Brigham Young and the roots of Mormon prosperity
In Emigration canyon the 1847 pioneer trek set the stage for Utah's future. Brigham Young chose industrial prosperity as the cornerstone, embracing irrigation to transform arid land into productive farms. He linked careful water use to diversified crops, small land holdings, and self sufficiency, asserting no one should own more land than they can cultivate by family labor.
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President Young
Emigration Canyon
Great Salt Lake
Utah
Brigham Young
Salt Lake Valley
America
William EB. Smythe
St. Louis Republic
Fragmentary jailer and deputy dialogue from Indianapolis Journal
A garbled excerpt shows a deputy quoting punishment with No 111 and a warden reacting in straining speech. It includes misquoted lines and scattered Shakespeare-like phrases, revealing a damaged OCR fragment from an Indianapolis Journal page without coherent narrative.
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Felces
Indianapolis Journal
Visit to the Escurial shows vast structure built by Philip II
A Boston Herald correspondent details the Escurial built 1565 to 1584 by Philip II on a Guadarrama slope, a vast complex of a temple palace treasury tomb and museum. It notes size 12 acres, 16 courtyards, 86 staircases, 15 cloisters, 3 000 feet of fresco, and a church 320 by 230 feet. Once grand and respected, it declined after looting by French troops in 1808 and neglect. Now about 200 youths study there as a secular seminary.
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Philip II
Spain
Boston Herald
Philip
Guadarama Range
Madrid
Charles V
St. Quentin
St. Lorenzo
Lorenzo
Valentianius
Praise Your Wife With Compliments At Home
A Detroit Free Press excerpt urges husbands to praise their wives sincerely. A wife asks, How do I look, and a husband replies with a blunt, lifeless remark. The piece contrasts such indifference with old, loving compliments that solidified affection and honors a husband who spoke tenderly, inspiring lasting admiration.
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W.f
Detroit Free Press
Red Coats and the Change in British Military Uniforms
The article traces the evolution of British military dress from Henry VIII era colors green and white to white with a red cross, and finally to the red coats. It notes the first mention of red coats in a 1540s circular by Edward, Earl of Derby, indicating future soldiers would wear red cassock fashion coats.
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Henry VIII
Edward
Earl of Derby
St. Louis Republic
Words In Use and Early Language Observations
An expert in philology estimates that a 1600 word vocabulary covers essential usage while remaining words fill limited occasions. The piece mentions memory, language economy, and a misread query about a boxnet cier, ending with a note on Agricola identifying bismuth as a metal in 1540.
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Agricola
Shakespeare's Name Spelling Puzzle Through History
A reader notes Shakespeare's name appears in multiple spellings from Shakspeare to Shakespere and cites 1851 comment by Albert Smith claiming the Harleian MSS offered a weather related reason for the variation.
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Shakespeare
Albert Smith
unclear historical note on Italy naming and river tool
Fragmentary text discusses a professor and a dent speaking of Sam Cotch and ambitions to recoup a thinker. It mentions a Connecticut river tool and asserts Italy derives its name from Ttalus, an early king who governed most of the peninsula.
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Dent
Sam
Italy
Ttalus
Peninsula
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