Poe and Marconi: Early Struggles and Innovations
The text recalls Edgar Allan Poe as a dollar a year man who wrote The Raven over ten years, earning ten dollars, with a manuscript later selling for ten thousand. It notes Poe paid three a month rent for a Bronx honeymoon cottage now a state shrine. It also recalls Guglielmo Marconi at age 27 facing hostility to radio, with people fearing electrical waves harmed them.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Poe
Grand Concourse
Bronx
New York
Marconi
Barnum Deathless Gaffe Links to His Great Barnumism
The quote about one born every minute frames a tale of Barnum who faced losses from a bear’s grease hair tonic a swindle with illustrated bibles a failed fire extinguisher venture and a bankruptcy of half a million tied to alarm clocks. He later toured giving lectures on wealth earning $1000 nightly.
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Barnum
Alexandre Dumas Bustling Life of a Prolific Writer
The French author Alexandre Dumas famed for The Three Musketeers boasted of dozens of children and a vow against marriage until debts forced a choice between matrimony and jail. He wrote on colored papers and produced over 1,200 works earning more than five million dollars, yet died broke and depended on his son’s charity.
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Alexander Dumas
Woolworth’s Rise From Small Capital to World’s Tallest Building
The Furness Woolworth founder began with $300 and five and dime stores, saw his first three fail, and after thirty years amassed $14,000,000 in cash to buy the building bearing his name, then the world’s tallest office structure.
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Woolworth
Gershwin Sells First Song Then Sells Rhapsody in Blue Use
George Gershwin sold his first song for five dollars and nine years later a Hollywood studio paid fifty thousand dollars to use Rhapsody in Blue in a single film. The composer wrote the piece in his spare time.
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George Gershwin
Hollywood
Newton Profile Notions in a Jumbled Frontier
The tale portrays Sir Isaac Newton as absent minded and eccentric. It claims he damaged his niece’s fingers with a pipe and boiled his watch while preparing a three minute egg. It also notes his poor school performance and alleged hostility to women.
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Isaac Newton
Eccentric Johnson and Byron Tales Dominate Memoir Snippets
The text recalls Dr. Samuel Johnson with violent grimaces and ritual door footfall, while Boswell questions exact steps. Lord Byron allegedly erupts in emotion, shatters a watch, and harms a pistol scene. The fragment mentions Venice and a harem as a lurid note.
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Samuel Johnson
Boswell
Oddities of Historical Figures and Their Fantasies
A compact sketch of eccentric habits and legends including Schiller keeping feet in ice while writing a vivid Swiss description he never visited, Coleridge recalling only 54 lines after opium inspired Kubla Khan, Richelieu imagining himself as a horse, and Beau Brummell dying in rags in an asylum after shaping fashion for the Prince of Wales.
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Schiller
Coleridge
Richelieu
Beau Brummel
Prince of Wales
Beethovens Struggles vs Mozarts Tragic End
Beethoven moved often and paid rent for multiple places, while Mozart died at 35 starved and froze, never able to pay rent on a single dwelling.
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Beethoven
Mozart
Chopin abandons great passion over chair etiquette
The composer Chopin walked away from the woman he loved after she did not offer him a chair first to others in the room. He later arranged in his will to be buried in white tie dress shoes and silken knee breeches.
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Chopin
Congress Needs a Reorganized Backstage by WN Wright
Western Newspaper Union presents a two part reflection on Congress and government. The first section argues the legislative branch is sidelined by executive directives and calls for a bipartisan plan to simplify procedures and empower committees. The second compares Russian private enterprise to American ownership and ends with a critique of social class divisions and rationing nostalgia.
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Congress
House
Senate
House of Representatives
Joe Cannon
Martin B. Madden
Madden
Silk Patchwork Quilt Colorful and Quaint
An old fashioned crazy patch quilt glows with color and quaint stitchery for a decorative sofa throw. It uses old silks and ties from garments to harmonize with room colors and offers a hobby combining bright scraps with embroidery. Publication notes include a booklet offer with directions and diagrams.
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G.I. Joe
Expensive Wire Priced At One and a Quarter Million Per Pound
A platinum wire used in the country measures so fine that at 1.50 dollars per foot its one pound mass would carry a value of 217.5 million dollars. The item highlights the extreme cost and rarity of the material.
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Benton, Ill
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George Spriggs
San Marino
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Richard Nelson
Tilden
Bill” Tilden
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New York City
Jordan Lewis
Chicago Cubs
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Venice
Wright A Patterson
Western Newspaper Union
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Russia
Ruth Wyeth
Bedford Hills
U. S
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India
BF Goodrich
Booth
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