Obeyed the Doctor by Watching Patient Night Long
A Drummond anecdote from Megantic Quebec tells of Ovide Leblanc caring for Morse, a typhoid patient. Without a watch he used a bedside clock to time a three hour dosing schedule, claiming his improvised method kept Morse under vigilant care through the night.
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Que
Ovide Leblanc
Ovide
Morene
Morse
Himelf
Moise
Harper's Weekly
The Queen Bee Servants Her Perfect Household
A New Orleans Times-Democrat reprint describes the queen bee surrounded by a court of servants. She lays 2600 eggs daily while attendants digest food for her, polish her, and ventilate her chamber. Feeder bees deliver predigested sustenance through head glands as she spends the day laying eggs.
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New Orleans Times- Democrat
The English Three R’s Joke Told by a French Visitor
A London Mall item recalls a visiting Frenchman studying English manners who discovers the meaning of the mysterious three It's. When asked what they are he replies rippen rotten and right-off in a humorous, mistaken exchange that highlights misunderstandings between cultures.
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Clarence Rook
London Mall
Necklace Recall After Lost Pearl Necklace Incident
A New York woman recounts an incident likening a lost 6500 necklace to a prior recall. She lost the pearl necklace after a Queensland Guard ball and was surprised when a woman who shared her carriage returned it the next day. The finder reportedly commented that they had always suspected the pearls were real.
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New York
New York &Ribune
Allaying His Fears in a Convict’s Stay
A guard reassuring an anxious occupant, noting no danger of leaving through a window while discussing a sleepwalking concern in a hotel setting.
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Puck
Their Good Time
A quirkily phrased excerpt depicts a disobedient Hale and a cross wether in a tense moment. The child voice breaks the scolding by noting they are having a good time in a playful, dialectic exchange.
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Hale
Dellneator
What bay become of the vid fash ioned worcer who sat up
A fragment from The Mechanical Age hints at changing labor norms. It questions what happened to the worker who used to stay up to watch what hour her boys returned, suggesting that the time clock has superseded her role. The piece reflects early industrial shift and gendered labor.
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Kanpus City
Good Morning and Good Night Strengthen Home Life
A domestic column extols home harmony as national blessing and praises constant labor by the homemaker. It contrasts steady workers with carefree youths, urges practical habits and work ethic, and ends urging cheerful greetings of Good morning and Good night to family and friends to lift spirits and smooth daily life.
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Asa
Incoherent quote on disease and cure from county committee member
A garbled report quotes Jonvein Young Macander of the county committee voicing confusion over a disease and its cure. The text shows errors and unclear phrasing making specifics hard to determine.
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Jonvein Young Macander
Wealth Not Always to Be Envied in City Parable
A reflective proverb contrasts the wealthy with a devoted city drudge. The heart of the poor man overflows with love for family, while the rich man’s heart is closed by gold, its fountains blocked from free care.
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Bachange
Fear and Anger Odors Warn Animals, Naturalist Says
A New York Press excerpt reports a naturalist claiming fear and anger trigger specific bodily odors that animals sense. He notes trainers must overcome fear to control beasts and cites examples of snakes and pets reacting to human emotions. He plans to retreat to woods for sweeter scents.
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New York Press
Making Needles From Coil To Finished Product
A concise look at needle manufacturing from steel wire coils to finished needles. The wire is cut into two-needle lengths, sharpened on a grindstone, stamped with two eyes, hardened in oil, polished by seven days of sand rolling, and finally threaded on wires with eyes brightened before packing. Pearson's Weekly describes the full process in vivid detail.
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Pearson's Weekly
Comforting Words on Kidney Pills and Remedies
A reader from Estherville Iowa recounts relief from backache rheumatism and kidney pain after using Dean's Kidney Pills. The ad urges asking Wil lummy and Anderson's drugstore for customer reports and notes price and agents, with a testimonial tone and other Foley kidney remedy mentions.
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Heberville
Francia B. Dobensky
Binetsburg
Iowa
Leo
Dean
Estherville
Willimmy & Anderson
Buster-Milburn Co
Buttato
New York
United States
Will Power at Monte Carlo Casino
In a quiet Monte Carlo corner two elderly men, a Scotchman and a Yorkshireman, sat daily at the roulette table wagering five francs on even chances. They consistently stopped after reaching 20 francs, showing remarkable willpower. For four months they adhered to this modest stake, never exceeding it, and resisted the casino’s temptations to chase losses or winnings.
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Monte Carlo
Yorkshire
Chambers’ Journal
Family Jars
A schoolmaster and his wife spar over word choice in a humorous exchange about how to phrase movements from Sunderland to their town. The man criticizes awkward phrasing while the wife objects, leading to playful quibbles over grammar and meaning.
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Henry Jones
Sunderland
Sha
Schoolmaster Warns Quiet Shouted Quarrel in Town
A fragment notes a schoolmaster urging calm as a quarrel erupts involving a woman described as quarrelsome. The source text emphasizes noise and disruption, portraying a scene of local disturbance with limited context.
Pretty Slow Paragraph About Horace L Moore
Horace L. Moore, lieutenant colonel of the Nineteenth Kansas cavalry, praised for endurance and cheer. Though seldom joking, he reportedly authored many astonishers and once told an orderly a snail joke to illustrate patience during a long march. Kansas City Journal excerpt.
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Horace L. Moore
Kianas
Lincoln
Moore
Kansas City Journal
Man with great business sense in Adirondacks helps neighbors
A man known for clever business ability in the Adirondacks is described as lazy yet resourceful. During a harsh winter a starving family received aid from neighbors who could not fully afford to assist. They supplied flour pork and wood, while the man hired noncontributors to cut the wood and paid them with pork and flour.
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Adirondacks
Admirably Equipped Linguist Cardinal Mereorand Dies
Cardinal Mereorand, famed Vialian linguist, died at seventy five. He spoke over fifty languages and delighted English friends with Yorkshire dialect while entertaining French and German visitors with patois of their nations. Lord Byron reportedly commented on the tale.
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Cardinal Mereorand
Yorkshire
Lord Byron
Bubelt
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