Legends of trees and world roots in myth and religion
A survey of tree worship across cultures notes Yggdrasil and the world tree, Norse and Greek legends, forest groves in Germanic and Celtic religion, and tree linked origins of life and souls. It recounts myths from Odin to Dodona, Ojibway and Mayan beliefs, and the role of trees in sacred spaces and early temples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden of Eden
Yggdrasil
Lfe
Adam
Eve
Dodona
Hell
Argos
Cadmus
Mars
Pliny
Quirinus
Rome
Carolina
Darien
Empedocles
Germany
North
Tanemahuta
F. T. Bassett
Globe-Democrat
Wayfarers and a society critique in London America
Excerpted verse from Wayfarers with lines about memory and home. Followed by a London Cor. America critique condemning the era’s “girl of the period” and a domestic piano scene where a father dances with a hired pianist, provoking daughters’ scorn.
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London
Cor
America
War of the right of way at Smith pond sparks college pranks
Cornell students clash with landowner Jeremy Smith over access to a pond used for passage to campus. Pranks escalate yearly as a wagon slides toward a bank, a plow and wire mislead the wagon, and Smith seeks discipline while the freshman class faces potential expulsion, The Argonaut reports.
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Cornell
Jeremy Smith
Smith
Side
Jenkins
Marking Goods at Odd Prices
A Broadway dealer explains how odd price markings like 23 cents lure buyers. He notes that small change returns persuade purchases that might not occur at rounded prices and that even higher priced items are set just below a coin value to tempt shoppers.
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Broadway
New York Sun
A Plantation of the Present at Bellamy Place Georgia
A New Orleans Times-Democrat item describes the Bellamy place near Quitman Georgia as 8000 acres under a single owner with 150 plows and over 1500 enslaved people. Maj Bellamy manages personally, cherishing work, stock, and crops while maintaining a mansion lifestyle rivaling antebellum eras.
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Bellamy
Quitman
Maj. Bellamy
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Millie Comes Out a Winner
A Detroit Free Press item recounts Millie, age three, learning letters with her aunt. When asked to say W or double U she misinterprets “double me” and cheerfully replies “Double auntie” before scampering away in laughter.
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Millie
Detroit Free Press
At Your Usual Rates Editors and payment expectations
The piece argues editors accept no payment for unsolicited articles unless the author is clear he expects compensation. It recalls writers misled by editors, and notes many papers print without payment and may assume gratuitous submission. A joke about a girl misidentifying pickled pigs feet appears in a Detroit anecdote.
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Detroit Free Press
Ambitious Southern California Resorts Shift to Summer Appeal
The resorts, once known as winter destinations, now push to become summer retreats. The Petit Journal urged Bismarck to restore Alsace and Lorraine to France and reconcile with England. A peculiar reference to a wing CLs quot and a noted wine rotor mockingly rounds out the article.
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California
The
Petit Journal
Bismarck
Alsace and
Lorraine
France
England
Dime Museum Tricks At Coney Island Revealed
A New York Sun report describes the crowded Coney Island scene with free shows and rival attractions. It details tricks like hidden beer gardens, baiting with waves and bathing beauties, and a booth selling probabilistic ham sandwiches. It also exposes deceptive devices: a nail cone game rigged to yield cheap prizes, a photo auction swindle, and stage acts aimed to entice crowds.
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Coney Island
Bea
New York Sun
Enigma and Word Transformation Puzzles No.113
A dense collage of word riddles and puzzles runs through No.113, featuring Enigma on forms of speech and light, a long list of transformation examples, anagrams, word squares, floral puzzles, and witty prose about language and wordplay. It references moves between words, playful phrases, and a gentleman wooing with stripes as a clue.
A Unique Business Card and Oddboarder Anecdotes
A peculiar business card for a Frank fort touts how 82 000 was made and 81 000 by minding one’s own business. The text includes a Wisconsin street boarding house scene with a waiter quip about soup in a tumbler and a distracted shopper. Also listed are puzzle items numbered 107 to 112 with wordplay, rhymes, and conundrums. The fragment closes with a joking line about deriding and Hannah.
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Frankfort
N.o
New Boarder
Wisconsin Street
de Lake
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Legends OF
Edward Sothern
J. W. Pigott
Sothern
Pigott
Adieus
Gsteep
Wayfarers
Elizaveth Oakes South
Home Journal
Googins
Sir
Corey Island
Cre Saxe
Pope
Moreton
Golden Land
Lyle
Tommy
Yonder Park
Siv
Paine Celery
Paine
Proprietors
Burlington
Meadville
Allegheny College
FAS Reyngijds
Dirboytoll
Movs
Lviil LI
Ldadiefes
Mos
Ng Wa
Nelson Greenlond
Exchange Block
Exchange Hotel
Warren
W. H. Pickett & CO
Arte HA. Jamieson & Co
Sherman
Jewett
Steve Ranges
Syracuse
Gale
American Saw Co
Aley
Hannah
Peter Greenland’s
Water Street
Episcopal Church
Emscopst Church
Tigh Street
Hazel and
Laurel
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