Students Governed Medieval Universities Says Sedgwick
An excerpt describes medieval universities where students held power, professors obeyed, and student oaths of obedience defined campus life. It cites Sedgwick’s Italy in the thirteenth century and notes large, diverse student bodies controlling faculty in a vast, early university setting.
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Kears Dwight Sedgwick
Italy
Barbarossa
University of Rbolozna
Sedgwick
Europe
Preyea
Ube
Studers
Thesturs
Didldith
Fragmentary Notes on Euclid and Theorems in Early Texts
Fragmentary OCR text references Euclid and Elements, noting seven parts or books. Mentions questing theorems and the role of scribes, with scattered phrases about mathematics and history. The fragmentary passage lacks a clear narrative or author.
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Wernvici
Tomotte Thapime
Lee Phare
pOounde
Christ
Sears
Narcotic Bullets Tested Amid War Wound Claims
A foreign inventor touts narcotic bullets with morphine carried in the steel jacket. Minor wounds would yield no pain and a soldier might sleep, while serious injuries allegedly cause less agony as the drug is absorbed en route to the hospital.
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Army
Simple Matter of Fact Sparks Bible Question
Lin Jim attended Sunday school weekly but lacks scriptural history. When his sister asked where Solomon's temple stood he angrily retorted that he knew nothing and claimed it was on the side of his forehead just like others.
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Lin Jim
Solomon’s Temple
York's Lower East Side Ghetto A Lasting Orthodox Jewish World
The piece surveys the East Side's Jewish population, describing a vast ghetto east of the Bowery where Yiddish is common, streets bustle with push carts, and a steady exodus of youth to more Americanized areas while new immigrants arrive. It notes limited visible progress from public schools and settlements, persistent Orthodox life, reshaping yet preserving the ghetto atmosphere, with changes in crime, jostling laws, and rising youth drinking.
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Peland
Buormania
Kunscury
Lower East
New York
Bowery
Nehet
Poto
Ireland
Tron Peerman
Praclv
Pheder
Lfe
Essex
Hester
Tme
East Side
Europe
Aip-Town
Bpronx
Brownsville
There Is One Enterprise Into Which Everybody Manages To Get
A fragmentary dialogue notes that the directory is the familiar enterprise many pursue. It mentions remedies and quips about memory and self knowledge, with a tangential reference to eye balsam and wallpaper cleaning. The passage reads like a collection of aphorisms and advertisements.
No Contortioniist Exchange
A terse dialogue clip shows Fat Man and Hoothiack confirming a shine check with brief exchanges and mutual endorsement. The line suggests a satirical or surreal scene focused on trust in a simple visual verification.
Hints on Home Hints and Subversive Edged Advice
Readers discuss helpful magazines and a provocative home hints column that mentions creating a suffragette bomb from a tomato can. The reference hints at wartime or radical era discourse, blending domestic magazines with political violence implications.
Cats and dogs for sea voyage spark humorous plan
A playful exchange envisions nautical pets aboard, joking about a cat boat for Angoras and the Pom eranians riding in a bark as part of a lighthearted dialogue.
Mrs Skinner Runs Boarding House Questioned
In a village exchange Mrs Outertown wonders if Mrs Skinner keeps boarders. Hubbel replies she does take boarders but does not keep them. The brief exchange ends with a light jab about miram.
Carved Promises On Birch Tree By The Lake
On the last day of his vacation Henry carves the woman’s name on a birch tree and asks her to wait until next summer. She answers yes and he adds his initials beside hers, sealing a hopeful pact.
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Henry
Quiet Parish Records First Marriage in Fifteen Years
In Clannaborough North Devon a village of 42 residents the last marriage occurred 15 years ago. The recent ceremony involved non parishioners with the bride from St Austell and the groom from Exmouth, who is the rector's brother in law.
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Clannaborough
Devon
England
St. Austell
Exmouth
Dine Together 12 Persons and Endless Arrangements
A professor notes that twelve people dining daily in unique seat orders would need 15 million years to exhaust all possible arrangements at one meal per day, totaling over 47 million dinners, as Uncle Pepys and Judge quip about endless permutations.
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Uncle Pepys
Grape Nuts Endorsement for Healthy Old Age
A promoter argues Grape-Nuts and Postum suit aging digestion, citing an Iowa user who praises endurance, regularity, and mental clarity after long use. The ad claims natural wheat phosphates aid muscle and nerve development, noting the cereal’s whole grains and diastase-treated barley.
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Iowa
Witness Confusion In St Louis Assault Case
A St Louis witness in an assault case claimed to be eighty four but clarified her age was a bust measurement. During cross examination she stated she was born in St Louis in July and gave details of the fight witnessed near the river.
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St. Louis
Pimples and Skin Cure Mentioned in 1913 Ad
Miss Marguerite E. Jacobs of Dayton Ohio describes a yearlong pimples and itching problem on her face neck arms and back. After trying creams she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and reports immediate itching relief and full recovery.
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Howard St
Dayton
Ohio
Marguerite E. Jacobs
Cuticura
Dept. L. Boston
Woman Feels 10 Years Younger After Pinkham's Compound
Louisville and Romayor letters claim Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured weakness and nervous exhaustion. Mrs Louise White of Louisville says she feels ten years younger and able to work. Mrs Viola Jasper of Romayor reports relief from displacement and bladder trouble after use. Letters note confidential guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Louisville, Ky
Lydia
Pinkham
Lwze Wite Lis
Bank St
Romayor
Texas
Lydia E.pinkham
Viola Jasper
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
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