A Game of Chance Ends in Love and Escape
Archie Leland leads a German at a dance for Miss Aspinwall Jones. Entangled by champagne and a scheming mother, Leland becomes the target of a romance tug of war with Corliss Tuckerman orchestrating a quick split. Leland and Jones end disenchanted as Tuckerman helps him slip away.
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Miss Aspinwall
Jones
Archie Leland
Lenox
Miss Aspinwall Jones
Miss Aspinwall-Jones
Aspinwall- Joneses
Aspinwall-.Jones
Aspinwall-Jones
Brown
Miss Aspinwall- Jones
Corliss Tuckerman
Tuck
Tuckerman
Jove
Joan
Weill
Leland
Archie Lolland
Uckerman
Eland Tyre
Archie
Tam
Lessons in legerdemain by Frank J. Kirk
The New York Herald feature presents Frank J. Kirk teaching magic as a wholesome pastime. He advises beginners to practice before a mirror, never reveal intended moves, and vary tricks to maintain audience interest. Steps include the smoke illusion with glasses or pipes, the invisible hen using a handkerchief and egg, and spinning a handkerchief on a cane.
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New York Herald
Frank J. Kirk
Kirk
Thirteen a Lucky Number in History and Folklore
A Detroit Free Press note traces the superstition about 13 as unlucky to the last supper and Judas. It cites a baker's dozen as luck, and a Windsor guard supposedly hearing Westminster clock strikes. The court-martial case contrasts belief and pardon actions, with public sympathy cited for the soldier.
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Detroit
Windsor
Westminster
Suburban Colorings Cartoon Exchange
In a New York Weekly strip, an artist mocks a suburban host about his painted house. The host explains the shop only offered six colors, drawing a proud but constrained response about his home’s appearance.
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New York Weekly
London Tid Bits and Whimsical Pleasantries
A fragment from a London Tid Bits column portrays playful banter with flirtatious undertones. The excerpt features a dialogue where a woman asks if she is loved and the man responds with romantic gush, expressing desire for a two headed girl.
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London
Dazzling Diamonds Sparkling Gems and Where They Are Found
Globe Democrat survey traces diamond sources from India to Brazil and South Africa. It explains mining methods in Deccan and alluvial beds, notes historical gems like Kohinoor and Orloff, recounts Brazilian and Russian deposits, and details risks of theft in South African camps along with world supply and future price pressures.
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India
Penar
Stone
East Deccan
Nizam of
Hyderabad
Deccan
Waterloo
Catherine
Pontiana
Borneo
Brazil
Portugal
Durin
Bahia
Ural Mountains
South Africa
Orange River
Oeand Vaal
Sane Ok A Te Wale Meanpottans
Afri Africa
Jamonds
Australia
United States
Virginia
Georgias
North Carolina
Tennessee
Caifornia
Arizona
New Mexico
Queer Fishing Methods in Surinam Use Spring Hooks and Baskets
Native Surinam fishermen employ elastic rods and unequal length lines with sticks to create a spring-hook that jerks fish from water. A sugar loaf shaped spring-basket traps fish by a trap door when a lure is seized. Both setups are nocturnally set and morningly checked, yielding easy catches. Some deem these methods barbarous and unsportsmanlike.
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Detroit Free Press
Surinam
Izaak Walton
Long Engagements and Modern Courtship in Scribner's Magazine
Owing to life’s complexities and rising comforts marriage now occurs later. Engaged couples face income pressure, yet some betrothals endure. Long engagements are rare but present, inviting comment on happiness and social expectations. Polite society rewards lovers only while they remain interesting and agreeable.
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Scribner’s Magazine
Honey in the Rock Sparks Bazaar Riots and Massive Slaying
A hunter finds honey in a rock fissure and brings it to a grocer. A drop spills and is swallowed by the grocer’s weasel. The hunter’s dog kills the weasel, the grocer kills the dog, and the hunter cuts off the grocer’s arm. A mob kills the hunter. The governor sends troops. riot lasts three days with 70,000 slain over a drop of honey.
No Hurry. Mr Testy and the German Ball
In No Hurry New York Weekly a scene unfolds with Mr Testy delaying his talk with his daughter as the last car rides by at midnight. Mr Staylate remains composed noting a German ball uptown and a conductor says cars resume at 2.
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New York Weekly
Testy
Staylate
Love's Young Dream in New York Weekly snippet
A brief dialogue themed around marriage proposals. A young woman reports that Mr Poorchap asked her to marry him and she would consider if her father agrees. The exchange centers on a suitor with no means and the girl’s conditional acceptance.
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New York Weekly
Tham
Ceetieas
Mirrors of Mystery and Double Consciousness
A historical survey of mirror based visions by investigators and psychical researchers in England and Germany. It traces subjective illusions and telepathic like experiences, detailing cases where crystal gazing yielded memory flashes, misread letters, and illusory prophecies while noting the mind’s role in shaping perceived sights.
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Jehovah
Joseph
Benjamin
Orient
Egypt
Lord Nelson
Dee
Duke of
Orleans
Germany
England
Ihey
Berlin Society of Experimental Psychology
Society of Psychical Research
London
Hibbs
Hibbs House
Ptolemy Philadelphus
Lyceum
Royal Academy of Music
Greece
Eerste
Senhors
Shadow of Fate in a Delsartean Dilemma
In Chicago a romance unfolds between Miss Etta Black and Mr Savage as a fate shadow looms. The pair exchange elaborate talk on manners and expression before she declares an impossible marriage, prompting his abrupt retreat under the ominous destiny mood.
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Chicago Tribune
Miss Black
Miss Etta
Mr. Savage
Seraeet
Peyace
Etta Black Savage
A man makes a rule to get home before the baby wakes
A man explains he cannot stay past a certain hour because his wife will be asleep and the baby must wake for feeding. He recalls sneaking home before breakfast with blinds drawn and lights on to fool his wife, but now insists on home before the baby wakes as the only safe way.
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Chicago Tribune
Plant schemes for summer travel and finances
The piece advises wives to plan summer travel and manage their husbands finances by flattery and indulgence. It suggests Saratoga plans, European treatment, and generous doctor fees as a means to widen the husband’s spending, culminating in discarding him when he loses value.
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Philadelphia Times
Saratoga
Silence in a Small Town Confusion over a Confidon Affair
A Dwightville couple teases a kiss as they part evening visits. The girl offers to show a sachet bag, while a misread confession amid the encounter hints at intellect and discretion. The fragment suggests a local social scene with playful dialog and ambiguous propriety.
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Binghamton Repuplican
Dwightville
Cesta
A Typesetter's Need in Ragged Rhetoric
A Rochester Talisman humorous snippet debates tails in humans with Minks and Krinks arguing about Darwin. Minks suggests tails dropped from lack of use, while Krinks agrees, noting printers in early times. The exchange mocks scientific certainty and printed work.
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Rochester
Minks
Darwin
Krinks
Weily
Grandpa Promotes Travel For Growth In Boy
A conversation in Life discusses travel as a developmental tool for boys. Freddy, a precocious character, claims he learned this while crossing the Atlantic.
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Grandpa
Freddy
Partly Visible dialog at the ball
A brief conversational moment shows Frank complimenting May as Tom claims she is “out of sight” while Frank tempers the praise with a cautious remark about being “not altogether.”
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Puck
Frank
Tom
Lend me a dollar asked in Springfield Cartoon
Hawkins asks Roberts for a dollar and Roberts replies he has one but cannot lend it. The dialogue shifts to a playful exchange about borrowing and availability. The brief comic moment reflects simple financial wishfulness and neighborly banter in a Springfield Graphic snippet.
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Springfield Graphic
Hawkins
Roberts
The First Battle and Soldier Courage in Combat
A historical reflection on first battle fear among volunteers. It contrasts duty driven bravery, thrill seeking bravado, indifference, and genuine courage. It describes the preparatory dread before action, the moment of shock when battle starts, and the transformation into resolve and ferocious pursuit of victory or death.
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Detroit Free
Ue Otros
Beast
Milliners' Bills and Roman Luxury Compared
A critique of Sara Bernhardt touring with 45 trunks and 100 gowns, juxtaposed with ancient Roman heiresses Lollia Paulina and Lollia Sabina. The piece notes lavish dresses valued at millions and cruises through bridal feasts, pearls, and baths of asses milk, concluding modern extravagance seems thrifty by comparison.
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Sara Bernhardt
Lollia Paulina
Agrippina
Pliny
Lollia Sabina
Hoop skirts return to fashion warns New York modiste
A New York Herald fashion note quotes a modiste predicting women will again wear the old time hoop skirt in a modified form. She says early spring costumes show narrow band skirts with slight outward flare and predicts hoops will widen into the cone fashion reaching toward the waist, implying women must adapt.
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New York Herald
A Trick of the Trade.
A brief vignette of a tailor and a young man discussing bill writing on rose paper and perfumed envelopes. The tailor explains the romantic misperception that leads to opening the bill as a love letter.
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Puegende
Woman’s Dress Trim Ruined After Man Steps On Hem
A woman recalls an incident where a man accidentally stood on the hem of her dress, tearing several yards of costly trimming. The mishap caused embarrassment and demands compensation for damages.
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New York Herald
Verse Snippets of Love and Temptation Across Authors
A collage of quoted verse fragments from John Boyle O'Reilly Cart to Tom Masson and Carlotta Perry. The lines explore vulgarity priced versus priceless sentiment, romantic missteps, forgiveness, and the sly misdirection of flowers. The piece weaves coy dialogue in garden and conservatory settings with hints of unrequited desire and self reflection.
Old Boat and Rhymes From The Academy and Temple Bar
A collage of verse and captions. It includes Beatrix Tollemache on The Old Boat imagery and nostalgic shore scenes, Weatherly’s Apologia to the Wife of His Bosom urging forgiveness of poetic rhymes, and reflections on love, marriage, and changing eye color in a poetic fragment.
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Beatrix L. Tollemache
Academy
Frederic E. Weatherly
Temple Bar
Daphne
Chloe
Jaffa to Jerusalem railway scheme ridiculed in verse
Poet Eugene Field lampoons an Orient railway plan linking Jaffa and Jerusalem. He mocks modern locomotives and speculative rail monopolies, warns of peanut-boys and book peddlers, and foresees public backlash from Nebo to Nazareth against the project and its financiers.
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Eugene Field
Chicago
Orient
Syria
Jaffa
Jerusalem
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William Farle Baldwin
Miss Aspinwall—Jones
Tuckerwanl
Ant
St. Lonia
Mirrors OF Mystery
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Shadow OF
FATE
Lady Gardeners
Italy
New York
John Boyle O'Reilly
Harper's
Azar
Tom Masson
Conservatory
You
Carlotta Perry
Times-Democrat
Beersheba
Dan
Droch
Ballor
Coventry Patmore
Church of the
Devil
Church of the Devil
Confession of Faith
Jaffa & Jerusalem
Nebo
Nazareth
Hebron
Tiberius
Jordan
F. M. B. A. Shepherd-Folk
Derry
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