Dreaming and Doing Some Men Simply Dream of Fame
A Boston Transcript line reflects on ambition, noting that some people merely dream while others stay awake to achieve fame.
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Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1925
Page
7
Salt as wood preservative proves ineffective
The text notes that salt or chloride of sodium has low toxicity and high solubility, making it an unsatisfactory wood preservative unless strong concentrations can be maintained, which is rarely possible.
Satisfaction Through Cure Notion In Death
A colored physician declares after measuring the husband’s temperature that he has “knocked de fever out of him.” The wife asks if he will recover. the doctor replies there is no hope, but the patient dies “cured,” offering a grim irony in the country newspaper tone.
Counting a Million Dollar Bills Time to Count One Million
The piece explains counting 1,000,000 dollars depends on speed. Experts can count 20,000 per day, others 40,000 daily. At these rates the task would take 235 to 50 days to tally a million dollars.
Early Tea Importation to England Began in 1836
The first shipment of tea from Im into England arrived in 1836 marking the start of regular tea imports to Britain. This historical note highlights early trade links and the significance of imperial commerce in the 1830s.
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Mirabeau’s Precocity at Three and Ten
The famed French reformer Mirabeau allegedly began preaching at age three and authored a book by age ten, illustrating extraordinary early achievement.
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Mirabeau
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