Guadalupe feast and washing day in Mexico memory tale
A narrator recalls a May day in Chihuahua when a surveying party abstains from work for Guadalupe’s feast. Lucia Eulalia Garcia y Valdez smiles on as he helps with family laundry, sensing change in him while light romance blooms amid river, sun, and stained shirts.
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Mexico
Santa Anita Grant
Rio Clara
Chihuahua
Sims
Bailey
Lucia
Lucia Eulalia Garcia Y Valdez
Jack Biggs
Meester
Lucia Eulalia
Antonio
Lucia Houlalia
Feast Day in Chaparral and a Reunion with Maxwell
A narrator watches a lone worker wash linen on a riverbank near adobe huts during a feast. He befriends Lucia and agrees to help with shirts for a money request. Greeted by Maxwell and his wife, the scene turns poignant as they prepare to depart.
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Lucia
Alameda
Guadalupe
Jehosaphat
Maxwell
Ann Arbor
Beegs
Alice
Lucia Eulalia
Senor
Fiesta memory seals day of San Guadalupe
A fatigued speaker recalls the fiesta of San Guadalupe and names Lucha Eulalia Garcia y Valdez, expressing an unforgotten moment while preparing to return to camp. The vivid scene centers on memory and devotion amid weariness.
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Lucha Eulalia Garcia Y Valdez
San Guadalupe
Reed birds and their supreme cooking method
A humorous Philadelphia column extols reed birds as uniquely edible in Philadelphia and mocks New York cooks. It lists thirteen preparation styles including soup, stuffed birds, roasted in a potato, and a flamboyant display, then prescribes a simple saute method with butter and paprika. The piece ends with a vivid, satirical instruction on how to eat the birds, culminating in the phrase that defines reed birds dining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
New York
Won His Case Love Story Ends With Rebuff
A Philadelphia law student wins a legal contest for a father in law who doubts him. After four years the father admits the student’s skill but refuses the daughter, noting the suitor earned only about fifty dollars while the case was settled, and the daughter remains out of reach.
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Philadelphia
New York Journal
Blank
Ram's Horns Moral Aphorisms Collection
A compilation of pithy proverbs and religious maxims attributed to Ram's Horn. Witty observations on virtue, temptation, motherhood, heaven, speech, peace with God, and the ballot for women, urging personal integrity and societal reform. The voice blends exhortation with cautionary quips about pride and hypocrisy.
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Christ
Heaven
Pathology of Child Study Promises Safer School Life
Washington special notes that child study laboratories in colleges test a wide range of mental and physical responses in children to improve education. Researchers measure attention, perception, memory, fatigue, and pain thresholds using noninvasive methods, hypnotism, electricity, light, sound, and chemicals, aiming to tailor schooling to individual needs.
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Ashington
United States
Department of Education
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Education
Ef. Toleman Smith
Insurance and bikes spark “new woman” debate in press
A Philadelphia Record item notes that bicycle ownership improves female insurance eligibility, with insurers paying for repairs and even deaths, while contrasting a Windham county man who spent 75 years within 20 miles of his birthplace.
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Hargot Caboon
Windham County
Conn
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi
Philadelphia Record
The Theosophist at the Diner’s Door Confrontation
A shabby man, claiming astral bodies and psychology, jokes about footing a bill and kicking his astral self out the door. He upends the ordinary scene with odd talk and evasive humor, while a cashier and bystanders watch.
Remnant Advertisements and Short Sayings from Town Paper
Mixed notices and vintage quips featuring for sale items from a West central town, mention of a church bell by Paul Revere and various patent medicines. Includes sentimental dialogue about a late evening goodbye and a joke about the unlucky number thirteen.
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Newington
N. H
Paul Revere
Tim Youths Companion Offer Promises Free Calendar and Subscriptions
Readers are urged to send name and address with 81.75 to receive a 7x10 inch four page calendar in nine colors for free, plus weekly Tim Youths Companion until Jan 1 1806, and a 52 week Tax Youths Companion to Jan 21 2807. Various ads and notices follow including medical cures and moral sentiments.
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Tim Youth's Companion
Youth's Companion
Youth
Tap Youth
Colunebua Ave
Boston
Syrup of Figs Promoted as Pure Laxative Remedy
Knowledge highlights Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative improving health and cleansing the system. It claims benefits for kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them and advertises 60¢ and 1 bottle sizes. Produced by the California Fig Syrup Co with its name on every package.
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California Fig Syrup Co
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Fikhad
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Hegeman
E. C.G. Clark Co
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Jesus
Mra Winslow
George
England
Parker
Ginger Tonfe
Riverside Co
Cal
Hemet Land Co
Hemet, Cal
Paris
Myrs
Frank Mouns
Paul
Martin
Bes
H. D. Darling
Beaver Meadow
Pidres
A. M. Dax
M. D
Columbus Ava
Chicago
Ita
Uae
ELY Brothers
Warren 8T
Phyal
Cians
Cook Remedy CO
Masonic Temple
Ieter
Ever” Sanitarium
Glens Falls
Dibb
Paragus
Hobb’s Medicine Co
San Francisco
WN. U. Chicago
BAR
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thomas B. Reed
Justin McCarthy
M. P
Interior
Hoke Smith
Agriculture
J. Sterling Morton
NAVY
H. A. Herbert
Naval Adventures
A. 8
Markham
T. H. Stevens
Lord Nelson
George Eliot
K.C.B
Rangoon
P. H. Colomb
Rosamond
Indian Meadow
M. G. McClelland
C. A. Stephens
Ellen Douglas Deland
Charles Adamo
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