A Secret Sorrow and Transmigration Tales
In a 1894 Bluffton item, a poem titled A Secret Sorrow recalls a ballroom night and a rose left in a lover’s hair. Dr Edward Bedloe narrates a Transmigration of the Soul lesson as a Pottsville visitor asks about reincarnation in plain terms. The piece includes a jibe at a Washington Post excerpt and a satirical tale about Ballial washerwomen and a master who ends a strike after a dramatic sequence with a bell.
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Edward Bedloe
Philadelphia
Far East
Pennsylvania
Pottsville
Strauss
Bedloe
Tramp
Theosophical Society
Dr. Jowell
Ballial
Dialog snippets from old papers hint at humor and intrigue
Quips from The Washington Star and New York Press reveal a cautious restaurant proprietor questioned about lodging bills amid a broken engagement sparked by love at first sight. A Good News entry notes a Conversation Club where women play whist.
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New York Press
Clara
I Must Dress Like an Upper Ten in London
In Taras's window, Aura weighs money and morality as he starts life anew. He faces a choice between buying outfits and preserving dignity, guided by Taras who urges thoughtful spending and independence. The search for proper dress leads Aura to select a stylish, yet appropriate, wardrobe.
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Shadwell
Taras
Anne
Chalpier
Kavanach
Miss Hopkins
Tares
Shadwell Way
Aura Embraces High Fashion in London Shop Scene
Aural, newly dressed, purchases a sealskin jacket and elegant gowns with Miss Hopkins guiding her. She experiences pride and awe as she visits Lambeth, Westminster, and the embankment, then meets Taras and Barry Kavanagh, amid evolving feelings and social contrasts.
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Mies Hopkins
Will & You
Shadwell
London
Taras
Miss Hopkins
Lambeth
Mere Lucas
Meade
Westminster Bridge
Temple
Paris
Barry Kavanagh
Kavanagh
Trax
Aura
Engineering Marvels Through History and Construction Feats
A compact survey of ancient and modern engineering feats including Mont Cenis road by Napoleon's engineers in 1806, seven-century Danish dikes, early Chinese navigation by compass, Gibraltar tunnels, the Severn iron bridge of 1777, pneumatic tubes in offices, and notable bridges and structures. It notes rail savings, ancient tunneling, and the St Louis bridge spans.
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Mont Cenis
Denmark
B. C
Gibraltar
Severn
France
Vau
Lackawanna
Holland
B.C
Lake
Albanus
United States
Pasley
Exvypt
Rhodes
Cleopatra
Egypt
England
St. Louis Bridge
Herodotus
Various Inventions and Industrial Developments Reported
A roundup of technological notes includes malleable glass, iron paper, rapid tanning, a German army cloak adaptable to seasons, a fast clinical thermometer from France, a powerful Xin marine light near Havre, and waste-to-lampblack potential in turpentine byproducts. Also noted is barked sound testing for beam integrity, Woop pulp use in coffins, sparse spruce lumber west of the Adirondacks, and a Chicago 350 foot steel chimney with brick, tile, and steel-rail foundations.
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Europe
France
Xin Marine
Havre
United States
Adirondacks
Chicago
Popular Science Facts From A Distant Era
A collection of curious measurements and figures on body temperature breathing iron and copper heats, solar light, lunar brightness, peat deposits in Sweden and Norway, and the uses of peat as fuel and in industry. It presents scattered data without a single narrative or clear context.
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Taras
Beach
Sweden
Norway
Desert Size: Sahara Covers Vast Global Plain
The Sahara is the largest desert. It spans about 3,000 miles east to west and 1,000 miles north to south, totaling roughly 3,000,000 square miles.
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Sahara
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THE
Bluffton Banner
Isehe
Washington Post
Washington Star
Upyright
Wisnep
Lucas
Westminster Bridge Road
Jamaica Road
Epping Forest
Mics Hopkins
Baxter's Wharf
Miss Cracquelin
Chica
Detroit Free Press
Hell Gate
Majjbert
Popular Science
Desert
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