The Choice of Captain Ebenezer
Captain Ebenezer weighs marriage as he plans to ask Miss Phoebe Lummis or Widow Banks to join his life aboard the Saucy Liz. A brisk storm and a walk to Myra Banks’s house set the scene for a seaside romance in this coastal tale excerpt.
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Cptain
Ebenezer Eobson
Eberester
Widder Banks
Caplin
Ebenezer
Liz
Phoebe
Whenezer
Phoebe Lummis
Widow Banks
Brown House
Myra Banks
Jin
Miss Phoebe
Tener
Seafaring Courtship Ends In Rough Voyage
Captain Ebenezer courted Widow Myra Banks with plans of a shared voyage aboard the Saucy Liz. The trip proves rough, Phoebe hesitates, and the widow resists a seafaring match as tensions spill ashore.
Queer Expressions Fold Into Everyday Speech
The Chicago Tribune surveys quirky substitutes for profane words across regions. Examples include geewillikins gol darn it and sacred camels from various states while Germans and French evoke thunders and cannons.
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Connecticut
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Gold and Silver Assay Process Described in Detail
The article explains a full assay sequence for gold and silver from melting in a furnace to pouring into ingots. It covers cooling in water to granulate, dissolving silver with sulphuric acid while gold precipitates, plating copper and blue vitriol actions, pressing into cakes under 200 ton pressure, remelting in separate vats, and final ingot formation for market.
Dictionary effort drags on as Johnson pays assistants
The project began with six assistants and a three year plan but stretched to nine years. Johnson earned $7,500 from the work and had to cover his assistants' pay. Webster toiled for twenty four years.
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Johnson
Webster
Webster’s Punctilious Craft Behind His Dictionary
The passage notes Webster’s meticulous definitions and patient labor in completing his dictionary. It highlights that one syllable Saxon words cause the most trouble as their history traces to the Saxon era and meanings twist over time.
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Webster
Malaprop Finishing Touch in a Sailing Tale
A brief anecdote recalls a young man sailing with his sister and her friend. Lacking sailing skill, he tries to land against a head wind and quips that it is better to have luffed and lost than never to have luffed at all, a witty malaprop from Youth's Companion.
Most Extraordinary Family Advice Tradition Prompt
A Washington Herald quip notes a man who raises his children in old fashioned ways, to the point that the children ask him for advice, underscoring a notable display of parental influence and respect.
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Washington Herald
Fragmentary Quote Resists Clear News From Catholic Standard
Incomplete OCR text shows a fragmented exchange with at least two speakers referencing a friend and need. Lacks identifiable names, dates, places, or events to establish a concrete news item.
Poor Fellow! Hewitt and Jewett Face Rough Town Gossip
The fragment hints at a public figure or writer facing relentless scrutiny and dismissal from critics in a harsh social scene. It suggests personal agency challenges and a sense of being overwhelmed by hostile sentiment in New York press discourse.
Lying in congratulations, a blunt remark from Florida Times Union
The Florida Times Union decries excessive insincerity in social praise, noting that people exaggerate triumphs and false warmth pervades formal congratulations more than any other topic.
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Florida Times-Union
Browning and Mill in a Westminster Review Row
A scathing preface in the Westminster Review derides Browning's early poem collection. J S Mill offers to write a notice but is forestalled by a Westminster Review piece that dismissively calls the four volume set balderdash causing Browning distress.
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Browning
J. S. Mill
Westminster Review
Mr. Mill
Mill
Balderdash
Oyster Shells as Medicine for Feeble Children
Ground oyster shells once given by medieval doctors for rickets and scrofula are found to contain nutrients like lime iron sulfur iodine and magnesia. Experts claim powdered shells in growing children’s food could improve teeth and overall health.
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London
Can I offer you a little more soup
A guest declines another serving with a lighthearted exchange about etiquette and the soup. The host insists they are not sticking to rules, while the guest explains the concern is the soup itself rather than manners.
Dismissal of Cook Over Dinner Plans Goes to Court
A domestic dispute is described in a court transcript where a husband questions why the cook was dismissed. The wife explains they had only exactly enough dishes left at 11 p m to set the table for the Higeses' dinner visit.
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Higeses
Little Man Answers Age Question
A visitor asks what the child expects to be when grown. The reply is simple and firm: Twenty-one. The dialogue appears in Herahki and Presbyter.
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Littlean
Herahki
Presbyter
How Birds Meet Emergencies From A Chicago Tribune View
Dr Francis Lierrick cites examples of bird problem solving in emergencies. A sparrow plucks horsehair from a nestling’s mouth while a mate watches. A robin tugs at a string but cannot release it. A gull drops shellfish from height to extract meat, repeating until successful.
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Francis II Lierrick
Chicago Tribune
Record of Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish American War Distribution Plan
Oren Perry Adjutant General offers several hundred volumes of the Record of Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish American War to ex soldiers and public libraries. Applicants to this office may receive copies. 10 cents required to cover postage.
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Indiana
Oren Perry
Adjt
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S A. Royster
Gardner's Barber Shop
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C. W. Griffin
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Newby & Teter
Attorneys-at-Law
Office Union Blk
Sheridan, Ind
Sam & Harry Griffin Lawyers Office
Farmers’ Nat. Bank Building
Pearson & Pearson
R. R. Foland
Citizens’ State Bank
Noblesville, Ind
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Sheridan Markets
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