The Traveller in the Air and a 1000 Mile Hour Claim
A Chicago Times report recounts a Columbus Ohio entrepreneur who claimed to have built a magnetism powered airship that could outrun the sun. He and a partner test flew from a rooftop reaching San Francisco before a mysterious disappearance, claiming the earth moves east as the craft travels west at 1000 miles per hour.
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London
New York
Midair
Paris
Berlin
Lake Street
Columbus
Wan Chooet
Goettingen
Ferg
Belind Xene
Colampus
Maine
Hans Fous
Gene
Gigeer
Vanion
San Francisco
Maey
Pacific
Toa Police
Gossip at Geographical Picnic Reveals Names and Smiles
A Washington Post column recalls a geographic picnic where guests praised professors Powell Hinton Wilson Lucas Croffut and Thompson, noting their beards, attire, and eloquence. The lively chatter covers lectures on rocks, sandstones, and Confederate history, ending with a shopper buying a complete Tutti-Frutti outfit.
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Washington Post
Washington
Professor Powell
Hinton
Ohn Brown
J. Brown
Harper
Yey
Tye Wilson
Lucas
Geo
Wasingio
Henee
Har
Professor Thompson
Professor Croffut
Remarkable Nashville Fisherman Turns Loss Into Lure
A Nashville real estate man, while fishing the Big Harpeth river, had his hook and line seized by a fish. Undeterred, he stripped to his shirt and improvised by using his clothing as bait, then swam across the stream to retrieve his gear. On returning, he hauled in a fine catch, earning the title of having phenomenal luck.
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Nashville Americas
Nashville
Harpeth
Myrees
Orie Pal
Tori
A Rich Child's Room Description From The Washington Star
A detailed tour of a nine year old girl’s luxurious rooms in white and gold rose silks satinwood and ormolu furniture. The piece highlights a private dressing room marble bath perfumed soaps and vanity sets while questioning propriety of focusing a child on body care and future expectations.
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Washington Star
A Spider Web Telephone Explains Spider’s Curious Reaction
A youth experiments with a tuning fork, spiders, and telephone wires. He targets a large web spider and traces how sound travels through the web, causing the spider to run along threads, touch the fork, and dance, misinterpreting buzzing as music. The tale ends with the spider delighted by the sound.
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Spider
High School Lesson On Grammar Turns Fun Embarrassment
A Nebraska paper recounts a class A high school incident where a teacher asks a student to parse a sentence. The pupil, blushing, overemphasizes terms like He Kissed and explains parts of speech with humor, then faints, illustrating public discomfort with private matters and language study.
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Nebraska
Publi
Women discuss pockets and pickpockets in ferryhouse chat
A bustling Jersey ferryhouse waiting room becomes a stage for talk about ladies pockets. A loquacious attendant explains how dresses with no pockets shift money and reveal fashion risks, while a frightened patron loses a purse and others reveal clever hiding spots in corsages and reticules.
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New York
Jersey
Ferry Company
Lilian
Morse
Billig
Lerrywoman
Fifth Avenue Temple of Fashion
Chronic Borrowers Warn Neighbors About Nuisance
An 19th century New York Weekly piece urges avoid neighbors who borrow repeatedly. It likens chronic borrowers to threats, narrating common scenes of unpaid sugar, spices, and small favors that strain households and social life. It argues many lenders end up without essentials and regrets lending.
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New York Weekly
Saleratus
Lee
Pas Tolks
Nash
Puzzled porker escapes looped fence trick
A hog on a Yolo county ranch discovers a hollow log fence opening to exit and reenter the yard. The owner tries to trap him by moving the log, but the clever hog keeps ending up inside the lot and exits again through the same opening. The tale ends with the hog dying much later.
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Yolo County
Customs Of Roumanian Weddings In The Forum
The June Forum describes Roumanian peasant nuptials with vivid ritual details. Lads strip girls of girdles, couples wed before village crowds, candles held by sponsors, and a shared morsel and goblet seal the bond. A bride’s tears and hair rites accompany the procession and future kinship signals.
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Roumania
Carmen Sylva
Forum
Troth
Why Ladies Sit Forward in Street Cars
A Chicago Herald anecdote notes that fashionable ladies sit in forward corner seats to view their own hats and wraps in the car window mirror. Smokers often occupy the front platform, leaning against the glass and blocking the view, while Westmasser tailoring provides a dark backdrop that lets riders see their reflections.
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Chicago Herald
Westmasser 8
The Future and Trust In Futura Assured
A fragmentary dialogue shows a character urging restraint and planning for the future. She argues against lifelong duauries while appealing to trust and self-reliance, noting that her father would do nothing for them.
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Herbert
J Darling
Question about meaning of "Go to" in Holy Scriptures
Dialogue presents a teacher and student Hong Woy Yessee asking for the meaning of the phrase "Go to" as it appears in sacred texts. The student replies with a stylized "Come off" interpretation, reflecting a translation or era-specific usage.
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Drake's
Hong
Behind the Scenes at the Casino Brigands Dressing Room
A New York Sun account of chorus girls preparing for The Brigands at the Casino. Women bustle in crowded dressing rooms, fastening tights, robes, and garb with pins and lipstick while stagehands cue delivery of costumes and poses.
Centennial rat trap sales pitch on a Sound steamer
A dignified middle aged man aboard a Sound steamer confronts a hawk eyed vendor peddling the centennial rat trap. The sales talk escalates as the vendor offers discounts and attempts to secure an order while the other man resists and finally tells him to leave. The exchange ends with the vendor urging orders before the season advances.
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New York
San
Sone Ton
Faxon
Faxon & Brown
Stonington
David
Joseph
The Green Cyclopean Eye in the Front Door Rose
A London household recalls how a servant watched guests through a glass front door panel, spotting a large green cyclopean eye in a rose motif when the latch key was forgotten and the door was opened. The curious observation explains the amused secrecy of visiting friends.
What Her Husband Said
A Baltimore American snippet notes a young man cast as a father and a daughter deemed handsome. When his memory flagged he instinctively cried out Kies your father and followed with Come to my arms my child. The husband remarked the author repeated himself often.
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Baltimore
Just His Fit in Brooklyn Eagle
A minister speaks kindly to an intoxicated man guiding him away from crooked paths. The reply boasts the speaker would struggle to walk straight without straying onto the grass, illustrating a humorous exchange from the Brooklyn Eagle.
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Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Cause and Effect. Epoch. What’s the matter at school
A school mistress asks what’s the matter as a child reveals a swollen back from a hatchet incident. The boy explains his father popped his thumb with a hatchet that morning and laughed, hinting at a rough home moment.
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Pop
Miss Priscilla Prade Addressed From Amsterdam NY
A Boston girl likely wrote to a friend and addressed the letter to Miss Priscilla Prade at 126 Hillspont avenue Amsterdam New York, reflecting an urban misdirect in a Safe Side column in the Yale Record.
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Yale Record
Boston
Priscilla Prade
H—llespont Avenue
Amsterd
Reginald’s Ice Cream Night Sparks Shiver of Affection
Epoch reports a playful exchange between Elsie and Aggie about Reginald. Elsie asks if Reginald loves her, Aggie believes so, and Reginald treated Elsie to multiple ice creams last night, causing her to shiver with delight.
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Elsie
Reginald
Aggie
Royal Music Makers
New York Morning Journal surveys royalty and nobility famed for musical talent across Europe and Asia. It highlights Queen Marguerite of Italy, Prince Bismarck, Victoria, Mendelssohn, and Empress Eugenie among others, detailing instruments they play from piano to koto and banjo, plus royal families adopting diverse musical habits and gatherings.
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New York Morning Journal
Plains
Strauss
Gounod
Thomas
Europe
Marguerite
Italy
Ore Baron von Rendell
Uirinal
Prince Bismarck
Bismarck
Kenas
Ing Saul
Koang
Majesteen Victoria
Feipeb
India
Duke of
Edingurah
Amazeu
Io Perticolas
Arthur Sullivan
Arthur
Arthur Samuel Sullivan
Nice
Ueen Victoria
Princess
Prince Consort
Mendelssohn
Buckingham Palace
Waterloo Chamber
Windsor Castle
Princess of Wales
Queen Louise of
Denmark
Copenhagen
Czarina
Russia
Duchess of Cumberland
Luilleries
Eugenie
Elizabeth of
Austria
Kaernthner Mountains
Czar
Gatschina
Prince of Wales
Lady Mandeville
Issaaa
George
Greece
Tziganes
Hungary
Prince Henry
Prussia
Kaiser
Elizabeth
Roumania
Queen Elizabeth
Japan
Kekhedivah
Egypt
Crown Prince
Imany
Guards
Berlin
Imperial Nursery
Framing a Friday Essay Sample by Adam Liglier
A fragment from the Prenton Times hints at a Friday afternoon composition by Adam Liglier. The text suggests a casual literary exercise or student assignment framed as a sample. The available lines focus on authorship and timing without broader context or outcomes.
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Prenton Times
Adam Liglier
School Lesson Sparks Controversy in Harsh Classroom Tale
A narrator recalls a boyhood incident where a teacher is described in sharp terms and punished for misbehavior. The account weaves grammar jokes with crude depictions of school life, ending with a provocative claim about age and marriage norms.
A May Song and Light Verse From The Bronze Tone
A collage of light verse and humorous quips from various papers. Poetic touches about summer evenings, a pun on freezing and squeezing points, reflections on love and aging, and urban mores told in brief, playful lines.
Daffodil Weather and Rain Poems Sampler
A compact page of light verse including Polly romance in Daffodil Weather by Masseys Weekly, Rain imagery from After Rain in Macmillan's Magazine, and rural reminiscences Down Around the River by James Whitcomb Riley. The pieces mix playful confession, nature, and country humor.
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James Whitcomb Riley
Lizey Ann
Lawzy
Ford
Dave
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Pope
Bing
Hippnest
Miss. Urquhart
Cirl
Royal Music Makers
Banjo
Adam Bighier
Massey’s Weekly
Shade
Pittsburg
Arthur 8. Kimball
Chicago News
Abbie C. McKeever
Puck
Polly
Sly
Macmillan’s Magazine
Kiver
Rive
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