Florida’s Burbank Ocala colony praised as top in state
A visitor reports in Marion County Florida that the Burbank Ocala colony attracts settlers at a rapid pace. He notes extensive cultivation, new houses, and strong rail and river access, praising soil quality and potential profits for investors and homesteaders. He recommends the New South Farm and Home Company publication Ten Acres and Freedom for further information.
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New South Farm & Home Company
The Fiji Cannibal and Lightning Calculator Exchange
The Fiji cannibal reluctantly produced a quarter in response to the Lightning Calculator s plea at the psychological moment. The two quarreled over booze and the handbook, with the Lightning Calculator claiming the eccentricities of genius.
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Los Angeles Herald
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Notice
An 19th century advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for any catarrh cure Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed to work from within by affecting blood and mucous surfaces. Promoters J. Cheney and Co. of Toledo endorse the product with testimonials and wholesale drugists in Toledo listed. Prices: 75 cents per bottle. Take Hall's Family Medicine for constipation.
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A Family Talk About a Baby Brother Surprise
A father teases Ruthie about an expected baby brother and asks her to keep it a secret from their mother. Ruthie gleefully responds that a baby would be lovely, sharing a warm family moment.
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Ruthie
No Man Should Play Pranks Unless He Is A Good Loser
This brief urges skepticism toward imitators and urges asking for Lewis' Single Binder cigar. It contrasts true independence with ability to pay bills and cautions about practical jokes among men who cannot accept loss.
Tempest Shuts Himself In Craven For New Poems
Basil Tempest, famed poet novelist, isolates at Craven cottage in England. American visitor Lucy Carew arrives seeking a synopsis for his new poems. He relents to dictate and Lucy writes as their bond grows. He hides from Ormond’s memory, warns of blindness, and asks Lucy to leave for her own good.
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Mr. Tempest
Tempest and Lucy Carew in the Mist at the Castle
Lucy Carew confronts jealousy and longing as Lady Ormond exposes loyalties. In a transformed empire room Basil Tempest confesses deep love and thirst for sight, promising Lucy safety and a future as wife. Mrs Henry returns to witness Tempest’s renewed youth and lasting devotion, closing with a tender vision of their shared life.
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First Known Navel Orange Found 350 Years Ago
A monk described a single seedless navel orange tree discovered near the Mediterranean coast circa 1565. The fruit’s portrait and description appear in a Roman Catholic university library in Washington. From Spain grafts spread to South America via Spanish traders.
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Roman Catholic University
Washington
Spain
South America
St. Nicholas
Ink stains vanish with match head rub
A girl bookkeeper shows a trick taught by a chemist to remove ink stains. She rubs the match head on her fingers and rinses with water, magical results clean the ink as a dust cloth removes dust.
Family mystery stirs over Mayflower ancestry claim
Local inquiry questions a woman's claim that her paternal ancestor came aboard the Mayflower. Evidence challenged centers on the ship register and a disputed notion of a stowaway.
Who Named Pennsylvania In Connection With Blathwayts Claim
A London correspondent argues Blathwayt, not Penn, named Pennsylvania. He allegedly objected when Penn sought the name, urging the king to let the Quaker use his own. The tale links Blathwayt to Pepys and Evelyn and hints at shifting loyalties to William.
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England
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London Daily News
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New World
Charles II
Dublin Castle
William
Spectacles Improve Soldiers Marksmanship in 1907
The Lancet reports medical eye examinations in 1907 led to glasses issued by the government of India for several regiments. Third class shots in the First Northamptonshire, First Queen's, First Oxfordshires, First Cameronians, and Royal Scots Fusiliers gained higher classifications after spectacles.
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Northamptonshire Regiment
Queen’s
Oxfords
Cameronians
Royal Scots Fusiliers
Government of India
Remembered His Dignity by a Traveling Engineer
A mining engineer recently back from Santo Domingo recounts a two day horseback trek to a mine. A porter and cook refused entry to town while in uniform, saying he could not lower his rank by acting as a peon in daylight.
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Santo Domingo
Legion of Army
Cook
Hunters' Land of Germany Abounds With Game
Baily's Magazine notes Germany hosts 600000 sportsmen with one gun per 100 people. Annual bag includes many hares deer thrushes quails and ducks totaling 26000 kollogrammes and worth 32000000 marks. Licenses revenue amounts to 7500000 marks.
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Germany
Baily's Magazine
Dickens on Poverty and Home Love
Dickens argues that rulers should focus on improving slum dwellings to restore domestic virtue. He contends that crowded poverty breeds crime and disease, and that practical housing reform would illuminate true virtue more than grand churches and wealth.
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Charles Dickens
Sad Death of a New York Little Mother
A young girl who cared for her younger siblings after her mother's death died after leaping from a window. Grief over her mother's loss overwhelmed her. she kissed her siblings goodbye before the fatal act and died on the way to the hospital.
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New York
King Edward's Many Titles The Crowned Monarch's Honors
Edward VII holds multiple peerage titles including duke of Cornwall duke of Rothesay prince of Wales and earl of Chester in the United Kingdom and Ireland and holds imperial and noble ranks such as emperor of India defender of the faith and duke of Lancaster among others.
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Edward VII
United Kingdom
Great Britain and Ireland
India
Duke of Cornwall
England
Duke of
Deaf Indiana landlord refuses stamp sale in dry county
A drummer asked a village hotel landlord in a prohibition county in Indiana for a stamp. The landlord, weighing the risk of enforcement by the “burned drys,” decided he could not sell it, saying he could not risk the dry authorities watching him too closely.
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Prohibition County
Indiana
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
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