Local Color Leads to Tragic Western Feud
Violet Lingard, an 80s beauty and aspiring novelist, courts Weatherby the rancher while chasing local color for her book. She admits she never loved him, provoking rage. he drags her toward the canyon edge and both perish, Weatherby smiling in death.
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Denver
Miss Lingard
New York
Violet
Jareh
Rockies
Jack Weatherby
Weatherby
Plains
Zio
Mississippi
Sangre de Christo Range
Athertons
Gee Tom Atherton
Dishman
Jack
Bodily health and longevity in human life
Dr Ward Howe argues that training the body yields the best life and Mental health depends on physical health. He notes engines outlive masters when neglected and cites maturation life span ratios to suggest 105 years as possible, though rarely attained due to errors.
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Ward Howe
Praying on the Sidewalk in Barclay Street
Devout Catholics kneel before Catholic images along Barclay Street. A bareheaded man prays daily for about five minutes before a large Virgin statue, a routine noticed by a nearby truckman who says several others, mostly women, join the morning devotion and many appear Italian.
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Barclay Street
Christ
N. Y
Masquerading Woman Arrested In St Louis Scene
Dr George M Bassett of Vandalia Illinois and Miss Allen Bumgardner alias Mattie Murphy alias Mattie Howe of Hillsboro Illinois were arrested in St Louis after the manly garb fooled authorities. At the station both claimed to be male and the woman was found to be a woman by doctors. Bassett spoke of returning home to his two children and denied eloping with the companion.
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George M. Bassett
Vandalia
Ill
Carlyle's Old Home Museum Opens in Chelsea
Thomas Carlyle's house in Cheyne Row London was bought for 100000 dollars to become a Carlyle museum. It opened to the public recently with a large turnout of admirers and many Carlyle relics and furniture on display.
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Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Cheyne Row
Chelsea
London
Shoes of the Nations in Historical Attire
The article describes footwear from various cultures including Portugal Persia Muscovy Siam Egypt and the Mussulman. It notes wooden soles raised sandals silk cords cloth leather and inlaid woods with ornamental features and specific fastening methods. The Egyptians use stitched leather sandals while Mussulmans wear heavy leather with feather plumes.
Seed of deeds and weather in old readings
An assortment of moral verse and scientific notes. The piece opens with Ella Wheeler Wilcox on acts and their unseen consequences, followed by a discussion of atmospheric electricity seen in cloud and wave spray. Prof Schuster and Exner are cited on shipboard observations and coastal spray electrification.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Schuster
Exner
Ceylon
Moral Effect of Good Roads and Cruelty Prevention
An essay from the Bulletin argues that the good roads movement supported by bicycles advances humane treatment of animals and moral virtue. It links time and money saved by better roads to strengthened citizenship and religion, urging ministers to promote animal welfare as a community mission.
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Good Roads
L. A. W. Bulletin
Butterworth Strikes Mosquito Not President In 1889
Gus Butterworth of Ridgeway House famously slapped a mosquito on a trolley ride that landed him in a tale about Benjamin Harrison. Butterworth later met the president, recovered the insect, and shared a cordial chat at Harrison's Cape May cottage.
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Gus Butterworth
Boniface
Ridgeway House
United States
Mr. Butterworth
Benjamin Harrison
President Harrison
Cape May
Butterworth
Mr. Harrison
Philadelphia Inquirer
Cloud formation linked to electrical effects confirmed by Schuster
Prof Schuster reports observing a cloud forming in a high Swiss valley near 12 000 feet as an air current rose up the valley just below the snow line, with dusk bringing intensified activity and electrical phenomena.
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Schuster
Switzerland
Dent Blanche
The Potatoes Hoed In Forty Minutes
A farmer narrates a tale of his 14 year old son Billy who dreads hoeing potatoes. After debate and procrastination he realizes the task will take about an hour, then picks up the hoe and completes it in forty minutes.
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Billy
Selfless 15 Year Old Dives to Save Two Children
Lillian McMullen 15 sacrifices life to rescue two young girls on Peconia bay Long Island. A big dog helps as the third child and the dog reach safety while Lillian perishes after signaling the youngsters to climb to safety.
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Scranton Truth
Lillian McMullen
Peconia Bay
Long Island
Lillian
Pretty Happy Girl and the Cloud of Unhappiness
A moral tale contrasts plain fraught girls with a smiling girl who discovers happiness changes perception. The narrator notes many young women misjudge their looks due to unhappiness, while a morning sunlit moment reveals that a smile can alter how others see them.
Birthday party planning from a Ladies' Home Journal note
Mrs A G Lewis explains how a fifty child birthday party includes invitations with day and time. Engraved stationery should feature appealing animals or birds, perhaps Brownies carrying envelopes with monograms to entice young guests.
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A. G. Lewis
Ladies’ Home Journal
Cat singed by lightning in Englewood home
Lightning struck the house of Henry Benseman at sixty seventh and Halsted in Englewood. A streak ran down the chimney and singed the hair of the family cat along its back, leaving the animal unharmed.
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Englewood
Chicago Daily News
Henry Benseman
Halsted
Telephone conversations in New York reach ninety thousand daily
The article notes that about ninety thousand conversations occur each day over telephones in New York, highlighting the city as a hub of heavy communication activity.
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New York
Photographic Ticket Stamp Machine Innovated for Transit
Julius Gregory of San Francisco developed a device to imprint a purchaser’s portrait on a railway ticket during payment. Frank Devay perfected the system with baths for developing solution and a flashlamp to expose a sensitized ticket end, producing a non transfer able ticket in under a minute.
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Julius Gregory
San Francisco
Frank Devay
Preacher Tests Hard Times With Debt Pledge
A pastor asks a packed congregation to stand for those who pay debts. All but one rise, a newspaper publisher explains he is surrounded by paying subscribers. The minister ends with a call to pray.
Deomuble Faced Dance in Liberty NY Brings Backward Costumes
City residents of Liberty New York staged a double faced dance with everyone wearing masks and clothing reversed. Women hid faces with back hair and masks while men wore outfits reversed with front and back swapped, yet foot positions gave them away.
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Liberty
N. Y
The New Battle Ships Cost Estimate
Plans for two new battleships cap at four million dollars each. At the census average of one dollar per day for labor, the cost reflects 4,000 workers for 1,000 days, about three years, covering all material preparation from coal to iron to oil. The estimate likely reflects total labor-time required.
A Dainty for Dogs From Horse Hoof Parings
A dog treat valued by blacksmiths, horse hoof parings attract dogs in shops. A Chicago fancier feeds dogs weekly with parings, preferring the tender frog portions first while saving the harder bits for last.
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Chicago
Auburn man invents water sprayed lawn fence
An Auburn Maine inventor builds a fence around his lawn from iron water pipes joined to allow continuous flow. The inner side is perforated with small holes so the fence acts as a sprinkler system spraying water evenly over the entire lawn.
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Auburn
Maine
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