Mona Montague Seeks Mona Forester Heir in New York
Mona Montague learns of an advertisement seeking Mona Forester or heirs and travels to Corbin and Russell to pursue a potential family link. She unveils a portrait matching her mother, meets lawyer Mr Corbin, and discovers she may be Walter Dinsmore’s niece, triggering questions about proof and inheritance.
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Louis Hamblin
Mrs Montagué
Mona
Mrs Montague
Mona Forester
Corbin
Russell
Broadway
N.Y
Forester
Walter
Peirs
Runsel
Mrs Montagne
Mary
Mr Palmer
Ruth
Mona Alons
Mia Montague
Mona Dinsmore
Ace
Coes
Pee
Corbin and Russel
Mona Montagne
Miss Mona Montague
Mona Forwater
Rosin
Mr Corbin
Lary
Dinsmore
Walter Dinemora
Walter Dinsmore
Richmond Montagua
Reyal
Mr Dinsmore
Mona Dinamore
Horace Graves
Graoves
Richmond Montague
Miss Forester
When Grandma Was A Little Girl In The Past
A nostalgic child’s narrator recalls grandma’s childhood as very different. She wore long dresses and pantalets, sat stiff in church, and faced high pews. The tale contrasts “long ago” with today, urging kindness to elders and remembrance of how harsh those days seemed.
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Good Lord’s House
Uncle Henry's One Condition Ends In Narrow Escape
Uncle Henry agrees to let his nephews keep Turk on one condition to treat the dog kindly. A gunshot in a wood near Crosthorn alarms the boys as Turk has wandered off. They find him near danger when a dog enclosure warning is read on a nearby notice-board. They retrieve Turk just as another shot echoes. The boys vow tighter care from then on.
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Uncle Henry
Henry
Harry
Will
Crowthorn
Turk
Sporisman
Edith Hides Crusts For A Future Meal
A mother scolds Edith for eating only the soft bread, tucking the crusts away. Edith softly answers that she saves the crusts for a day when she will be glad to have them, displaying a demure, whimsical outlook.
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Edith
Fortunate Dolls That Seem Alive
A sixpenny china doll tale where two children save pennies to buy dolls. They instruct their father to choose carefully by looking into the doll’s eyes and assessing whether it seems to love them, insisting the doll be more than a plaything and appear real.
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Folka
Hints for the Eyes from Daily Living
Practical tips on preserving sight from daily habits. They advise avoiding sudden light after darkness and reading while fatigued, bathing eyes in cold water, and not reading under artificial light, especially for elderly readers. The guidance stresses linking general health and eye health in simple, everyday actions.
Stable Pen and Poultry Tips for Efficient Farming
Farmers and farming advice on fencing paddocks, culling vicious sows, and proper livestock care. Emphasizes selective feeding for pigs and horses, testing dairy cows for true milk production, keeping stock to pasture quality, and treating sheep as valuable asset rather than mere weed eaters.
Naming Your Farm for Character and Value
The guidance urges choosing a distinctive farm name reflecting location or history to add value and curb appeal. It favors local or familial names with poetic touch, warns against dullSag Smithville, and suggests names like The Valley Farm or The Glen to evoke pleasant thoughts at the gate.
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Pana
Smithville
Smith
Office Clerks Observe Striking Street Gang
A head clerk, bookkeeper, and cashier watch a street gang shoveling dirt, commenting on workers taking it easy and the foreman’s absence. They joke about the man with a pipe, a fur capped worker, and the general annoyance at corporate employees draining taxpayers' money. The firm head arrives, prompting a sudden hustle.
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Hal
Temselves
Ancient clock in Wella Cathedral tolls time with moving knights
In the north transept of Wella Cathedral England an antique non self striking clock built by Peter Lightfoot around 1920 features a count wheel and multiple horological devices. It shows hours moon phases and the heavens map while figures of armed horsemen and a mounted man strike bells and quarters in elaborate terrestrial motion.
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Wella
England
Peter Lightfoot
Poultry Notes On Care For Fowls And Breeds Trends
Advice on keeping poultry healthy and productive includes grit sources like oyster shells and crushed bone, diet tips using potato peelings and lucerne, and signs of illness such as apoplexy and rheumatism. Guidance covers housing, bedding, and roosts, plus breeding economics, culling, and shelter during rain. The piece notes major shows in London with record entries and discusses the growing variety of fowl breeds and concerns over old breeds being replaced.
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Great Britain
London
Crystal Palace
R. T. Thornton
Alexandra Palace
Cristal Palace
Poultry Show Highlights Orpington And Wyandotte Popularity
The English show evidence marks Orpington as a versatile fowl and Wyandotte vitality with 838 Orpingtons and 715 Wyandottes exhibited. Old English game fowls dominate over long-legged types in show pens, with 358 vs 102. Sale prices ranged from two guineas for sellage birds to £5-£6 for higher quality birds, while international auctions totaled £700.
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Orpington
London
United Kingdom
Ameriga
Orpingtons
Wyandottes
A Laughable Dinner Tale Of Sir John Millais
Sir John Millais recalls a dinner scene with a pretty, unfamiliar woman at a grand table. She probes about the Academy, grows anxious as gossip and hushes surround them, and Millais finally reveals his identity while urging her to drink and become friends.
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Sir John Millais
Academy
Peage
Vally
Millois
Widow Seeks Army Pension in Ber Ix
A widow visits the Ber Ix pension office to claim her late husband’s pension. She presents a clergyman’s certificate stating she is alive, but the official rejects it for dating issues and asks for a certificate showing she was alive on July 16 or July 21, highlighting bureaucratic red tape.
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Ber Ix
Itr
Jaly
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The note appears garbled and unreadable, offering no clear people places dates or events to summarize. It contains no coherent facts suitable for a valid news teaser or record.
Women and shopping in Victorian times a practical guide
A reflective column discusses women’s need to shop and manage prices, with anecdotes on a shopping trip in town. It weighs female independence against social expectations, notes annoyance with shopkeepers, and argues practical literacy in prices and bill corrections saves time for all. The piece uses humor and dialect to critique habits and advocate sensible shopping and budgeting.
Birth of The Bells and Poe's Inspiration Tale
A fragmented reminiscence recounts how a quarrel over bells inspired a poem. Exigar Allan Pou supposedly urged writing, Mrs Shan offered title ideas, and Poe reportedly woke with no memory of the final verses after a long night.
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Exigar
Allan Pou
Shan
A. Poe
Siver Peils
Finn
Poe
History of Spectacles and the origins of lenses
In a talk before the St Louis Academy of Science Dr Barck challenges common beliefs about glasses. He argues Egyptians Greeks and Romans lacked spectacles, cites two Sicilians Armuli and Spurs as inventors in the thirteenth century, notes early lenses were convex, then concave lenses emerged. He recounts cylindrical lens use by Thoras Young in 1801 and Airy's correction of myopia, and mentions bifocals by Franklin in 1789.
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St. Louis
Thoras Young Sh
Airy
Benjamin Franklin
Doctor Lingers for First Patient and Cucumbers Tale
A doctor waits four long hours for a patient who never arrives. He spots a man buying six cucumbers and tails him home hoping for a medical chance. At midnight the man bursts out the door, asks for a doctor, then roars he wants more cucumbers instead.
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Tus
Mahomet
A& Man
A Life of Ill Health and Wolfe’s Schnapps
An item suggests Wolfe's Schnapps can prevent many ill health effects when first signs of disease appear. It frames alcohol as a preventive measure against illness, reflecting period health rhetoric and patent medicine style.
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Wolfe
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