Pirates Plot to Recover Plate and Sail the Gypsy
Captain Pope and Captain Crystal discuss a plan to seize a silver plate worth up to fifteen hundred pounds from Pope’s aunt. They plot a sea raid to Margate, hire a small cutter, and recruit a crew by leveraging Crossman the publican. They seek a vessel and three men willing to join the venture, with Crossman promising to identify potential hires at Greenwich.
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Pope
Jackman
Crystal
Captain Pope
Updown
Margate
Mitre
Rotherhithe
Wiliam Crossman
Captain Crystal
Carmperdown
Angelica
Crossman
William
Black Flag
Hamburg
Callythem
Robert Bobbin
Bobbin
Jem Marling
Rock Street
Greenwich
Oddities In Pet Names Across Cultures
A columnist notes how terms of endearment vary by language and culture. French phrases like my little pig and my little puppy dog convey affection, while similar terms elsewhere may insult. A German general reportedly called his wife my little kernel of coffee, and a writer on fishing calls his wife my dear little speckled trout.
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Mme. Narcisse ‘Duck
Egyptian Cigarettes Prompt Local Street Talk
Street chatter notes husky Henry and gritty George discussing Egyptian cigarettes. Henry warns they cause sickness while George recalls a man with a violet stamped name on the pack. The snippet captures casual urban slang and cigarette lore.
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Husky Henry
George
Shooting Remains The Most Common Self-Inflicted Method
The report notes that shooting is the prevalent method of death by one’s own action, highlighting its prominence in suicide statistics and public health concern.
Reciprocity debate on Canadian imports hurts American farmers
Michigan Farmer argues against free entry of Canadian wheat and other staples, saying cheaper Canadian goods would lower American prices and harm farmers. The piece contends Canadians seek US reciprocity to boost their Northwest development at American labor and capital expense, aided by Minnesota millers.
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St. Paul
Minneapols
Minnesota
Canada
United States
Great Northwestern Territory
Lake Superior
Pacific
Liverpool
Great Britain
Dominion
Canadian
Canadian Northwest
Europe
Michigan
Senator Hanna Tariff Praise Provokes NY Evening Post
The New York Evening Post mocked Senator Hanna's defense of a protective tariff as a path to prosperity. It ridiculed his praise of Roosevelt and the tariff as a miraculous force behind national wealth, arguing that protection alone unlocked forests and mines for Americans.
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Party of Protection
Hanna
New York Evening Post
The
Evening Post
Roosevelt
Ohio Idea of the Tariff Supported by Republicans
The Ohio idea favors preserving the protective tariff and opposing any changes or free trade shifts. It argues for limited readjustments only by friends of American prosperity and rejects Democratic tariff revision. The stance aligns with most of the nation and warns against handing the system to Democrats.
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Iowa
Ohio
Friends of American Prosperity
Ohio Republicans
Republican Party
New York Press
Why Eve Plucked the Apple Parlor Quip Sparked Dinner Talk
The anecdote recounts a dinner where Theodosia Garrison listens as a guest cites apples as brain boosters due to phosphoric acid. The poetess quips Eve plucked the apple to fuel Adam with ideas in a humorous aside.
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Theodosia Garrison
Adam
New York Times
Corner in Soup Bones Blames Cleveland Soup House Policy
The Democratic critics, including the Donaldsonville Chief, blame Cleveland for soup houses that rose in his era, asserting any Democratic president would face cornered soup bones regardless of tariff views. The piece defends Cleveland as a true Democrat who did not intend such outcomes.
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Cleveland
Donaldsonville
Protection Insures Prosperity
A brief editorial asserts that prosperity rests on protection enabling independent work, claiming good times endure despite droughts or strikes as long as protection lasts. It argues on national policy sustaining economic strength through self reliance and safeguards.
Republican tariff policy praised by Ohio platform
The Ohio Republican platform credits protective tariffs with making the United States the leading industrial nation, boosting foreign commerce, raising farmer prosperity, and elevating living standards for labor to new heights.
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Republican Party
United States
Ohio Republican Platform
Prices Still Declining Under Dingley Law Insights
Dun's index shows prices in May 198,561 lower than for 17 months except one period. Wages continue to rise, benefiting income earners who gain both ways under the Dingley law’s framework noted in the report.
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Dun
Bears Can Love A New York Sun Story Says
A Bronx zoo visitor recounts a tale from Gloucester Massachusetts about polar and brown bears showing affection. He describes befriending a bear in Minnesota and later discovering it recognized him in Colorado, concluding bears can love and never forget.
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Zoological Park
Bronx
Gloucester
Maas
Peregrinate
Minnesota
Mississippi
Je “T
Keokuk
Colorado
New York Sun
Reading as a Book Metaphor of Women
A critic compares three women to different book types. Marianna embodies dull binding, Isabelle resembles a cook’s manual for careless handling, and Aramigna carries argumentative tract with sharp retorts. Daphne, by contrast, is a vellum volume of wit, poetry, and human joy.
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Isabelle
Daphne
C. Leech
Origin of the Dictionary Through Ages
Dr Murray corrects the common belief that dictionaries are a modern invention. Dictionaries grew from monk glosses written alongside manuscripts in Latin or English. Glosses evolved into translations and glossaries, then rudimentary alphabetical word lists in Latin English by 1000 A D. English revival followed the Norman conquest, not until the fifteenth century.
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Johnson
Murray
Weat Point Buildings
In the coming years 6500000 will be spent on new facilities at the Military Academy at Wrest Point to match architectural features dormitories lecture rooms laboratories and other buildings with those of great universities.
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Weat Point
Military Academy
Wrest Point
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Marianna
Araminiag
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