Dismal Swamp Seen as Untouched Wilderness and Resource
The Dismal Swamp south of Norfolk spans North Carolina and Virginia and preserves wild life including bears and panthers. It attracts naturalists, though snakes deter visitors, and experts say it holds peat deposits and potential farmland if drained, with early trials yielding remarkable crops.
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Norfolk
Dust State
North Carolina
United States
America
Chicago Daily News
Work Along Wrong Lines
Editorial by Misha Appelbaum in Humanitarian argues for reform of the legal system emphasizing correction over brutality, rehabilitation over ostracism, and a charity-free, work-based society to reduce crime and beggary. It asserts people are born to work and that society should align punishment with fitness for work.
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Misha Appelbaum
Humanitarian
Shin plaster currency: Civil War small notes explained
The article explains how the U.S. government issued shinplaster currency during the Civil War to ease small-change shortages. With metallic money scarce due to export and hoarding, greenbacks replaced silver and gold in small denominations, while merchants used stamps tokens and promissory notations as temporary money.
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United States
Pronoun Then’s Place in Language Cited in 60 Year Note
A Literary Digest excerpt explains the pronoun then as a third person substitute used for sixty years. It traces origins to 1858 when Charles Croz proposed the form at Converse of Erie Pennsylvania to avoid awkward repetition or obscurity in pronoun use.
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Charles Croz
Converse
Erie
Literary Digest
Try a Rumor Next Time Cartoon Quip
A dialogue from Cartoons Magazine features Snitcher and Tellitt joking about a landlady and a room request. The Snitcher complains the landlady asks too much, humorously claiming she wanted him to take a room upstairs when he cannot even get his arms around her.
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Snitcher
Tellitt
Cartoons Magazine
Heavier Than Water Indicates Buoyancy Challenge
The fragment notes that a substance heavier than water weighs nearly twenty times the weight of water itself, implying buoyancy and density contrasts. It hints at comparative density concepts between solids and liquids without full context.
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement Ad
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Doan
Eame
Hamilton
Foster-Milburn Co
Msgrs
Buffalo, N. Y
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Sheetz
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