Consider the Exertions

This piece can be considered a Convenience OR an Inconvenience, depending upon the intent with which it is used.

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Mansion O'Dreams

 Source image: A Design for a Governor's Mansion by Alvin Truesdell Tumbleson, 1910

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Inconvenience: All Shames

 Source Image: Poisonous, Noxious and Suspected Plants of Our Fields and Woods by Anne Pratt, 1866.

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How, When, and Where to Sow Dream Seeds

 Source text: Ninth Annual Catalogue of Vegetable, Agricultural, and Flower Seeds, by Geo. S. Haskell & Co; 1872.

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Plainly Show the Wound

Here is another example of a Convenience in Primitive-School style.  Source: Farm Conveniences, by Byron David Halsted, 1884.

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Inconvenience: Poisoning Dreamers 12

 Image source: A Practical Handbook of Medical Chemistry Applied to Clinical Research and the Detection of Poisons by William Houston, 1880.

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Thousands of Night Thoughts and Dreams

 Image source: Das Sonnen-System, by Adam Christian Gaspari, Franz Ludwig Gussefeld, F.L. Guessefeld, C. Westermayr, 1801. 

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Inconvenience: Poisoning Dreams 60

 Image source: A Practical Handbook of Medical Chemistry Applied to Clinical Research and the Detection of Poisons by William Houston, 1880.

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Peculiarities of the Inconvenience

 Image and text source: The Opium Habit and Alcoholism by Frank Hubbard, 1881.

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Some Old Dreams

 Source text: Some Old Egyptian Librarians by Ernest Cushing Richardson, 1911.

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Dream 9 Errata

 Image source: Machine Embroidery Hand-book, Domestic Sewing Machine Company, 1886.

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Domestic Dream Work 1

Source text: Machine Embroidery Hand-book, Domestic Sewing Machine Company, 1886.

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Hand Book No. 44

Image source: Popular Pastimes for Amusement and Instruction, Henry Davenport Northrop, 1901.

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Random Dreaming 1

Image source: Popular Pastimes for Amusement and Instruction, Henry Davenport Northrop, 1901.

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Dream Direction

 Image from Comparative Osteology by Joseph Maclise, 1847.

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What is Genre Dreaming?

 Source text: The Masters of Genre Painting by Sir Frederick Wedmore, 1880. 

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Sifted Dream Seeds

Source: How to Make a Vegetable Garden by Edith Fullerton, 1905.

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Proposal for Dream Research

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Dream Transition Spiral

Source: The Railway Transition Spiral by A. N. Talbot, 1901.

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Contaminated Dreams and Misery

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