Polar Explorers Teach Geography On Alpine Trek And Polar Hardships
In a lively report from New York, Prof. Goss describes Indiana pupils trekking the Vosges and Swiss Alps, blending mountaineering with geography and history lessons. The journey covers snowbound climbs, border crossings, and a cross country voyage by sleds, framing solitude and home ties as central to polar life.
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Switzerland
Alps
William Tell
Four Forest Cantons
Rigi-Rothstock
Interlaken
Jungfrau
Monch
Eiger
Busch Hays
George Fitzgerald
Matterhorn
Domo D’ossala
Lake Maggiore
Locarno
St. Gotthard
Altdorf
Flacia
Thorwaldsen
Schaffhausen
Rhine Falls
Black Forest
Strassburg
Paris
Monte Carlo
David K. Goss
His Prayer in a New York Nursery Tale
A five year old, punished after an attempted strangling of the family cat, sobs in the nursery and prays to God to become a cherub. He pleads that his mother will stop whipping him, saying he has been bad and asks for wings and a halo. The piece preserves a child’s plea amid household discipline.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Fancy
Charles Dickens
A Study in Philology. New York Times Mystery Text
Excerpt shows a fragmented scene with Morgiana, forty thieves, a robber captain, Ali Baba, and an unclear reception of a signal. The prose reveals garbled dialogue and incomplete phrases, suggesting a literary or translation issue rather than a clear news item. No resolvable event or date is identifiable.
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New York Times
Morgiana
Anary
Ali Baba
The Soldier's Farewell Poem Excerpt
Poem by Paul Mason reflects mournful farewell as a soldier contemplates death and reunion after battle. It contrasts Neptune's realm with Eden and questions life, death, and the hereafter while longing for a beloved presence.
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Paul Mason
Joe Jefferson recalls Walnut Street Camille mishap on stage
In a reminiscence, Joseph Jefferson recounts a Walnut Street Theater memory from Camille where a servant entered with a candelabra. A toppled candle ignited ice cream, producing a blaze and causing the audience to laugh as the curtain had to come down.
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New York Times
Joseph Jefferson
Walnutstreet Theater
Philadelphia
Camille
Armand
Mr. Jefferson
Sea Island
Life or Death Prank Calls Spur Quick Action
A Duluth News-Tribune anecdote recalls a chaotic call where a caller demands an emergency rig and a crucial phone number, insisting it is life or death. The unnamed participant forgets the firm's name and the operator, Central, prompts the caller to reattempt. The line ends with the receiver hung up.
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Duluth
Minn
News-Tribune
Kidder
Central
Muay Century and the Lure of Literature
A speaker admits never reading much yet praises books as a good pursuit for addicts of lithrachoor, noting moderation after chores. He jokes about owning every fine lithographic work if money allowed, while observing friends could borrow if they avoided other stimulants. He nods to Hogan's idea that reading makes a full man, warning it can be detrimental if taken too far.
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North Pole
Polar
Annals of Science
Anny
Hogan's
Alice Meynell Essaysaled Critics With Emma Carleton Quotes
Emma Carleton defends Alice Meynell by publishing quotations from Meynell's essays. The remarks cover spirit of place, bells, simple bread, forest harvests, waters and air, hill climbs, birds, shadows of the earth, Blake, Dickens, and Carroll, showcasing Meynell's reflections on literature, nature, and imagination.
Illumination Seen In Morning Spirit Of Sleep
The passage describes a man abroad at a time when sleep and dreams claimed his eyes, enabling a spiritual illumination. Morning is perceived by the spirit of the hours of sleep, shaping a dreamlike insight into awakening.
Fragmentary medieval medical ventriloquy remembered
Disjointed OCR passage recalls ancient remedies and torturous medieval practices. It mentions leeches and grotesque teething cures, including a bizarre “live movie” in a brase pot and hanging bodies to dry by a fire, illustrating unsafe historical medical ideas.
Wound care lore and ancient antidotes in a torn era
A fragment mentions a surgical wound set with blood and four letters A O G L, then cites a folk antidote with walnuts figs rye leaves and salt. It notes a Philadelphia collector paying ten dollars for a Western railroad advertisement and an old document fading at Washington.
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Philadelphia
Western
Department of State
Washington
James D. McBride
Scarce Decl of Independence copies prompt record inquiry
The Philadelphia Record reports several readers asked if the original Declaration of Independence is in See and whether duplicate copies exist. Facsimiles were once common for advertising items, but authentic copies are now very scarce and hard to obtain.
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Philadelphia
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Indiana
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Breusch
Donon
Rhine
Basel
Mannheim
Alsace
Raon
Max Parry
St. Die
Martin Waldmuelter
America
Waldmueller
Wuertemberg
Ferry
Jules Ferry
Charles
Chamber of Deputies
Vosges Crest
Saales
Urmatt
Eden
Joe Jefferson
Dooley
Johnnie
Farmer Wayback
Jobnnie
de Bridie
the Hygienic Food Co. Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
Alice Meynell
Chesnut Woods
Vatican
Midway Earth
Blake
Dickens
David Harum
Alice
Old Vincennes
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Indianapolis Journal
Atlas Department
Indianapolis, Ind
Ents
Puck
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