Literary Notes for July From Various Authors and Works
The fragment lists literary items and authors such as Edwin Le Sabin, W. Cary Wend, Margaret Ash, and Hazel C. Durr. It references poems, complete stories, and serials including The Shige for Sub, Two Sons of Antonio, The Earther Adventures of Snub Bmith, and Aceodale. The scattered notes hint at a July column cataloging authors, poems, and fiction in a periodical collection.
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Edwin le Sabin
Cary
Margaret Ashi
Pilsworth
Hazel C. Durr
Snub Bmith
Thee Bey
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New York Delegates Headed to Chicago for GOP Convention
About 200 New York delegates and politicians led by State Chairman Timothy L Woodruff and Secretary Lefayette B Gleason left New York by train from Grand Central at noon for Chicago to attend the Republican National Convention. The train will stop at Albany Utica Rochester and Buffalo to pick up more delegates as Hughes and anti Hughes factions ride along.
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New York
Timothy L. Woodruff
Lefayette B. Gleason
Chicago
Grand Central Station
Albany
Utica
Rochester
Buffalo
Hughes
Hughes En Polite
Udin
Fragmented Early Draft Discussed in Murky Notes
The text appears as a garbled excerpt with scattered names such as Cornelia, Charles, Mullin, Vivian, Moses, Shamus, and Ray. It lacks coherent events or context, offering only disjointed fragments from an incomplete manuscript draft.
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Cornelia Reatnional
Charles C
Mullin Winys
Vivian MS Moses
Tieares Destine
Uostery
Ray Waar
Tim Vrois Wm
Shamus
Rootless Cactus of California Describes Wandering Growths
A description from Technical World Magazine explains a rootless cactus that detaches in desert winds and reorients by rooting where dropped. It forms annual runners and shallow, spreading roots to grasp moisture as it expands in a ten foot circle from the parent plant.
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California
Sean
Califrnia
Technical World Magazine
Dius Is
Million a Minute and Other Pieces in Gunter's July Issue
The July Gunter's Magazine features A Million a Minute by Robert Aitken and Atahualpa's Chain by Barry Wockott, Son of an Irish Squire by William Allen Johnston, The Sword of Esme Dacres by an unnamed author, A Bout With Leicester by Alan Gordon, The Ring of Princess Margarita by John Trump Jack Chinn, The Gambler by Eugene Florence, City of Lost Kings a serial by Howard Fitzalan, Ananias Junior by Walker Aken, Driftwood and Wreckage illustrated verse and humor, with cover design by A. G. Leart and a frontispiece by Ch. Grunwal.
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Ch. Grunwal
Sheath gown shocks Washington crowds at public view
A Washington Herald report describes a first public showing of a sheath gown in New York. A woman wearing pearl gray satin, a gray hat, and suede slippers drew a massive crowd on the pier as the side slit from knee to hem provoked widespread eye contact and whispered admiration.
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Washington Herald
York
New York
A Verde
Touch of Death by Own Action Superstitions Across England
A discussion of beliefs that contact with a dead person or executioner could cure illnesses. West of England customs in Cornwall and Devonshire linked touching the hand of the deceased or the executed to healing. Notes include claims of a Newgate scaffold incident and old hangman fees for similar medical privileges.
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England
Cornwall
Robert Hunt
West of England
Newgate
Northampton
Devonshire
My Motor by Satan's Self Designed Pet
A verse fragment from Puck mocks a troublesome beloved, detailing mischief that wrecks the speaker's life. The narrator rages at a capricious partner who induces running debts, injuries, and ruin while denying a stable mind. The tone is comic grievance in early humor magazine style.
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Puck
Satan
Persuaded Him: North Country School Mischief Case
A Philadelphia Ledger report recounts a magistrate questioning a mother who claims she persuaded her son to confess involvement in vandalism at a schoolhouse. She describes applying threats and punishment until the boy admitted his role in the mischief.
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Philadelphia
Too Much for Uncle Joe on Lavender Salts
A Success Magazine anecdote recalls a Illinois suburb train ride past a foul smelling fertilizer factory. Breaker Cannon asks a lady with lavender smelling salts to cork the bottle as the car fills with the odor.
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Uncle Joe
Success Magazine
Illinois
Breaker Cannon
Build a Modern Ark on the Mississippi River
J W Appleton on Missouri Point builds a large raft to float his farm animals as floods rise. He anchors the floating barnyard in his dooryard after loading twelve pigs three cows two horses and poultry with provisions for days. The flood may surpass 1903 with 2000 acres of wheat submerged.
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J. W. Appleton
Missouri Point
Appleton
Noah
Mississippi
Kinkaid
Degognia Bluffs
Tlinois
Mispi Bluffs
Abe Joel Announces Candidacy for Fourth Ward Alderman
Abe Joel declares his bid for the Fourth ward alderman office subject to Democratic primary action. He frames the move as a formal announcement of candidacy.
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Abe Joel
Colin the Great Surprises With Belmont Comeback
After days of worry over his fore legs Colin the three year old colt owned by James R Keene returned to Belmont Park and won his fourteenth straight race on a muddy track. The win boosts hopes his career may continue beyond one season despite the breed's tendency toward early breakdown.
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Colin
Providence Journal
Sheepshead Bay
James R. Keene
Belmont Park
Keene
Slang of the Restaurant Terminology in Period Speech
The Minneapolis Journal notes slang for cheap meals has evolved. Phrases like two cackles and the pig mean ham and eggs, Cunard Mner with two dogs aboard hints Hamburger steak with sausage, a bunch of slats means spare ribs. A Buffalo paper offers examples with two eggs fried one side and three slices of bacon.
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Minneapolis Journal
Cunard Mner
Walter
Mississippi
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