The Card Sharp at the Nonpareil Club Revealed
A gambler husband Horace Linley baits his wife with riches earned at cards until a rival named Balsam is exposed as a cheating opponent. Linley defends his honor, vows to quit gambling, and later dies admitting the truth that he was the era of a master card sharp.
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Standard Oil
Sugar Trust
Horace
Horace Linley
Laurence Cashmore
Cashmore
Lacy
Balsam
Linley
Jared Henderson
Delmonico’s
Broadway
Deveniae
Horace Ligiey
James Balsam
The Jersey Footwear Follies On A New York Street
A New York bootblack notices a veiled beauty from Jersey who sits for a shine. A bystander tease erupts as mud covered shoes reveal the crowd and a moving cable car ride ends with a passerby offering to pay to shine her shoes next time.
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New York
Italy
Miss Jersey
New Jersey
John
Epigram on Long Sir Thomas and a Dignitary’s Exit
The tale recalls Lord Chesterfield and Sir Thomas Roth, nicknamed Long Sir Thomas, famed for wit and borelike habits. Roth’s demand for audience with the duke of Newcastle met a porter’s quip about the clock and the monkey, signaling the minister’s departure and a comic departure line.
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Sir Thomas
Lord Chesterfield
Thomas Roth
Duke of Newcastle
Argonaut
Montreal Man Cries Out In Ottawa Hotel
A Montreal citizen visiting Ottawa overhears a prominent local figure in distress inside a hotel corridor. He enters the room to find the man kneeling by the bed sobbing and saying he is too drunk to say his prayers.
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Montreal
Ottawa
The Boss Making Powder
A salesman claims his baking powder will make bread so light no gas is needed in the dining room. The house lady resists buying, while the salesman touts economy and opportunity.
An English Cat's Ride on an Express Train
The London cat clung to an axle on a Midland Railway express from St Pancras to Kettering, a 72 mile ride at high speed. Engineers calculated the cat endured 54 560 revolutions per hour plus effects of gravity and wind, applying measurements from wheel diameter to claw strength.
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England
New YorkVorld
London
Midland Railway
Kettering
Manchester
St. Pancras
Bagatelle
Remarkable Bits From Everyday Life In The News
A miscellany of facts spans science culture and industry. It notes milk’s solid matter at about twelve percent, a 93 year old Schenectady cyclist Mrs. Margaret Plaster, and 5466 railway surgeons employed across North America. Corner lots in London fetch $100000 per front foot and monazite mining rises in Cleveland county North Carolina. An Italian lemon exporter’s large U.S. buyer pays less for essence than its cost, while a German text warns with a metaphor about fate and the heart.
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Margaret Plaster
Schenectady
United States
Canada
Fleet Street
Picadilly
London
Ornhyatekha
Toronto
Canterbury
Rome
Italy
British Museum
Cleveland County
North Carolina
Gettys
Wisenbach Incandescent Light Company
Gloucester
N. J
The New Woman and the Ideal of Manhood
In this Popular Science Monthly excerpt, the author argues that civilization requires harmony between the sexes. Men must adopt a nobler self-control and view women as equal partners with distinct powers, not mere shadows or instruments of pleasure.
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Taciius
Popular Science Monthly
Vanderbilt dower and famed scandals in late 19th century gossip
Thirty lines recount a mix of society notes and oddities: Vanderbilt women’s marriage dower at fifty thousand per year. actor William J. Scanlan declared incurably insane after years in Bloomingdale asylum. Nashville Confederate monument plan for General Nathan Forrest to unveil in 1596 at Centennial exposition. odd relics of Edmund Yates will and immediate jugular vein opening. Harvard’s governance shift affecting Dr Huntingdon and Professor Cooke’s will. Eugenie visiting a palmist in Paris and being told she may be Empress Eugenie by mysterious hand wisdom.
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Vanderbilt
William J. Scanlan
Bloomingdale Asylum
Scanlan
Confederate Veterans of
Nashville
Nathani. Forrest
Nashville Centennial Exposition In 1596. the Will of the Late Edmund Yates
Harvard College
Dr. Huntingdon
Josiah P. Cooke
Cooke
Eugenie
Paris
Slug gins opens a school of vocal culture in vaudeville gag
A string of light county jokes features Sluggins starting a vocal culture school as punchlines land on pugilism, a watchdog, a missing chain, and a bachelor colonel. The humorous sketches include Miss Pinkerly and Mrs. McSwatt's china breakage, with a mock medical leg dilemma and Oklahoma Rube’s booting death wish.
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Hayes
Brown
Jackson
Young Tutter
Clara
Pinkerly
Tutter
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Huron St
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Onto
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John Reid, Jr
Great Falla
Mont
Ely
Francis W. Poole
Central Prea. Church
Helena
Montana
Sorom
Warren
Scott
Dee
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Dearborn St
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