White House history and cost under early presidents
The piece reviews the proposed official residence for the President, debates over public funding, and the White House’s architecture. It details costs from 400,000 for construction and 91,500 for early repairs, through varied annual furnishings, with figures for Harrison, Van Buren, and Polk administrations. It notes a controversial gold spoon episode and broad expenditure trends. It ends with a brief Ireland coal discovery report and its political implications.
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Capitol, and Occupies the Fpont of A Plat of Around Forty Acres In Eoisue
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The Register Publicity on Subscription Terms
The Register states Tus Rugisten costs 150 dollars yearly in advance or 2 dollars if paid after six months. The rule will be strictly applied. No paper will be discontinued until all arrears are paid, and failing to notify discontinuance at end of the time subscribed will imply a new engagement.
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Fragments of a Haunted House Soundscape
A playful, delirious verse describes a noisily haunted house with rattling knees and tangled furniture. It evokes startled eyes, creaking stairs, frightened children, and the arrival of a milkman and steam trains as chaos erupts into a strange, rhythmic pandemonium.
Poetic Fragments and Postal Anecdotes in Early English Lore
The excerpt quarries lines from Shakespeare and Marlowe era phrases, asks if certain famous lines were flowing or artesian, and ponders the fate of Banquo and the ghost in Hamlet. It then shifts to a humorous postal anecdote from England praising the efficiency of the English system, citing a letter delivered atop a stage coach in Wales as proof.
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Ingland
Upper Norwood
Wales
Log Separated by Two-Part Iron Splitter
A deorsia Elail Splitter inserts a half inch diameter tube into a log using an augur hole. Two equal segments fit together, filled with powder from a tube and funnel, amounting to a musket load. A fuse ignites, splitting the log.
Chicago postenees clerks and carriers boost mail after fire
The Chicago post office employs 175 clerks and 14 letter carriers and ranks near New York in general business, first as distributing office. An annual statement shows 60 percent business growth since the fire, with letters received to distribute totaling 510,9090 and receipts to the office and street boxes at 5025.8ST, totaling 9240L.770 sent from the office.
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Chicago Postenee
New York
The Great Peter the Great Armored Warship
The Russian battleship Peter the Great is described as the strongest afloat. Designed by Admiral Popoi, the ship differs from American and English vessels in several aspects. It measures about 8620 tons, 63 feet beam, and 25 feet 6 inches draft, with 12 to 14 inch armor plates and a powerful stem.
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Peter the Great
Admiral Popoi
Mathematician Calculates Value of Manhattan Buy
It is claimed that if the $25 purchase of Manhattan Island in 2026 had been invested at 10 percent compound interest, the amount would now be about 826,500,179,962. This vast sum would buy several New Yorks and nearly equal the current U.S. real and personal property valuation.
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United States
Theory of the Deluge reshapes Noah's flood as invasion
J W DeForest argues that biblical deluge narratives reflect Semitic and Turanian invasions rather than miracle. He links Ad and Thamud to conquests, rewrites the flood as a geological and historical event, and sees Noah as uniquely virtuous. The theory reframes flood myths as humanity’s broader history.
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Codar le Ahmar
Canaan
Persian Gulf
Noah
Praying with Caution and a Tavern Fire Tale
A humorous anecdote recalls the English actor iston at a Wapping tavern. A fire alarm trapped him in a hasted chest as rescuers raged outside. He prayed not for himself but that those fighting the blaze would protect the furniture. The blaze subsided and his career at the tavern ended.
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England
Wapping
Robert William
Tie
Ife
Iliston
Harper's Magazue
The North Pole Chimney Explained by a Scotch Expert
A learned Scotchman in Los Angeles claims a chimney runs through the earth from the North to the South Pole. Water enters the Polar Sea, travels through a central fire, and exits at the South Pole dividing into Atlantic and Pacific streams to cool the fires.
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South Pole
Polar Sea
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Pacific Ocean
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