Autobiography of a Manuscript Finds No Public Eye
An unnamed manuscript recounts its birth at nineteen and the failed journeys through publishers. A mother's uncle pressures fame, editors pass it along, and a brother’s sensational success leaves the author unseen. The narrator reflects on the publishing world's hunger for popular best sellers and the obscurity that follows.
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Merudele
Globe Publishing Company
Weeder
Mall
Simpson & Co
Fra
el Pen
Feust
Taft tariff views outlined in extraordinary session pledge
Aug 29 At Hot Springs Va Dr Hallock reports Taft would call an extraordinary Diet Congress if elected to review the tariff at the earliest moment. Taft says revision is his obligation under the Republican tariff plank, while noting shifting business conditions since the Dingley act.
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Hot Springs
Taft
Diet Congress
Hrgan
Dew Molrow
Republican Party
Bryan
Vat
Joe
Fatal Auto Wreck In Delaware Park Claims One Life
Buffalo reports a fatal auto wreck Saturday night when a speeding car plunged over an embankment in Delaware park into an abandoned quarry. James Waydarl about forty, was killed instantly, Lab Wake fell was fatally injured, and James Morrison suffered serious injuries as the automobile was reduced to splinters. Drivers were speeding on parkways at a turn before the plunge.
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Buffalo
Delaware Park
James Waydarl
Ebouffeur
Lab Wakefell
James Morrison
Superstitions In Cooking Taught At School Kitchen
A discussion on teaching cookery and domestic science to schoolgirls argues against superstition and for science based methods. It contrasts group and individual teaching, noting group work shares tasks while individual work meets limits but strengthens understanding of chemical principles and kitchen variables.
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Eaerly
Rome
The Tectful Doctor A Forgetful Clinician Mixes Names
A physician in a northern Michigan town struggles to recall patients and visitors while preparing a prescription. To cover embarrassment he asks a visitor to spell her name aloud, prompting her to respond with her own mispronounced name. The anecdote appears in Sve tess Magazine. Britain features the world’s longest coastline among European nations, with Italy, Rossin, and France noted in sequence.
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Michigan
Hiwself
Emilingly
Svetess Magazine
New Vienna Hat Styles Stir Public Opinion
A column notes outrage at the new Vienna fashion for women called the toinette or Antoinette style. It mocks extravagant headgear with flowers pigeons owls and large frames, arguing it rivals the Merry Widow in extravagance. The piece previews social controversy and suggests husbands may face millinery costs if wives adopt the trend.
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Antoinette
Merry Widow
America
Vienna
Marie Antoinette
Louis XV
Tate Thi
Theo Kha Titer
Hair care and wardrobe tips from a bygone era
A fragment discusses hair arrangement for wives after husbands leave, praising two braids and front projections, and warns against visible false hair in morning light. It critiques ill fitting wrappers, suggesting shirtwaist outfits for housework in clean fabrics and Dutch-neck summer tops with modest sleeves.
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Foel
Evrl
Inside a submarine a lesson in space efficiency
An illustrated account describes the cramped submarine interior, noting the compact machinery, storage battery cells, ballast tanks, air cylinder pressure, and crew berths. It details torpedo tubes, the captain's elevated post, and the dueling officer stations for quick handoffs during dives.
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Duty Marine le
St Nicholas
Vasmel
Benneath
Capaain
One Was Enough
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item recites a stern parental scene where a boy admits smoking one cigar and faces his father's response. The piece notes the moral warning about consequences for youth and cigarette use.
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Dad
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Commen mentions ordinary people amid engagements and duties
The Life piece notes ordinary people keep engagements, eat simple meals, pay bills, and manage daily duties, highlighting everyday responsibility and routine behavior.
Laces Old and New Across Peasant Traditions
A survey of peasant laces from Ireland England Armenia and Italy discusses crochet linen needlepoint and bobbin work. It notes Irish crochet and Armenian lace varieties. Italian and Mexican traditions. and the use of homemade lace in churches and cathedrals with patient crafts lasting years.
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England
Ireland
Erin
Mexico
France
Italy
FOR THE CHILDREN Fun Alive Game Card Forfeit Cards
A fragment describes a party game using eight large cards and forty smaller forfeit cards. Players pass a catch card around drawing forfeit tasks. blanks end the round. A second piece notes Africa's weather with contrasting climates and a priest’s lightning anecdotes.
The Carrier Pigeon And Alaska's Vast Border Map
A brief tale explains carrier pigeons as early long distance messengers used in war and civics, detailing training methods and how messages stay attached to the feather stem. The second note discusses a Geological Survey depiction of Alaska stretching across many U S states and territories, illustrating its immense size.
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Alaska
Géological Survey
United States
Lake Superior
Minnesota
Canada
Fragmented editorial snippets on mountains and language rules
The text discusses Mount McKinley height in Alaska as over twenty thousand feet and explores Latin plural usage of the word one. It notes English adjective plurality and French phrases, with commentary on word forms and translations among scattered fragments.
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Uos
France
Game of Geography Sparks Laughter in Circle
A playful geography game provokes laughter as players name places starting with L. One reader recalls a huge dog visiting and joining the game, ending with a humorous rough moment when the dog tries to sit on him. The excerpt comes from Our Baby Book by Family Ty Cory.
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Lowfelana
Landon
Lake Huron
Nome City
Ty Cory
Cathedral Lottery Aids Cologne Repairs and Clergy News
The Prussian government authorizes a large lottery to fund Cologne cathedral repairs. Excavations at Hexham abbey reveal St Wilfrid's cathedral formed part of the present abbey. After years in Rome, Mgt John Vaughan, brother of Father Bernard Vaughan, returns to London in October to preach four sermons at Westminster cathedral. Rev J B Thomas, evangelist for the Baptist Home Mission society, has spent fourteen years touring chapel cars from Minneapolis to New Orleans and has built thirty churches.
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Cologne
Hexham Abbey
England
St. Wilfrid's Cathedral
Rome
John Vaughan
Bernard Vaughan
London
Westminster Cathedral
J. 8.Thomas
Baptist Home Mission Society
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Famous Noses Through History and Legend
A curious excerpt catalogs remarkable noses from ancient to modern figures. It notes Ovid the Immortal Navo with a bottle nose, Lycurgus and Solon with six inch snouts, Scipio Nawica from a prominent nose, Antiochus Grypus with a vulture beak, Cyrus and Artaxerxes with tips to the rim, Mohammed with a curved nose, Numa Pompilius famed for a six inch nose, and Frederick the Great reputedly identifiable by his prominent nose in a Lavater wager.
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Ovid
Navo
Lycurgus
Solon
Scipio Nawica
Antiochus VIII
Grypus
Cyrus
Artaxerxes
Mohammed
Numa
Pompilius
Great Frederick
Lavater
Proverb Fragments From Several Languages
A compact collection of short foreign proverbs about decision making and knowledge. Includes Latin Latin Proverb on biting pleasures and the German advisory to act before tomorrow. Greek and French sayings emphasize quick choice and doing what you know.
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Dr. Hallock
Batra Besson
Elvira
Ant & Busty
Svea Wualiey
Hallock
Rivita Capentes
DR. Hallock CO
Court St
Boston
Mass
Rioddard Sia
Dee
Great Britain
Europe
Rossin
Hell Gate
East River
New York
Long Island Sound
Wheaton A. Gray
San Francisco
Uneeda Biscuit
National Biscuit Company
Africa
Eherybody
Chicago News
Pacific
Stanley Malls
Atorma
McKinley
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