The Stubborn Dub and the Thor Yeast Debacle
The Stubborn Dub, a copyman at Tompkins Advertising nicknamed for his stubborn ideas, creates the name Thor Yeast and a slogan that fail to win United Yeast. He is fired, vanishes for a year, then returns as Thor Yeast president after selling a stake, gifting Winnie Farrel a wedding present and leaving her reconsidering Smith.
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Peter Stone
Tompkins Advertising Agency
Winnie Farrel
Winnie
United Toast Company
Tompkins
Dub
Mr. Tompkins
United Yeast Company
Thor Yeast
Smith
Paul Smith
Thor Yeast Company
Yeast
How Igorotes Came to Use Formal Salutation
Pathfinder Magazine recounts Mrs. Alice McKay Kelly teaching the Igorotes a respectful greeting during early American rule in the Philippines. A chieftain, after sardines and a shared moment, repeated the phrase and led his people to adopt the English salutation "Good morning, Mrs. Kelly" for foreigners.
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Mrs. Kelly
Mra Kelly
Pathfinder Magazine
Nothing to Worry About
The dialogue snippets reveal a melodramatic exchange of romantic duplicity with a speaker noting infidelity and another declaring noncommitment. The understated lines suggest a domestic or dramatic scene focused on trust and deception.
Priestly Heroes Died in Massacres of New Mexico Priests
New York World reports Franciscan records show 51 priests died from 1542 to 1696 while Christianizing Pueblo Indians. Clashes peaked in 1680 with a Pueblo uprising killing many Spaniards. 31 missionaries fell in one day across pueblos.
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New Mexico
Franciscan Fathers
Southwest
Juan de Padilla
Gram Quivera
Tiguex
Pecos
Mexico
New York World
Mixed religious practices among Southwest tribes reported
In Ysleta Texas the oldest Southwest tribe reportedly blends pagan rites with Roman Catholic formalism, surviving primitive worship on the Rio Grande despite missionary efforts. A separate Southwest Texas tale notes Seminole Negroes near Brackettville worship with Christmas ending Lent, pork allowed, and tea as sacramental drink, blending African and Indigenous influences.
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Ysleta
Texas
Southwest
Rio Grande
Baltimore Sun
Brackettville
Africa
Etruria in History and its Rise and Fall
Etruria was a northern Italian region west of the Tiber and Apennines, including the Arno valley. It contained twelve independent cities forming a confederation. The Etruscans were highly advanced, allied with Carthage, and at their peak around 500 B C before Rome's rise reduced them to tributaries by 309 B C.
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Etruria
Italy
Tiber
Apennine Mountains
Arno
Tuscany
Rome
Etruscans
B. C
Carthage
Ambition prompts a large order in a crowded eatery
A weary man demands a whole roast chicken and insists on serving himself. He rejects partial portions, complains the kitchen would usually cut the bird into preferred parts, and clarifies he will dine alone to control the servings.
Louisiana Parishes Replace Counties in 1807 Reorganization
After the United States acquired the territory, it first divided it into 12 counties. The arbitrary division proved ineffective for governance, leading in 1807 to a reorganization that used the old Spanish parishes as the new basis, hence the term parish replacing county.
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State of
Louisiana
United States
Hammer friend of farmer hummer described in cor respondent
A cor respondent writes about the ruby throated male hummingbird. After courtship and nest building the hammer husband may desert the mate leaving her to hatch the eggs and rear the young. The birds earn their survival through beauty and by feeding on minute injurious insects.
Weather watchers on Mount Washington in the 1870s
A writer in the American Magazine recalls winter observers who lived in a stone house on Mount Washington. They recorded winds often reaching 150 miles per hour with a peak gust of 186 miles per hour, described as three or four times a train’s speed.
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Mount Washington
American Magazine
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Western Newspaper Union
Princeton
Princeton University
Big Bill” Edwards
New York
Parke Davis
Easton
Nassau Hall
MacMillan
Arctic
Bowdoin
Sachem
Wiscasset
Maine
MacMillan Field Museum
Greenland
Donald MacMillan
Richard E. Byrd
Floyd Bennett
North Pole
Roman C. Warren
Milton Bridge
Riverside
Callf
Really Chaplin
Charles Chaplin
Napoleon
Bonaparte
Raquel Mellar
Senator Overman
Lee
Overman
North Carolina
Senate
Hammer
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