Fragmented queries on historical figures and literary names
A garbled list asks about Buchanan Read Lombax Blisur pyran and Hardy authors plus many 18th century figures. It mentions Marvell Ampere Wren Paine Akenside Steele Tickell and Lodge Tooke Howe Cumming Ware and others, seeking biographical or context clues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Warner
Andrew Marvell
Edward W ‘Hymper
Richard Boyle
Paine
Mark Akenside
Thoma Tickell
Richard Steele
Gerge A. Sala
Willian
Henry
Cabot Lodge
John Horne
Gordon Cumming
G. Wee
Cna Howe
Rollins
Household fritter batter and turkey soup recipe notes
A jumble of kitchen instructions covers fritter batter, turkey soup, lamb steaks with unusual seasoning, chicken fritters, and cudfish hash. It includes steps for mixing, frying, and serving, plus a church meeting anecdote about unmarried ladies at a weekly prayer gathering.
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Regia
Charlotte News
Monopolies, law limits and a Christian call to reform
In an oration attributed to Dr. Talmage, the speaker warns that great wealth concentrates power and threatens liberty. He argues for limits on accumulation, cites Rome and Greece as warnings, praises reformers, and urges peaceful action over violence to curb plutocracy. He invokes Joan of Arc and Shakespeare to reinforce justice and does not advocate unrest but steady pen and protest.
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T. DeWitt Talmage
Victor Hugo
Rome
Greece
France
Shakespeare
Joan of Arc
Orleans
Parallel Pendulum of Witty Fragments and Lessons
A collection of humorous vignettes and moral anecdotes from a past era. Jests about professors and geography mix with childlike wisdom and a few railway quips. The pieces highlight social manners, wit, and gentle humor through brief, pointed exchanges.
A Girl's Composition on Boys in Ticklish Style
A humorous voice reflects on gender roles with wry lines about boys. It jokes that men were created to improve on Adam and Eve, notes girls become women, and quips that boys are troublesome except for soap. The narrator praises her papa as unusually kind.
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God
Adam
Eve
Whale tale from Morehead City captain ends with big catch
Capt. Jim Willis of Morehead City tells a yarn about a whale encounter off Morehead, describing a dramatic harpoon battle, a toppled boat, and a 62 foot 3 and a half inch whale netted near the pier. The carcass yielded $3,500 in oil and baleen, and the tale closes with a lifelong memory.
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Arctic
Morehead City
N. C
Washington Evening Star
Jim Willis
Jim
Normandie
Morehead
New Bedford
Sues
Alexandria
Abdallah
Hannah
Manilla
Items of Interest from Various Cities and Notes
Portland reportedly has 120 millionaires while Galveston handles 700000 bales of cotton yearly. Denver honors Gov. James W. Denver, Chicago built a $4400000 courthouse and city hall, and Troy, N Y, yields over $4000000 in stove production annually. Cincinnati reports $280000000 yearly in goods manufactured, Jacksonville has two hotels valued above $5000000, and St Albans VT ranks among major butter markets. Also noted are European wages, Arabia customs, cotton seed oil, an Orzen legend, European beer totals, Wyoming mineral wealth, a Cincinnati inauguration anecdote, Delphi statue news, and a rescue tale from a Virginia well.
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Galveston
Denver
James W. Denver
Kansas
Chicago
Troy
N. Y
Cincinnati
Jacksonville
St. Albans
Louisville
Falla City
Falls
Ohio
Charleston
D. C
New York
Hartford
America
Butte City
Prussia
Europe
Italy
England
Arabia
Orzen
Thebes
Pall Mall Gazette
Ross
Wyoming
Cleveland
Delphi
Apollo
Apollo of
Tenea
Munich
F. A. Lewis
Howardaville
Conundrum Caps Chicago Tribune Exchange Prattle
A Chicago Tribune exchange editor and a financial editor spar over a river pun. The back and forth grows heated as each man shoots alternative explanations about why a river is like boxing, before bystanders intervene.
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Chicago Tribune Exchange
Perkins on Woman Suffrage in Perkins Letters
A Michigan voter unable to read is challenged by Susan B. Anthony at a polling place. Anthony explains the ballot’s meaning as extending suffrage to women. The exchange highlights attitudes toward women voting and Anthony’s persuasive reply.
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Michigan
Susan B. Anthony
Miss Anthony
Truly a Serious Case Joke at Ontario Drugstore
An elderly Ontario doctor and pharmacist recounts a peppery physician who jokes with patients. A well dressed man asks for treatment for a rash on his left arm. The doctor pronounces psoriasis and eczema and jokes about cure time as the man reveals his artificial arm.
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Ontario
It Is Me Jesus A Little Girl Seeks Salvation
In a south London religious gathering a timid girl asked prayer without naming herself. During silent prayers a back‑row voice spoke up clearly declaring it was her, saying it is me Jesus it is me, seeking salvation.
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London
Jesus
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Buchanan
Blisur Pyran
Ore
Db P
Mas Hardy
Wilde
Kate
Bert
Mattie
Harper's
Great Northern Railway
Y. F
School of Journalism
Nellie
Portland
Eli Perkins
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