Chinese Magic Lanterns and Their Eastern Variations
A historical survey describes Chinese magic lanterns as street entertainments with four instrument types. Lantern shows travel through markets, drawing crowds of five to thirty with performances of five to fifteen minutes and small cash tips averaging two cents. The piece notes tabloid anecdotes, including sensational animal tales and a sack duel at court, plus assorted quips from London and Manchester about urban crossings and gossip.
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Celestial Empire
Middle Kingdom
Semiliar Ag Bovachold
New York
Not to Be Fooled by Old Whiskies and Agents
A Philadelphia Press quip notes two samples smelling like cheap goods while a distiller boasts whiskies over ten years old as the best on the market. The customer questions quality, implying the long age should assure better agents.
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Philadelphia Press
Walting
Aurelia
Fragmentary dialogue hints at marriage and social plans
Snippet shows casual chatter about a man named John marrying a highly regarded girl. The exchange includes surprised remarks about the bride and a remark about someone playing by ear. Source text is fragmentary and garbled, limiting clear facts.
Laura Keene Dream Turns Real After Fatal Dream
The Argonaut recounts Laura Keene's bizarre tale from the sixties and a chilling dream of murder. Robson recalls a red ink mishap during The Lady and the Devil, Keene's eerie premonition, and her presence at Mord’s Theatre when Lincoln was shot, comforting the dying president in her lap.
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Stuart Robson
Laura Keene
Ple
Don Rafael
Miss Keene
Mord’s
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Not to Be Thought Of
A Reston Commercial Bulletin item notes a housewife offering a tramp ten cents to perform a task. The tramp responds he would risk prosecution under a new antitrust law for charging less than neighbors, highlighting a humorous exchange about price and legality.
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Reston Commercial Bulletin
Fragmentary quote from a Brooklyn scene
A partial, unclear excerpt features disrupted dialogue about a design and a corner, with distractingly odd phrasing and names that resemble Brooklyn references. The text is too fragmentary to determine a clear event, person, or context.
Politeness in Japan and the “giving notice” ritual
The piece surveys Japanese servant etiquette, noting that even leaving work is handled with politeness. Mistresses grant days off, and departures occur via humble letters with plausible excuses. Former maids may return briefly to settle wages before vanishing, while misconduct or complaints are avoided to prevent scenes.
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Japan
Taming the Cheetah Imedia in a Village Tale
A reported account describes a cheetah restrained on a cot while keepers and families starve it and keep it awake. Hatred voices and crowd behavior supposedly influence the animal, with women’s speech claimed to act as powerful antisporitic forces, bending the creature toward submission.
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Ted
Hieta
Fadia
Easter splendor in Russia and marvels of the orca
Easter in Russia surpasses Christmas in festivity with lavish eggs and bazaars on Gostinoi Door and Nevaky Prospect. The orca, a 25 foot predator, shows ferocious jaws and stomach contents of thirteen porpoises and fourteen seals, while a street car conductor’s platform routine elicits laughter in Cincinnati.
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Russia
Gostinoi
Nevaky
Enater
Sage Conclusion by Uncle Reuben on Arguments and Past Beliefs
Uncle Reuben declares after forty years of arguing that the whale could not have altered Joner and faked enemies, noting his belief would not affect the past while admitting his spent breath was wasted. Detroit Free Press Pros.
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Reuben
Detroit
Conscience and quarrel cited in unclear note
A fragmented historical passage references a conscientious man and a quarrel with his wife, mentioning a desire to avoid strict principles affecting his children or dog. The garbled text includes names and phrases that are hard to parse, offering a glimpse of a controversial or humorous aside.
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Reuben
Lightning Strike Wrecks Bremer County Cattle
Chris Bunkr of Bremer county loses twenty head of fine steers when a lightning bolt hits a fence during a storm. Insurance partially covers the loss as nearby towns along the Chicago Great Western railway are featured in Town Talk promotions. For details contact Edwin B. Magill at the Fort Dodge site department in Iowa.
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Chris Bunkr
Bremer County
Chicago Great Western Railway
Edwin B. Magill
Mgr
Ft. Dodge
Lowa
Lidderdale
Lanesboro
Chica Great Western Railway
Parti Lara
Af Ownsite Dept
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