Glass for Windows The Juggler In The Fiery Furnace
In Kansas gaa belt towns great window glass factories heat sand carbon and lime into molten glass at 2800 degrees. A Belgian blower inflates blobs into bottles and cylinders, passing them through ovens, shaping cutting and cooling them into sheets. Strong glassblowers earn about 50 dollars weekly and pride in a family trade spanning generations. Kansas City Star.
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Kansas
Glassblowers
Kansas City Star
Doubling in Brass and Factory Bands Across Town
A reader connects minstrel doubling to brass bands formed by factories and shops. He notes machinists advertised to play cornet trombone or bass, suggesting workers with musical talent join in band work. The piece links city and country bands, college and school ensembles, and the historic toast custom in banquets.
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Bonea
New York Sun
plus AS FASTERS. The Wonderful Ability of Swine to Live Without Food
A New York Herald reprints an account from Michigan about a missing black sow found in an abandoned house cellar. She survived a three month long fast with only brief nourishment, then recovered after being fed small amounts, illustrating swine can endure extreme starvation.
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Michigan
New York Herald
A Curiosity of Lunacy Folte Circulaire Described
A disease described from France with three life phases elevation low mood and sanity. It cycles through mania then depression then recovery then relapse until death. The piece notes immense energy shifts appetite sleep and temperament during manic periods and warns parents about squint origins and mistreatment.
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France
Candy Capacity of a Girl Story
A kind old man tells a little girl he has an immense candy store and will give her all the candy she can eat. The girl cheerfully asks how much she can eat, and the man counters with asking how much candy he has. a playful exchange ends with the judge’s remark.
A Literary Crime and Stumbling Block in Antiquarian Lore
A literary crime tale notes Lord Crawford of England as Royal Astronomical Society president with a fine library once larger. ancestral indiscretion sold thousands of volumes to cheese makers. A humorously clipped dialogue ponders biblical contradictions and Solomon’s wisdom versus his many wives.
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Lord Crawford
England
Royal Astronomical Society
Earl
Scotland
Word Origins in Peott Monastery Text Variation
The piece discusses minor textual edits between editions of Peott's Monastery, noting a single sentence tweak in the chapter. It explores debatable etymologies for the word morse and the misprint theory, presenting Wheatley’s two explanations and the counterclaim that corpus manuscripts show nurse as the correct reading.
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Father Huetace
James’ Gazette
Paid in Full and Their Own in Montana Parade
Two light hearted vignettes from a city streetcar and a marching army. A typist recalls being fired after correcting misspellings for a former employer. In Montana a regiment trudges toward water, with three ranchers all saying the next town is two miles away as the sergeant notes they are holding their own.
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Montana
Blight Mistake and Odious Dreams of Indian Rights
Chitto Harjo pleads in Washington for Indians to roam nomadically as their forefathers did. He warns that trusting fortune has harmed Indians, recounting a comic prior insult where an instructress misplaced a horseshoe under her pillow with false teeth, prompting a shocked breakfast inquiry from her fiancé.
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Chitto Harjo
Washington
Chitto Warjo
When Oregon Was in the Balance
A compact excerpt situates Oregon’s boundary dispute at the 49th parallel, noting Pacific coast inaccessibility and Oregon’s future wealth. cites Captain Temple’s report to the Admiralty that salmon deterred expansion. The page also features a quip about writing an article on how to manage a woman and a Birmingham Post reply: the advice will be two words Dont try.
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Oregon
Canada
United States
Pacific
Temple
Lord Palmeraton
Admiralty
Manchester Chronicle
Birmingham Post
Grandpa and grandchild share a long awaited reunion
A brief, poignant exchange reflects a grandfather and grandchild's reunion after many years. The elder notes being eighty seven, while the other realizes the elder was born eighty years earlier, highlighting a lifetime apart and the joy of reunion.
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Loriy
Worne Still. A quarrel over a wife’s praise ends in pride
In a domestic dispute Briggs contends his wife said she helped him become a man, provoking Worne Still to object to his wife broadcasting such praise. The exchange ends with Brigg’s assertion that his wife did her best.
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Worne
Qgriggs
Briggs
Canvas Work Preparations Highlight Trade Activity
Brief notes describe ongoing canvas preparation as part of trade activity. The fragment mentions craft work and readiness for commercial use, indicating a period of manufacturing and exchange.
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Harold Grimsdale
Childhood Society
Bigs
London Mail
Browne
Henpeck
Solo-mon
Philogélphia Press
Philadelphia Record
B. B. Anderson
Spring
F. K. Converse
Bank of
James Esphset
Emmet County Land and Abstract Co
Estherville, Iowa
Lota
Emmet Co
Estherville State Bank
W. W. Fullam
R. I. Depot
Babcock
H. H. Babcog
Vredicator
W. P. Andrews
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