Little Miss Dot and the Homecoming of Lucie
Dorothy Baker, known as Little Miss Dot, helps a homeless baby and mediates a reunion between her guardian Earle Wellman and his sister Lucie. Dot’s playful zest and care soften a tense past, leading to forgiveness and a marriage proposal as Lucie seeks reconciliation.
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Orient
Sven
Earle
Ellman
Abe
Mrs. Wellman
Lucie Wellman
Earle Wellman
Dot
Lucie
Baby
Miss Dot
Pak
Piaper
Karte
Arma
Sam
Dorothy
Detroit Free Press Seeks Truth About Sewing Machine Claim
A Detroit woman confronts a sewing machine agent accusing him of deceit over claims of machine superiority. He counters with medals, world fairs, and a public trial challenge, while she admits she was hasty and realizes other agents may have lied.
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Detroit Free Press
Ima
Diaries reveal Bronson's quiet life and silent years
In Harper's Bazar style prose a clue hints that Bronson lived a calm, uneventful life. He left diaries for ten years before his death, yet none contain any entries, suggesting a period of unrecorded days and muted activity.
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Harper's Bazar
Chinese Squeeze: A Feudal Tax Hidden in Purchases
An analysis of the so called Chinese squeeze describes it as a commercial pressure on money passed along by servants in Chinese households and institutions. It traces origins to ancient practice and explains how cooks butlers and gatekeepers skim a portion from every deal. The piece portrays servants as calculating precise margins and notes the emperor suffers the largest leakage from every transaction.
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Chester Holcombe
China
Pekin
No, Sam, I never played cards says Washington man
An unnamed Washington businessman dismisses a servant's offer to discuss his affairs. The servant probes about card games, and the man maintains he cannot reveal how many aces are in a deck, preferring to keep the topic private.
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Washington Post
Sam
Washington
Sim Jenkins Dah Pot House Match Stuns Local Crowd
The speaker recounts a neighborhood game at Sim Jenkins’ place that drew a six to seven score line. A rival’s six onlookers watched as the home team pressed, while a wry note about timing and presence hints at a delayed start and casual turnout.
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Datama
Sim Jenkins
Throwing the slipper a relic of old customs and fashion
The origin of throwing the slipper after the bride is traced to ancient renunciation rites and opposition to capture. The article surveys slipper history from Jewish symbols to Louis XIV fashion, notes Western Asia customs, Turkish high class slippers, moccasins, and boudoir footwear with stylistic variety and regional appeal.
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St. Lewis
France
Asia
Fatimas
Turkey
Mademoisellé
Individua
Chassure Tolay
Things the hotel clerk sees in a busy New York hotel
A New York Times passage describes hotel clerks noting guests: a man nicknamed Wet Weather walks corridors and traces triangles on mosaics, while another 60 year old man paces up and down with hands behind his back. Clerks claim to know guests by footsteps and habits, with others standing by windows or sitting in corridor seats for hours.
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New York Times
Mr. Blank
Mr. Double Blank
Stefaniog
Talwaleek
Maryland
Father
A Humorous Page on Human Nature and Temptation
The piece satirically warns that knowing too much about people ruins opinion, noting that self talk inspires eloquence while excellence is rare. It argues trust invites cheating, age brings fault finding, and talent differs from genius, ending with a claim that no one is fully proof against temptation.
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New York Weekly
Tallents
Heaven
Plausible Life Auntie Katie Keeps Sunday Dolls
A fragment recalls a child named Katie debating Sabbath play with Auntie Katie. The exchange centers on the fourth commandment and whether God created the world in six days. Katie questions if God needed rest after six days.
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Katie
Miss Winthrop and Brother Architect Offer
Miss Winthrop-Poor Jack has been an architect six months without a commission. He designs beautiful houses. Townes-Miss Winthrop-Rosalie asks if he can design a vice country house for them.
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Harper’s Bazar
Dream Lore Mixed with Warnings Across Night Vision
A humorous, broadsheet style meditation on dreams and their dangers, blending superstitious fortune telling with social satire. The piece links dream images to real life outcomes, naming figures and settings from Chicago journalism and Vatican notes, with admonitions about fate and luck.
Rumor Denied on Papal Golden Rose Award
The Pall Mall Gazette reports there is no foundation for a circulating rumor that Pope Leo XIII planned to send Madame Carnot the golden rose. The pope published no letter to the French president and is reducing Vatican expenditure.
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Pall, Mall Gazette
French Republic
Mme. Carnot
Leo. XIII
Vatican
Looking Glass Routines Highlight Woman’s Vanity in Rail Depot Tale
In Kate Thorn style humor from New York Weekly, a narrator muses on women’s fixation with mirrors and appearance in waiting rooms and depots. He contrasts with men’s discreet introspection, recalls a Maine trip lacking a mirror, and ends with a wary nod to social vanity.
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Kate Thorn
New York Weekly
Maine
The Way It Goes and Browne Girl Charm
Dialog from Harvard Lampoon features She and He praising Miss Browne with compliments on eyes mouth face grace and complexion. He finally asks why talk of the horrid old Browne girl while She reveals she misread his feelings.
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Harvard Lampoon
Miss Browne
Videa Poe
War Nai
Agri
Mabel
Whitewashing bill dispute over past and present work
A housekeeper and a colored artist argue over charges for whitewashing. The worker admits previous cheap work took longer, justifying the higher price this time. The exchange highlights cost, quality, and time differences between the two jobs.
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New York Weekly
Count de Binques and Miss Alice Contradict In Conversation
A fragment from St. John Globe shows Count de Binques fretting about Miss Alice Lenox. Mrs Lenox counters, declaring her daughter is not delicate but rather indelicate, prompting the Count to remark that this is charming.
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St. John Globe
Count de Binques
Alice
Miss Maguire Seeks Letter From Dolan
In a brief dialogue a character asks the postmaster for mail. The postmaster asks for the name, Miss Maguire hints she is Dolan and worries about the other person finding out, suggesting a secretive exchange.
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Puck
Miss Maguire
Dolan
Stare by a Passerby Sparks Unequal Attention
A pretty girl recalls a man’s glance that felt insulting as his eyes lingered then shifted away, implying she was not worth a second thought while her big brother notes the moment as a brief, pointed encounter.
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New York Weekly
Honesty the Best Policy street and Smith Good News item
A brief humor item notes a playful exchange about honesty and a trump card. A narrator passes a house and imagines an angelic song while a woman recalls an evening at the theatre. The note mentions Mrs Mulhooly and her twins visiting the household cook.
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Street & Smith
Typewriter remarks reveal careful accuracy in spelling
In a confidential exchange from the continent, Clayton praises the typewriter Rawley sent, noting her accuracy and meticulousness as she halts to spell every word, underscoring cautious precision in transcription.
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Clayton
Rawley
Domestic Request From Housekeeper To Butcher
A young housekeeper asks a butcher to send a roast beef for her husband and specifies it should be very rare, reflecting a domestic kitchen exchange described in dialogue form.
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Harper's Bazar
New Cook Confusion At New York Weekly
A humorous dialog from New York Weekly contrasts old and new cooking methods about boiling potatoes. The exchange mocks training and schooling through playful miscommunications, ending with a rapid, fragmentary back-and-forth between two speakers.
Ante-Chamber Ordeal Sparks Lovers Old Debts
Pauline and Bertie Bangs confront past engagement sorrows in a comic domestic scene inside a dentist’s ante-chamber. A mistaken toothache leads to confessions, forgiveness, and a rekindled romance as Pauline reveals her love and Bertie proposes reunion with a ring, just as the doctor resumes treatment.
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Manley TH. Pike
Puck
Dr. Cuspid Grinder
Pauline
Jes Grinder
Bertie
Mr. Bangs
Gael
Dad
Spain
Stum
Scott
Bing
Clara
Rte
Alond
Moses
Jack
Paulne
Daybreak on the Forest: Mice, Ravens, and River Fishing
The diary describes a damp daybreak scene with white-footed mice in cedar, a red squirrel clipping cedar buds, and nearby ravens observing from the morning light. Fishermen in rubber coats work the dam area while one reader notes medicinal plants and a self-made pine bark remedy. Three trout are caught, with ravens aiding by bringing a large give. A second salmon chase ends the afternoon.
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Berore
Ripogenus
Father
Jet
Darrhwa
BRIC A BRAC The Ruthers Poem Chorus and Love Loss
A compact relic page of poems and verses from 19th or early 20th century periodical. It compiles Emily Dickinson Ella Wheeler Wilcox James Whitcomb Riley and Madeline Bridges pieces about fidelity love loss and social roles. The fragment showcases alternating vignettes on love duty and social critique through short stanza-like passages.
Mouse in the Maidenly Heart Ballad of a Demure Lady
A humorous verse recounts a modest demure maiden with blue eyes who encounters a giant mouse. Terrified she leaps high, attracting an aging suitor whose fortune leads to marriage and later widowhood. The tale ends claiming mice frighten many young women from courtship.
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Little Miss Dot
Miss Dorothy
Doro Thy
Ponto
Gaede
Mrs. Grey
Fritz
Earley Wellman
Miss
Dot Baker
Saute
Earle Weisman
Baker
Tod
Orey
Foams
Wellman
Ree
Leis
Guardy
Mother
Llong
Iony
Chicago
Josh Billings
Philosophy
Chicago Herald
Illinois
Teggars
Dennai
Gaul
Wilbe
Gol
Sheyatican
A.mentia
Pone Leo
A. B
W. Scott
Emily Dickinson
Madeline
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
James Whitcomb Riley
Indianapolis Journal
Ruthers
Nye
Harry B. Smith
America
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