Shipwrecked Heiress Finds Kin Through Distant Echoes
A late nineteenth century tale follows Miss Adela Craven and her charge as a Dresden museum encounter with a familiar painting triggers a family mystery. Miss Fay discovers she is connected to Miss Craven through a shipwrecked aunt and daughter long presumed lost, resolving with a joyous revelation of kinship and marriage.
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Atlantic
Europe
Adela Craven
Paresa
Way
Rachel Cunningham
Dresden
Miss Way
Miss Craven
T&e
Cathee
Miss Fay
Miss Qwaves
Abe
Mae
Wasther
Slater
Misa Yay
Rone
Italy
Mr. Way
Tittle
Fay
Oie
DAMES AND DAUGHTERS: NOTABLE WOMEN IN HISTORY
A collage of brief notes on prominent women and historical figures including Mme Ostrovka, Nellie Spoarmen, M G Cuthbernson, Lady Cardigan relics, Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, and a Memorial Day speech on female energy.
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Petrograd University
Russia
Mme. Ostrovka
Nellie J. Spoarmen
Hero
Puget Sound
British Columbia
Mise M. G. Cuthbernson
Victoria
Australia
Lady Cardigan
Light Brigade
Bahiklava
Dean Virginia Gildersleeve
Barnard
Columbia
Phi Beta Kappa
Qu the Whale
Wwe
Asp
Dudeg
Ft Weil
Coal tar and its wide range of uses in industry
The article extols coal tar as a versatile, almost universal material yielding dyes, oils, asphalt, photographic developers, and medicines. It traces its discovery and valorization from waste product to key chemical feedstock, highlighting aniline, mauve, benzine, and alizarin, and noting medical and antiseptic applications, with a closing parade of unrelated quotes.
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Frederick Accum
Macintosh
Ha Wag
France
Holland
Aris
Vfe
New York Times
Winding a Clock for Better Timekeeping
The New York American advises a steady wind routine for watches and eight day clocks. Wind at roughly the same morning and evening hour, using just enough turns to avoid full tension. Wind in moderate temperatures, avoid storms, and aim for regular twice weekly eight day clock winding for best accuracy and longevity.
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New York American
A Famous Miser Cooke Died Wealthy After Saving Tricks
Thomas Cooke, called the tilington miser, died rich with over 300000 dollars after a life of petty saving and trickery. He feigned illnesses to dine for free, spoke of wills to guilt relatives, and refused to pay for a horse doctor, buying onions for a quack cure instead.
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Cooke
Thomas Cooke
Homemade Toothpowder Recipe Introduces Simple Mix
An old recipe explains a toothpowder made from precipitated chalk carbonate of soda and orris root. Mix one ounce chalk half ounce soda carbonate and half ounce orris root, sieve thrice, store in a bottle until use. The mixture aims to remove grease and whiten teeth.
Fragmentary remark on self seriousness in American trait
A quoted exchange discusses self seriousness as an American trait with references to Edward Everett, Carlyle, and Margaret Fuller. The dialogue notes she had determined to accept the universe, while Carlyle remarks she had better. The fragment reflects literary banter over intellectual stance in American culture.
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America
Edward Everett
Carlyle
Margaret Fuller
Cartyle
Widow with a live husband in polities and work
An edited fragment shows a widow with a living husband amid political rumors. It references a godfearing head of family and social expectations, then shifts to stray lines about fossils studies and domestic tasks. The piece includes oblique snippets from two papers and a joking tone.
Care Of Good Clothes And How Materials Wear
A piece discussing how better fabrics resist wear, and how care extends life. It notes that fine materials are more delicate, that body moisture and dust foster tiny organisms that weaken threads, and that airing and shaking garments improve longevity. It also briefly mentions horn growth in wildlife and colorful birds, with unrelated excerpts in the same text.
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Apfa
New York American
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International Harvester Company of America (Incorporated
H. H. Heetland
Ackley, IA
Baltimore American
Philadelphia
Spaulah
Pittsburgh Press
Thomas Jefferon
Hn Yamy
Post
Msho Gs
Kansasity Journal
Fletcher
PSSS
Samfe
What Is
Castoria
New Yorkty
Marcel
Bornea
Gay Sunalen
Scottpah Sword Deans
Thies
Businesal
The
Humphreys
Humio, Medicine Co
Onertilase
Nuwe
York
Flores
Matele
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