Old Boston Houses Revealed as Beauty Amid Decay
A Boston Journal feature argues that ancient Boston’s colonial houses survive in hiding as laundries and shops but retain charm and interior details. It notes purple glass, English master influence, and a shift from English to American styles by 1820 before returning to colonial forms for aesthetic reasons.
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Boston
William Ralph Emerson
England
Christopher Wren
James Gibbs
Sir William Chambers
Batty Langley
East Cambridge
Roxbury
Boston Journal
Romance on the move and elopements across years
The article charts multiple courtships and escapes from duty: Charles Bowling and Mary Brading trek thirty miles to wed. Lady Susanna Montlow will marry a footman Ernest Bruce. Thomas Goward and Maud Bryant set out in a gypsy wagon for a wedding trip. Ignatius Neederman, once in love with an heiress, receives 25000 from her after her death. Frere Francois leaves love for the Franciscan order. Dorothy Smart joins a convent to escape a would be suitor. Marcella Arnold Salisbury elopes with Harry Festes Barbour, reflecting a family pattern. Louis Thompson faces a will condition: marry before 25 to gain 10000 yearly versus 2500 otherwise, seeking a bride amid uncertainty.
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Marcella Arnold Salisbury
St. Louis
Marcella
Jenny
Harry Festes Barbour
Informal Neighbor Call on New Home and Servant Woes
An elderly neighbor visits the new resident on the front steps. She discusses settling in, past acquaintances, and complaints about finding a servant, noting other neighbors and a cook named Mrs Gossage who is at the theater. The exchange ends with a plan to call again.
Roasting a Messenger Boy and a Stand Poor Tale
A boy with a dirty face recalls a tense exchange with a boss over a prompt letter delivery. The boss threatens consequences, but the youth defies him, ending with the boss walking away without firing him. The scene captures streetwise resolve and workplace friction.
The Well of Time and the City Pump Tale
An Ohio editor recalls a village well beneath a box elder tree where water tasted sweet and community life thrived. As progress built grand streets and waterworks, the old pump faded, yet the parable warns that greed and selfishness drain the well of brotherly love and hope.
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City Council
The Training of a Child in Gentle Teaching
The article emphasizes common sense, good judgment, and gentleness as essential to teaching. It warns against fault finding, lists three key points for teachers, and advises short, varied lessons of ten to fifteen minutes to avoid overdoing. It stresses imparting instruction over correcting ignorance and outlines mindful pacing.
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Nimit
Vitality of Burns Fame in Literary Criticism
A review of Robert Burns criticism notes that inquests and symposiums over time reveal Burns’s vitality as a great fact of literature. Critics often blur the line between creating literature and writing about it, yet Burns emerges radiant despite varied appraisal.
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Robert Burns
Collier's
Burns
Gator Swallows Boot Then Slinks Off in Georgia
Mr Bud Spinks awoke to a noisy intruder a medium sized alligator warming by smoldering ashes of his fireplace and attempting to swallow his dry boots. He freed one boot the other remains on the straps. The creature is on display at Minche's drug store before the likely demise.
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Georgia
Bud Spinks
Minche
Spinks
Adams Enterprise
Roentgen Rays Case Ends with Damages Upheld
A Hanover woman aged thirty five sought hair removal with Roentgen rays from Dr Kerl Bruno Schurmayer. After two procedures her facial skin reddened and lips swelled. She sued the practitioner and won $60 damages, the verdict upheld on appeal.
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Hanover
Kerl Bruno Schurmayer
Development of Africa Presses Forward in Ethiopia and Sudan
The report notes ongoing development and exploitation in Ethiopia and the Sudan. A British treaty with King Menelek may enable early Berber Suakin railroad construction via Kagpala at about 15 million dollars and a Kassala line extension toward Lake Rudolph. The plan aims to connect with the Uganda railway and advance the Cape to Cairo scheme.
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Africa
Ethiopia
Soudan
Menelek
Kagpala
Kassala
Lake Rudolph
Uganda
Cape-to-Caire
Charity Lunch in Budapest Draws 3000 Attendees
A Budapest lady hosted an open charity lunch for her district, drawing 3000 guests who packed the venue and required police sabers to maintain order. The crowd praised the event as the most intense and exciting meal they had ever attended, and many were reluctant to depart.
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Budapest
Aln
Whistler Etching Letters Spark Five Year Gap
William Glackins, admirer of Whistler, cites two letters from a print-collecting client to a print seller. The letters, five years apart, reveal changing views on Whistler etchings with a cautious note on price.
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William Glackins
Whistler
Philadelphia Record
Curtain Call Sparks Ratel Shout From Gallery
At the end of the third act the gifted tragedian faced the curtain and thanked the audience for their overwhelming kindness. He admitted he strove to win approval but was unprepared for the magnificent reception and paused with a wordless astonishment until a gallery voice shouted Ratel.
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Richmond Street
Charles Bowling
Mary Brading
Susanna Montlow
Ernest Bruce
Duchess of Somerset
Australia
Thomas Goward
Ignatius Neederman
Marguerite Tomori
America
la Gascogne
France
Frere Francois
Dorothy Smart
Col
Charles Smart
United States Army
Washington
Louis Thompson
Nathaniel Hunt
Rob
Ohio
Illinois Association of Spiritualism
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