Learned Lunatic Alexander Cruden Named Queen’s Bookseller
Alexander Cruden, famed compiler of the Bible Concordance, was appointed bookseller to Queen Caroline and later to Queen’s successor George I. Despite his genius, Cruden endured eccentricity and spent time in private lunatic asylums. He died November 1, 1770, in Islington after a life marked by zeal for tract distribution and moral correction.
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Alexander Gruden
Alexander Cruden
George II
Robert Walpole
Caroline
Cruden
George I
Alexander
Camden Street
Islington
Ocean Voyage Teaches System and Discipline
A collection of anecdotes on sea travel and order. An executive argues voyages discipline people into method, while other pieces recount a parlor scene about restraint and selfhood and a considerate misread of affection in a Detroit clipping.
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New York Press
Unmanned, Divorce, and Self-Respect in 1910s Press
A Philadelphia Record dispatch cites writers joking about an unmanned heroine while a Chicago Record-Herald remark notes a man pursuing success must take himself seriously even in banishing seriousness. The brief column flags era literary quips and gendered commentary.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Courtesy in the Orient Unearths Oriental Resistance
Lady Burton recalls in Inner Life of Syria that European courtesy faced pushback in the Orient. At a reception she insisted servants serve all visitors, prompting resistance from dragomans and guests who warned against educating local women. The incident highlights clash of customs and gender expectations.
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Burton
Orient
Syria
Heartless hotel plan led to dinner bill dispute
A rural politician stayed at a Kansas City hotel one day and was charged for a full day’s board and meals. He protested, learned the American plan was time based, and, claiming dyspepsia, ordered everything in the dining room. The bill came to 8.35 dollars, which he disputed as already paid. The waiter noted he should have used the other dining room’s European plan.
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Kansas City
Hill House
Harper's Weekly
His Lecture on Job and Memoirs of Monsieur Claude
A mixed fragment notes Brother Dickey on Job describing his patience with plagues and a hurricane, plus Stanton in Atlanta Constitution on Napoleon III and a moray anecdote from the Memoirs of Monsieur Claude, followed by a burglar’s quip about newspapers and copper justice.
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Job
Brother Dickey
Rank Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
Napoleon Iit
France
Monsieur Claude
M. Claude
Comte de Moray
Opera Comique
M. de Moray
Madame
After the Quarrel
A dialogue fragment featuring a rich boy Johnny Hastside who dismisses trouble and a kind old gentleman questioning him. The quotation contrasts trust in people with cynicism.
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Johnny Hastside
Brooklyn
Two Eggs One Fried On One Side Joke In London
A sad American tourist in a London restaurant orders two eggs one fried on one side and one on the other. The obsequious waiter struggles to understand the order, repeats it back, and fails repeatedly leading to comic confusion. The scene ends with a dramatic, chaotic confrontation and a final humorous miscommunication. The passage ends with an advertisement for Hale Vister’s Rocky Mountain Tea from Pioneer Drug Co.
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London
Deserved to Succeed Matrimonial Pact Revealed in Sequestered Nook
A witty belle of note reportedly accepts a proposal after flirting, revealing to a admirer during a social interlude that she has refused all eligible suitors except present company. The tale includes overheard gossip from a discarded suitor and details of a secret meeting.
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Sipper
Best Healer in the World Rev F Startard Testimony
Reverend F Startard of East Raymond Maine praises Bucklen's Avoku Salve for healing an old army wound and other sores in his veterinary practice. He reports long use and great success. Sold for 25 cents at O M Olsen's Drug Store.
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F. Startard
East Raymond
Maine
On the Wrong Side of the Fence at Seoteh Asylum
An inmate at Seoteh lunatic asylum watches laborers repairing a road outside the fence and remarks on hard work. He asks about wages, learns fourteen bob a week, and muses on his marital status and five children. A worker jokes that he is on the wrong side of the fence. An unrelated advertisement for DeWitt’s Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve follows.
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Seoteh
Favorite Prescription and Liver Pills Endorsements
The advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a strength builder for nursing and expectant mothers plus various female ailments. It touts its alcohol-free glyceric extract, endorses companion products Lotion Tablets and Antiseptic Suppositories, and promotes Dr. Pierce's Pills as a liver remedy.
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Pierce
Crag
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Dr. Pierce
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