Clothing as Blessing in Polynesia A Perspective
Norman Hall notes in Harper’s about Polynesian people living unsheltered yet fit and healthy. He contrasts their lean bodies, endurance, and active daily food quest with Western appearances of pudginess and soft stomachs. He imagines how chief men in Europe would look stripped of clothing, revealing skin and fat disparities.
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Polynesia
Norman Hall
Harper's Zine
America
France
England
Boston Tea Partylike Coffee Protest by Abigail Adams
In a July 31 1777 Abigail Adams reports a female led action in Boston to seize coffee hoarded by a stingy bachelor merchant. About a hundred women with a cart and trunk demanded keys, opened the warehouse, seized the stock and loaded it into a trunk as onlookers watched.
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Boston
Abigail Adams
United States
Abigail
John
Philadelphia
The Laughter vs Looming Doom in Holmes Verse
Oliver Wendell Holmes muses on humor and fate arguing that jokes of kittens and monkeys reveal divine ideas not human invention. He notes solemnity erodes joy and fears a future life where some banish gaiety, meeting others with a rayless gaze as though doom approaches.
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Heaven
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Extraordinary Time Keeping Methods and Calendar Errors
The article traces how early timekeeping used lunar months of about 29.5 days, with twelve months aligning to seasons to fix a 354.5 day year. Over a decade the system drifted by over three months, causing seasons to diverge. Jews and Greeks intermittently added months, and by 19 years they inserted seven months to maintain a rough calendar.
Trophies of the Chase Motordo Was That Guy We Hit Hurt Badly
A terse report describes a pursuit ending with a man badly injured after a hit or collision during a chase. The speaker mentions salvaging a button as a trophy, implying a reckless or celebratory tone about the incident.
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Motorson
Nature's Marvels: Spiders Eat Worn Webs and Reuse Silk
Captain R N Hingston notes in A Naturalist in Him alaya that a spider consumes worn webs after patching fails. The spider stores silk into a tiny ball, sometimes swallowing a whole fly, and reuses fibers in a cycle that highlights the web as a precise natural fabric.
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Himalaya
R. N. Hingston
Peacock a Dignified Lover
The peacock displays diverse male plumage during breeding, with the tail “eyes” evolving from simple color spots to attract peahens. Despite flamboyant showiness, jungle habitat favors greenish main coloring, while peahens seek magnificent decoration in mates.
Polk Inauguration Shows Telegraph Test And Dual Balls
James K Polk's inauguration featured a practical telegraph test by Professor Morse delivering messages to Baltimore as events happened. Two inaugural balls were held, one at Carusi’s fall for all parties at ten dollars a plate, the other a five dollar Democratic ball at the National Theater.
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John Quincy Adams
National Theater
Polk
Carlyle’s Queer Taste and Grey Powder Remedy
In the British Medical Journal Sir Richard Quain recalls Carlyle as a man with sharp judgment and observation who relied on grey powder to treat his dyspepsia. Quain notes Carlyle enjoyed very nasty gingerbread and often sat in the chimney corner smoking a clay pipe while eating it.
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Carlyle
British Medical Journal
Richard Quain
Mr. Carlyle
Coiled Feet Invention Warms Feet With Air Tube
An inventor proposes a simple cure for cold feet. A large sheet rolled into a tube is placed under the bedclothes. The user breathes through the tube to create a continuous current of warm air into the bed, warming the feet until they are comfortable enough to sleep.
Red Cross Supports Valparaiso Ex-service Men Reeducation
The article explains the Federal Board Men program sending disabled veterans to Valparaiso University for reeducation. It notes government funding tuition and maintenance, regional benefits, and the economic and humanitarian stakes, plus the Red Cross Home Service aiding veterans with legal claims and emergency loans totaling $12 000, urging every resident of Porter County to join.
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Valparaiso University
Federal Board
Becaue
Valparaiso
United States
American Red Cross
Home Service
Red Cross
Home Service Department
Porter County
Peter County
March Freeze Not As Severe As Reported
Indiana fruit growers report the March freeze caused less damage than feared. While Missouri and Arkansas show near total losses, Indiana expects mostly partial losses on apples and peaches vary by locality. Bush fruits largely spared and optimistic guidance urges continued spraying and care to boost next year’s crop. Sent in by County Agent Arehart.
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Indiana
Missouri
Arkansas
Indiana Fruit Grower
Arehart
Napoleon and Marguerite Bellisle Foures in a Turbulent Life
The Detroit News recounts Marguerite Bellisle Foures, famed for beauty and cold heart, who captived Napoleon during Cairo years and shaped a dramatic arc from romance to divorce. Her later life included a marriage to Henri de Ranchoup and eventual retirement in Brazil at ninety two.
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Napoleon
Marguerite Bellisle Foures
Cairo
Lieut
Foures
Paris
France
Cleopatra
Josephine
Marguerite
Efe
Henri de Ranchoup
Brazil
Detroit News
How Man Spends His Time
A French statistician calculates how men allocate their time by age 50. He claims the average man has slept 6,000 days worked 6,500 days walked 800 days amused himself 4,000 days spent 1,500 days and was it 600 days.
Goose Feathers War Levy by Henry V in 1417
In 1417 King Henry V imposed a war levy of six goose feathers from every goose in English counties. Lords lieutenant were required to supply the feathers for the archers and infantry as England prepared for war on France.
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Henry V
Plotted to Kill Husband Indictment in Philadelphia
Philadelphia nineteen year old Edna Murphy, eight months married, indicted for feloniously soliciting a gunman to shoot her husband George Murphy. She paid 75 dollars to a supposed killer named Paddy the Thug, via William Belshaw, head of the murder squad, to collect her husband’s life insurance and elope. After her arrest, George Murphy forgave her and a 8000 dollar settlement was arranged.
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Philadelphia
Mra
Edna Murphy
Charles Colliton
George Murphy
Woman Awakened From Trance After Vigil Talks
After fifteen days in a sleep Mrs. Lucy Lacapria of Scranton Pennsylvania awoke following a neighborhood vigil of talking at her bedside. Neighbors say the talking revived her and physicians expect her to recover after she was aroused and remained awake for a time.
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Lucy Lacapria
Scranton
Mob Prayed for Captive Ends Fatality Plan in Clyde
A mixed race mob in Clyde Georgia captured Israel Waters a Black man accused of mistreating a schoolgirl of his race. The mob handed Waters to Black residents who planned punishment but then handed him to authorities. Waters remained jailed as the incident unfolded.
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Clyde
Israel Waters
Waters
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Nature
Peacock
Laurent Greene
Division of Agriculture
White House
Sage
Coats
J. Lowenstine & Sons
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