Week in Review Highlights Monuments and Education
Gen J E B Stuart’s funeral honors set over Gen Edward Johnson’s tomb as planned grave markers shift. Russia reports rising female medical students. Indiana’s school system educates 500k children with 2,000 officers and a $4 million yearly cost, urging trained teachers. Moorish building for Spain’s centennial display, guards to parade in uniform. Belle Linthicum and Senator Christiancy wed. Parton scandal looms in Newburyport. Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Florida land figures show large undisposed tracts. Memphis hosts carnival February 20 with new attractions. Rumors touch Lou Count DeNoses and a mysterious exhibit.
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Indiana
A Barbecue Funeral in a Texas Border County
In 1865 Twan recalls a barbecue funeral in a Texas border county. A farmer’s death led to a large gathering, a moonlit boat ride, and a solemn service under pines with a minister’s exegesis. Afterward, a sunlit banquet drew town and country folk to feast and gossip amid vivid rural detail.
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Twan
Texas
Ella
Beauty and Queen Elizabeth in History and Art
A critical survey traces diverse meanings of beauty across cultures and history. It notes Elizabeth I’s aging portrayal, Ristori’s stage interpretation, and quotes from Plato to Swift, Bacon to Taylor, on beauty's power, fashion, and social impact. It also includes a strange lime-eye treatment anecdote and a wry remark about newlyweds wearing cotton in their ears.
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Queen Elizabeth
Ristori
Elizabeth
Socrates
Plato
Theophrastus
Aristotle
Esther
Dean Swift
Lord Bacon
Mediterranean
Mary of Scots
Clopatra
Lady Macbeth
Lucretia Borgia
Leigh Hunt
Jeremy Taylor
Aytoun
Mary Montagu
Druggista
Odd Bits and Patches From a Distant Era
A collage of quirky anecdotes and wry observations references marriage fraud in leap year, railroads in the Indies, a Northern Indiana bed, a bronze American Girl statue plan in Elmira, and a crafty map agent who sells “country” maps by improv.
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East Indies
Elmira
New York
Fragmentary Waiting Note Hints at Past Marriage
The readable portions suggest a reminiscence about a marriage prior to now with references to waiting years and a sewer man informing her. Details are incomplete and names or dates are not clear in the surviving text.
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Sandwich
Tower of
Babylon
To-day and Tomorrow In The Special War Poem
The fragment presents a wartime poem with lines on fear and resolve. It references Bri20HW Boyle O’Reilly and mentions waves, torrents, and the idea that the struggle continues from today into tomorrow, conveying a call to persevere.
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Boyle O'Reilly
Jets
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Hetak
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