Chips’ Win in Waterbury Races Stuns Bookmakers
In a Waterbury scene at the track stable boys scheme to cheat the odds. Chips, a young stable hand, aids a morphine trick on a horse named Mavourneen to upend the Columbine Club book. The mare wins under Chips’s daring ride as bookmakers and handlers scramble for profits.
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Chips
Chalker
Waterbury
Columbine
Ned
Gravesend
Chatker
Wyandotte
Columbine Club
Mr. Chalker
Renellis Porgot
Col Cavendish
Waterbury Stables
Columbbine Club
Chip
Track
Yesser
Havine
Rettons
Buttons
Coup De-Crace
Chaiker
Tackamuck
Westmoreland
Selling a Mine a Western Man’s Great Lack
Maj Frank Mc Laughlin recalls selling a mine in London by inviting expert inspection and formal reports. He describes negotiating terms, initially asking 250000, then accepting 200000 after a concession, finally learning the buyers intended pounds, not dollars, securing 1000000 for the mine. San Francisco Post.
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London
Maj
Frank McLaughlin
Capital
San Francisco Post
Headache remedies and fashion notes in Woman and Home
A mix of home medical advice and social sketches discusses headache treatment tips such as cayenne plaster, the dangers of congestion, and consulting physicians. It also describes seasonal costumes including lace and velvet gowns, and a feature on children’s attire and mothers’ perspectives, with domestic tips and observations.
Absent minded lumberman leaves watch behind
A prominent Maine lumberman hurrying to a train realizes he left his watch under a hotel pillow. His friend suggests returning, but the man counts the minutes, decides there is no time, and proceeds, stating he can get along for one day without a watch.
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Fastern Maine
Bangor
Ibsen dismisses Hedda Gabler as impossible woman
The blunt playwright dismissed talk about himself and his work. At a dinner a wife of a well known artist insisted Hedda Gabler was impossible, and Ibsen said the character drew her from life. She argued as a woman she would know, and he called her an idiot in reply.
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Ibsen
Hedda Gabler
Herr Doktor
King Leopold Sells Coastline to Nitrate King for Gambling Hell
The Belgian king, famed for Africa projects, appears willing to let Europe decline. He sold a mile of Os tend seacoast for 1,500,000 pounds to Col. North, the Nitrate King, to fund what he calls the plan of establishing an international gambling hell.
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Leopold
Belgium
Africa
Europe
Ostend
Col. North
Fashion Notes on Youthful Costume Trends and Accessories
A Victorian style feature describes boys in Scotch inspired outfits with black velvet breeches, white plush walking hats with striped ribbons and jeweled aigrets, ostrich plumes, and a pinked autumn hat. It also covers a close fitting velvet jacket with wide lapels, a sailor shaped hat with large fan trim, and an ivory satin wedding gown with crepon plaits and orange blossom wreaths.
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Vashion
Pinkerton Patrolman Walks Thirty Nine Miles Each Night
A Pinkerton patrolman in Chicago covers the city’s longest beat, walking thirty nine miles nightly as part of his duties.
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Pinkerton
Chicago
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Kentucky
Lady Lea
Cannegan
Chakker
Danny
Fel
Whitey
Mavourneen
Tuckamuck
Bat le
Flannagan
Turkey
Washington Post
Reading Wives and Daughters
New York
Bellevue Hospital
New York Hospital
Press For
Carrie
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