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Medical Quackery

In An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts and Apparitions, and Popular Superstitions

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James Thacher


An essay on demonology, ghosts and apparitions, and popular superstitions, also, an account of the witchcraft delusion at Salem, in 1682. - …

Plot, Punch and Style

In The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 5, May 1, 1919

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Greye La Spina


Welcome to Issue #5 of the exciting and influential pulp magazine The Thrill Book, a noted precursor to the mighty Weird Tales! In this issu…

In Praise of Walking, Part 2

In The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers

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Hilaire Belloc


This 1911 anthology is a collection of musings on the pleasures, challenges, and experience of walking. It features some famous authors (Tho…

Prologue part 1

In Mosquitoes

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William Faulkner


Four days on a patron's yacht; artists during the roaring twenties explore ... This version is tamer than the original housed at the Univers…

From Butterflies to Beetles and Bees, Part 1

In Zoology: The Science of Animal Life

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Ernest Ingersoll


Scientist and prolific author, Ernest Ingersoll, in this book gives as an overview of animal life. Included here are descriptions of sea li…

The Blue-Headed Wagtail

In A Chapter on Birds

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Richard Bowdler Sharpe


A short book about birds that are rare in England, but may visit from time to time.

Man's Loyal Companion

In The Grizzly, Our Greatest Wild Animal

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Enos A. Mills


During the past thirty years I have had numerous experiences with the grizzly bear in various sections of his territory. The material in th…

Vegetables and Salads

In A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House

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Jessie Conrad


This book of British recipes and cooking advice was compiled by Jessie Conrad, wife of celebrated author Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim, Heart of D…

The Man Who Hunts and Never Jumps

In Hunting Sketches

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Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope describes with his characteristic wit the different types of hunters commonly found in 19th century Britain. - Summary by E…

Literature: Hebrew and English. Periodicals

In History of the Jews in America

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Peter Wiernik


Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from Vilna when he was twenty. He also wrote in Hebrew and…

From the Minutes to The Dutiful Son

In Fantastic Fables

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Ambrose Bierce


A collection of 245 short funny fables - Summary by Inkell

Bonnie Butterscotch Cake, Triple-Tier Party Cake

In 10 Cakes Husbands Like Best: From Spry's Recipe Round-up

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Lever Brothers


Cakes and more cakes! All of these ten recipes promote the use of Homogenized Spry Shortening. From Chocolate Rapture Cake to Hawaiian Lei…

Seven Stanzas, part 1 (Stanzas 0 - 3)

In The Secret Doctrine, Volume I. Cosmogenesis. Part I, Cosmic Evolution

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky


A vast, sweeping survey on the origin of creation, its expansion, contraction, maintenance and instructions for humanity in the contexts of …

Recollections of the Alhambra

In Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost and Other Papers

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Washington Irving


This collection from renowned author Washington Irving (famed for his haunting tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the fantastical le…

Chapter IV. The Quest of the Dog

In Gilead Balm, Knight Errant

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Bernard Capes


Gilead Balm, a young Government clerk of philanthropic predilections, always read the "Daily Post" for the sake of its agony colum…