Tolstoi exile and free trade in higher learning debates
The piece laments Count Tolstoy's banishment from Russia and links peasants' suffering to oppressive rule. It condemns Harvard and other universities for honorary LL D degrees as political favors, urging genuine scholarly merit and broader defense of independence in national policy. It notes Cuban commissioners and a call for a new definition of independence.
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Meckinsey
England
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The Bicycle's Win Over Roads Sparks National Reform
An industry leader credits the bicycle with driving the United States toward better highways. He notes inadequate roadways and slow farmer awareness, but cites mass cyclist enthusiasm as the catalyst that turned rhetoric into practical macadam improvements nationwide.
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Rowde
United States
Sign Painter Pleads Against Letter Theft
A Washington street sign painter laments repeated thefts of porcelain letters from a storefront sign. He notes cutting letters has occurred six times this year and vows to pursue the culprit day and night, citing a pattern similar to other petty vandalism.
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Washington
Neena
Figprune Cereal Promoted as Coffee Tea Substitute
An advertisement extols Figprune Cereal as a healthy coffee and tea substitute. It cites medical science on alkaloids and tannic acid causing indigestion and dyspepsia, claims California produces the best Palatable Figorine Cereal, and describes it as 54 percent fruit and 46 percent grains with an amber color when poured.
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California
Sign reads make cakes and our candies are pure
A Washington Star snippet describes a detective scene with a policeman, a painter, and a small boy reacting to a sign. The humor centers on a sign reading make cakes and our candies are pure as officers chase a culprit, while a boy dreads being pursued.
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Relio
Bacewneera
Akip
Porlice
Washington Star
The Four Ones Clock Tale and Its Roman Numerals
A tale recounts King Charles V arguing with jeweler Henry Wicken over the four numeral. The clockmaker insists four ones should replace IV. The king concedes after debate, a fashion spread that led to NL instead of IV in New York press.
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Earnamel Wise
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Aian
Vick
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Editor and lawyer contest ends in heavenly verdict
An exchange debated whether editors or lawyers have the superior merit. The settled finding: one editor in heaven, who likely rode in on a spar or the blind baggage. efforts to eject him failed as no lawyer would take the case, and the editor renewed without a lawyer in wiht.
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Fragmentary Tale of a Masked Meeting in Philadelphia
A garbled old note describes a man in evening attire speaking of a fair maiden and a faint plea about vaccination. The scene shifts to Philadelphia with phrases like City and tender of pity, leaving characters and details unclear.
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Evlor
Patty
Philadelphia
Kaneae City
Parish preacher references octal late and Looke reads
The sermon includes odd phrases about octal late waxed eloquent of queens and the phrase The Preas. It mentions slot machines and quotes from Looke’s works as part of pastorate years and peripture twine in a fragmentary record.
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Looke
Local City Marshal Auction Notice Misread
Fragment from a public notice shows James A. Pee in legal matter with references to a sale after ten days. It mentions the City Marshal Heathman and a Judd Building, with garbled OCR text about assets such as vests and caps and a half moon mark.
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