Neighbors scheme to marry tenants over noisy piano
Two flat owners plot to join their tenants in marriage to end a long dispute over a pianist and a tenor. They stage a ruse to bring the couple together, hoping to merge two flats into one large unit for future studios, ending with a communal, now happy living arrangement.
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Kentucky
Adams
Signor Squalls
Conservatory of Music
Mr. Bolton
Mr. Adams
Paderewski
Germany and Her Fairy Tale Places
A Christian Herald excerpt celebrates Germany’s rich link to fairy tales. It notes how travelers meet Grimm legends like Mother Hulda Goldilocks Red Riding Hood the Brementown Musicians Hansel and Gretel and other familiar figures in art and culture. It argues this lore upholds German loyalty to the fatherland and guides craft in painting sculpture and music.
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Germany
England
Charles Dickens
Brothers Grimm
Mother Hulda
Goldilocks
Red Riding Hood
Brementown
Hansel and Gretel
London
Christian Herald
Underground New York Stone Lizard Sprawling Across Rivers
A vivid description portrays New York City beneath piles of covering rock as a massive stone lizard lies flat with its head at Spuyten Duyvil and limbs touching both rivers, its tail near the Battery, tracing a gneiss spine along the landscape.
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New York
New York City
Spuyten Duyvil
A Historic Tankard from Charles II to Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
A large solid silver tankard given by Charles II to Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey for his service during the plague and Great Fire of London, 1666. The plain silver piece weighs about thirty six ounces and bears royal arms, his crest, Latin inscriptions, and engravings of pesthouse corpses and crowded hoses under flames.
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London
Charles II
Edmund Berry Godfrey
Justice to the Arabs in Literature and Translation
Prescott laments the difficulty of accessing Arab literature in translation and critiques Turkish influence. He argues European scholars misjudge Arab merit due to poor translations and condemns Turkish cultural stagnation despite long dominance of antiquities.
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Castri
Europe
Prescott
Difference Between Caution and Cowardice
A dialogue notes that caution is fear felt by oneself while cowardice is fear shown by another person. The exchange contrasts internal caution with external cowardice in a teaching moment.
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Willy
Points for Mothers Points for Mothers For Overanxious Mothers
Advice for anxious mothers on fever and cold care for babies, including when to seek a doctor, and tips for fever reduction. Emphasizes prevention of colds with fresh air and proper clothing, plus safe home routines and child care environment ideas.
Suggestions For a Child's Room Upgrade
A healthful cheerful space for a child with simple furnishings and restful color. A notable design features a raised platform at one end, one step above the floor, extending about six feet from the wall and padded with wall-toned material.
Plea For the Children Inspires Gentle Feeding
The piece argues mothers should focus on children's mental state and fatigue as causes of indigestion rather than diet alone. It advises avoiding scolding at meals, offering instruction later, and allowing practice at each meal without coddling picky tastes to prevent stomach distress.
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George Washington
Mother
Government of Children
The mother should regard herself as her child's sun and steady world providing light warmth and courage. A temperate mother instills a calm and just divinity in her child, while a passionate mother may teach a capricious or despotic god or several discordant gods.
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Henri Frederic Auriel
Milk in the Cocoanut and a Sailor Rum Story
A New York Sun correspondent traces the origin of the saying This accounts for the milk in the coconuts to Captain Marryat. In a West Indies ship scene bumboat women trade coconuts and officers ask for for officer and sailor coconuts. The sailor coconuts have their milk replaced with rum.
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New York Sun
Marryat
West Indies
Placing of Building Stone and Quarry Fracture Planes
The article explains mason’s rule to place stone with its natural bed, notes three fracture planes rift grain and head, and discusses how inclined beds affect the proper placement in building stone for paving blocks, citing the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Benice
Chicago Record-Herald
Softening the Blow
A Virginia woman dismisses her servant Cora after she recounts her mother’s cousin who died of illness. Cora, frightened, tries to soften the tale by noting the cousin died easily, prompting the mistress to end the conversation.
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Cora
Mab
Gaudy Vulture Dominates South American Forests
In South American forests the most colorfully plumaged vulture, said to be king over black vultures and turkey buzzards, displays a delicate cream plumage with thick quills and a head of red and orange.
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Abhadeheen Printing
Wishkah Street
Cecilia A. Loizeaux
Bolton
Sam Hill
Wiell
Boltqon
F. Hopkinson Smith
Harden Thompson
Government OF Children
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