The True Bluebeard Tale of Bluebeard Misfortune
The article recounts M. Bernard de Montraguoux known as Bluebeard, famed for a feared name and a cursed marriage history. It details his seventh wife Jeanne de Lespolase, the princesses room, a treacherous trap, and his assassination linked with the Merlus affair in a late Renaissance setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluebeard
India
Chelly
Nero
Richard III
Macbeth
Tulti
M. Anatole Vrance
Faery
Charles Perrault
Perrault
France
M. Bernard de Montragoux
Compiegne
Pierrefonds
Bla Hale
Ife
Cdette Passage
Colette
Cleee
Niobe
Procris
Montragoux
Cor Plete
Sistet
Jennie de la Cloche
Hlue
Bernard de Moutragoux
Jeanne de Lespolase
Joye
Anne
Chevalier de Merlus
M. de Montragoux
Bluebrand
M. de Merins
Felt Hats Evolution From Rabbit Fur to Derby Shape
An article tracing the stages transforming rabbit fur into felt hats. It covers cleansing, felting by a copper cone machine, forming a soft cone, shrinking to size, smoothing with sandpaper, shellacking and dyeing, and shaping the crown and brim with wooden blocks, frames, and molds.
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Hat Bostx
Fram A
Hrowklyn Eagle
Enduring Heat in Workplaces Across Industries
A New York American report notes the highest tolerable human temperature in work settings. In hotels kitchens and steamship stokeworks temperatures reach 140 to 145 degrees, with vulcanizing factories exposing workers to 212 degrees. Some endure briefly in tire fires, but sustained exposure is impossible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willicutt
New York American
Vesuvius Through the Centuries a Field of Fire
The article recounts Vesuvius history from early minor eruptions to major calamities. It notes a gladiator camp in 73 D, a strong earthquake in 63, sixteen years of rumblings, and the 79 eruption that buried Herculaneum and Pompeii. An 1631 explosion marks continued activity thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vesuvius
Herculaneum
Pompeii
Custards Turned to Sponge Cakes Tragedy
Mrs Justwed weeps over a kitchen mishap as sponge cakes replace her hoped custards. Mr Justwed asks what troubles her, revealing she spent the afternoon baking for him yet disappointment looms.
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Mr. Justwed
The Cleverest Mystery of Missed Love and Marriages
The scene presents three eligible suitors who try to win a match by guessing the heroine's age. She agrees to marry the one who guesses closest to her age and, as the dialogue reveals, she married the one who guessed the lowest.
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Willy
Arthur
Fragmentary Verse Exchange Quietly Recited
Fragmentary OCR style lines show a mock dialogue about dress and social pressure. The stray quotation marks and garbled names hint at a satirical or poetic fragment, mentioning Lowise Ike and millionaires wives, with an unusual diction and misspellings interwoven in Cowperish cadence.
Bismarck Pretends as Cousin to Charm Guests
A humorous university tale recounts Bismarck adopting the role of Count Keyserling to entertain visiting young aunts and cousins. While Keyserling studies, Bismarck plays host, then the plan backfires as letters home praise his supposed lively antics and robust growth during Berlin visits.
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Bismarck
Russia
Cowlt Keyseriing
Bertie
Keyserling
Baltie Provinces
Tom
Berlin
A Cook's Crest From a Persian Tale of Missing Crest
In a Persian anecdote from a James book a pompous chef is revealed to wear a gilt crest that matches a missing brass saddle plate inscribed with Souter. The tale unfolds in a teashop where Hassan Ali and a dignified cook debate England's Per sian policy as the plate is identified as the chef's heraldic decoration.
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Persia
James
Hts
East
Hassan Ali
England
North
Auberge
Atm
Not Personal Count DORSay Denies Personal Attack
Count d Orsay had a volatile temper Sir Algernon West recalls that he once visited publishers Saunders Otley on Lady Blessingtons behalf and used strong language. A refined man would not tolerate abuse. He proclaimed I am not personal while names clashed between Saunders and Otley.
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Count d'Orsay
Algernon West
Saunders & Otley
Lady Blessington
D'Oreay
Saunders
Otley
Learned It by Ear Recital Delights Chicago Audience
A Chicago Tribune clipping notes a young girl reciting a humorous verse with mispronunciations and the audience's delighted applause. Names and places are garbled in the OCR, but the scene captures a lively school or recital moment with local color from the era.
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Uttle Giel Arom
N. Dewing
Wy Btaro
N. E. Pato
S. H. BL
Not to Him Howitt Money Thik Jewett I Guess
Fragmentary item citing New York Press language about memory and telephone, with stray lines about a movie and a gift, suggesting a social or opinion note. Reads as a brief, unclear excerpt lacking concrete events or identities.
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Jewett
New York Press
The Political Millennium in Kansas Becomes a Wheat Question
Two Kansas farmers quarrel over politics until a silent neighbor dissolves the dispute with a parable. He notes he and his son hauled wheat for forty years, and the miller cares only whether the wheat is good, not which road was taken.
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Kansas
Making It Plain and Odd Dangers in Vintage Notes
A collage of antique social quips and curiosities including a mock hotel fire escape instruction from London Punch, a Dickensian note on flat candles used by shoemakers, and a humorous quip about Plodding Pete losing his home to a wood pile garden pump.
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Nordtjord
London
Cor
Dickenalan
Pete
Washington Star
Weston Rancher Warns Potatoes in Peril from Winter
Joe Warzer a Weston mountain rancher tells the Haat Oregonian he dug about half his potato crop before winter weather and doubts the fate of the remaining Weston mountain potatoes. He estimates half the crop was dug and concerns persist about surviving unearthed spuds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Warzer
Weston Mountain
The
Haat Oregonian
Columbia College to Meet Athena High in Basketball Duel
The speedy Columbia College Milton team faces Athena High at the opera house tomorrow evening. Athena has trained vigorously since the Pendleton game, and Columbia is regarded as a tough opponent. Typical admission prices apply and strong attendance is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia College
Milton
Athena High
Opera House
Athena
Columbia
Methodist Episcopal Church Services and Activities
Methodist Episcopal Church led by Rev. A. O. Hammond holds Sunday school at 10 a.m. and preaching at 1 p.m. Epworth League devotional service at 6:30 p.m. and preaching at 7:30 p.m. Ladies Aid Society meets Wednesdays at 1 p.m. Prayer meeting Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
A. O. Hammond
Epworth League
Ladies Aid Society
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Cowper
Hee
Pullin
F. Sharp
Third Street
Athena Oregor
Short
Weston Oregon
Cully's Grocery
Peterson & Wilson
Attorneys-at-Law
Oregon
Pendleton
Watts & Neal
Freewater, Oregon
ST. Nichols Hotel
J. E. Froome
End
ST. Nichols
Mary
J. J. Kirk
D. H. Preston
le Grow
EDW
T. J. Kirk F
P. FE. Colbeen
B. Koontz
First National Bank OF Athena
Parker-Stone
Firat
Preston-Parton Milling Company
Athena Labor
Waitsburg
Wash
Rene
Eilers
Chickering
Weber Kimball
Hobart M
Cable
Ore
Portland
Walla Walla
Whitman County
George W. Taylor
TROY
Henry Keene
GAS Lafontaine
Pendleton, Or
Keene
Athena, Ore
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