Little Bennie A Christmas Tale Of Uncle Amos
A rhymed Christmas tale unfolds with Bennie, his mother, and Uncle Amos. The poem follows Bennie’s shy joy as gifts arrive, the family’s simple meals, and a later memory of a father’s blessing. Amos Green's family reflects on love, prayer, and the Christmas spirit across scenes of home and rural life.
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Amos
Kissa
Merry Mars
Tim
Bennie
Shisha
Basie
Beanie Moore
Green
Anais Prue
Becayce
Frutteen
Nigel
Ieee
Greco
Benale
Hove
Bhakor
Amos Green
The Christmas Stocking Grusny Monthly Tale
The text blends a child’s Christmas fantasy with a column on the Washington Monument. It recalls a child’s wish list and Santa while detailing Colonel Casey’s foundation work and the interior limestone and stone inscriptions for the monument. The piece notes the monumental weight, the new foundation, and the plan for inscribed stones from states and regions.
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Colonel Casey
Colonel C
Lipidarium
Aes Eels Mae
Paros
Nixos
Braddock
Capitol
Casey
Chicago
Inter Ocean
The Mistletoe Legend in Old Homes and Myths
A study of the Christmas mistletoe custom in old English households and its ritual penalties, tracing its Druids era origins and Norse Balder myths. The piece details festive practices, protective beliefs, and mythic significance across cultures.
Doctor Redeems Patient and Wins Marriage Pact
A young physician saved a dying girl after other doctors gave up. The father offered payment and requested marriage to the daughter as compensation. The girl declined, noting the doctor’s care and honest billing. The wedding is planned shortly.
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Abe
Patt
Lady Seas
Doce
Gompenskat
Ans
Hattie
Hattie Biu
Sea-Gary
Cigeago
Seean
What the Chinese Believe on Mortality and Immortality
A North China Herald article surveys early Chinese ideas of immortality. It traces ancestral worship, the afterlife, and the dual view that present life is light while the future is darkness. It notes the shift toward communication with the supernatural and alchemical notions tied to immortality and cosmography.
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North China Herald
China
Three Dollar Dowry On Jelly Fish Isle Surprises Sailors
Coral Cor. Celestial Empire reports on a rocky island inhabited by 20 Chinese and 1,000 goats where jellyfish traders arrive in spring. The island shows dilapidated bamboo houses, sunken sampans, and a North Saddle resident famed for piloting ships and entering the jelly fish trade. A bride dowry of nine dollars funds the new venture, per the captain’s word.
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Umuccessful
Bunny
Chins
North Saddle
Shanghai
Shandtieai
North Sadile
Cor
Celestial Empire
Water Makes Up Most Body Parts And Life
The article notes that water comprises about three fourths of the body’s muscles and blood, with cartilage brain and marrow also highly water rich. It stresses water’s role in dissolving elements, enabling chemical changes, and carrying away wastes, while claiming humans can live far longer without food than without water. It cites the American Journal of Medical Sciences and mentions a stark example of suffering and a crude remedy involving baking soda and toast.
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American Journal of Medical Sciencs
Reading for the Young: A Christmas Tale and Silk Worms
A mixed tale for children recounts a Christmas tree visit by Santa and May Deane, then explains the life of silk-worms from mulberry leaves to cocoons. It blends gentle moral notes with a science education moment about silkworm life cycles and moths.
Little May Deane Asks Santa Claus For Christmas
In a snowy town a girl May Deane wonders why Santa never visits the Days family who live in a small house with a stove-pipe chimney. May considers writing Santa a letter asking him to find a way to bring Christmas gifts to Nora and her sister.
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Sra
Nora
Nannie
Bess
Mamma
Pipa
Santa Claus
White House
Deane
Carleton
Day
May Deane
Wick
Bother
May
Anid May
Miteria
Abe
Fire and Water Threaten Oil Regions in Prosperity Era
Fire and water menace oil districts as gas flashes from a well ignite, blasting a hundred feet into the air and wrecking the derrick. Sparks, heat, and burning oil sweep across fields, with tanks and wells exploding, risking lives and large property loss across the valley. The 1862 Blood farm incident cited as a frightening precedent.
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Elsy
Blood Farm
Oil Creek
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