Gentle Spring Poem Parodies The Baltimore American
Josh Wink in Baltimore American offers a playful verse portrait of spring with mock antique diction. It catalogs seasonal images from robins and crocus beds to hats and weather warnings, noting frosted crops and evolving fashion while lampooning urban life and April fears.
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Barden
New Jersey
Paris
Crown Point
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Custerville
Josh Wink
Baltimore American
Men's profits from women's clubs raise eyebrows in era
The passage notes two ways men profit from women’s clubs. Some run the clubs handling business affairs and are paid salaries for the role. Others earn sizable sums by lecturing to the clubs, with clergy, professors, artists, editors, and authors moving into platform talks rather than their original professions.
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Women's
Drugs of Great Value In Medicine and a Rare Seed Drug
A druggist notes several medicines are very valuable with prices around two to five dollars per ounce. He recalls a drug worth more than its weight in gold, pseudo physostigmine, priced at one dollar per grain and four hundred thirty seven dollars per ounce. The seed grows in India Brazil and parts of South Africa and was used in ancient ordeals linked to truth seeking. The prepared drug is used in heart disease prescriptions.
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India
Brazil
South Africa
Old-Time Statesman Forgotten Services to the Nation
Frank Gaylord Cook notes why Oliver Ellsworth, not born in a traditional colony, has been overlooked by biographers. His controversial role in an unpopular convention and subsequent detachment from glory muted his fame, yet Webster praised his wisdom and temper as chief justice. Ellsworth’s grand jury speech in Savannah in 1794 urged a government grounded in reason and universal rights.
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Oliver Ellsworth
Frank Gaylord Cook
Massachusetts
Virginia
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Webster
New England
United States
Savannel
Yale Professor Improper Question Sparks Tea Room Gossip
An English instructor at Yale provoked laughter at a faculty event by flattering a young woman. After a cordial chat on a sofa she whispered her name, and the professor pressed for it asking for a personal detail. The incident drew attention among attendees.
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Sheffield
Echoul Tella
Yale
Blank
Rich and Industrious Mrs Forsythe Richest Woman in South Pacific
Mrs Emma E Forsythe, daughter of an American consul and Samoan chief’s granddaughter, is described as the richest woman in the South Pacific. Born in Samoa, she married an Englishman who died early, left a small estate, then built wealth by trading across the islands. She resides on Neu Pommern in the Bismarck archipelago, has a 120000 acre plantation with fifty European workers, and owns additional lands across the islands.
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Emma E. Forsythe
South Pacific Islands
Samoa
Hale’s Eightieth Birthday Wit In Train Gaffe
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale, turning eighty, jokes about a news agent on a Boston bound rail trip. When offered a book, Hale calls it trash and the agent retorts that the editor is ignorant of a good work. The exchange showcases Hale’s quiet humor.
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Bila
Hala
Edward Everett Hale
Boston
Americans Born Abroad Show Strong Patriotism in Boston School
The Hancock school in Boston’s North End, with 93 percent of students of foreign birth or parentage, hosts alumni events. Mrs Mary Livermore, once a pupil, called the girls “my little foreign sisters” and a young Italian girl replied, “we ain’t foreigners now we are Americans.”
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Hancocks School
North End
Boston
Mary A. Livermore
Hancock School
Mrs. Livermore
The Scepter as Emblem of Regal Power and Holy Authorto
The scepter symbolized royal power and the right to chastise, likened to the hollow wand containing the virge for discipline in cathedral foundations. The dove on the scepter signified the Holy Ghost guiding the sovereign, a theme echoed in Rheims coronation dove releases.
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Rheims
Looge
Pet Words in Literature Find Fashion to Fade
A late eighteenth century trend shows pet words rising in literary fashion and then receding. Terms like vastly hugely and genteel echo the era while modern usage favors convincing weird and strenuous in England and America.
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America
England
Examination Answers Critique of Early Colonists
The excerpt claims Puritans sought sweeping church reforms and Pilgrims rejected Church of Nogland doctrine. It asserts colonists communicated only by horseback, delaying letters to Europe, presenting a flawed Literary Digest quote with errors and misstatements.
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Church of
South Shields Plans Unconventional Ship Conversion
South Shields intends to reuse a wrecked vessel by turning its interior into a refreshment salon for the summer months. The deck will serve as an outdoor promenade, the hull sits upright but relaunch is deemed impracticable.
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South Shields
England
Counterfeit Corots Spark Long Jail Terms
A Philadelphia artist notes that Corot paintings number about 25,000 in existence with widespread counterfeiting after the artist's death. A French painter received five years in jail for counterfeiting Corot and dealers who sold fakes were given ten years.
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Corot
Philadelphia
Wit of Charles Lamb Sparks Risque Retort to Lady
In olden days strong speech amused bystanders as Charles Lamb quips at a lady who gushes over a friend. Her exclamation I know him bless him provokes Lamb to answer I don t but d n him at a hazard in plain playful bluntness.
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Charles Lamb
Lamb
Great Britain's National Debt Under Victoria Era
The article states Coral Britain’s national debt fell by about 750 million dollars during Queen Victoria’s reign while the Boer War costs reached about 800 million dollars. It notes Britain has spent more in under three years than saved in the entire prior Victorian period.
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Coral Britain
Great Britain
National Monument Planned by Chicago French Colony
At a recent meeting the French population of Chicago approved plans for a $100,000 national monument in the center of the French colony. The building will house a theater lodge hall club house and gymnasium.
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Chicago
Czar Balks at Honor for Maxim Gorki
Well informed circles report the czar will not approve the recent bid to appoint Maxim Gorki as an honorary member of the Belles Lettres section of the Imperial Academy of Science. The proposal promotes the Russian writer Alexis Peshchoff, known by the pen name Maxim Gorki.
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Cesar
Maxim Gork
Belles Lettres
Imperial Academy of Science
Alexis Peschkoff
Maxim Gorki
Contagious Yawning Noted in Streetcar Pranks
A streetcar practical joker yawns to spread yawns among fellow passengers, eliciting surprise and embarrassment as others follow. The habit’s contagiousness is the key element of the prank, creating a shared moment of quiet amusement.
Bad Sendoff Prints Early Poems by Pensions Commissioner
The Milwaukee Sentinel notes that since his appointment as Commissioner of Pensions, Mr Wars of Kansas has begun to pay penalties of greatness as some of his earliest and worst poetry appears in newspapers.
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Wars of
Kansas
Milwaukee Sentinel
Jews in India Census Count and Origins
A census reports 17 180 Jews in India. About one third are European Jews while the remainder are said to descend from groups that migrated to India during Solomon's era.
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India
Solomon
Clerk elected Hartford mayor shows strong voter support
The Buffalo Express notes the clothing-store clerk won Hartford mayoralty by 1 648 to 6 134 and concedes the victory measured up to the opponent's challenge in a measured way.
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Hartford
Buffalo Express
Macedonian revolt steps toward footlights amid ransom shortfall
A Macedonian revolt scene unfolds with a jaunty march toward the spotlight as ransom money falls short of expectations. The fragment hints at imperfect pay or coercion, suggesting tension between rebels and authorities while the theatrical framing underscores the stakes.
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Hhansom
French Journalist In America Arrives For Tour
Bunau Varilla president of La Matin Paris arrived in New York to take a rest from editorial duties and to begin an extended tour of the United States visiting various cities and locations.
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French Journaliat
America
Bunao Varilla
la Matin
Paris
New York
Rey
Memorial to Queen Vetoria Endows Clewer Convalescent Hospital
Memorial record notes that the royal staff of the late sp cy Toria are endowed to support Clewer Convalescent Hospital. The memorial honors 400 servants of the queen’s household and marks their contribution to the hospital’s care.
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Vetoria
Cytoria
Clewer Convalescent Hospital
Importation of Ginseng Stimulus Sparks Trade Inquiry
A fragmented note indicates an issue over importing Gu ev ginseng valued at spout 000 Ig and exported to Iforg ifong year from thig counter. Mentions medicine and stimulant use.
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Iforg Ifong
Height Of The Waves In Ocean Research
A scientific note describes measured ocean waves in the Southern Indian Ocean between Cape of Good Hope and St Paul Island. Thirty waves averaged 20.63 feet with a largest at 87.53 feet while open ocean winds produced 16.4 feet waves. four days of steady west winds near Good Hope raised heights to 22.07 feet.
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Indian Ocean
Caps of Good Hope
Island of
St. Paul
Desght
Cape of Good Hope
Electric railway to Brighton cuts travel to thirty minutes
The article notes a proposed electric rail line from London to Brighton covering forty seven miles with trains every twenty minutes, promising London businessmen quicker trips than by bus or cab, and compares past New York hopes for electric traction to the current plan.
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Peekskill
Brighton
London
Bank of England
New York Herald
The President's Salary Through American Legislation
The article traces presidential and vice presidential salaries from 1793 to 1874. It notes initial salaries of 26000 for the president and 5000 for the vice president, with later increases to 50000 and 8000, then 10000 before a 1874 reduction back to 8000. It cites constitutional protection against changing a sitting president’s pay during their term.
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Congress
United States
A. & Grant
Mrs McKinley in Good Health Despite Grief
Columbus resident John B K Connelly recalls Mrs McKinley appears well after the president's death. He notes she visits his grave daily, maintains her gentle demeanor, and cherishes a gold leaf key to the Canton house as a personal memento of the late leader.
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McKinley
John B. K. Connelly
Columbus
McKinleys
Canton
An Historic Town Obliterated and Jamestown’s Status
The article laments Jamestown as a vanished town, now inhabited only by caretakers of ruins. It cites the Society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities for preserving walls and relics to prevent total loss of the famed site.
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Jamestown
Belgian doctor touts method to preserve dead bodies
A Belgian doctor claims a method preserves the body against decay by placing it in a closed receptacle exposed to air charged with formaline. He notes formaline is widely used to preserve bodies but harmful if ingested.
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