A Matrimonial Importation Brings Two Hearts Together
Farle Scott arrives from the ship as a mysterious passenger seeks a match through a planned matrimony. Edith Hamilton pretends a domestic union while smuggling lace, then confesses her feelings to Earle Scott who accepts her as she is, and the two plan to surprise their elders at home.
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Earle Cowdrey Scott
Harlequin Club
Earle
Father
Jobo Banks
Harle
Edith Hamilton
Cherwlog
Eggelo
Mise Hamilton
Wey
France
Baoks
Abe
Banks
Beardees
Marie
Edith
Farle
Ufe
Earbe
John
Modern Views of Electricity by Sir Oliver Lodge
The excerpt discusses ether as energy in space with specks forming matter. It describes electrified ether particles, their motion, and how material phenomena arise from these dispersed, porous particles. It cites Sir Oliver Lodge on modern views of electricity.
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Space
Oliver Lodge
Missing Laundress Susan Leaves for Pennsylvania
A Baltimore mistress wonders why her laundress Susan failed to return. A tall woman says Susan moved to Pennsylvania long ago and left clothes washed but unreturned. The mistress asks for reasons and whether any arrangements were made for laundry duties. The response is evasive and incomplete.
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Baltimore News
Lmendressa
Susan
Bone
Abe
Pennsylvania
Yessum
Robert Fulton as a lad in Quaker school
A Century Magazine excerpt recalls young Robert Fulton at eight in 1778 attending Caleb Johnson’s Quaker school with Tory sympathies. Fulton preferred making and testing devices, defying rote study, and proudly showing a handmade lead pencil to prove his practical bent.
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Robert Fulton
Caleb Johnson
Robert
Nicholna Miller's
Century Magazine
The Trapped Thief in a South American Outlaw Tale
An English traveler recounts a farmer who foils a burglary by using a improvised lasso through a door hole. A robber is captured but killed by accomplices to prevent testimony, as the story notes.
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South America
New York Mail
Mahara Jah Kills Himself After Blasphemous Riot
A Nepalese mahara jah, angered by a disfiguring smallpox illness, killed himself in horror before attacking physicians. He then brought idols from a temple and ordered cannon fire, but gunners refused. After threats, several priests were attacked as the cannons fired, destroying the idol shrine.
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Tmahayenee
Nepaul
Leipsic Missionsblatt
The Coveted Hand Proposal Gaffe
A young man speaks to a father seeking his daughter's hand in marriage. The father quips about which hand he means, joking about the man signing checks, highlighting social humor and courtship norms in the scene.
Lodger Claimed Belongings But Collar Held by Laundry
In a terse exchange, a lodger asks to remove his belongings from the lodgings. The landlady rebukes him, insisting the other collar has not yet been returned from the laundry. The brief quarrel appears in the Kansas City Independent.
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Kansas City Independent
McBkinner-Twa Chillin Follows Odd Gambling Exchange
A fragmented dialogue recounts a quirky betting exchange where participants discuss doubling or quitting terms. The discordant slang hints at a casual street game with references to a cab ride, Holborn, and a toss leading to a walk or payout.
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Holborn
Seven-Room Modern House in Alliance District
Fine seven room home on Laramie avenue Alliance in a premier residential district. Features include hot air furnace electric lighting bath lavatory and a steel range tied to the hot water system. Dumb waiter basement access electric lighted barn and laundry. Won't last—inspect now.
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Alliance
Laramie Avenue
Local breeder offers calf herd of prize bulls for winter sale
J G Brewster of Broken Bow Nebraska states he raised a first place and a fifth place calf in state fair competition in September 1907. His herd now numbers thirty bulls aged one to three years, offered as a car load for fall delivery. He will sell twelve to twenty at $100 each, with two months of feeding prior to December handover and wintering at the buyer’s home.
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J. G. Brewster
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