A Swiss Tramp On Alpine Walks And Lodgings
A couple’s Swiss walking tour details selecting pre booked hotels to minimize luggage. They trek over Gemmi Pass from Leukerbad to Kandersteg, covering over 20 miles at 8000 feet, with Alpine routes and Baedeker guides. They describe scenery at Thun Interlaken and Jungfrau, and note inns are generally safe for travelers.
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Gemmi Pass
Luekerbad
Kanderstag
Leukerbad
Interlachen
Grindelwald
Lauterbraunen
Scheidegg
Switzerland
Baedeker
Alps
Elopers Turn on a Tandem in a Rural Chase
A village tale recounts Maria and Bill Jones eloping on a tandem to town. An elderly couple plots to ambush them with a paired team, joking about a whirlwind pursuit. The scene blends travel narrative with comic rural banter and a final quip about a future multiuplet chase.
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Bill Jones
Hosses
Weycles
Hannah
Maria
Chicago Post
Beware evil company and idlers warn youth in sermon
A fiery sermon warns young men to shun bad companions and idle life. It cites a convicted criminal blaming bad company, details dangers of associating with skeptics, and urges labor, self improvement, and faith to avoid moral ruin and death.
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Ardzly
Delilah
Heaven
Philadelphia
George Brummel
England
Telegraph Lineman's Forty Foot Sacrifice to Save Fellow Worker
A telegraph lineman risks death in a gale to save a companion after a fall from a pole. Both men tumble among wires and bushes. one sustains injuries but survives. The rescuer, who broke ribs and an arm, later recovers and seeks help for his mate.
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Pearson’s Weekly
Bill
Law governs nothing without a living agent
The speaker argues that in an age of machinery and science law alone cannot act. Law dictates methods and procedures but requires a living agent to proceed and enforce it, noting that laws cannot act or execute themselves.
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W. C. Blakeman
Methodist
Brooklyn
N. Y
Bar Harbor Unitarian Church Interims Caretaker
During Rev. Mr. Cochrane's three month absence at Bar Harbor Maine his wife will handle all ministerial duties for the church and parish.
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Mr. Cochrane
Unitarian Church
Bar Harbor, Me
Garters Made of Roses in Parisian Fashion
Parisian society embraces flower garters at balls with primroses harebells narcissus violets and lilies adorning flouncings ruches petticoats and corsets. Violets and lilies of the valley remain highly scented favorites pairing with lilac lavender green or white gowns as roses remain a constant garter option.
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Paris
New York
Prize-fight ban shades daily papers in Teddy Talk
The exchange notes the prize-fighting stoppage leaving newspapers dull. One speaker calls the readin dry while another agrees, calling it the Voice of the Nineteenth Century.
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Teddy
Taggs
Christian Science Advocate
Miscellany Household Tips From an Old Era
Practical advice on ventilation, diet, and home remedies. Tips include airing apartments from the top, avoiding hot drinks for red noses, a cleansing eau de cologne mix, a belladonna tincture for damp hands, a potassium permanganate mouth rinse, and cheese storage wrapped in damp butter muslin. Also guidance on art grouping and selecting wall decor.
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Thun
Linterlachen
Chatau d'Oex
Col de Mn
Montreux
Dore
Lake Geneva
Chateau and
Dex
Tel
London
Catholic Register
Talmage
Death
Ashbel Green
The
Law
Hood
Speman Hood
Saparilla
Anna Peterson
Latimer
Pitt
Emma M. Hooper
P. O
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway
Lyon & CO. Tobacco Works
Derham
MeMe
Ting
Atl
McKinley
Ohio
Niacara Falls Souvenir CO
Niagara Falls
N.Y
Blahart Carriage & Absness Mpg. CO
Klamant
Ind
W. B. Pratt
Soey
OPIUP
Howkeend Pree
B. M. Woolley
Atlanta, GA
Toate
Ves E Aan
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