Mary Finds a New Home with Mrs Mason at Rice Corners
Mary leaves the poorhouse for a brighter life with Mrs Mason at Rice Corners after Jenny’s tale of kindness and hardship. Mary settles into a cheerful room, tends Mrs Mason, and finds solace in a loving home even as memories of Allie and her mother linger.
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Mary
Jenny
Rice Corner
Mother
Mrs. Mason
Boston
Mr. Knight
Mrs. Parker
Rice Corners
Judith
Old Charlotte
Allie
Harry
Old England
Heaven
Language Oddities and Lady Roberts Trunks Tale
A Sheffield Weekly News item recounts a French learner’s comic mishaps with English pronunciation and a Westminster Gazette note about Lady Roberts smuggling eight large trunks through Bloemfontein to aid soldiers during transport shortages.
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Enou
Sheffield Weekly News
Lady
Lady Roberts
Westminster Gazette
South Africa
Cape Town
Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein Station
Beagle? No. Be a Beal.
St. Lawrence canal deepening brings sea herring into Lake Ontario. Fishermen eagerly catch the new forage fish as ocean vessels pass.
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Bea
Lake Ontario
St. Lawrence Canal
Question on preparing child for college future
A quip about guiding a child toward college asks if early preparation is happening. The reply jokes that the child will begin next week and must take a daily amount of tabasco sauce.
New Clock System Aims to Fix Twenty Century Time
Samuel P. Thrasher of New Haven advocates a revolutionary clock that shows all necessary digits at once in a clear display. The system promises instant, unambiguous time readings like a railroad timetable, replacing the old dial with phrases such as nine twenty and eleven forty six.
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Samuel P. Thrasher
New Haven
Conn
Thrasher
Head of St Louis Fair Chooses Ex Gov Francis for Exposition Board
Ex Gov. David R. Francis has been named president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition board. The selection is widely praised. Francis, 50, has held major Missouri and national posts, including mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and secretary of the interior. The article also notes Henry's claim to inventing the trolley and recalls a mountain lion encounter told by the author, plus a Savannah anecdote about Uncle Mingo at a colored restaurant.
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Francis
David R. Francis
St. Louis
Missouri
Hoke Smith
Cleveland
Interior
Hair Standing on End Triggers Miner Prospect's Fear
A St Louis Republic reporter recalls a miner's tale of a fright that changed his mind about superstition. The prospector says his hair stood on end during a near miss, a moment that shifted his belief about such phenomena.
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St. Louis Republic
The Golfer's Mistake in a Sawing Opera
A narrator from the Boston Transcript reflects on a humorous line about golfers misinterpreting exercise as easy work. The piece pairs a prefatory wink with a wood sawyer’s weary routine and a sigh of relief at his own easier task.
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Boston Transcript
Poetical Death Notice of a Pet Dog in Bifflete
A humorous obituary note from the Bifflete family declares their dog Perlle has steered his park for the other shore. The writers frame the pet’s passing in a poetic metaphor reflecting a voyage afterlife.
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Perlle
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Shampion Liar Of The World Unmasked In New Orleans Tale
An observer in New Orleans proclaims the average American a habitual liar and tests a pocket counter by tallying his own false statements. He records dozens of deviations from truth in a short outing, noting how even trusted people bend the truth under casual pressure.
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Barmine Street
New Orleans
Smithson
Jones
Boggs
Cardinal Borromeo and Giulio Ghiliglios Charity Contrast
A tale from Youth's Companion recalls Cardinal Borromeo questioning Giulio about palace largesse. Giulio replies that charity pays the poor for labor while Borromeo’s approach would fund idleness, a maxim now guiding modern philanthropy toward self help and poverty reduction.
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Cardinal Borromeo
Cardinal Giwlo
Borromeo
Giulio
The Empress and Her Apron Collection
The German Empress keeps a refined apron collection and once received a white satin apron embroidered with her five sons names. She thanked the donors and noted her husband prefers her to wear an apron which looks homely. The princes enjoyed the gesture saying it keeps their names close to their mother.
The Callers Inference in a Pittsburgh Chronicle Tale
A caller asks a doormaid about Mrs Mulligatawney and is told she is not in. The exchange hints at impulsive behavior and a caustic note on talk being cheap versus taxpayer funded government.
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Mary J. Holmes
Lincoln
Root
Branch
Southbridge
Miss Mason
Miss Grundy
Charlotte
Billy
Peter
Sally
Lo Ae
JMR
ST. Louis Fair
John C. Henry
Denver
United States
Kansas City
California
Central Electric Company
New York City
Idaho
Mingo
Uncle Mingo
Savannah
Plant System Depot
Possum
Savannah News
D. KH
Shampion Liar OF the World
Congress
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