Chinese Magic Lanterns Compared To American Use
The article explains how Chinese magic lanterns operate with light and image behind the screen and describes four instrument types used in streets and markets. It notes audiences of five to thirty, short performances, and small payments averaging two cents, with vivid scenes such as the wicked tiger and the cruel magician drawn from eastern folklore.
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Celestial Empire
Middle Kingdom
New York Post
Coblar Daler in Bacco Shag and Pig Bacon Shop Note
Inscribed notice above a village shop door in North Wales describes offerings of bacon eggs and bacon products with odd spellings. The writer mentions Paradise in summer, tea and crumpets, straw berries with skim milk, and notes about shoes and boots.
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North Wales
N. B. Shuse
Boots
What More Could He Want
A young man confronts a father about his objection to him. Gerald says the father claims Millie’s suitor has no application, while he reveals he has visited Millie twice weekly for nearly six years, highlighting his perseverance and frustrated resolve.
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Millie
Gerald
Chicago Tribune
Stagecoach Days from Portsmouth to London 1780
A reader letter in Youth’s Companion recounts a Portsmouth to London stagecoach journey in 1780. The writer describes perilous high lifts on the coach and constant jolts, rain and dust, with moments of fear beneath a roof of motion. He ends by noting the modern traveler’s consolation in contrast.
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Portsmouth
London
City platform quip on daily speaker a streetcar conductor
"That man" makes a hundred speeches daily on the platform. A puzzled Smithers asks if he is a great political leader. The reply: no, a streetcar conductor who shouts Move up forward, please! whenever passengers board.
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Smithers
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
The Advantage of Waiting Dialogue
A father questions age in a betrothal proposal to Aurelia. The sister notes Aurelia is twenty one and the father suggests waiting six years to align ages. He objects to marrying someone significantly younger and proposes a future age match.
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Aurelia
Taele Reuben Says Belief Won’t Impact Past Events
The Detroit Free Press quotes Taele Reuben arguing that arguing about whether the whale swallowed Joner or multiple enemies over forty years wastes breath and changes nothing about the past. He insists his belief, whatever it is, won’t affect what has already occurred.
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Taele
Reuben
Detroit Free Press
Nile's Narrow Corridors Through Shab Luka Pass
The Nile cuts a jagged path through Shab Luka Pass, choosing propitious gaps between desert expanses. For ten miles the river twists and rebounds toward open terrain, its rapid current masking rocks during the late summer flood and leaving only scattered eddies as markers.
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Shab Luka
Scolding Scotsman’s voyage evokes morbid humor
A New York telegram quotes a ruddy Scotch traveler heading home after fifty years in the west. He recalls an American friend who finds comfort in airlifting bodies upon death, remarking on modern transport facilities for remains.
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Scotland
San Francisco
Robert
New York Telegram
Fragments in a kitchen tale about a cut glass bowl
A fragmentary dialogue recalls Nora and Mrs. Aufait cautioning about a costly cut glass punch bowl. The item endures several drops yet remains undamaged, highlighting worries about its fragility and value.
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Nora
His Query. She Do I Really Love You Cholly
Dialogue excerpt shows playful banter as a woman questions love and fidelity, sparking a counterpoint about choosing misery with Cholly over happiness with another man. The exchange emphasizes infatuation and comic doubt in a social setting.
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Cholly
Puck
When a Woman Loves a Man to the Point of Distraction
A brief column notes social pressure on women who devote themselves to a man, facing ridicule from other women for lacking pride. Published in the Atchison Globe.
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Atchison Globe
Politeness in Japan Turns Giving Notice Into Compliments
A look at Japanese servant hierarchy shows that leaving a job is never direct. Mistresses grant leave and accept polite excuses as final, while the departing maid thanks and vanishes, leaving no room for confrontation. Even trials end with a courteous withdrawal to avoid "scenes."
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Japan
Taming the Cheetah in India
Description of a cheetah restrained by rope, hooded, fed poorly, and kept awake by keepers and families. It faces villagers as handlers rush and threaten with cloths and staves while women voice scolding. The scene aims to render the animal docile through hunger and sleep deprivation.
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India
Prairie dog discovers shared tunnel troubles in new village
A prairie dog narrator exits a neighboring village and notes they face the same tunnel problem as in other cities. The scene, framed in a playful tone, reflects on intradwelling disruption caused by a rattlestake and the universal humor of urban design.
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Chicago Tribune
Poultry Advice on Flock Health and Feeding
The article offers farm guidance on poultry care. It covers leg weakness from rapid growth, benefits of a varied diet, proper disposal of diseased birds by burning, and the role of clover in supplying nitrogen and lime for eggs. It warns against feeding ailments from soup and outlines egg shell scraps and feather care practices.
Scott's Emulsion Fattener and Nourishment Formula
A 1910s style promotional note urges readers to use Scott's Emulsion when appetite is poor or diet limited. It claims the product fattening properties and thickens all body tissues including bone flesh blood and nerve. The copy emphasizes nourishing fattening benefits for weak or ill individuals.
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Scott
Train Schedules East West and North Listings
A railroad timetable lists arrivals and departures for multiple trains. It shows AM and PM times for services between Ames and various destinations including Portland Chicago and Des Moines with notes that some trains do not run on Sundays and limits on northbound trips beyond Ames.
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Overland Limited
Portland
Atlantic Express
Rpm
Om & Chicago
Chicago
Ames
Qresiens! Limited
Pacific Prem
Noruens Porn
Glipm Ll
Coloradoag Ote
Pass
Northern Iowa
Carroll
Pone Ib
Law
Ekeexe
Dakota & Des M
Listipm
Dahkote
DM Bt
P&ec
Chicago & Carroll Pas
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Rochester
Ima
Taorm
Porttsmouts
Just
R. H. McCarthy
Loughran & Bauer
F. H. Waters
Keedick
Cup
Llitda
Scott & Bowne
Fears St
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Rhead
Sali
Read’s Market
Ames, Iowa
Chicago & North Western
Roerra
A. & C. Railway
College
A.M. Sittin
Bsageui
Fesevapibenen
Pikovaa
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