Fearful drive ends with lion cliffhanger and wedding plans
A jealous lover buys a runabout to impress Alice and confess love on a moonlit ride. A mad lion from the Zoo chases them through Beach Drive and woods, forcing a dramatic escape as Fred Wilson in a crashed touring car meets the beast head on. The couple returns home, plans a honeymoon.
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Fred Wilson
Fred
Miss Steadman
Alice
Main Street
Wood Road
Alphonse’s
Lion
Summer Guests Drain Suburban Clerk’s Finances
A subordinate clerk with a hundred dollar monthly stipend hosts summer visitors at his country home. Excess meals, servants, and entertainment strain finances as guests linger despite promises to depart. The couple’s strained ledger reflects the longed for city life and the unresolved tension between hospitality and budgeting.
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Hether
Uncomfortable English Hotels in Harper's Howells
A narrator describes a haunted English hotel from Harper's Magazine. He discovers a small coal fire in a wall grate near the bed and endures a cold, eerie night as a ghost seems to walk the floor and vanishes when chilled.
Painter Job Keeley at Bellevue Hospital
A worn painter named Job Keeley lies at Bellevue Hospital New York after a fall from a scaffold caused a base skull fracture. Doctors diagnose tuberculosis of the lungs with bronchitis, painter's colic, arteriosclerosis, presbyopia, hydrocephalus, and edema of the skin.
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Bellevue Hospital
New York
Job Keeley
Oldest American Applejack Distillery Remains in Warwick
The oldest applejack distillery in the United States sits in Warwick New Jersey. The worm still in use dates from before the Revolutionary War, underscoring a long standing craft and heritage.
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United States
Warwick
N. J
European figures and American links noted in a century past
A列 esoteric chronicle reviews Anglo American tensions via Lord Stanley and the Denmark Liberal Conservative clash over cabinet selection. It traces William Waldorf Astor’s noble Spanish Huguenot ancestry to Astor origins. It notes Mrs Ellen M Henrotin’s rare Leopold Order, Serge de Witte’s Jewess wife saga, and societal neglect of Mme de Witte despite high Paris and St Petersburg ties.
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William Waldorf Astor
Astor
Don Pedro Destorga
France
Astorg
Jean Jacques VV Astorg
Aecross the Rhine
Johann Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor
Waldo
Baden
Iris
Leopold
Belgium
Ellen M. Henrotin
Henrotin
Federation of Woman's Clubs
Charles Henrotin
Chicago
Serge de Witte
Mme. de Witte
St. Petersbire
The Village Blacksmith Reimagined by Motor Cars
A nostalgic verse depicts the village smith once mighty with forge and sledge, now eased by modern change. The smith's labor fades as motor cars replace the need for ironwork and his wealth rests in easy tin and broadcloth.
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Automobile Advocate
Wayside
First Paper Makers and Early Materials
The Chinese produced the first real paper. Ancient papyrus used by Greeks Romans and Egyptians was not true paper but plant pith pressed into sheets.
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W. D. Howells
Harper's
Lord Stanley
Alderley
England
London
American Society
Ruben Levetzan
Berlin
Christian
Denmark
Folkething
Copenhagen
Christiansborg
Mailenborg
King Christian OF Denmark
Wellsville
Urs Uoen
Exchange Place
A.J. Root Co
Medina, Ohio
Masons
National Photographic Chemical Company
St. and Penn Ave
Washington, D. C
International Harvester Co
Il. Hi. C
International Marvester Co. of America
Monroe Street
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