World's Fair plans tease reform and art from 1893 Chicago
The piece notes crowding concerns for the 1893 Chicago Exposition, details on free impressions to welcome visitors, and suggestions to paint houses cheerfully. It discusses a dedicatory march by Mme Holmes and potential new national servant training schools aligned with the fair. It also mentions Hermitage preservation subscriptions and Calebee battlefield relics, including the grave near Shorter's Station and the Rev. John Dennis, the last Calebee survivor.
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Chicago
New York World
Mme
Trish
Palaise de L'Industrie
Mme. Holmes
John Lucas
Hiinoie
United States
Whee Agalefort
Old Hickory
Calebee
Jackson
J. C. Shauffer
Western Alabama
Shorter’s
Ehiete
John Dennis
Dallas County
Ala
Georgia
Floyd
Dennis
A Happy Way Out of It
A dialogue from a New York press excerpt depicts an engagement proposal and a counter assertion. The woman challenges the suitor about past remarks regarding suitable marriage. The man defends his feelings yet acknowledges potential consequences if refused.
Good Thing for Him in Nightclub Exchange
The New York press reports Chapple tried some jokes on Mise Keene last night. She reportedly snubbed him and gave him a piece of her mind, while he appeared brighter than usual this evening.
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Chapple
Mise Keene
New York Prees
A Temple of Truth Built On Eternal Rock
A poetic homage likens a temple to a steadfast life built on truth. Stones symbolize sacrifices, walls virtue and purity, pillars gentle deeds, nails heartbeats, and steps trials guiding a soul toward a heavenly home under divine light. This verses attribution notes N. B. Fowles and Inter Ocean.
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Patience
N. B. Fowles
Inter Ocean
Unlucky Planet Turns Fateful for Charley Cleve and Family
Charley Cleve laments a string of accidents caused by a perceived unlucky star, from a broken chair to a gray goose mishap. Fire destroys Miss Sarepta Smith’s home, but the old woman rewards Charley with relics and a concealed five hundred dollars in a hidden savings scheme. He and Bess marry, invest in a Salt Inlet fruit farm, and later note the goose’s bakelite fortune as the couple prospers after ten years, while a parallel mine disaster describes a wall of crushed flesh and widowhood across several cases.
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Charley Cleve
Squire Homer
Charley
Bees
Mr. Cleve
Saturn
Mars
Philadelphia
Sarepta
Don
Bessie
Bess Warden
Warden
Smith
Doctor Warden
Bess
Sarepta Smith
Salt Inlet
Auicferrd
Warden House
Rose Warden
Sarepa
Charlie Cleve
Pam
Charles
Mise Sarepta
Dlanes
Beas
Charlie
Layera
Sarepte Smith
Been
United Stays
H. C. Frick & Co
Mount Pleasant
Ian
Superitendent
Keighley
Iron Tonic Hidden in Bread Aids Hospitals
The Globe-Memocrat notes a historic practice in Paris hospitals where medicines like iron tonic were baked into a special bread to mask unpleasant tastes. Each ounce of the bread delivers one grain of iron lactate, allowing patients to receive essential treatment through meals.
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Paris
Marie
Globe-Memocrat
Charge on the Gun From a Civil War Night Standoff
A firsthand account describes a daring assault to seize an artillery piece on a ridgeline. Corporal narrates a 56-man Company G advance under shelling, hand-to-hand combat, and cheers from onlookers, ending with 19 dead or wounded and the gun captured amid smoke and chaos.
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Williamsburg
Yorktown
Fair Oaks
Malvern Hill
Itoda
Ersten
Velle
Detroit Free Press War Records Page Cheered Hundreds
A fragmented line from the Detroit Free Press references a wartime records page that fans cheered and claimed as a personal victory. The garbled OCR preserves a sense of celebration and pride in the wartime records.
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Itsel
Detroit
What Hine Eyes Mean in a Cold War Echo
A Washington Star writer recalls a confrontation with an ex officer whose blue eyes are linked to notions of marksmanship and aggression. The narrative slides into violence from a heated exchange, detailing a street clash, a mirror, a gun, and a fatal blow to the opponent’s hat and head.
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Washington Star
England
Wimbledon
Deer and elk hunting feared under new Montana law
Livingston Post reports large bands of elk and deer leaving the National Park and gathering near the Hell Roaring district. Hunters plan to kill for head, hide, or meat, but a peculiarly worded amended section may permit such slaughter. The paper urges a test of the law to prevent extermination of Montana’s large game.
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Livingston
Park County
National Park
James Howell
Hell Roaring
Yellowstone
Montana
Character in Mustaches and Their Moods
A National Barber piece argues facial hair mirrors inner traits. Ragged mustaches show poor self control, straight and orderly form imply discipline, curled ends hint at vanity or ambition, upward curls suggest good humor, downward tilts reflect sedateness. Good-natured men tend upward, morose men downward.
Engineer Dead in Midnight Crash Near Providence
A Rhode Island shore tragedy that night, as Stonington echoes fade. Guild lay beneath the engine while the crew slept, the engineer dead in the quiet harbor town. Bret Harte reference lingers, but the fatal incident remains unnamed.
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Stonington
Rhode Island
Providence
Guild
Bret Harte
Humorous Verses and Banter From a Class Scrapbook
A collage of quips and jokes about mortgages, ladders to success, cleverness, and Greenland cats. Simple gags mix puns with a classroom scene featuring a dialogue between a doctor and patient about chills and teeth, ending with a moon inhabited joke by a student named George.
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Baggs
Clevaw
Greenland
Half Moon Musings and Studio Skits from a Lost Era
A fragmentary dialogue sketches late night humor and campus chatter with snippets about Congress, teeth, tobogganing, and personal habits. Characters include Wes, a Columbia College professor, Miss Mollie, Jus de Smith, Brown, Jones, and others in a playful, dated tone.
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Congress
Medical Department of
Columbia College
Molly Mectinnis
Jus de Smith
Miss Mollie
Brown
Jones
Edison on warfare by electricity and fort defense
The interview recounts Thomas Edison claiming electricity will dominate warfare, able to fortify defenses with a 20 000 volt alternating current driving a high pressure water stream to mow down attackers. Grounded circuits would kill or stun men, enabling defenders to capture or ransom leaders while neutralizing assaults.
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New York World
Edison
Filison
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Mary Gadiler
New York
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New York Press
Guil
George
Sheetigin
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