Americans Ill At Ease in Germany’s Food and Customs
A Berlin correspondent reports on German cuisine and social habits seen by an American in Germany. Differences in roasting meat, pies, snacks, lemonade, popcorn, and chewing gum reveal American tastes versus German practices at meals and gatherings.
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Germany
Shesden
Cerman
Boston
Berlin
Goerman
Fraulein
America
Witch Kassel
Grunewald
Witeh Hazel
Lin Lehman
Cronewall
Littl
Ger
Quotations on virtue and wisdom from various authors
A scattered compilation of aphorisms and maxims from editors and authors. It quotes speakers from Carlyle Hood Shakespeare Bacon Johnson Twain Eliot Longfellow and others on patience, prudence, ambition, reputation, temper, and the nature of revolutions.
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John Forter
Pope
Socrate
Wiggleeworth
Mae
Bulwer
Carlyle
Denham
Anon
Joubert
Samuel Butler
Palinia
Beecher
C. Macdonald
Tennyson
Shakespeare
Terenie
George Eliot
Bacon
Lehes
Miehbing
Thomas A Henple
Rorhester
W. M. Punshon
Wendrell Philpe
When Genius Emerges at Fourteen in Great Minds
A historical survey traces fourteen as a pivotal age for famous figures in literature, law, religion, and art. It highlights John Marshall Dickens Spurgeon Dante Hume Buchanan Carlyle Napoleon Da Vinci Michelangelo and others, noting early schooling, self study, and later mastery across disciplines.
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Ceorge Buchanan
Cervantes
Eroues
Huchinan
James Hepricot
George
University of Paris
Europe
Buchanan
George Buchhanan
Emerson
Bonsuet
John Marshall
David Hume
Dante
Joseph Scaliger
Hume
Edinburgh University
Jett Brunetto Latini
Joseph Sealleer
Berdeaux University
Joseph
Sealiger
Buchannan
Daunte
Qeiet
Walter
Divine Comeds
Luther
Italy
Ato
Thomas Carlyle
Id- Inhbuveh University
Hume Hanteft
Carlyle
Darkyie
Minerson
Carlile
Charles James Pax
Mton
Seatiger
Fox
England
Fiton
Spa
Napoleon
Brienne
Paris
France
Montenotte
Punctuation error ends quote from Washington Star proprietor
A fragment from the Washington Star quotes a newsdealer or proprietor saying there is one thing he wants to say. The brief item focuses on a shopkeeper addressing a crowd or reader concern in a local news context.
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The
Washington Star
Scared Politician and Congress Confidence Myth
In Letcher county Kentucky Captain George Drake recalls a tale from moonshine country. In a mountain town a blacksmith reads a paper while the town questions Congress and winter months. The humor centers on political confidence and provincial wit.
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Chicago Record
George Drake
Kentucky
Letcher County
Captain Drake
Ant
Sam
Bond
Not Daniel Webster in Dickens Dinner Tale
A London letter to the Prose notes a Philadelphia dinner memory involving Daniel Webster and a burning liquor bowl. It claims Dickens recalled a Harvard Professor Webster's hanging story at Charles Ickens dinner, linking it to Parkman murder and a later execution. Dickens called it a strange entertainment.
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Holland
Philadelphia
London
Charles Dickens
Daniel Weler
Webster
Boston
Daniel Webster
Professor Webster
Harvard College
Charles Ickens
Stage Repartees and Rivalries Among 18th Century Figures
The text recounts playful exchanges among Garrick Foote Sheridan Monk Lewis and Beaden about acting, plays, and theater venues. Foote jokes about ventilation for his fire house, Sheridan refuses a bet amid Castle Specter success, and Beaden calls Drury Lane a wilderness while Sheridan defends his letters and offers no chance to prove the claim.
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Garrick
Foote
Haymarket
Sheridan
Monk Lewis
Lewis
Castle Specter
Beaden
Drury Lane
When first T sought Cecilin in youth and love
The speaker recalls pursuing Cecilin from ages twenty to twenty six and a half, noting her growing age and his changing feelings. He reflects on marriage prospects still unsettled as time passes and compares his wooing to the shifting years.
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Cecilin
Vincent F. Howard
Munsey's
Wealth ranks of presidential hopefuls reveal Morton leading
Washington March 24 Senator Cullom claims to be too poor to buy delegates to the national nominating convention. Morton is the wealthiest Republican, with Quay close behind and Allison third. McKinley is modestly placed, aided by wealthy friends. Ohio ex governors show varied fortunes, with Foraker poor, Hoadly successful, Campbell in debt, Foster unable to pay creditors, and McKinley saved by rich backers. Cullom’s finances include a farm in Tasewell county Illinois and a Springfield home. he rents a Washington house and pays high social costs. He fears leaving public life poorer than when he began and would return to Chicago to practice law if defeated.
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Cullom
Lessoney
Morton
Quay
Alison
Allison
McKinley
Ohio
Foraker
Cincinnati
Campbell
Hoadly
New York
Charley” Foster
Speaker Reed
Capitol
Senator Davis
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Green H. Baum
Tasewell County
Ilinois
Springfield
Highland Terrace
Bayard
Tineis
Chicago
Successful Authorship Insight Steers From Advertisements
A struggling Washington writer seeking publishers overhears a successful ad man in New York say that real money comes from writing advertisements for major firms, not from books. The ad man denies being a “scribbler of books” and asserts he earns six figures yearly from ads. The author departs disappointed.
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Washington Star
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