Regent's Park Meeting Sparks a London Quiet Romance
In Regent's Park at Chester Gate a lively afternoon unfolds as Miss Llewellyn, Master Waller, and Kenneth meet Mr. Bradley by a music band and orchid display. Bradley recounts adventures, and a romantic tension grows as Miss Llewellyn and Bradley reconnect over past and future plans while the boy asks for lemonade and attention.
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HLM
Botanical Gardens
Regent's Park
Chester Gate
Llewellyn
Kenneth Walter
Miss Llewellyn
Kenneth
South America
Miss Lewellyn
Mr. Bradley
Master Waller
Kenneth Waller
Bradley
Wellyn
Waller
Orchilds
Fragmentary Period Dialogue Cited From The Woman at Home
An interrupted exchange shows Bradley addressing a waiter and attempting to submit his self while Miss Llewellyn hushes the scene in a quotation from The Woman at Home.
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Bradley
Miss Llewellyn
Coronation Robe Exhibited in Chicago for the Czarina
The $40 000 coronation gown by Mme Barutti of Paris, made for the Czarina of Russia, was shown in Chicago. It features gold thread, royal ermine, royal purple velvet, and white satin with a 27 foot train, but was never worn by the Czarina due to her death. The robe’s fate ended in auction after Barutti’s suicide and sale to a New York firm.
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Mme, Barutti
Paris
Russia
Chicago
America
Barutti
Mme. Barutti
Europe
Mme. Barutt
New York
Chicago Inter Ocean
Professional Prayer In New Orleans Ave Street Scene
A Times-Democrat report describes a unique New Orleans washerwoman who also acts as a professional prayer, citing her Bible quotes and belief in the efficacy of her prayers. She prays weekly for neighbors, including a husband’s struggle with drinking, and profits from her spiritual work. She plans and interprets each quotation as part of her method.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Fire Engine Trolley Car Innovates City Transport
A special Springfield trolley car carries fire engines on a platform nine and a half inches above rail. Front truck detaches for loading. front end lowers to ground. Car length is thirty feet ten and a half inches. net weight 14 000 pounds. Fire department loads in two and a quarter minutes and unloads in one and a quarter minutes. The rest of the text discusses a rain storm and egotism with no clear relation.
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Springfield
Mass
Springfield Fire
Puzzles in Nature Describe Vast Distances and Sunset Distortion
The New York Tribune survey covers optical color shifts in krypton tubes explained by eye sensitivity, birds migrating speeds and altitudes to explain rapid flight, Tibetan river sources clarified by Kozloff's 1900 1901 explorations, and atmospheric refraction causing sunset distortion. It also details excavating Brooklyn caisson work with compressed air, along with sunset measuring methods and shadow-based height estimation.
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W. Ramsay
J. K. Gore
Gabriel Leven
Egypt
Heligoland
Labrador
Brazil
Tibet
China
Anam
Siam
Kozloff
Great Plateau
Prinz
Brussels Observatory
Brooklyn
East River
Walking Stick as a Practical Measuring Tool
A walking stick serves as a handy height measuring device when shadows fail. By planting a stick and aligning eye level with the object from a marked point, the height ratio reveals the object’s height. The method uses basic geometry and can substitute for a ruler or compass, noting sun positions can be found with a watch.
Mr Schwab in New York a salaried captain of industry
An article in Cosmopolitan portrays Charles Schwab as the highest development of the salaried employer. It argues he remains a wage earner who profits by others while amassing wealth for his employers and sees stock ownership as industrial evolution. The piece cites his brainpower and stock purchases as emblematic of a shift toward widespread shareholding.
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Pottsville
Spain
Congress
Patrick Henry
Philadelphia Times
Schwab
Samuel SH. Mott Yett
United States Steel Corporation
Cosmopolitan
Rockefeller
Hill
Spreckels
Mills
Stanford
Huntington
Hopkins
Carnegie
Mr. Schwab
Judicial Decisions Summarize Carrier Route Rights and Property Liens
A digest of rulings covers carrier control of shipment routes over shippers, dog bite liability with no negligence, mutual benefit certificate by law changes, dues versus sick benefits, price floor clauses on medicine sales, rights to sell prose timber free of vendor restraints, and duties to remove timber after conveyance.
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Post
Southern R. Co
Tenn
Bernhard
Gaut
Supreme Council A. L. of H
Mutual Benefit Society
Rogers Vs. Union Benevolent Soc
Garst
Hall & I. Co
Mass
Actor amid Wilton tale stirs small town fame
A traveling actor who summers in Wilton, Missouri, recounts how a farmer killed a beast and discarded its innards which he eagerly bought. He later learns the village crowds him as the innards eater, a fame he cannot escape. Boston Journal notes are quoted. Also mentions Arctic pneumonia rarity and a jab at women who join clubs.
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Wilton
Bill
Boston Journal
Professor succumbs to lamp post shock after dinner
A learned society member, Professor Jones, suffers a fatal fearsome fate after pressing his head to an electric light post. The bolt diverts current through his body, freezing him to the post as doctors and a mounting chill contribute to a grisly death. A nearby policeman frees him.
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Jones
Pittsburg
Clara Wins First Public School Spelling Exam
Harper's Magazine notes the two year path of Clara from her grandmother's lessons to public school promotion. She studies twenty pages for the written exam and earns a perfect score of one hundred, then writes to her father proudly claiming she did not miss a single word.
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Clara
Papa
Venezuelan Pearls at Margarita A Pearl Center
The island of Margarita near Venezuela is famed for pearl fisheries. Spurred by rising pearl prices, Venezuelan fishermen grow busier as a French company secures a government concession to dive for pearls. The passage notes that poor children face fewer inheritance losses.
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Island of
Margarita
Venezuela
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Stillwell
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Arctic Circle
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