Invisible Hand excerpt from Fitzgerald tale unfolds a New Year eve drama
Readable scenes from a late 19th or early 20th century fiction excerpt show a salon at year end. Characters include Edith, Max, Lady Bysshe, and Geoffrey Bysshe amid social dalliance, jewels, whispered plots, and a mysterious nighttime assault that culminates in a jewel theft and a tense housewide search as the clock nears midnight.
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Mipsel
Papa
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Dunstan
Max
Beethoven
Chopin
Slax
Sinaya
Geoffrey Bysshe
Lfe
Geoffrey
Urbano
Roberts
Urbane
Mir
Bysshe
Kaiser in New Fad Hunts With Birds and War News
Berlin reports that the Kaiser plans to revive aristocratic hunting with trained birds on the Tempelhof parade grounds. Russian and Japanese officers are pictured meeting politely in Westphalia amid war. Hamburg cholera rumors persist as water shortages bite the city. Archduke Joseph Ferdinand recounts a playful wartime tale of a boy who “caught the bullets” at Gurkfeld. Strauss and Lanner remains moved to a central vault in Vienna. Strauss’s violin reportedly crumbled.
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Berlin
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Norway
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Guard
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England
Frost
Tvo
Vaps
Germany
Altena Westphalia
Hamburg
Elbe
Koteff
M. Vershintu
Archduke Joseph Ferdinand
Austria
Gurkfeld
Frances Stuffijance
Atenduke
Vienna
Johann Strauss
Joseph Lanner
New Central Cemetery
Johann Atrauss
Moros Kinship Ties Highlight Notable Ashington Line
Mrs Attilio Moros, wife of a New York lawyer, identified as a close connection to 19 Washington and a great great granddaughter of Samuel Ashington, brother of the first US president.
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Attilio Moros
New York
Washington
Samuel Ashington
Remedy for Appendicitis Promoted by London Doctors
Remedy for appendicitis is urged by London medical journals as an alternative to surgery. The plan involves walking on all fours for twenty minutes four times daily to strengthen abdominal muscles and restore bowel alignment, potentially preventing operation in most cases. A German diplomat is claimed to have recovered from chronic appendicitis using this method.
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Thomas Shaw
Minnesota
St. Paul
Shaw
St le
London
Garnan Medical
Pew
Old Man's Secret Promotes Dodd's Kidney Pills
Alpena Michigan September 6 Special seventy five year old Jerome Fournl e r of this place credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with curing his diabetes and long standing kidney and urinary troubles The man explains the pills regulated his water and made him feel like a hearty young man The advertisement style endorsement highlights sound kidneys as health and youth
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Alpena
Mich
Jerome K, Fournléer
Dodd
Courtier
When Stamps Were New in the Galveston Tribune
An aged postal clerk recalls early stamp misuse and three official notices on affixing stamps. He describes how letters were sometimes pinned or left unsealed and outlines the progression of bulletins urging proper moistening and proper placement on outside of envelopes.
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Galveston
Ietter
Building Food To Bring the Babies Around
A Colorado mother reports her infant’s recovery from pneumonia and brain fever after feeding him Grape-Nuts and milk, later continuing with Grape-Nuts. She credits the product with strengthening the child and enabling growth, urging others to read The Road to Wellville.
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Colorado
Kansas City
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Lim
Posting Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellvills
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