Billy Bender Finds a Chance in Boston Firm
Orphan Billy Bender arrives in Boston seeking work and a fresh start. He meets George Moreland at ER. J. Selden & Co and earns a chance through courtesy and books. Jenny Lincoln and Mary Howard figure in his past as he hides a growing love and hopes for education and a better future.
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Boston
Billy Bender
ER. J. Selden & Co
Mr. Selden
George Moreland
Billy
George
Chicopee
Lincolns
Selden
Jenny
Ida
R. J. Selden
Yale
Bender
Wilbraham
Chippee
Jenny Lincoln
Henry Lincoln
Henry
Rank Howard
Kim
Frank
Mary
The
Howards
Ella
Mary Howard
Ella Campbell
Mr. Moreland
Care of the Eyes and The Pickles Test in Public Health
Articles discuss eye care from birth including boric acid washes and light protection, plus guidance on preventing eye strain in children and warning signs for conjunctivitis. A corollary item describes Dr. Carlin’s Pickles Test to screen mumps patients for school return.
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Denver
Health Department
Carlin
Sabin Named Head of Chicago Telephone System
John S. Sabin, president of the Pacific States Telegraph and Telephone Company, takes over the Chicago system with a $35,000 annual salary while remaining president of the Pacific States firm at $25,000 per year. His policy aims to boost telephone popularity by affordable service, expanding reach from $1.50 to $5 monthly, leading to five times as many phones on the Pacific coast versus the central West.
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Chicago
John S. Sabin
Pacific States Telegraph and Telephone Company
Chicago System of Telephones
Pacific Coast Line
San Francisco
Spokane
Sabin
Chicago Company
Pacific States Company
New York
Public Schools
Brooklyn
Independent Telegraph Company of
New Brunswick
N. J
Philadelphia
White Plains
United States Telegraph Company
Fifth Army Corps
Fort Petersburg
Raleigh
N. C
Collins Overland Telegraph Expedition
Amoor River
Siberia
Plover Bay
Pacific Coast
Middle West
Ohio
Oregon
Iowa
Cycling Walkerpedia and the walking cyclopedia
Uncle Wellington de Bergh, a seventy plus retired English merchant, loved cycling and Walker's Dictionary. A caller notes his cycling, while a niece quips he is a walking cyclopedia and then a cycling Walkerpedia.
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Wellington de Bergh
Supposition on London Stall and Theater Criticism
Miss Cayenne questions the young man about a stall during his London visit. He admits it while he displays foreignisms. She muses that the production was likely condemned by critics for horseplay as reported by the Washington Star in a broader piece.
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London
Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Explanations as Literature Inquisitive readers questioned Dr Holmes
Elizabeth Cady Stanton recounts asking Dr Holmes if a servant nearly died laughing in The Height of the Ridiculous was real. He replied to explain it as a dreamlike vignette like an old woman in a shoe or Jack and the beanstalk, not a true event.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Dr. Holmes
Jack
Lord Hugh Cecil
House of Commons
Lord Salisbury
Lord Rosebery
Lord Hugh
Cecils
Cecil
Hatfield
Imagination and Verse From a Youthful Mind
A speaker asks to explain imagination to a youth aiming for a Concord School level discourse. Though poems are gone, remembered lines include The Height of the Ridiculous ending with Ten days and nights with sleepless eyes I watched that wretched man. The note adds guidance not to cry over it and to note the humor in geese and bald eagles.
Washing a Wild Tiger and the Fearless Moujik
A La France du Nord tale shows Peron hiring a poor Cossack to clean a tiger cage in Moscow. The man, mute to gestures, soaks the tiger with a sponge while the beast stays calm, purring as the moujik bathes it like a child before retreating as others restrain him from repeating the perilous test.
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Peron
Moscow
Beton
Squire Blank Stings Neighbors With Free Mustard
In Harper's Bazar style humor, Squire Blank, the village’s richest and stingiest man, declines cigars but grabs a dime’s worth of mustard from a mill prospect, claiming the mustards’ free value while cigars go untouched. The scene unfolds in the village store during a meeting with a potential mill builder.
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James Russell Lowell
Squire Blank
Harper's Bazar
Esquire
Pigeons of St Mark Claim Ownership in Venice Court
The Pigeons of Saint Mark assert ownership over the famed birds as street boys who killed them argue no legal owner exists. Venice authorities and the court hold that the pigeons belong to the republic and thus the municipality. A separate phrase notes uprooted trees lasting in Jamaica and a quip about man proposing and a girl sending him to papa.
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St. Mark
Venice
Saint Mark
Piazza San Marco
Old Republic
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Ppoorhouse
Palace
Mary J. Holmes
John L. Sabin
Jamaica
Man
Papa
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