Long and Short Days and the Sun’s Endless Light
The article discusses extreme daylight and darkness durations across cities. It cites Wanderbus Norway with continuous daylight May 21 to July 22, Spitzbergen’s three and a half month day, Tornea Finland twenty one and a half hours, St Petersburg Tobolsk nineteen to five hours, Stockholm Upsala eighteen and a half hours, Hamburg Dantate Stettin seventeen to seven hours, and Berlin London sixteen and a half to about eight hours.
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Wanderbus
Norway
Spitzbergen
Tornea
Finland
St Petersburg
Tobolsk
Stockholm
Upsala
Hamburg
Dantate
Stettin
Berlin
London
Gossip Versus Praise Sparks Wife and Knox Debate
A short quip from Mr Knox and his wife in the Catholic Standard and Times turns on gossip versus praising neighbors. Mrs Knox urges focusing on good points, while he laments the burden of constant fault finding and asks who would listen to such talk.
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Mr. Knox
Carl
Catholic Standard and Times
M and St L Time Table for Twin Cities Passenger
Daily schedule listing Twin Cities Passenger trains and local freight times. Includes times such as 0:00 am and 4:30 pm, with notes on ex Sundays and runs. Indicates service between Twin Cities and St. Louis routes in a compact timetable format.
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Twin Cities
Twine Cities
Tes Motos Pass
Tex
Soutl
Storm Lake Pass
Des Moines Pass
Sun
Twin Cities Pass
Arr’s
Desperate man seeks funds from banker in disguise
Robert Larned, a wealthy banker, is confronted by Steve Cummings who asks for fifty thousand dollars to cover a bank robbery. A fiancé then enters and reveals Cummings was a thief who stole to support himself, while Elrod, the innocent former employee, bears the burden. The tale ends with Cummings leaving the office, aided by a promise of a small stipend.
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Robert Laéved
Avondale
Larned
Sun
Arlington Bank
Jonk
Arlington
Cummings
Lamed
Ben
Elrod
Turner Choyle
Only Woman He Could Ever Love
A wife recalls how she engineered a reunion with her husband’s first love Bertha Tinterton to lift his gloom. The plan pulled the two apart again, revealing the husband’s enduring bond and the wife’s risky ruse. In the mountains, the husband admits his torment and the wife’s role in reviving him. The tale ends with the husband thanking his wife for her care and the farewell to the former lover.
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Tom
Nerilin Tinterton
Bertha
Hee
Bertha Tinterton
Sle
Society
Miss Tinterton
Ton
Hods
Porter
Humors of War and Civil War Snatches of Wit
A Federal lieutenant lampoons his own troops for blunders and absurdities during Civil War operations. An officer mocks a fleeing man and berates soldiers amid battle, while a relieved commander rewards courage and punishes cowardice, illustrating wartime humor and mishaps.
Silver Bow poker tale from the old west
A Scrap Book excerpt recalls the Silver Bow Dith in Trele na Montana where famed players Marcus Daly Senator Hearst AR Tain and a New York drummer joined a high stakes Tig poker night. The drummer tries to stake in with a hundred dollars and is politely accommodated with a single white chip.
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Pelion
Trelena
Mont
Marcus Daly
Senator Hearst
AR Tain
New York
Schopenhauer on Hypocrisy in Morality
The passage imagines a moral wake up call from an Asmodeus to strip away dissimulation and hypocrisy. It reflects on the prevalence of false virtue, the hidden unrighteousness behind outward decorum, and the solace found in dogs whose honest faces offer relief from human deceit.
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Schopenhauer
Asmodeus
Windy Tales From Aboard A British Battleship
A visiting British lieutenant in New York harbor repeats a boast about winds from a day when the crown had to walk home, saying a bay wind outdid it as he claimed to have blown four men to hold Prince Louis’ hat and even loosened anchors on his coat.
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New York Harbor
Bay of Biscay
Leutenant
Womnan
Wanted Halp to Be Thankful on Farm Visit
A farm visit ends in fright as a ram charges a group of children. Five year old Arthur and three year old Dorothy are urged to pray. Dorothy, unsure, recalls a line from their father and whispers a belligerent plea for help while the ram nears.
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Halp
Misters
Arthur
Ald
Dorothy
Mixed Motives Stirred by Hair Lock Request
In this Somerville Journal item, Allee angrily questions Buc about a request for a lock of hair from Kate. Alice explains Kate asked for the hair, and Allee sent back a lock that did not match in color, prompting questions of motive and response.
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Allee
Buc
Kate
Allce
Alice
Somerville Journal
Be Prepared in Life for Opportunity
A concise inspirational note on readiness, urging that success favors those who are prepared for opportunities across all life avenues. Emphasizes that the prepared men, equal to the places, are the ones who generally obtain them.
Strong Influence Morphs Domestic Bond Across a Day
A playful exchange notes a wife claiming influence over her husband by simply sitting on the tail of his coat. The wry quip echoes a proverb about wealth from Danigh and a dated humor style attributed to Meg gendorfer Blatter.
Two Innocents Abroad Startled by Castle Visit Tale
Two American girls, Annie and Susie, explore an ancient British castle with an ax-wielding guide. They tour the guard towers, banquet hall, and chapel, photograph the guard, and later learn a ministerial incident in Scotland involved their photo. They decide to return home and resume studies.
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Smeilarty
Anne
Duke of
Annie
Susie
Caetior
London
Scotland
House of Commons
Duke of G
Suasie
Florenow Gulbert
A Snowdrift Creature The Snowshoe Hare Of Hiawatha
A description from Everybody's Magazine outlines the snowshoe rabbit born of a snow drift crossed with a little brown hare. It details its snow survival traits and seasonal color change from brown to white, noting names like Wabasse and the two color seasons from April to October and winter.
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Nathiie
Sha
Ida Sa
Te Wahasso
Hiawatha
Wabasse
Everybody's Magazine
SQUIRREL WAYS. The Little Animals Are Great Actors
A compact vignette describes a gray squirrel's antics on a fence rail as it watches riders, digs for grass, and feigns security. The creature surveys its world with sideways glance and bold mischief, then darts to the woods, entertaining with patient, comic spycraft.
Notorious Pay Schemes For English Schoolmasters
In early eighteenth century Cumberland English counties a peculiar schoolmaster income arose as boys held cock fights before lessons. Each boy paid the master for the privilege, with the so called covle penny regarded as a legitimate stem in the master’s income. This practice reflects how educators were treated as a servile class and underpaid.
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English
Cumberland
Minneapolis Journal
Secret Dispatches and a Young Confederate Spy
David Homer Bates recounts in Century how John IL Surratt, about twenty, served as a Confederate spy. He traveled between Washington and enemy boats on the Potomac, carrying dispatches hidden in books or between buggy planks. Surratt mocked U S detectives as a stupid, inept search force.
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John IL. Surratt
Washington
Potonae
United States
David Homer Bates
Century
The Way It Acted
A dialogue shows Mrs A arguing that brandy is not a remedy for colds while Mrs It contends she knows about it. Mrs A recalls prior to keeping brandy in the house her husband rarely caught colds, but after stocking a supply he caught colds almost daily.
Notable manners recalled by two Philadelphia ladies
Miss Opplech recalls her great grandmother on her husband’s side as proud and imperious. Miss Knox notes a servant girl with the same bearing. The quote ends with a proverb about money making honest and knavish fools.
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Miss Opplech
Miss Knox
Philadelphia
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William Shoesmith
Geo. E. Patterson
Byron M. Coon
Washington, D.C
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Knieht Bros
Grant Block
Lohr
E. W. Bachman
First National Bank
Beventh Street
Utes
M. E. Wilson Phyallan
Mancolag & Howard's Hardware
WM. Foshier
Lovell’s
Maple Street
Black Flag Dray Line
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Flo
Daly
Nvarst
Danigh
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