The Christmas Holiday Through Ages and Myths
The piece traces Christmas date debates from Roman archives to four centuries of movable feasts. It links December 25 as the official birthday after Pope Julius II. It links Yule logs, gifts, and evergreens to pre Christian customs and Druids. It notes medieval excesses and the evolution of Christmas Eve vigil.
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Rome
Judea
Christ
Julius
Shrewsbury
England
Henry II
The Spruce Gum Picker Of Vermont And Its Trade
A New York Times summary recalls the near disappearance of genuine spruce gum in Bennington Vermont due to forestry fires mills and market changes. It notes price ranges from fifty cents to a dollar fifty a pound and describes quality clues and mail order patterns including shipments to California. It highlights Amigo Alonzo Bishop of Woodford as a famed gum picker who roams the Green Mountains in pursuit of the resinous commodity.
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Bennington
Green Mountains
Woodford
California
Ohio
Michigan
Olin
H. W. Martin
New York
Martin
Vermont
Alonzo K. Bishop
Bishop
Lion
New York Times
Metropolis of Rio de Janeiro Reputed as Brazil’s Crown Jewel
The piece extols Rio de Janeiro as Brazil’s commercial and political capital and South America’s largest city. It notes the bay’s beauty, strategic harbor, fortifications, narrow streets, and the port handling two thirds of Brazil’s coffee exports, from the Mail and Express account.
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Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
South America
Martin Alfonso de Souza
Orinoco
Amazon
Bay
Bay of
St. Elmo
Italy
Capri
Ischia
Vesuvius
Sorrento
Naples
San Sebastian
United States
Atlantic
Rio
Phosphorescent Infection Observed in Crustaceans
A French naturalist M. Giard traced the phosphorescent glow in Talitrus to infected muscles. Inoculating healthy specimens with the diseased muscles produced the same light. Every inoculated crustacean died within seventy hours.
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M. Giard
Talitrus
St. Louis Republic
Bicycles Form Russian Army Courier Corps
Russia orders a rapid bicycle corps for field infantry and guards. Each regiment will have eight privates and two officers in a cycling company with two wheels per man, later expanding. Bicycles will handle scouting and dispatches, built in arsenals with funds for repairs.
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Russia
War Department
Courier
Home Journal
Hypnotism Reframes Mesmerism In Medical View
Professor Calderwood of Edinburgh defines hypnotism as a lucid sleep induced artificially not by electricity or magnetism. He notes the operator cannot control the subject but must present clear suggestions for self-application while warning public exhibitions should be banned.
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Calderwood
Edinburgh
Trenton
N. J
Description of a full dress mufter and how to wear it
The mufter for full dress is described as a solid deep colored piece shaped like an enlarged handkerchief. It is folded to a width of four to five inches and worn about the neck beneath the swallow tail collar, then folded across the waistcoat opening.
The Young Folks Fairy Tale Time by the Fire
A nostalgic piece describes fairy tale tales told at twilight. The narrator imagines goblins and gnomes appearing on walls as shadows dance and the firelight grows and fades. The verse recalls Harper's Young People and the cozy storytelling atmosphere.
Domestic snakes and lion cults among African tribes
The Dinka reverence snakes and keep them at home feeding them milk and butter. An officer paid a fine of four goats for killing a snake. East of the Nile a tribe adores lions, with Stanley recounting how worshipers rescued a lion from a pit using slanted poles.
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Africa
Nile
Stanley
Picayune
Mocking Bird Corrects Learner Band in Macon
A Macon Georgia mocking bird trained by its owner to whistle a current song corrected an itinerant band when they played the tune. After several attempts the bird stopped, and when the music faded it resumed the only song it knew, displaying a dignified attitude.
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Macon
Boulot and Boulette Buy Shoes in Natchitoches Varish
In a Louisiana village, twelve year old twins Boulot and Boulette acquire shoes by selling wild grapes and berries. A crowd watches their return as Boulette parades in glossy heels while Boulot protests their bare feet.
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Boulot
Boulotte
Crewle Roly-Pelies
Boulette
Natchitoches
Varish
Seraphine
Seraphin
Boulet
Harper
The Blue Hen Chickens Legend Tied to Revolutionary War
A fragment explains a nickname origin linking a famed revolutionary captain known for drill and cock fighting to a belief that only blue hens produce game birds. Caldwell’s men earned the title The Blue Hen's Chickens and the name spread to natives of the state after the war.
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Nativ
Faba
I. Upheta
Déelse
Cals
Aldwell
Caldwell
Moud
Flying Spirits Festival Opens in Lhasa Amid Mount Potala Flight
On New Year in Thibet Lhasa a four day festival begins with the Spect Flying Spirits entertainment. Participants stretch a long hide lane from the crowd to Mount Potala and fasten grooved blocks to their chests to slide downward like swallows.
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Thibet
Lhasa
Mount Potala
Twenty-Five Days’ Work Supports Family in Madagascar
A brief note states that twenty five days of labor will sustain a family for a full year in Madagascar. It highlights the economic contrast and the value of work in supporting dependents overseas.
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Madagascar
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