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Miracle Mongers and Their MethodsMiracle Mongers and Their Methods - A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. "All wonder," said Samuel Johnson, "is the effect of novelty on ignorance." Yet we...
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KidnappedKidnapped While my husband and Mr. Henley were engaged in writing plays in Bournemouth they made a number of titles, hoping to use them in the future. Dramatic composition was not what my husband preferred, but the torrent of Mr. Henleys enthusiasm swept him...
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The Bible in SpainThe Bible in Spain - Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the PeninsulaIt is very seldom that the preface of a work is read; indeed, of late years, most books have been sent...
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John Jacob AstorJohn Jacob AstorThe man who makes it the habit of his life to go to bed at nine o'clock, usually gets rich and is always reliable. Of course, going to bed does not make him richI merely mean that such a man will in...
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The Souls of Black FolkThe Souls of Black Folk Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem...
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Appreciations of Richard Harding DavisAppreciations of Richard Harding Davis He was almost too good to be true. In addition, the gods loved him, and so he had to die young. Some people think that a man of fifty-two is middle-aged. But if R. H. D. had lived to...
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Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding DavisAdventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Richard Harding Davis was born in Philadelphia on April 18, 1864, but, so far as memory serves me, his life and mine began together several years later in the three-story brick house on South Twenty-first Street, to...
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Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool MakersIndustrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool MakersThe Author offers the following book as a continuation, in a more generally accessible form, of the Series of Memoirs of Industrial Men introduced in his Lives of the Engineers. While preparing that work he frequently came across...
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The CrossingThe Crossing I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River,...
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Memories and PortraitsMemories and PortraitsThis volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone...
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Edinburgh: Picturesque NotesEdinburgh: Picturesque NotesThe ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her...
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Kansas Women in LiteratureKansas Women in Literature The last place one would expect to find romance is in arithmetic and yetMiss Effie Graham, the head of the Department of Mathematics in the Topeka High School, has found it there and better still, in her lecture "Living Arithmetic"...
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A Journal of the Plague YearA Journal of the Plague Year - Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London It...
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The mans hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck....
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The Outlaw of TornThe Outlaw of Torn Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first it was suppressed by one of the Plantagenet kings of England. Later it was forgotten. I happened to dig it up by accident. The accident being...
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The Land of Little RainThe Land of Little Rain I confess to a great liking for the Indian fashion of name-giving: every man known by that phrase which best expresses him to whoso names him. Thus he may be Mighty-Hunter, or Man-Afraid-of-a-Bear, according as he is called by...
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The Story of a PioneerThe Story of a Pioneer My father's ancestors were the Shaws of Rothiemurchus, in Scotland, and the ruins of their castle may still be seen on the island of Loch-an-Eilan, in the northern Highlands. It was never the picturesque castle of song and story,...
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The Merry Men, and Other Tales and FablesThe Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables Three of the following Tales have appeared in the Cornhill Magazine; one in Longmans; one in Mr. Henry Normans Christmas Annual; and one in the Court and Society Review. The Author desires to make proper acknowledgements...
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Margaret OgilvyMargaret OgilvyOn the day I was born we bought six hair-bottomed chairs, and in our little house it was an event, the first great victory in a womans long campaign; how they had been laboured for, the pound-note and the thirty threepenny-bits they cost,...
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Myths and Legends of the SiouxMyths and Legends of the Sioux In publishing these Myths of the Sioux, I deem it proper to state that I am of one-fourth Sioux blood. My maternal grandfather, Captain Duncan Graham, a Scotchman by birth, who had seen service in the British Army,...
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