Init
Ans Place
Middle West
Oregon
Ancient glass mirrors found in Austrian graveyard
Archaeologists report discovering several small glass mirrors in a Laibach graveyard, challenging the belief that ancient civilizations used only polished metal mirrors. The artifacts are dated to the second or third century.
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Laibach
Austria
Idea of Prosperity Phrase Reflects Midweek Bank Deposits
A Detroit Free Press line reflects the idea that having money to deposit midweek signals progress and a path to getting on in the world. The remark links financial access to social advancement and steady income.
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Detroit Free Press
Paternal Wisdom Coined In Humorous Exchange
A joking exchange between father and child centers on a peck of trouble. The punchline suggests a peck of trouble weighs little when carried on a tongue, highlighting family humor and wordplay about speech and consequences.
Ground floor scheme hints in judge’s remark
Judge notes that Jones joined Smith’s financial scheme for a 50 percent profit, with Sham claiming early access but finding the cellar full. The remark hints at an insider arrangement and a crowded, failing venture.
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Jones
Smith
Breeding and Form in College Notions, Kaufman Quote
The excerpt argues breeding is deeper than surface form and cannot be faked through education alone. It claims true breeding remains evident beyond appearances, and that假 assumptions fade, revealing what lies underneath.
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Herbert Kaufman
The Question How Much
The millionaire's daughter, though not notably plain, is likely to be valued at her marriage price. The piece implies social climbing and money influence affecting judgments of worth and suitability.
Perils of IEE Submarine Submerged Dangers and Lessons
The piece explains submarine hazards, comparing hull design to safer ships and using corked bottle analogies. It recounts events like the A3 accident and the 1904 Porpoise sinking, noting evolving U S Navy improvements and voluntary service recruitment for submarines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tno
Newport
Wifely Duties Exposed In Maeterlinck Wife's Decalogue
On her first visit to America Mme Georgette Lablance Maeterlinck presents a ten point guide to married life. It urges the wife to be inseparable from her husband, manage diet and dress, anticipate moods, humble pride, and use eyes over words. It underscores cooking as a key virtue and dismisses rival performances as mere show.
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America
Mme
Georgette Lablance Maeterlinck
Shakespeare
Bernhardt
Pavlova
Mr. Escoffler
War Stories Through Generations
A young man recalls an ancestor killed in the Revolution and a young woman shares a Civil War tale of a private who died early. They debate war's cruelty as each reflects on family sacrifice and personal loss.
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Upple
eEre
No More Gentlemen Purchases for Suffrage Cause
A New York Daily Mail item describes a male admirer misreading a suffrage fundraising scene. A courteous man tries to buy violets from a young woman promoting the cause, only to be rebuked as she accepts a boy’s coins and shuns him, leaving him to joke the pavement swallowed him.
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Equal Rights Association
Broadway
New York Daily Mail
Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Reveals Early Mathematics
Archaeologists report a preserved 1700 B C papyrus titled Instructions to enable one to know the Dark Things. It shows Egyptian arithmetic practices, with addition and multiplication as core methods, problems on division and proportions, and calculations touching circle area, circle quadrature, and pyramid cable measurement.
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Egypt
Pyramids
Harper's Weekly
Case of giantism reported in Yorkshire England
A report from Low Moor Bradford describes Harry Faulkner a 30 year old man with acromegaly. He grew from age 14 toes and jaw enlarging, reached seven feet tall and over seventeen stone, joints easily dislocate and left hip prevents standing. He sits few hours daily in a large chair and has sight loss in one eye. His parents and siblings are of average height.
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Low Moor
Bradford
Yorkshire
England
Harry Faulkner
Morelycourt
Mr. Faulkner
Raisin imports peak in 1884 as domestic production rises
The United States saw its largest ever raisin import total in 1884 with 64 million pounds, contrasting with 2.5 million in 1911. Domestic output grew from 120 thousand pounds in 1873 to 112 million in 1910, driven by California’s San Joaquin Valley. Per capita raisin consumption in 1910 was 1.5 pounds in the US versus five pounds in the UK.
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San Joaquin Valley
California
United States
United Kingdom
Peculiar Chinese Industries in Taochow
In Taochow there are atrangs industries one for raising the machi a large pheasant whose sail feathers are valued for mandarins dress bars. Timber is plentiful in this district and sent away by raft to many regions.
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Taochow
Change of Life Symptoms Promised Relief from Lydia E Pinkham
Letters from Mrs Julia A Moore of Asheville North Carolina and Mrs Alice Kirlin of Circleville Ohio praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for alleviating menopausal symptoms during the Change of Life. The notices urge other afflicted women to try the remedy for lasting relief.
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Asheville
N.C
Lydia E. Pinkham
Julia A. Moore
East St
Kirlin
Circleville
Ohio
Alicee Kirin
W. Mill St
Prayer and Work Guiding Kingdom Efforts
A concise moral note asserts that praying for the kingdom requires active effort, urging believers to pair prayer with concrete work rather than passivity.
Fundamental Error in Teaching Aims
A reflective note warns that teaching focuses on means rather than ends, lamenting the loss of core goals and the resulting suffering in education. The author urges a return to foundational aims and clearer priorities.
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Boston
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