Fenwicks Cure Absolve in Abstinence After Night of Drama
Rosa Fenwick contends with her husband Jerome’s drinking at the Columbian Hotel. An aunt’s confrontation, a drunken scene, and a sudden vow lead Jerome to promise perpetual sobriety while Rosa’s fears melt away as her brother-in-law returns from war.
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Jerome
Rosa Fenwick
Rosa
Popular
Jerome Fenwick
Colympian
Stumber
Peter Stryker
Sam Garney
Tryphosa
Tryphi
Charley Warner
Charley
Columbian Hotel
Mrs. Fenwick
Insmay
Joe Hyde
Clark Tiffany
Fenwick
Tiffany
Jupiter
Charney Warner
Cherie
Patteres Roa
Oes Bean
Warner
A Woman Faces The Elevator's Fearful Ride
A New York Recorder piece describes a woman's dread of elevators in a modern office building. She endures rapid ascents and descents, vertigo, and jolting stops as the car dances between floors. Afterward she recovers but remains wary of another descent.
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New York Recorder
The German Barber Explains What Makes a Man Share Well
A New York Sun interview with a German barber reveals how a good barber distinguishes himself. He stresses shop acoustics a sharp memory fast judgment and tailored patient diplomacy at the chair. He mocks a foolish assistant and riffs on a dubious customer rumored to be Mr Pradley as part of the wit.
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New York Sun
Alretty
Long Island City
Dot
Vich
Pradley
Asbury Park
Symbols of Royalty Crowned Noon in Europe Crowns Demand
The Chicago Herald notes European rulers shrink from costly crowns as liberty grows. European monarchs vary in wearing regalia, from the German Kaiser who pursues a new crown to the British royal family’s limited display, while Russia’s crown remains unused and heavy. Crown trade shows modest orders, with Abyssinia, Bulgaria, Roumania, and Milan supplying or designating coronets, and Poland’s vanished Sobieski crown a long held mystery.
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Europe
Austria
Russia
Prince of Wales
Kaiser
England
Duke of Marlborough
Great Britain
Russias
Kremlin
Moscow
Nicholas
de Stackelberg
Hurone
Egypt
Grinevitch
Zakharievski
Siberia
Menelek
Abyssinia
Milan
Italy
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Nizam
Hiderabad
Bulgaria
Vienna
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Roumania
Carmen Sylva
Paris
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Rio Janeiro
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Four Winds
New York
Scotland
Holyrood
Francis d’Asissi
Naples
Bomba
Pius IX
Hanover
Prussia
Poland
Gat Sobies
Galicia
Austrian
To be Beautiful is Woman's Duty
In an Amber column a Chicago Herald note urges women to value beauty and dress, but warns against overemphasis on appearance. It argues beauty honors the Lord and world yet cites other life aims, condemning debt or deceit for fashion while advising not to judge by appearances.
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Amber
Chicago Herald
Snowball Baker
West Virginia
Waydown Bebee
Penstock
Shybach Hartwell
Gardner
Passon
Buffalo
Two Pairs of Shoes in One Innovation
A novelty in shoe making from England features a removable sole and top lift changed without a cobbler. A metal plate riveted to the shoe bottom, a stitched welt, a metal band under the plate, a steel japanned shank, and screws securing the half sole and heel. Each pair includes extra soles and lifts, with replaceable soles sold separately.
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Rehoboth Sunday Herald
But She Cheered Up Cloak Review excerpt
Husband boasts of poker winnings to buy a dress while wife sobs, warning that gambling could ruin their marriage. She asks what dress to buy, revealing strain from his habit and her plea for change.
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John
A Mother's Love in Jonahville Jag
A mother disciplines a hungry dog with a firm no and treats a child with indulgence. The dialogue shows a gentle domestic scene where the mother allows the child to have as many biscuits as she wants while denying the dog. The piece conveys family dynamics and simple kitchen table humor.
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Fido
Something New in Torture
A New York Sun quip recalls a patient who refuses a dentist after a filling, citing tissue stuffing to block conversation about tariffs. The joke hinges on the dentist’s incessant talk and the patient’s frustration.
Gnawed but Not Eaten in a Starry Dream Dialogue
In a New York Times excerpt a poet and an alderman, cashier, or life insurance agent debate credulity and remorse. The gold figure admits gnawed remorse yet shows indifference as the other laments moral sting. The exchange hints at a larger moral tale about wealth and conscience.
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New York Times
The Weight of a Fly at a Southern Grocery
A Chicago Times note recounts a Southern grocer annoyed by flies who spread 21 sheets of sticky fly paper in his store. Evening actions led him to collect and weigh them, noting the surprising weight gained as the papers bore the captured insects and debris.
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Chicago Times
Advice to the Summer Girl from Brooklyn Life
A satirical guide advises young women to conceal age from most people and reveal it only to a trusted friend while outlining tactics for engagements, gifts, and breach of promise scenarios. It mocks social expectations, urging manipulation of family image, fashion, and wit to secure favorable outcomes and remittances.
Letter from Paris hotel keeper teases New Yorker with tempting stays
A humorous Paris hotel letter promises a lavish, lucrative location deal for an American traveler. It touts breakfast and dinner at $140 monthly per person, ornate amenities, a maid, gas lights, and even medical cures, all framed as Parisian elegance awaiting the reader for six months with advance payments. The tone is playful and inviting, ending with a signature B C.
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New York Press
Paris
Mde
B.C
Women Doctors in the United States
The article estimates about 3000 women physicians in the United States two years ago, with 60 medical colleges admitting women and fees ranging from 1 to 15 dollars per visit. Notable incomes reported include physicians in Boston and New York earning 20 000 to 25 000 dollars annually, while a Pennsylvania group averaged 2807.80 ten years ago.
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Lucy M. Hall
New York
United States
Canada
Boston
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Medical College
Spoke Before He Thought Judge Snooks Warns Stove Warping
Old Snooks dozes behind the stove when a little hunchback arrives and stands before the heater. Snooks wakes abruptly and warns the intruder to move, joking that he is getting warped by the heat. The moment blends a quick rebuke with wit in a concise comic frame.
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Snooks
It Means the Same from Washington Star
A businesslike young woman tells a wealthy friend she has an option on Lord Hardsquare rather than a formal engagement. The playful exchange highlights social intrigue and wealth dynamics in a refined circle.
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Washington Star
Lord Hardsquare
Old Feature Notes A Wartime Marriage Tour
Fragmentary OCR reads as a quirky tea time exchange about tunnels and affection. The dialogue hints at a marriage tour theme with evasive romantic tension and repeated asking and refusal phrases. Names, dates, and locations are not discernible.
Pluck Dialogue In Francophone Market Exchange
Clara and Alice converse about placing an order in French while providing the explanation in English. The brief captures a bilingual processing moment in a market setting with two named individuals and language interaction.
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Clara
Alice
Poetry of Motion and the American Ballet Dancers
Angelo Grossi argues ballet in Europe and the United States is in decline as pantomime fades. He details schools in Paris and Europe, child prodigies, pay scales from 700 to 2000 francs, and the demanding path to premieres. He contrasts American dancers' quick grasp with European training and recalls Taglioni and notable dancers like Mlle. Jenise and Grisi.
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Angelo Grossi
Chicago News
Italy
France
Austria
Naples
Venice
Turin
Milan
Paris
Vienna
Europe
America
Opera
Coryphees
Opera Comique
Montmartre
Driglan
Dijon
Taglioni
Peach Pie Predicament In Baker Shop
In a Brooklyn life scene a boy pleads for a peach pie from a baker who asserts he is out of peach pies. The exchange centers on a promised ten cent peach pie that never materializes, ending with the boy being told never to return. The banter ends with the baker dismissing the boy.
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Harvey Brown, Jr
Brooklyn
Baker
Manimis
Scott
Isa
Lyon
Edo
Baer
Boy
Whales Trapped in Cape Breton Ice Floe Tale
A polar ice floe grounded near Cape Breton in April trapping two whales inside a door high ice edge. Fishermen freed and skinned the carcasses as the floe stayed steady for days. The author theorizes a leeward sheltering floe broke apart and carried the whales into shore as currents shifted in March.
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Cape Breton
Baftin’s Bay
The Fan in Japan and Its Curious Uses
A look at Japanese paper fans from simple everyday items to costly imported pieces. Fans serve sun shelter, notebook, and weapon, with varieties including waterproof, cooling papers, and a ceremonial iron frame. Prices range from two shillings to high foreign-made sets, while ancient fans could cost up to five yen.
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Japan
Paper Mill
Trio Climbs Black Mountain Then Falls Into Lake
Three young ladies from a west shore hotel ascended Black Mountain and on return tumbled into the lake. They swam until tired, and stepping ashore they waited until dry. The sun warmed them and their gowns dried quickly for the road.
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Lake George
New York
West Shore
Black Mountain
Weighty Advice to Parker in Plain English at Cotton Blossoms
A Cotton Blossoms club scene parodies language and manners with Brother Parker chastised for big words and urged to use plain English. The meeting includes jokes about missing members, humorous accusations, and a mock election, ending with a fibrous caution against distractions from trivial science.
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Brother Parker
New York World
Shindie Watkins
Watermelon Hall
Jumpback Taylor
Brother Taylor
Harlem
Jumpback
Shindig
South Carolina
Jumpjack
Gardner
Welcome Parker
Bradder Parker
Yo’ Heah
Givyadam Jones
Bradder Jones
Parker
Chewso
Sir Isaac Waepels
Johnson
Uncle White
Moses Williams
Deacon Green
Holden
Sunrise Watson
Admiral Hastings
Lider Crawbar Baker
Lynchburg
Sooner Henderson
Terre Haute
Ind
Asbury Park
Ambulance Jones
Brudder Gardner
Brudder Jones
Jackson
Club
High Bridge
Venus
Dat Pusson
Desiah
Samuel Shin
Toots
Judge Cadaver
Admiral Kumbo
Pittsburg Hotel Diner Encounter With Four Women
Four young women arrive at the Central Hotel in Pittsburg seeking dinner at 10 50 in the morning. A brief, awkward exchange with a hotel clerk unfolds over seating and service, revealing a restrained tone and polite misunderstandings.
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Pittsburg
Central Hotel
Joan
Princess Parizade in a Times-Democrat verse
Clinton Scollard’s verse travels through Oriental imagery as the Princess Parizade vanishes from rooms and gardens. Melik the black guards the outer door while questions arise about the Sennar flute and Nile nights. The poem recalls desert fountains and palace intrigue.
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Clinton Scollard
Times-Democrat
Princess Parizade
Melik the Black
Madeline 8 Bridges in Puck Gone at Last
A speaker recalls the chaos caused by visitors in the Madeline 8 Bridges in Puck tale. She describes fear of further trouble, the house turned upside down, noises and pranks by girls, lazy behavior of the men, and lingering quiet after their departure, with hopes they visit again.
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Alex. H. Laidlaw, Jr
Puck
Madeline
Bridges
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