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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1904
Page
8
An advertisement promotes women and children’s shoes with white soft soles for infants and versatile wear for all ages. It touts low prices and right goods at right prices, claiming Eastern Oregon shoppers have trusted the store for quality footwear and dress fabrics, with items like 54 inch wide dress goods on sale.
This article traces the history of mathematical symbols from early verbal roots to printed forms. It explains how plus originated from the initial letter of add but evolved into a stylized cross, how minus shortened from mus with a bar, the x-shaped multiply from addition, division via a space saving dot, radix gave radical, and equality first appeared in 15657 as a substitute for equal to.
An 1630 letter to the Earl of Straf ford describes Captain Bally’s hackney coaches in London He placed men in a city livery at the Maypole in the Strand to carry passengers all day at set rates Now many coaches gather there and paths diverge Citizens complain that ladies and gentlemen no longer attract customers while carriages rush by Apprentices cry out Whit d ye tnek The cab word traces back to cabriolet used until 1829.
A tangled survey of the word picnic tracing possible roots from Robespierre to Lord Chesterfield with French and Italian theories, plus humorous literary asides on love letters and a London Globe exchange about temper and tone. Also playful notes on rural lore about iron springs and a quip about a saber and a pauper.
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