Bread and Brides Across Cultures in Wedding Customs
The article surveys diverse marriage rites from Sweden to Burma, detailing symbolic foods and acts. It notes bread gifts in Sweden, bonbons in Servia, wheat and bread rituals at thresholds, and wine shared during the first meal, with examples from Russia, Holland, Norway, China, Hebrew, Egyptian, Burmese, Mandalay, and Philippine traditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Servia
Holland
Burma
Mandalay
Philippines
Mexican Libel Laws Stifle Press In Communicado Detentions
The article explains Mexico's strict libel laws allow editors to be jailed under arrest without public contact. Editors face investigation and suppression. offices are sealed and guarded. If deemed grave, the paper is shut, many cases end with the paper not surviving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Linme
Pittsburg Dispatch
Mothers of Great Men
A Philadelphia Inquirer item surveys mothers of famous figures from Chopin to Darwin. It notes diverse influences from musical talent and reading habit to elegance of deportment and conversational wit shaping their sons.
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Mothers OF
Sydney Smith
Haydn
Gibbon
Charles Darwin
Philadelphia Inquirer
Skull Borers and the Serbs A Violent Belief
A historical note describes Serbs scattered across Ottoman and Balkan regions practicing vendetta based on blood feuds. Bullet holes in skulls are common and unwritten law demands equal retaliation. A niche trade has emerged for trepanners who bore holes and guarantee healing in two weeks for a moderate fee.
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Servia
Turkey
Montenegro
Bosnia
Hungary
Farmer Jones's Barnyard Night Intruder Incident
In the barnyard Farmer Jones confronted a colored neighbor found bolt upright between the chicken coop and barn. After a sharp blow to the head the intruder awoke asking where he was and alleging he had been walking in his sleep. The incident was reported in the New York Herald.
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Farmer Jones
New York Herald
A Feminine Sherlock Spark A Chin Powder Joke
A witty exchange in the Chicago News features Mrs Z explaining she keeps a powder puff on her chin so her husband will blow on it to reveal his breath and his observant nature. Mrs A questions the motive and earns a playful reply.
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Mrs. A
The Labor of Her Life Domestic Talk Cooks Topic
Two men discuss household tasks and a cook in a fragment from a Detroit Free Press item. The brief exchange hints at domestic life and labor inside a home setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wwe
Detroit Free Press
Declaration of Independence signing location noted
In the Indianapolis News James asks where the Declaration of Independence was signed and is told to look at the bottom for the answer.
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James
Indianapolis News
Vagaries of the Tides and Ocean Currents Across Worlds
The piece surveys numerous unpredictable ocean phenomena and currents in the Pacific, Atlantic, and around Cape of Good Hope, noting bores in Severn and Hugh rivers, the Fundy tide, and Singapore’s single daily rise, while dismissing a single governing rule or moon control.
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Pacific
Atlantic
Cape of Good Hope
Java
Strait of Sunda
Caribbean Sea
Cape Horn
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
American
Florida
Strait of Gibraltar
Mediterranean Sea
Billiton Island
China Sea
Luzon
Severn Side
Hugh
Irawaddy
Bay of Fundy
Southampton
Singapore
London
Private Gambling in Russia including roulette rooms
The London Candid friend notes Russian gambling exceeds English levels with roulette and faro. Roulettes run in high society salons where the bank is kept by wealthy hostesses and invited nobles. High stakes risks ruin, while princesses profit from bank takings.
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Russia
England
London
Society of St. Petersburg
Height Limits of Balloons Explored by Berlin Institute
A balloon size and gas type determine altitude. A 42 000 cubic foot balloon with one passenger reaches 20 000 feet with illuminating gas or 27 000 feet with hydrogen. To rise higher, larger balloons are needed, a 300 000 cubic foot balloon funded by the German emperor enabling experiments on the atmosphere’s highest regions.
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Royal Meteorological Institute of Berlin
Meteorological Institute
Harper’s Magazine
A Bad Way to Feed Birds
French physicians warn that feeding birds from the mouth to the beak may cause a parasitic throat and lung infection. The practice, common among pet bird owners, has been linked to fatal cases in young European birds and should be avoided.
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Europe
Development of Envy In the Minds of the Lower Grade of Bipeds
A witty exchange described in Baltimore American features a professor and his wife arguing over eggplant seed. The professor coldly notes jealousy and proceeds to draft a twenty page article titled The Development of Envy In the Minds of the Lower Grade of Bipeds.
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Baltimore American
Emotion Wasted in Dramatic Exchange
A melodrama scene features an emotional girl remarking on a villain’s death while an old lady coolly notes the villain would have died and questions the quantity of cigarettes he smoked.
Plans in the Mint Highlight Money Schemes
The Philadelphie Bulletin notes that plans within the mint are nearly all about schemes involving money, signaling concern over financial manipulation and corruption.
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Philadelphie Bulletin
How the Chinese Get Rain
A report from the New York Commercial Advertiser describes Chinese rainmaking practices. It notes borrowing deities, temple wells with iron tables, and tablets exchanged between districts. Rain prayers target months five and six, with a ten day window and bans on umbrellas during ceremonies.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Thief Among the Angels Joke Recalls Cambridge Mayor
In a humorous exchange, Spurgeon tells Cambridge mayor the angels have no pockets so a thief in heaven would steal feathers from wings. The mayor corrects the anecdote and Spurgeon vows to set the record straight with his congregation.
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Cambridge
Spurgeon
Heaven
Black glass mirror used for divination in India
The London Chronicle notes a new black mirror device for prophecy. A native boy gazes at a spot of ink, now replaced by a black glass mirror set in wood, claimed to offer the same second sight more cleanly.
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India
London Chronicle
Suspicious Umbrella Borrowing Rumor at Home
Greene suspects Ketchum of hidden designs after he borrows an umbrella and returns it early the next morning. Brown questions what Ketchum has done lately. The exchange appears in a Boston Transcript context.
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Greene
Ketchum
Brown
Boston Transcript
An Obliging Husband
A San Francisco Chronicle quote notes a husband offers a large reward for a dog to please his wife. The wife questions the bounty. he insists the dog is dead, implying the reward will not bring him back.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Washington man vanishes suddenly or gradually
The line ponders a disappearance tale from Washington noting the contrast between a sudden vanish and a gradual one. It reflects a newspaper quip about chaotic reporting and public interest in disappearance stories.
1694 Bank of England capital stood at £4,200,000
The record notes that in 1694 the Bank of England had a capital of four million two hundred thousand pounds. It asks what this amount would be equivalent to in today’s terms.
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Bank of G@Qngland
County Surveyor Services in Crower Building
Office in Crower building on the east side of the square offers land surveying civil engineering mine surveying and drainage of wet lands as specialties. Orders by mail receive prompt attention.
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Crower
Beavy James R Brown BJASLEY & BROWN Title Experts
Abstractors of titles in Bullioa county offer examination and perfection of titles. Specialize in careful estate management and settlement. Office located in Coffman block, Hast side public square.
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Josh Beavy James R
Brown Bjasley & Brown
Bullioa
Coffman Blocy Hast Side Public Square
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J. W. Hunt & CO
McCammon
Sullivan Ind
Sullivan County Loan Co
C. H. Stratton
M’cr
Sullivan, Tud
W. H. Morsz
M. D
Bureau of Materia Medica
Society of Science
T. J. Hunt
Merom
HUNT
Ind
New York
Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia
Pullman
Allegheny Mountains
Harper’s Ferry
W. P. Townsend
Vincennes
O. P. McCarty
Gen
Cincinnati
Bread and Brides
China
Gourod
Chopin
Schumann
Spohr
Milton
Raleigh
Goethe
Wordsworth
Celestial Kingdom
THE
Washington
Sullivan
David Crawley
Roy Wom
Liston & Hazelrigg, Agts
Davis Block
Sullivan, Ted
W. H. Hill Sr
General Insurance
Sullivan State Bank
E.R. Riggs
New Davis Block
Sullivan, Ind
L. A. Stewart
ART Dentistry
West
Washington Street
John T. Hays
Will H. Hays
Attorneys-at-law
Indiana
Arthur D. Cutler
Carlisle I Indians
S.c.chaney
A.G. McNabb
Southside
John S. Bays
W.F. Wood
Isaac H. Kally
George W. Buff
W. P. Stratton
Buff & Stratton
Coffman
Northeast Corner Public Square
R.h.crowder
J.R. Crowder
R. H. Crowper &Son
Crowde’s Block
Bad Side Square
Sullivan, Syd
Walter N. Thompson
R. L. Bailey
C. H. Edwards
Public Square
Cuanry & MoNasp
J. A. _ Mattix
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