Indian chiefs duped by ventriloquist telephones tale
Maj. Pollock once head of free delivery data in the post office, known to frontier chiefs, used a voice trick with a phone to pretend Frank the Indian office worker could be spoken to from the other room. Chiefs watched lips and puzzled at the transmitter before being led to the real Frank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maj. Pollock
Post Office Department
Washington Star
Washington
Frank
Indian Office
Lithographic color drivesCosmopolitan cover evolution
Late literary news notes The Cosmopolitan expands into lithographic color printing capable of 320 000 pages per day and adds fresh cover art by Rossi replacing the old manilla back. Eric Pape provides a water color illustration for Stevensons last story as a premier frontispiece. Sold by J A Blackburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan
Eric Pape
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rossi
Manilla
Light and Shadow Poem Exchange
A reflective poem contrasts outward light with inner truth, urging readers to look beyond smiles and appearances. It explores how daylight can veil sadness and how stars of joy appear only when shadows ease, urging discernment between surface and substance.
Exchange of Roles in a Tainted Marriage
Charlie Stanhope learns his wife Lilian has not been virtuous either after a cruel letter taints their marriage. He wrestles with betrayal, love turned to contempt, and a shared life built on lies as Lilian calmly accepts their new moral equality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilian Stanhope
Lilian Vile
Dacre
Lady Fancourt
Miss Bellault
Blackguard
Lilian
St. Paul’s
Long-lived Fellows of Royal Society List Deaths
A London News item notes 19 Royal Society fellows and seven foreign members died in the past year. The group averaged 76 years and a quarter, with ages from 47 to 97. Notable names include Franz Ernst Neumann and Henri Ernest Baillon among foreigners, and Lords Aberdare and Selborne among fellows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Society
Franz Ernst Neumann
Henri Ernest Baillon
Bisset Hawkins
George Edward Dobson
Lord Aberdare
Earl of Selborne
London News
A Brown Leaf in the Woods
A brown wrinkled leaf falls and adventurously rides the wind while a narrator reflects on aging and grief. The poem imagines whether the heart can stay young and joyful like the leaf’s playful dance despite time and sorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae Old Syd
Frank H. Sweet
Ladies’ Home Journal
Colonel Mills and Lost Mountain drill tale from Georgia militia days
A Georgia colonel, Joseph George Washington Mills, recounts his first drill at Lost Mountain with a cobbled show of militia gear. He borrows Captain Howell’s uniform and Scott’s tactics, offers a stirring speech, and nearly meets a wary mountaineer who pays him in a two cent coin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph George Washington Mills
Red Clay
Georgia
Tennessee
Colonel Mills
Atlanta
Congress
Commonwealth
Council House
Jackson
Old
Cobb County
Lostmountain
Enoch R. Mills
Howell
Gwinnett County
Mills
Captain Howell
Lost Mountain
Sol
Scot
Milla
Loat Mountain
Scott
Chicago
Views on church and beliefs in a humor vignette
A city missionary asks a poor woman if she attends church. She says she does not fit to wear clothes and cannot go because her husband is out of work and they share different views. The woman mentions she would go alone if she attended. The missionary says he is Methodist and her husband is Knights of Pythias.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Heaton
Laurel St
Philo
Pythias
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Late Literary News
J. A. Blackburn
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, Ga
Macon
Schofield
Hancock
J.S. Schofield Sons., & Company
Macon, GA
Light and
Charlie Stanhope
Mrs. Stanhope
Charlie
Jade
Maud Bellair
Hugh Dacre
Lil
Raniier
Lion
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