The Origin and Evolution of English Surnames
A Maxwell magazine piece traces how common English surnames arose from pet names, place names, and linguistic shifts. It links examples like Snooks from Sevenoakes and Elizabeth from Isabel, notes Norman and Saxon influences, and explains derivations for Williams, Robertson, Hitchcock, and many others with Celtic and Norman connections.
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Sir Herbert Maxwell
Snooks
Sevenoakes
Elizabeth
Isabel
Isabeau
Elza
Alice
Marion
Marie
Mary
Maria
Kin
William
Will
Wilcock
Wilkin
Willett
Willey
Willemot
Willen
Bill
Gui
Dickens
Dickenson
Hitchins
Hitchison
Hitchcock
Hitchcox
David
Davidson
Dodson
Dodds
Davy
Davison
Dan
Dawson
Dawkins
O'Dowd
Henry
Hal
Hallet
Harry
Harriet
Hawkins
John
Jack
Jenkins
Simeon
Simkins
Thackeray
Thatcher Muthna
Malthouse
Bacdhus
Bakehouse
Mi Pherson
Vicker
Tun
Wallace
Bruce
Hinlair
Montgomery
Hay
Vance
Mainte
Lande
Normandy
Cailin Ford
Ham
Ajlgsford
Grinston
Habershall
Ormsby
Winslow
Lea
Leo
Leigh
Legh
Robert
Ap Rhys
Price
Ap Owen
Bowen
Ap Hough
Pugh
Dublin
Halfpenny
Halpen
McAlpin
Finn
Findlay
Duff
Macduff
Don
Roy
Cochran
Cochrane
Mr. Brown
Dunn
Donnas
Moore
Moran
Bigg
Baltimore Sun
The Gardens and a Baby Named Daisy
A collage of brief items. Gladioli in Europe and Cape origins. a girl named Daisy chosen for a new sister Honeysuckle as a nickname. a Cork lecturer on parental truths. a boarding train tale where a mother seeks aid for a dying child, exposed as a former con artist by a conductor, ending with passengers anger melted by exposure.
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Cork
Indianapolis News
Puritan Punishments and Prophetic Imagery in Early Texts
A fragmented excerpt contrasts Puritan discipline with poetic reflections. It cites a court record where a Lord's Day offense by Jon a and Susan Smith led to fines and public shaming, then shifts to MacDonald and Michael Field passages on spiritual gaze, innocence, and longing.
A Persian Style of Punishment Removes Thieves
The St Louis Republic reports on a Persian method for stopping theft. Offenders endure a three stage course starting with foot chastisement and a signed pledge, followed by right hand amputation for a second offense, and final decapitation on a third, applied by the ruling shah to curb petty pilfering.
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Persia
St. Louis Republic
Pansy Bedside Display Ideas From Mrs Thaxter
Pluck pansies daily for continual bloom and arrange them in a shallow amber glass basket. Line a shelf edge with small upright vases, mug shaped, holding pansies faces outward for cheerful color contrasts and edible combinations.
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Celin Thaxter
Languages in German Colonies Count Spoken Tongues
The New York Sun reports Germans tally about fifty languages in East Africa, twelve in Southwest Africa, twenty in the Cameroons, five or six in Togo, plus many dialects. Missionaries and agents work to standardize and compile dictionaries of the most used tongues.
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East Africa
Southwest Africa
Cameroons
Togo
South Sea
New York Sun
Verdi’s barrels of organs and a roaming baritone joke
A wild mix of vintage clippings notes Verdi’s room filled with barrel organs as a joke about La Miserere. Also contains varied items: fish scows, jokes about Rome, presidential counts, a Brussels church relic plate, and Hood’s Sarsaparilla testimonials.
Yankee Coal Pilots Risk River Run for Seized Cargo
In 1860s river lore, pilot Jack Leathers accepts a $500 advance and aims to move two coal boats from Pittsburgh to New Orleans amid Civil War tensions. Crew debates camouflage for Union, secessionist, and frontier loyalties while considering barter with Kentucky coal to dodge detection along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The dialogue reveals bold schemes and stern warnings as the voyage looms.
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Squire
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Ohio
Mississip
Cairo
Red Church
Jack Leathers
Squire Thomas
Jack
Two Rivers
Leathers
South
New Orleana
Billy Brown
Jack Leat
Bill Brown
Vicksburg
Kentucky
Union
Brown
Rebs
Pirates and Coal Trade on the Ohio and Mississipp
A pilot Leathers and his crew smuggle Kentucky coal aboard a Sandusky steamer, passing Union and Confederate lines up the Ohio to Cairo and beyond. They face a Union guard near Vicksburg, with danger of capture and a plan to bluff with “Pittsburg coal.”
Bold River Rescue to Bypass Vicksburg Coal Run
Four armed men in a small skiff outmaneuver a Confederate force by towing a log to mislead pursuers and slip a coal cargo down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Pilot Leathers and Brown escort the convoy, free the captured soldiers, and complete the dangerous run in eight days, returning to Pittsburg with prize money.
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Brown
Leathera
Vicksburg
Leathers
Sppi
J. Leathers
Bill Brown
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Marlton Do
Yankee Blade
Propmter Dies During Paris Theater Scene
A Paris theater interruption during L Oiseau Bien reveals the prompter dead in the box while the leading actress forgets lines. The curtain stayed up as the cast held positions and a new prompter replaced him, with a brief pause before continuing the performance.
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Theater Des Gobelins
Paris
L'Oiseau Bien
Kpen
Dangerous Pistol Practical Sparks Fatal Colonia Violence
In Zenon Pereira Hved a German colonist shot Octavia Viale and killed her husband’s associate after a magistrate officer questioned the pair near a paz magistrate. The officer fired a revolver from the doorway, killing the man instantly. A lynching was avoided and the officer awaits trial. The dead man was buried with colonists in attendance.
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Zenon Pereira
Octavia Viale
Mez de Paz
Eevee
Fragmented OCR note on Shakespeare verse and color terms
Fragmentary passage discusses colored hair and adjectives in older authors with references to As You Like It and Rosalind. Mentions Judas colored hair and unclear citations about Celare Remore leownd and Soul Republic, suggesting a damaged scholarly note.
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Judas
Rosalind
Orlando
Collor
Cellare
Soul Republic
Caleb Simonds a Grain Too Near for Enos James
Enos James recalls a visit to Caleb Simonds in Bridgeley where dining with Miry led to a quarrel over usury in the waiter’s remark about board time. James, indignant, says Simonds is a good man but too near in his frugality and temper to suit him.
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Caleb
Bridgeley
Enog James
Caleb Simonds
Centreville
Misa Follett
Enos Jamea
Voltaic Pile Invention Origin and Early Experiments
The article notes Volta's discovery that multiple metals are needed to generate electricity. He built a battery or pile with silver and zinc and moistened paper layers to produce currents similar to friction electricity. This marked the origin of the voltaic pile, later improved but remaining largely unchanged since its invention.
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Volta
New York Telegram
Questions of worth and letters in American life noted
Miss North recalls a New Jersey gardener who proved honesty and industry matter less than what a man knows for success. The piece mentions long tenure at Wabash College and resignations, with Bryn Mawr hiring a Latin and Greek chair. Colorado College honors Newton N Coburn who endowed 50 000 for a library building.
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Miss North
America
New Jersey
Tuttle
Wabash College
William Cranston-Lawton
Mowdola College
Bryn Mawr College
Pennsylvania
Ligcum
Colorado College
N. P. Coburn
Newton
Mass
Phrase about Mothers Friend use before confinement
The speaker notes using two Dotties of Mothers Friend before the third confinement and says she would not be without it for hundreds of dollars. Mention is made of Dock Miss in Ancoln Parish La sold by Roller Wilson and Laubach Boyd and a statistic about over 100000 immigrants to this country last year from Great Britain.
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Ancoln Parish
Roller & Wilson
Laubach & Boyd
Sulphur Biter Heals Dyspepsia Says Patient Hero
A patient claims six months of dyspepsia treatment failed until Sulphur Biter eased symptoms. He boasts of improved health and appetite and derides doctors as foes. Also mentions artificial grass for seaside cottages in Manchester and Simmons Liver Regulator as malaria remedy. An average elevator speed of 300 feet per minute in New York offices is noted.
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New York
Aunt Fannys Health Remedy Offered Free Try
Many thousands have found a friend in Aunt Fanny's Health Remedy marketed for indigestion liver and kidney disorders and nervous exhaustion. The ad promises free samples and urges readers to try the tonic. The piece also notes the deepest mine near Berlin at 4,175 feet.
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Fanny
Laubach
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