First Love and New Life for Godfrey and Margaret
In Nice Margaret finds happiness with Godfrey after marriage and a child named Rita. Godfrey abandons his bar plan for literature, achieving modest acclaim. Rita shows musical talent while Margaret's health wanes with age, as the couple navigates family life, travel, and old friends like Jack Dallas.
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Margaret
Eueir
Rita
Godfrey
Ivor
Rite
Moxlires
Jeanne Beresford
Joanne
London
Jack Dallas
Mr. Dulles
Return Visit to Helstone sparks Christmas reunion
Godfrey Helstone plans a quiet Christmas as his old friend Jack Dallas visits Rita, his daughter, and revisits past loves. Rita teases Jack about aging as the pair renew acquaintances while Miss Taylor prepares a warm welcome in the family home.
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Godfrey
Mr. Trallas
Jack
Grodfrey
Papa
Rita
Miss Taylor
Dallas
Miss
December garden encounter with a robin and a rescued bird
Rita and Jack nurse a small robin found in the garden keeping it in a cage. Jack jokes about curing the bird with sherry while Rita doubts his harsh remedy and the two discuss how to care for the pet finishing with a prompt to be continued.
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Jack
Rita
Wilfrid Lawson Jests At Elector Poll Altitude
A timid candidate sought Sir Wilfrid Lawson's help for a speech. On the way to a meeting a foe shouted mockingly about Wilfrid and his performing bear. The baronet replied he is teaching him to climb to the top of the poll.
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Wilfrid
Wilfrid Lawson
Debtors in Siam Subject to Seizure and Slavery
Debtors in Siam face immediate seizure by creditors. If a man falls into debt, the creditor may imprison him as a slave and, if he escapes, seize his wife, children, or other relatives. The practice expands to include family members as compensation for debt.
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Marri
Rey
Godfrey
Siam
Mars flag and 600 mile pole urged for contact
An eminent astronomer proposes a bold plan to communicate with Mars inhabitants, calling for a flag as large as Ireland and a telescope-station pole stretching 600 miles. The suggestion underscores speculative outreach and visualization methods in interplanetary contact debates.
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Mara
Mars
Ireland
Cities of commerce and virtue in a modern era sermon
The speaker extols cities as centers of civilization and danger, urging Christians to resist temptations of business life and urban vice. He cites New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago, warns of fraud and covetousness, and calls for charitable action toward the poor while upholding biblical brotherhood.
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Sweir Custom House
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Pisa
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Alexander the Great
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Asia
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Iere
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St. Louis
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Cincinnati
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Boston Common
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Mount Auburn
Greenwood
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Edward Everett
Athens
Nazareth
Navy Yard
Cory
John J. Ingalls Dies in East Las Vegas New Mexico
Former United States Senator John J. Ingalls died in East Las Vegas New Mexico early Thursday after a long throat illness dating from 1899 He was born in 1833 in Middleton Massachusetts and served Kansas in the U S Senate from 1873 to 1891 Survived by widow and six children and his wife who joined him in Las Vegas two months ago.
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Mos
Long Limneas
United States
John J. Ingalls
New Mexico
Mr. Ingalls
Arizona
State Senate of
Kansas
Atchison County
Kansas Volunteers
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United States Senate
S.C. Pomeroy
Senate
Aphorisms From Classic Thinkers On Silence And Courtesy
A compact collection of maxims about restraint during suffering generosity toward others plain speaking and the subtleties of ceremonial behavior. Notable lines urge avoiding impudence by ethical action and valuing honesty without excess wordiness.
MYSTERIOUS CHINESE NAMES AND THEIR MEANINGS
An explainer lists Chinese place and river names with literal meanings such as Tung for east and Pekin for northern capital. It describes terms like Tien for heaven and Yang for ocean, explains city and river composites, and notes terms for administrative roles and foreign names.
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Nan
Pei
Tsin
Pekin
Nankin
Heaven
Sikiang
Shang
Hai
Shanghai
South Pass
Mongolia
Ling
Hsiang
Hsien
Tai
Tao
Cho
Chow
Tungchow
Shen
Shen-si
Yamen
Hui
Ingkiang
Kwo
China
United States
Correction highlights newspaper quoting error
A reader disputes a misquotation about a Chinaman in an Indianapolis Sun item. The editor explains the reporter likely misunderstood the phrase and had intended remarks misrepresented by transcription.
Water famine threats loom in Brooklyn as city dulls supply
Sparks from the Wires reports Brooklyn faces a water shortage with private service cut off nightly. Elsewhere Ex-tvy Wolcott accepts Italy ambassador post and naval work costs rise to 92 090 000. Marie Danton heads to America as yellow fever spreads through Mexican ports and Panama. A British cruiser burns 22 000 tons of coal en route to Australia. Pretoria name change to Victoria gains support.
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Wolcott
Italy
Marie Danton
Mimic
London
America
Mexican
Panama
England
Australia
Paris
Pretoria
Victoria
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