Boons Lick Road and Missouri’s Early Path to Statehood
The Boon’s Lick Road, surveyed in 1845 from St. Charles to Old Franklin, helped migrate settlers and bound Missouri to statehood. Largely a rough trace with fords and log canoes, the route followed watershed lines created by Daniel and Nathan Boone and shaped western growth and commerce.
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St. Charles
St. Louis
Old Franklin
Missouri
Union
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Boon’s Lick
Daniel Boone
Daniel
Nathan Boone
Salt
Missouri River
New West
Mississippi
Waiter Hatred and the Venison Dilemma
A man argues he would rather eat something he hates than risk making a waiter hate him. He contends waiters resent refusals of dishes they push and may seek petty revenge. The woman suggests she cannot afford to offend the waiter and hopes to be served again.
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New York Press
Editor’s witty reply to selling drummer’s tricky nose question
Born in China and educated at Yale, the editor of the Chinese World of San Francisco is depicted as a wit and wise man. A drummer asking if he is Japanese or Chinese prompts a courteous bow and a retort asking what kind of key the drummer is a Yankee, a monkey, or a plain donkey.
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China
Yale
San Francisco
New York Tribune
Statesmen In Their Cups Anecdote About Pitt And Dundas
A short anecdote from the era describes the social drinking among statesmen in Pitt’s time. Pitt and Henry Dundas, later Viscount Melville, exchange playful lines about “seeing” the speaker during a convivial session.
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Pitt
Henry Dundas
Viscount Melville
Hal
Dundas
Billy
Seasick on land aboard a fast Chicago news train
A former Spanish American War veteran recalls giggling at seasickness while riding a railroad engine from Topeka into Kansas City. He describes the terror of a curved track, the cab tilting, and clinging to a stanchion as the train sped through the night. He finally vows to endow a library.
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Cuba
Philippines
Spain
Islands
San Francisco
Topeka
Kan
Kansas City
Chicago News
A New Naval Menace Sighted at Montreal Visit
In summer 1907 crowds saw a German cruiser on a Montreal quay. A Canadian civil engineer and companion watched the ship’s forward ram, 80 rammed from the bow above the waterline, and one joked that such a weapon would tear a fellow's pants.
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Canada
Two Great Soldiers and Their Rivalry Flawless Spirit
Theodore A. Dodge quotes from Chancellorsville on Lee and Jackson, two Southern Civil War generals. Jackson praises Lee's leadership with the remark about following him blindly. Lee responds to Jackson being wounded by noting the loss of his own arm.
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Lee
Jackson
Theodore A. Dodge
Aemark
Chancellorsville
Talent in Charity Concert Turns Inward Question
A city church charity concert featured volunteer talent including singers and actors. After the show the chairman asked a boy who played the organ what he owed, and the boy replied that the other performers had not donated their services.
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Freddie
The Beautiful and Its Higher Form, Ciceronian View
A concise summarization of a Cicero inspired claim that beauty has a deeper form beyond sensory perception. The text argues beauty transcends vision and hearing, understood only through imagination as the ultimate abstraction.
Southey's Guillotine A Failed Suicidal Impulse
Lord Southey built a lavish guillotine in Paris as a death by self act device. He prepared his testament and attended the mechanism but the spring failed, leaving him alive to abandon the plan and later donate the instrument to a Glasgow museum.
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Lord Southey
Rue de Luxembourg
Paris
Glasgow Museum
The Pumpkin Origin Debated by Scientists
The pumpkin appears in many cultures with claims of North American and Asiatic origins. Some authorities cite indigenous North American cultivation, others note Asiatic roots, while English growers have long grown pumpkins as curiosity or food. European markets, especially near Paris, sow seeds in April under glass and transplant in May.
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United States
North America
England
France
Paris
Christian Herald
How Changed Funeral Confusion Triggers Error in Small Town
In a small town residents treat funerals as social events. An undertaker notices a woman repeatedly viewing the coffin and saying How changed as she mistakes John Sower for Maria Brown. He corrects her, noting Maria Brown’s funeral is at a house on the next block.
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John Sawer
Maria Brown
New York Press
Always the Orator: a Kentucky senator and a fateful duel
A Kentucky senator and former U S senator is recalled for declining a duel after agreeing to second a friend. At sunrise the duel would have taken place but dark conditions halted it, prompting the quip that after his speech it was too dark for a duel. The tale illustrates his oratorical restraint and timing.
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United States
Kentucky
Joe
Harper’s
The Lambkins Chief Charm Stroll in Spring
Sir Walter Scott walked with Lady Scott at Abbotsford where they passed ewes with lambs. He mused that poets of old used the lamb as a symbol of peace and innocence while Lady Scott remarked on their appeal with mint sauce in a playful exchange from A Century of Anecdotes.
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Walter Scott
Lady Scott
Abbotsford
Sir Walter
COLOR BLINDNESS AND THE LIMITS OF COLOR PERCEPTION
A Strand Magazine writer explains color blindness across six to seven visible hues and six to none colors seen in the spectrum. He notes individual variation from full rainbow perception to total color blindness and the gradual loss of distinguishable colors from red to violet.
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Strand
Detective Meets Solemn Stranger On Train
A detective pursuing a criminal boards a train and studies a photo of the fugitive. A quiet stranger remarks that the man has gone before and vows to follow, even to Hong Kong, in a London Tit-Bits style moment.
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Corpa Ace
Hom Wen
Hong Kong
London
Dances, visits, and birthdays mark local week
The Community notes a new daughter for G W Worden, Grandpa Keyes returning from Salem, and visits by Mr and Mrs Austed to Utterbrook. A W C T U meeting is set for Friday February 10. Prof J P Powell toured McMinnville, and Renzans traveled to Portland. A Groth hall dance entertained last Saturday, W J Gordon did Portland business, and Mrs William Wilson with daughter Alicia visited there. Pauline Powell and Salone Woisky celebrated birthdays on February 1 with a tea party and gifts.
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J. P. Powell
McMinnville
Pauline Powell
Salone Woisky
Alfred Woisky
Pauline
Salone
Real Estate Transfers Listed In County Records
A long list of property transfers. buyers include Lucius G Stafford Fred Lyman and Margaret E Vessey. sellers include various Wards Massey Kelso and Hobson. Transactions cover parcels in sections and townships with prices from $1 to $3850 and up to 120 acres. Names of buyers, sellers, and tract descriptions are given with minor rounding and abbreviations.
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Lucius G Stafford
Charles S Jones
John H Berry
Jessie Hobson
George R Bar
Ringer
Hobson’s Bruitland
Maud Kelso & Hub
Bert
Edith Hoyt
Ellen M Massey
Shrt
J A Young
Minnie
Ira J Millard
John Whalen
Bibee
Sheridan
Edith M McMahan
Herbert W Perry
Merchants National Bank of Portland
H F Baird Et al
R F Shier
Nwi
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Boon’s Lick Road
Germany
Cicero
Southey
United States National Bank
Newberg
J. L. Hoskins
S. L. Parrett
Vice Press
J. C. Colcord
W. E. Crozer
G. W. Worden
Grandpa Keyes
Salem
Mrs. Austed
Portland
Utterbrook
Ira C Barber & Wfto
Ehrenrich Svendson E
Nwi& Sec
Geo R Barringer & Wf
Williams Hoaglin
Hobson’s Fruit Land
M Halldict
Joseph
Johhn Walen
William Andrews & Wi
James A
Emily B Clarke
William H Arnold
Matheny
W Corby
LD Dunzan
Myrtle Gilbert
Buffum
James C Duncan
Nettie P
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