American Architecture and Gothic Revival Debate
The essay discusses developing a distinctly American architectural style driven by climate and materials. It criticizes foreign copying, favors vernacular forms, and surveys Gothic revival, Queen Anne, and Tudor influences as suitable paths for domestic buildings in the United States.
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Horace Walpole
Stewart
Reveit
Pugin
Hircat
Ruskin
England
America
Normar Shaw
J. J. Stevenson
Great Halle
Ridge
Francis L
Norman Shaw
Leynwood
Crageido
Merrow Weald
Philadelphia
Power behind the throne mule mishap on Main Street
A young man, playing near an apple wagon on Main Street, was knocked to the gutter when a rear rumble occurred. He suffered a dislocated shoulder and sat in the gutter in surprise, noting the mule seemed to power the scene.
Boy finds cents in Sunday school tale of luck
A boy finds seventy five cents on the way to Sunday school and is praised for duty. Hearing another boy found a dollar while setting up pine in a ten pin alley makes him doubt his future path and purpose.
Footwear Fashion Folly Draws Street Gibe
A reflective note mocks high heels as impractical for city streets. The narrator likens proud men’s footwear to clumsy acts, saying Uligh-heel styles reveal bare soles scraping the pavement and absurdly resemble threading a darm eadie with a sweet poteas to roll a bean under an arch.
Advice as cheap gale of politics pride and poverty
A skeptical look at advice sold in politics and advertising. The speaker mocks the ease and costlessness of advice from doctors advertisers and marriage counselors, noting many peddle products or outcomes for profit. A Denver paper quips about an Indian chief leaving his horse in a saloon.
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Denver
Gutenberg’s mold enduring tribute to printing invention
The text argues Gutenberg’s mold remains the essential, practical type making method after four centuries. It notes attempts to replace it with modern machines and dies, yet concludes no method surpasses Gutenberg’s principle, while Madden questions why bronze or stone should memorialize him when the monument is every book.
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Freeatiee
Theo
Gutenberg
Madden
Dy Smith's Patient a Remarkable Medical Prank
Dr. Smith, famed professor at Dartmouth, faced a planned joke when asked to treat a broken limb. He found a goose with a broken leg and treated it seriously, restoring it over several days. The bill for care was large, revealing the prank's cost to the conspirators.
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Ees
Tor
Fil era of ite culltur prayers urged by editor
A Western paper calls for readers to support cultural revival by paying subscriptions and asks all good paying subscribers to mention him in prayers. It adds that the prayers of the wicked are in vain.
Tavern dinner ends with two men tumbling down stairs
At the tavern dinner two companions fell down the stairs. one landed on the first landing, the other rolled to the bottom. A bystander remarking on the scene noted one man was severely drunk while the other was not as far gone.
Belator and Pearl Powder on a Toga Embellish
Mr Buckle asserts human nature has hardly changed in three thousand years yet notes no record of Belator explaining to his wife a light departure of pearl powder on the toga shoulder as he played checkers in a grist mill.
Youth Correspondence Sparks Alcohol Themed Misunderstanding
A young Indies correspondent wrote affectionately about being in the arms of Bacchus, prompting a male correspondent to fear drunkenness. He misread the line, thinking she would be in Morpheus arms instead, highlighting a playful mix up over intoxication and sleep.
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Indies
Bacchus
Morpheus
Twin Alameda Women Share Bond Through Death Tragedy
In Alameda County two nonrelated women who were close friends married together and lived apart in Heyn and Alvarado. They bore children within two hours of each other, and both infants died within weeks. Eventually the mothers also died on the same day, their shared misfortune marking a poignant family tragedy.
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Mission Ban Jove
Alameda County
California
Heyn
Alvarado
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