Special Homeseekers Rates and Excursions to Frontier Lands
Burlington bulletin advertises low excursion rates on 1st and 3rd Tuesdays to North Platte Valley Big Horn Basin and other frontier areas. Offers 630 acre homestead opportunities, irrigation literature, and summer tours to Colorado California Puget Sound with teacher meetings and Elks gathering. Includes Western resorts trips to Black Hills Hot Springs Sheridan and Yellowstone Park with Cody tours. Written by Clem Deaver, Homeseekers Information Bureau, Omaha Nebraska.
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North Platte Valley
Big Horn Basin
Frontier
Clem Deaver
Homeseekers’ Information Bureau
Tarnain St
Omiabu
Nebraska
Colorado
California
Puget Sound
San Francisco
Black Hills
Hot Springs
South Dakota
Sheridan
Wyoming
Batan’a Ranch
Big Horn Mountains
Yellowstone Park
Cody
America
Guaranteed Cure For Piles Paro Ointment Ad
Druggists offer a refund if Paro Ointment fails to cure piles in 6 to 14 days. Itching bleeding and protruding piles promoted with a 50 cent price.
Slate in History from Writing Tablets to Roof Coverings
The London Globe notes slate’s long use from ancient writing tablets to durable roofing. It contrasts wax tablets and slate for memory aids with slate’s longevity, explains thinning over time, and compares modern flimsy roofs to ancient slate farms, highlighting slate’s widespread past.
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Greece
Iame
London Globe
Buckleyn Rare Plant Described as Secret Parasite
The Buckleyn, one of America's rarest plants, now survives only at Paint Rock in North Carolina and Wolf Creek in Tennessee. Described by Asa Gray and cited by the New York Herald, it lives as a parasite on Carolina hemlock with petals absent and two kinds of flowers, bearing a long ridged orange drupe fruit.
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America
Paint Rock
North Carolina
Wolf Creek
Tennessee
Asa Gray
Cambridge
Mass
Buckley
New York Herald
Fish distinguish colors and seek matching grottoes
A keeper at an aquarium demonstrates that fish can distinguish colors by guiding red, yellow, and green fish to matching colored grottoes. After rearranging the grottoes and rolling the water, each fish again swims to the grotto of its own color, showing preference for concealment.
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Kish
Aquarium
New York Press
Animals feign death to escape danger
The London Standard discusses how various wild creatures pretend to be dead to avoid predators. Insects and birds such as beetles spiders moor hens and land rails feign limpness and unconsciousness. Possible reasons include evading capture and luring observers into overlooking them.
Vacation Shift Sparks Consumer Goods Industry Change
A teenage girl visits two large hat factories in the city and quickly proves capable at work. She earns wages fast but returns to her visit, saying she will leave for home tomorrow morning, noting the pleasant but brief stay.
Old Japanese Prints and Paper Quality Guide
The collector should judge old Ukiyo-ye by paper quality, seeking soft vibrant fiber texture with surface shadows from dust. Perfect color register guides selection, colors should melt softly into adjoining tones, not harshly bounded by block edges.
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Doru Amsden
The Tinsel Maker of Delhi
A vivid artist description of a tinsel maker in Delhi. The worker squats and threads silk as a spindle spins. The gold tinsel gleams with sunlight turning the silken thread yellow and fiery.
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Deli
Suchas
A Human Salamander Exhibition in Paris
A Spaniard known as Marines drew a scientific crowd in Paris with a remarkable oven stunt. He entered a heated oven for fifteen minutes, temperature around 208 to 312 degrees F, then emerged unharmed after a cold bath. Lee later roasted fowl beside him and repeated the shocking performance. The oven produced foul odors and a strong pulse reading of 176 at entry.
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Livoli
Paris
Lee
The Punishment of the Baxgno In Venice
A historical note describes the baygno punishment in which a prisoner is placed in a vat with rising tidal water. Two scoops are used to remove water as it fills, prolonging a torturous death by immersion. The account links the method to Venice and its lagoon environment.
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Bath
Luly
Venice
Whittier Coined Pun Name Humor in 19th Century
A London Chronicle report credits John Greenleaf Whittier as originator of punning on people's names in the 19th century. It cites Whittier writing a poem titled How Mary Grew in 1871 about anti slavery lecturer Mary Grew visiting Boston. The piece notes the humor sparked by puns like Why did So and so Because Sueh and Sueh.
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Mary Grew
Boston
Whittier
Mary
London Chronicle
Independent St. Louis City Governing Distinct from County
The city of St. Louis operates as an Independent municipality with its own courts, grand jury, jail, and circuit attorney. Since 1878 it has been separated from St. Louis County, remaining an independent subdivision. Clayton is named the courthouse town of the county.
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St. Louis
St. Louis County
Clayton
St. Louis Republic
The Jersey Cow in Dairy Profit and Lifespan
The Jersey cow is a small animal with modest maintenance and a surprising share of food going to profit. It is a persistent milker, rarely dry more than six to eight weeks annually, and has long usefulness in dairy work. Five years cover profitable work, with some cows productive to fifteen, and many profitable into eighteen to twenty one years. Farmer.
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Jersey
Aren't you afraid that horse will run away with somebody
A quoted line from the Washington Star notes Broncho Bob remarks that horses running away are common in Crimson Gulch, but the true danger comes when a man tries to run away with a horse. The exchange captures frontier bravado and rough humor typical of the era.
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Prleud
Broncho Bob
Crimson Gulch
Washington Star
Sorrow of St Husband spat dialogue from Detroit Tribune
A brief fragment records a spat between a husband and wife with lines about fear and shame, attributed to the Detroit Tribune. The exchange presents a domestic quarrel note in a column-like snippet.
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Detroit Tribune
Tradition and Violence Reflections in Human Hearts
The excerpt juxtaposes tradition as a vast camera obscura of memory shaping imagination through love and reverence, while asserting violence defeats itself. It argues persuasion, kindness, and restraint can change minds, noting a secret pride against tyranny and the limits of coercion on respect.
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Arundel
Carlyle
Hazlitt
Proud Mother-Professor Octave Visit Revered Daughter’s Piano
A mother recalls Octave visiting their home today where her daughter performed piano. The professor praised her playing. a neighbor chides the display as unseemly and calls out rude behavior.
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Octave
Proposal and letter plan in JT’s liberal reply
The dialogue notes Pom proposing a reply and asks for a written answer. The responder declines and says JT will provide a more liberal response in two letters.
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Pom
Angelic cook with him on in New Orleans tale
A fragment from the New Orleans Picayne hints at an angelic woman who would cook for the man she loves, noting there was never an angel who would not remove her bleags to serve him.
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New Orleans Picayne
The Origin of a Familiar Saying Example
A Roman tale recounts Aurelius Paulus seeking a divorce and friends debating the match. He lowers his shoe to reveal its hidden pinch, noting wealth virtue beauty and rank fail to reveal personal pain and fault.
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Aurelius Paulus
Biro
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National Biscuit Company
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