David Fled to Achish Then Returned After Amok Philistine War
A Sunday school lesson discusses David fleeing to Achish of Gath with 600 followers to escape Saul, his time there, and the later return to face Amalekites after Ziklag’s burning. It emphasizes God’s forgiveness, David’s faith, and the need to rely on the Lord in adversity.
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Goliath
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Feeding the Fancy Horse Ration Guide for Driving Horses
A Kentucky breeder advises distinct rations for driving and saddle horses. Oats should be the major portion, with hay limits, and small amounts of other feeds. Watering rules emphasize moderation around work and frequent hydration in heat.
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Kentucky
Buying Stock Cattle for Feeding Profits
A New York breeder favors thrifty yearlings for feeding. He notes weights of 550 to 600 pounds, costs of 34 to 4 cents per pound, and advises buying early in fall, feeding light grain in winter, finishing on grass next summer. Profits come from medium-grade cattle kept to minimize initial cost. About twenty head fed each winter. Avoid overpaying and never buy scrubs.
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New York
Horse market: best horses bid high while common go begging
Market reports note strong demand for top horses while poorer stock sells cheap. It costs less to raise a good horse than one likely to bring only a small return, underscoring the value of quality in the market.
The Fall of Mr Ziegler in a Domestic Circus
A New York man named Herman Ziegler celebrated his thirty fifth birthday by chasing his wife with a butcher knife. His wife escaped and returned with twelve women who restrained him and used a garden hose in a coercive, comic domestic display. The tale closes with reflections on lessons about pride and behavior.
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Herman Ziegler
New York City
Mr. Ziegler
Evolution of slang for mental illness reflects care in naming
The passage surveys euphemisms for insanity from mad to lunacy and imbecile. It notes shifts from madhouse to lunatic asylum signaling kinder terminology and broader social reform. It contrasts terms like cracked and a bee in his bonnet with the truth of mental health stigma.
A Tiny Well Digger and Its Water Wells
The mole is a thirstiest animal and never burrows far from water. In droughts it digs wells, reaching depths where water becomes available, a behavior described as the little gentleman in the velvet coat contriving to obtain moisture.
Drum Time Testy Family Dispute Cartoon Quote
A fragment from Life magazine features a humorous exchange where a child asks to be bought a drum and a parent resists, fearing noise. The child pleads to drum only while asleep, highlighting domestic humor.
Wisdom of the Young
A reflective line from the New York World contrasts a boy named Willie wishing to be a real horse with the desire for a silver plated harness, illustrating playful regional dialect and newspaper humor. The brief item captures a whimsy of childhood ambition within a literary quote.
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Willie
New York World
Platonic Love and Spring Passion in Harper's Weekly
Verse reflection on youthful love and irony contrasts between intense spring passion and languid prosaic affection. Notes that love can act as a tonic, while mild affection becomes a play tonic, as quoted from Nathan Haskell Cole in Harper's Weekly.
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R Nathan Haskell Cole
Harper's Weekly
Avanta Constitution’s Forward Look Amid Cosmic Speeds
A compact note contemplates moving forward as Earth speeds through space. It reflects cautious optimism that life remains steady and unpunctured by unexpected disruptions. The tone nods to resilience and continuity in face of vast, unnamed changes.
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Avanta Constitution
Hidden Articles and Odd Phrases in Bermuda
A garbled OCR piece contains scattered references from a puzzle page. It mentions fabrics and screws, a Brave sound guarding sleep, sails at sea, sap preserved in trees, and a Bermuda point of interest Devil's Pool. It also includes stray fragments about a dressmakers' tool kit, industrious advice, and playful misprints about Bert, a frog, and repairs to Naples.
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Devil's Pool
Bermuda
Bert
Naples
Wordplay Puzzles Create Hidden Word Cards
A collection of cryptic style clues shows how combining parts of words yields new terms. Each line pairs a trigger phrase with a resulting common word or concept, hinting at letter or wordplay transformations across categories like animals, objects, and letters.
From left to right warming element rages on
A puzzled riddle lists clues in order: a warming element, anger, a cheese type, the word so be it, then vertical hints including fine, a conditional preposition, one of Ophelia's flowers, the German earth goddess, a sweet potato, and myself.
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Ophelia
Hidden Girls Names Echo Through a Belfry Legend
A sentinel watches the enemy from a belfry and a planned move fails as Napoleon faces defeat. The tyrant cares not for subject happiness or anger. The judge rejects the verdict as rash. Critics say Robert seized the throne amid madness.
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Napoleon
Robert
Seventeen squares of different sizes on an electric cross
The puzzle asks for the smallest number of lights to extinguish on a cross with seventeen distinct square lamps so that no perfect square remains lit. It seeks the minimal removals to destroy all square configurations.
Acrostic Fortune Teller in Robes of Satin
A Browning's Magazine quip about a necro mancer who reads palms and predicts love, promising happy marriage to maidens while noting a dining engagement with a fisherman. The verse contrasts fortune telling with comic misfortune, ending with a light gag about a missed dinner due to fishing.
Key to the Puzzler No 188 Word Square features
A compact puzzle page listing include Key to the Puzzler No 188 Word Square No 100 Arithmograph Latin tail tan tin lit nil lait milk No 191 Puszzie Picture school master head over roof No 192 Mesotich Lilac 1 Helen 2 Crime 3 Galen 4 Train 5 Locke No 193 Dissected Words Inter changeable interchangeable No 194 Charade Cast a net No 19% Word Puzzle 1 Gait gate 2 Rose rose 3 One non 4 Red read No 196 Blymed Charade Matinee mat inn neigh
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Helen
Galen
Locke
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