Peculiar Rivers of South America Do Not Mix Colors
Harper's Magazine notes rivers in South America retain color as black or white upon contact. The Atabapo and Negro rivers meet Orinoco and Amazon without blending, while many eastern tributaries show varied hues due to soil. The New York Times excerpt ends with a humorous exchange about a mother's maiden name.
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Amazon
Humboldt
Uiare
Branco
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Harper’s Magazine
New York Times
In Bank Scene A Young Customer Starts First Account
A merchant recalls waiting in a bank as a young woman, likely in her early adulthood, opened her first account. The clerk asked standard questions about name address marital status and parental names but she encountered difficulty during the process.
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Ren’t
Tragedy in Pesth Baron Chooses Self Destruction
A Pesth magnate Baron Rela Olyi reportedly killed himself by excessive smoking after ruinous speculation. With a wife and six children, he heavily insured in five companies and then secluded himself in a small room, dying of consumption after spending vast sums.
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Pesth
Rela Olyi
Getting Her on Record Before the Wedding
A Detroit Free Press dialogue fragment features a man asking if he is the only man the woman ever loved and she replying yes. She questions whether he will accept her if she cannot marry wealth and urges him to get her on record to prevent future complaints about wealth-driven suitors.
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Detroit Free Press
Youth Spoke Frankly To Pastor Son In Indianapolis
A pastor in Indianapolis told his fourteen year old son of the high hopes he held for his future. The boy replied with quiet resolve saying he would try his best to meet the expectations, then added a modest request to proceed.
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Indianapolis
Dianapolis News
What a Billion Means and the Vast Distances It Describes
A sweeping explanation of a billion miles using light speed and common measures. It compares a searchlight a billion miles away taking two months to illuminate and a sun a billion miles distant remaining visible for sixty two days after extinguishing. The piece frames vast distances against familiar speeds like light and bullets.
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Christ
Plymouth Rock
Rome
Britain
Caesar
London
Paris
Christopher Columbus
America
Throttle Stalls at Destination in Herald Report
The excerpt notes a machine losing speed and coming to a complete stop at its intended destination as described by the New York Herald.
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New York Herald
The Boy Knew
A Glasgow classroom tale reports a Glam school lesson on iron interrupted by an inspector who tests the class on earth’s outputs. A pupil answers boldly with worms proving the lesson’s moment of humor and learning.
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Glasgow Western Mail
Thrift. Miss K S Telegraphed Delay to Neighbor Town
A visitor in a small village plans to delay departure home. She entrusts Uncle Silas with a telegraph message and 25 cents for costs. He returns with 24 cents, claiming he read the message but claims a misread. The exchange ends with humor over the missing cent.
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Silas
Not Encouraging. Editor and staff exchange trivial jests
A fragment from a humorous exchange shows the editor in chief asking a question at eight and a staffer replying politely that a poetical department person does not come east. The joke ends with the staffer saying he disposes of waste paper.
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Ots
The
Aften
Mighty Cheerful Dorothy Refuses to End Play Weather
A brief vignette from New York tells of Dorothy pleading with her mother to play outside despite rain. The mother remains gentle yet firm, noting the wet conditions while Dorothy insists the weather is not very wet.
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Mamma
Dorothy
New York
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