St Louis Drill Ends With Day of Contests and Prizes
The St Louis drill and encampment wrapped up with an elite four-man infantry contest won by Corporal Arthur E West of Dayton Ohio. Indiana batteries led the artillery contest while Zouave rivals from Memphis San Antonio and St Louis traded prizes. Boston mourns riot victim John W Wills. Denver educations delegates rise toward 12 000. and West Virginia militia stays on alert.
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Alberts
National Rifles
Washington, D. C
Charles Durfee
Walsh Zoo
St. Louie
WF. Thompson
St. Louis
Arthur E. West
Phoenix Light Infantry
Dayton
Belknap Rifles
San Antonio
Tex
Sinclair
Bullene Guards
Kansas City
Neelys
Memphis
Walsh
Hales
Two Entertainments on Stage and in Audience
Polly Pry reviews a recent amateur performance noting strong stage acting by the solo players while an old lady in the audience disrupts with moral commentary. She focuses on Annie the servant in the play and the audience’s reaction to kissing and love scenes, ending with sympathy for Annie as she exits to the stage door.
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Annie
Ampie
Polly Pry
New York
The Sickroom Nurse Authority and Dress
A Ladies' Home Journal article discusses the nurse's power in the sickroom, her need to follow physician orders, and the nurse’s formal attire. It emphasizes the nurse’s absolute authority after the doctor, the patient and family must obey, and disobedience should prompt discharge.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Private Electric Elevators Come Home Ease and Cheap
A renowned electrical authority notes that electric elevators in private houses are as affordable as in offices. Stairs are deemed barbaric and harmful to health, with modern devices allowing simple use by invalids or children. Monthly operating costs for a five story home are about $3 to $4, with lever controls eliminated and operation by a button only.
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New York Times
Force of Habit Captain Becomes Vestryman Story
A river steamer captain, recently named vestryman in an Episcopal church, reports a church leak. On shore he hurries to the church with a candle, imagining the basement as a hull in need of repair, and recounts the humorous misperception with evident amusement.
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Zion
The Knout In Siberia Expose By Exile In England
A political exile M Sochaczewski describes the knout and the plot in Siberia. He recounts its use in mines, the brutal lash, and the deadly reach of the instrument. He notes abolition claims and discretionary power remaining among governors, with deaths and crippling victims amid harsher penalties.
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Siberia
St Petersburg
Russia
M. Alexander Sochaczewski
England
M. Sochaczewski
Pols
Fashion Changes In The Latest Style
A London Tit-Bits fashion snippet notes that styles are in flux and advises patience as trends evolve. A shopman invites a customer to sit and wait, signaling ongoing updates in apparel and current tastes.
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London
Electric Bluff in a Hotel Draft Feat Prompts Bank Call
In Jayville Indiana, an inventor uses a pistol bluff with a $50 bank draft and a long distance telephone to fool a wary hotel landlord. He conducts a mock dialing trick to prove the draft was good, winning a free dinner and cash from the impressed landlord.
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Moelin
West
Indiana
Jayville
Indianapolis
Thad
Pat
New York
Meekin
J. Meekin
Central
Cortlandt
Manhattan Exchange National Bank
Crandell
Crandall
T. J
Ind
Hoteman
Waat
Waal
Hera
Wedding Present Surprise In Baltimore Tale
Marie receives a wedding present twist as Freddie Smithers confesses he spent $25 on a dress bought with saved money. He used items from Marie’s past returns to craft a silver mirror gift, sending the mirror to Maria with best wishes while hiding his own plans for the dress. Marie herself had returned those same gifts years earlier.
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Marie
Preddie
Smithers
Mr. Smithers
Maria
Freddie
Baltimore Herald
Polar City of the Arctic Enigma Explored in Frost Mirage
A journalist reflects on a polar mirage of a mirrored city with tall spires visible in arctic frost. The piece ponders whether the vision is real, a remnant of ancient times, or a frost fantasy, urging careful study of such phenomena as potential evidence of polar times. Included is a secondary quote from a veteran about military and musical misalignment, illustrating the theme of order and disruption.
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Arctic
Pole
Philadelphia Press
Thin an the Mist and the Northern Town Tale
The fragment describes Scone in misty weather and a pub house encounter with a minister. It references Sandy McKay and a mistaken trip to the grocer. A line quotes the London Globe on a mist’s social impact. It also notes Canadian population shares in New England and a Tasmanian naming fact tied to Tasman.
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Scone
Sandy McKay
London Globe
Fasting saint dies after three year vow in India
A renowned Hindoo ascetic in India died after an extended fast of three years begun in Trevandrum. He sat under a banyan tree in divine contemplation, eating at intervals until he abstained completely. Revered as a godlike figure, his burial involved unusual rites including breaking a hundred coconuts atop his skull to release the soul.
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India
Trevandrum
Afira
London
What Is Home Without a Mother reads in shop window
A man pauses outside a secondhand store window displaying motley merchandise and an embroidered sign asking What Is Home Without a Mother. He muses that the question is easy to answer, noting his family remains the essential part of life.
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Indianapolis Journal
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Boston
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Wills
Denver
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Shepard
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Pike's Peak
Army
Hountinaroy
W. Va
Garden
Lkborn
Srnoa
Riaque
Hasta
Goodness
Copper
Frans Yaluron
Ganlby
Amorut
Vernis Martin Acredt
New York Sun
Cauyes
Nature
Simmons Liver Regulator
Savery
J. H. Zetlin & CO
Philadelphia
Griswold
Teave
Rat
Audubon
Gobig West
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Elihu Burritt
Tasmania
Tasman
American Medical CO
Cincinnati
Vic Emmert & Co
Ambien
Atlantic
Turnishid
U. S. Gov’t
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