Pipe cancer fears and a tale of Mary Walker
The piece warns pipe smokers about epithelioma in lips and tongue, noting Paris statistics and the danger of short clay pipes. It then retells a tale of Mary Walker, whose fortune of 500 dollars was misused by Zebulon Walker with stock speculation, leading to a legal settlement and disclosure by Mrs Peabody and attorney figures.
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Paris
Revue Des Deux Mondes
Mary Walker
Zebulon Walker
Zebulon
Mary
Peabody
Guiet
Mr. Peabody
Him & Do
Reverend Joseph W Cross, 95, Harvard’s oldest living grad
Rev. Joseph Warren Cross of Lawrence Massachusetts is 95, the oldest Harvard graduate, grandson of the Revolution and son of the War of 1812. He recalls first hand revolutionary stories and has served in the Massachusetts legislature and in the constitutional convention that formed Massachusetts' constitution.
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Harvard University
Joseph Warren Cross
Lawrence
Mass
Mr. Cross
Massachusetts
Childhood Grief Prompts Auntlike Sympathy Homespun Quote
A Boston Transcript note recalls a little girl who fell on a brick walk and bumped her chin. When asked if she was hurt, she replied through a quivering lip that she ought to be crying in the house, a moment that captures the luxury of grief in youth.
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Boston Transcript
Not Troubling the Lord and American Streets in Canada
A Brooklyn clergyman rebukes a parishioner for curling hair with the retort that if the Lord intended curls he would have made them so. A note on Americans using Canadian street names as they settle in the Northwest quotes jokes about American influence in Canada. A Havana note questions Cuban health and a final line cites an Italian observer saying Americans do everything rashly.
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House of Lords
George Koenig
Brooklyn
New York Times
Canada
Canadian Northwest
Washington
Lincoln
Gaffeld
Grant
Regina
Havana
Oins
Cuba
A Lady's Pocket Hysteria in a New Frock
A humorous Spare Moments anecdote recounts a woman stepping from a hansom and vainly searching her new frock for a pocket to access her purse. The incongruity draws a practical remark from the coachman as the scene ends with his request for fare.
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Cardus
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Cardui
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Joserh
WM. Wall
Lunt’s Livery Barn
Charles Wynkoop
Dr. Kirtley
East Side
Lebay Anon
Indiana
Lucie
Marie
Lucies
Detroit Free Press
Wall Street
By Byron Wlliams
Clarence
Tobias
Dennis
Selah
Indy Sarg
Coad
Peur
Ccoel
Harvard
Railes & Galdwell
Lebanon Street
Lebanon
Chas. Miller
IND
Timothy Seed
Clovar Seed
Advance Grai Company
Wilcox Bros
Saint Louis
Kansas City
Memphis
Missouri
Arkansas
Indian Territory, Oklahoma
Texas
Louisiana
Frisco System
B. F. Jones
Practical Blacksmith
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H. P. New
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