Bootles and the Baby of the Scarlet Lancers
In a late night twist at Idieminster barracks a baby is found in Captain Bootles’s room, left with a note from a distressed mother. Bootles debates charity versus duty as officers discuss who claims the child, and he vows to keep and nurse it while a suitable guardian is sought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cavalry
Idieminster
Scarlet Lancers
Bootles
Algernon Ferrers
Lucy
White Dragoons
Scott Laurie
Hartog
Preston
Miles
Ucy
Beatles
Chucks
Katy
Pbs
Giddes
Ates
Tan Thas
Marti
Mary
Goodes
Margaret
Lady Margaret Ferrers
Iles
Tof Hartog
Jove
Vegre
Land of
Goshen
Ur—Babay
Ander
Naomi
Bootlem
Chuck
Dawson
Topsy
General Company
Solomon
er—Fligg
Solomon Fligg
Ferrers
Petiol
Mme.la Mere
Thieves and
Wagan
Iear
Grace
Vaneain Ferrers
Harkness
Bootes
Boutin van
The Coming Man and Brain Contests of the Future
A Roxbury figure dubbed a professor outlines a 200000 year forecast in which humanity evolves physically and mentally. He predicts brain centered civilization, widespread use of chemistry and electricity, and remote sensory experiences shaping a future human. The talk envisions war ending, equal nations, and machines guiding food, labor, and exploration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowe
Boston
Lois
San Francisco
Cairo
Tokio
Vision of a future human with altered form and desk devices
Fragmented OCR describes a hypothetic future human with disproportionate body and large nose, viewed as deformed yet normal in a future society. It envisions a seated life connected via wires to global measures, with nourishment from prepackaged liquids.
Future Man and the Rise of Intellectual Society
A long lecture sketches a future man shaped by intimate social ties and chemistry's rise. It envisions a world where food and daily needs are produced in hours, freeing time for brainy contests, with notes on hygiene, cyclones, ice, and curious anecdotes from diverse locales.
Minister Phelps Eats Proverbial Vermont Habit
The Philadelphia North American reports a cable despatch titled Minister Phelps eats revealing a jab at habits learned in Vermont. The note frames the remark as an unfortunate acquisition attributed to those raised there.
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Philadelphia
Phelps
Vermont
Miscellany of Oddities From Around the World
A curious clipping surveys remarkable tidbits from many places. It notes a Breslau factory chimney of compressed paper, a ninety two year old parrot in Orlando, tiny books including a Sikh sacred text, a Kentucky convict birth, and Halloo Louisiana seeking a name change. It covers concert audiences in Sweden, a Memphis girl defying a would be father in law, a fifteenth cent milk toast bill in a Chicago restaurant, cattle wealth in Nebraska, swarming bees in Crescent City California, a Greensburg divorce bid over court plaster, movable hen coops in wheat fields, a Washoe wind joke about a lost six dollar note, Omaha gamblers funding city improvements, Charleston postal deliveries, London roses table at a Mackay dinner, and a reported misinterpretation of marriage vows in Vienna.
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Breslau
Orlando
Fla
Earl of Dufferin
Kentucky
Halloo
Nilsson
Sweden
Memphis
Chicago
John Borland
Nebraska
Stanton County
Eva Watson
Greensburg
Ind
California
Spano Journal
Beemer
Omaha
Sharleston
8. C
London
Mackay
Vienna
Geccer
Five Minutes With A Mad Dog At Britannia Public House
A narrator describes a dangerous rabies case at the Britannia public house in Soho. After binding a rabid retriever in the cellar, the dog escapes its chain and menaces the observer who, fearing a fatal bite, uses hydrocyanic acid to poison the animal. The account notes the dog’s madness began days earlier and the bite occurred as the syringe was employed. POCKLINGTON.
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St. James
Britannia
Soho
Peney
Pocklington
Locusts on the Maine Camp Menu Readied and Eaten
A camping party in Maine endures blisters and idle days while one man improvises a locust dish. He traps, scalds, and batter-frys grasshoppers, then serves them to his four companions who, after curiosity and peer pressure, eagerly devour the unaccustomed fare alongside other camp fare.
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Mythrow
John the Baptie
John the Baptist
Lucifer
Palestine
Ned
Bill
Fatty
Maine
Moely
Tom
Biur Jean
Castoria Morphs Through Life From Baby To Grandmother
An ad style verse highlights the trusted Castoria product as a constant companion from infancy to parenthood. It traces a mother’s devotion as the medicine accompanies her child, then continues to echo the brand through adulthood and into the family’s future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castoria
Miss
Unhappy Marriage of Algernon Sartoris and Nellie Grant
A cautious source notes long known discord between Nellie Grant Sartoris and husband Algernon Sartoris. Critics recount rough manners and incompatible temperaments. General Grant reportedly opposed the match, yet allowed it as affection grew, amid public commentary on foreign alliances and family tensions.
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Algernon Sartoris
Nellie Grant
Wasumeron
D. C
Nellie Grant Sartoris
Sartoris
Grant Nevery
Car Nter
Jewell
The Increase of Insanity and a Cure Claim
Boston reports 800 insane with 75 said to recover, amid a 40 percent decade rise in insanity. The piece blames uric acid in blood for brain fires, cites Rev. EB Hopkins’s recovery after using Warner’s safe cure, and warns prevention hinges on blood health and kidney action.
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Boston
T. B. Samborn
Carable
EB. D. Hopkins
St. Johnsbury
Warner
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Professor Allen
Allen
Roxbury
Earth
Sullivan
St. Vitus
Okeechobee Lake
Gainesville
White Mountains
Spain
Palos
San Salvador
Rome
Homewood
Penn
George Westinghhouse, Jr
Goldsboro
Marseilles
Jay Gould
Inissouri Pacific Railroad
Pine Tree
New England
Far East
C. V. Riley
United States
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