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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1895
Page
4
The article surveys how comets were seen as omens shaping events from Napoleon to Napoleon’s era, noting astrologers linking celestial signs to wars, floods, and political upheavals. It cites Nostradamus, Timour, Selim II, and Charlemagne, alongside Cicero, in arguing that comets were long believed to presage calamities and great events.
The North Carolina state auditor received an application from Elijah Walker of Moore’s Creek township in Pender County for a future pension. A former Confederate volunteer who was severely wounded, he had previously refused back pensions, citing self support, but now cannot make a living and his pension application was approved.
A brief Detroit Free Press quip notes a shopper’s remark about avoiding Dicker’s meat stall after spotting a horseshoe nailed above it. The item reflects local humor and consumer sentiment in a brief exchange style.
The British Association heard Prof Petrie defend anthropology in education arguing civilizations grow from conditions not imposed from outside. He warned against forcing Anglo-Saxon culture on others and urged curricula to study Greece to Mexico with many global examples.
A collection of witty exchanges and limericks from newspapers such as Roxbury Gazette Town Topics Puck Harper's Indianapolis Journal and New York Herald. Jokes about marriage love deception and social mores are tied to light anecdotes and cartoonish banter with brief dialogue and punchlines.
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