Kitty and Georgiana: a clubbed romance of mistaken lace
Jerome Dawson avoids home over a new maid Kitty who stirs envy and suspicion. He discovers Kitty at a dinner with Georgiana Van Arsdale, a sociology student who hides her experiments behind elegance. Jerome opposes the research and prevents a separate engagement compromise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Dawson
Kitty
Dawsons
Nhew
Jerome
Witty
Nancy
Georgiana van Arsdale
Georgiana
Mr. Dawson
Katy
Kate
Properly Rebuked by a British Lord
An English gentleman visited Lord Westmoreland on official business at breakfast. He complained of not receiving an invitation to a prior dinner, claiming a fetter from the foreign office. Lord Westmorland humorously checked the letter, noting no dinner mention, leaving the visitor embarrassed and retreating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Westmorelane
Foreign Office
Lord Westmorland
Dinney
Printing Pictures on Calico Berlin
A new photogravure calico printing method from Freiburg by Drs Martens and Rolffs enables family portraits landscapes and scenes to be printed on sofa cushions curtains or tablecloths at lower cost. The process uses a camera image on transparent film wrapped around a cylinder then etched and printed in color by the three color process.
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Berlin
Freiburg
Drs. Martens and
Rolffs
Parrot Disturbs a Class in Central Park Menagerie
New York officials note a single bird species, English sparrows, will dominate city parks this year per Donald Burns, the aviary keeper. A class of Fifth Avenue children heard his talk, then Dick the parrot, turning 100, blurted a strong expletive. The keeper wondered who taught him.
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New York
Donald Burns
Central Park
Fifth Avenue
Burns
Halfton of Honey Found in Lenox Village Garret
One thousand pounds of honey, some over sixty years old, is exhibited at East Lee near Lenox Massachusetts after workers tearing down a tavern built 150 years ago uncovered in a garret more than fifty swarms of bees. The tavern has long been in one family and no current resident recalls entering the garret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenox
Mass
East Lee
Garret
Yale and Columbia scholars win $10,000 opera prize
Horatio William Parker of Yale University and Brian Nooker, formerly an English assistant at Columbia and later a Yale rhetoric instructor, share the Metropolitan Grand Opera prize of $10,000 for their opera Mong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Horatio William Parker
Yale University
Brian Nooker
Columbia
Yale
Metropolitan Grand Opera
Mong
Yellow Snow Falls in Engadine Alps
Yellow snow has fallen in the Engadine marking a rarer event than earlier black and red snow sightings in Switzerland. The phenomenon occurred in the Alps in 1850 and 1847 during February, driven by winds including the African sirocco which carried Sahara sands across the Mediterranean into Switzerland.
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Geneva
Engadine
Switzerland
Alps
Sahara
Mediterranean
Italy
Ironer
Germans outstrip Britons in science and finance faith
London reports Sir James Dewar, Britain's famed chemist, marks 34 years in the Royal Institution. He laments Britain's small endowment and cites German investment, Bayer expansion, and the value of backing science with money. he warns Britain relies on lone geniuses without systemic support. He notes Germany's large funds and the use of universities and laboratories to push research into commercial profits.
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London
England
James Dewar
Britain
Royal Institution
Young
Davy
Faraday
Tindall
Tyndall
Germany
Bayer
Gardens for Boys Peach Trees and Vegetable Seeds Set Out
Pittsburg plans large scale urban gardens led by Mrs. B L McCullough with about four hundred peach trees grown by city children. Oakland gardens funded by the Board of Trade will use vacant land for adult plots, with seeds and implements provided by civic groups. The YMCA and Pittsburg Play Ground Association will run gardens for boys and multiple locations, plus a greenhouse at Washington Park. Civic clubs plant flower beds across multiple sites, including hospitals and schools, while Woods Run residents anticipate more vegetables near the penitentiary.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburge
B. L. McCullough
Oakland
Oakland Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Associated Charities
Harvey H. Smith
Young Men's Christian Association
West End
Playground Association
Washington Park
Little
Playground and Vacation School Association of Allegheny
Children of
Woods Run
Penitentiary
Civic Committee
Congress Women's Clubs of
Western Pennsylvania
New Era Club
Hancock
Council of Jewish Women
Hospital For Children
Curtis
Women’s Club of
Center Avenue
Travelers’ Club
Crafton and
Sheriden
Electric Chicks Hatch by Electricity in Towanda
Towanda, Pa sees the first electric hatch of chicks in the state with a brood hatched by electric bulbs replacing kerosene heat. Clarence Braund of a local Illuminating Company wired a common incubator and kept constant heat, producing eggs with minimal attention. The chicks hatched nearly all and the company displays the birds in its office window, suggesting a shift from oil lamps to electric heat for future hatchings.
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Towanda
Clarence Braund
The Squire's Probation and the Widows Betrothal
Squire Thomas Jefferson Skeggs famed for cursing but vows to quit for marriage to Widow Lindsey. He compiles a list of substitutes, tests it during a rainbound river trip, and ends with a comic reversal as the widow praises his eloquence, promising to teach him to pray.
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Thomas Jefferson Skeggs
Merryville
Lindsey
Squire
Squire Skagen
Abou Ben Adhem
Buch Ag
Caesarea
Rotterdam
Amsterdam
Ald Mol
Baptists
Hickory Grove
Wolf Creek
Mel
Squire Skaggs
Omega
Omega, Omitting Nothing. At the First Familiar Expletive Old Mel
Sleep Inducing Spectascope Promises Restful Nights
An English inventor unveils the spectascope, a pair of flat black discs with two white spots aligned to the eyes. By gazing steadily at the discs in a lit room the viewer experiences a concentrated field of vision and a natural, restful sleep. A monocular variant fits over the bed for sleep without light.
Height of Fame Autograph Brings Ten Dollars
A humorous exchange shows a mother boasting about her son Henry thriving in literature and her own pride at an autograph selling for ten dollars. The mother quips that the autograph was signed to a promissory note for three hundred, bought by herself.
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Henry
Harper's Weelly
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Associated Literary Press
Jerome Dawson
Kniefer
Homer den
Oeker
Mexico
Francisco J. Madero, Jr
Juarez
City
Bird
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