Beauty and a broken heart in a mansion parlor
In a lush parlor a mother and daughter share a tale of a beautiful girl who marries a prince for riches, only to find real joy in the memory of a brown-eyed farm boy. The story's moral contrasts fake gold with true wealth found in love, youth, and innocence. Mr Barnett and the girl’s mother reflect on the heartbreak as a carriage arrives.
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Mamma
Annette
Papa
Earth
Xiamima
Mignonne
Mr. Barnett
Mignynne
Lamma Grather
Hite
Toring
Munsey's Magazine
New Words in English Language Jokes and Figures
A humorous look at evolving English adds mock entries and satirical phrases. The piece contrasts pretentious neologisms with playful mock definitions, citing a Liverpool Post quip about women’s narratives and a widower’s self-focus as the undertaker's bill nears.
Ling Chee Executions Described as Chinese Public Spectacle
The passage details Ling Chee, a feared Chinese execution ritual. It describes bound victims, drawing swords, and staged carpentry of wounds from eyebrows to heart, with variations for lighter and longer forms. Some offenders face strangulation or crucifixion rather than full ritual dismemberment.
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China
Ling Chee
Presto
Vast empire sizes and curious historical notes emerge
A compilation notes Britain’s empire far larger than Germany and France, ostriches led with stockings, animal heart reanimation by abdominal massage, deep Hudson spots, library counts in American colleges, Chicago tax costs, Dead Sea steamers, old tea leaf strainers, Paris street trees totaling eighty thousand with one oak and one mulberry remaining.
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British Empire
Academy of Sciences
Paris
Batelli
Hudson
Highlands
American Colleges and Universities
Harvard
Chicago University
Columbia
Cornell
Chicago
Cook County
New York
St. Paul
Boston
Dead Sea
Sorbonne
M. Mangin
Electric searchlights aid fire fighting on ships and piers
Modern science brings detachable electric searchlights with 200 feet of flexible cables to fire crews enabling interior illumination of burning ships and holds. The lighting helps locate the fire source amid smoke, reducing loss of ship and cargo during pier or vessel fires.
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Harper’s Weekly
Ten Years Of Astronomical And Natural Discoveries Reported
The Paris Observatory director notes the heavens map nearly finished, detailing about thirty million stars to magnitude fourteen. Frank M Chapman explains bird migration patterns, while the Nero submarine survey records the deepest ocean temperatures. New Potsdam telescope aims to measure stellar velocities. California mining, water filtration, and bubonic plague theories are discussed. A Southern shoe trade piece analyzes footwear, machine-made advantages, and fit.
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Paris Observatory
Frank M. Chapman
Pacific Submarine Telegraph Survey
Nero
Potsdam Observatory
California Miners' Association
California
Great Britain
Allen Hazen
London
Tidswe
Royal Society of New South Wales
Genesis of Glass Windows Through The Ages
A condensed history traces glass use from Roman baths with mica fillings to early windows, noting Titus era fragments, A D 422 mentions by St Jerome, Benedict Biscop introducing British windows, and 12th century Denis church panes. It covers Suger’s 1140s blue glass, Vienna 1458 splendor, 1600s Italy discs, and early 16th century English Crutched Friars glass manufacture.
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Rome
Titus
Pompeii
St. Jerome
Benedict Biscop
Britain
Church of
St. Denis
Suger
Louis le Gros
Vienna
Felibien
Italy
France
England
Crutched Friars
London
Southern shoe shapes differ from northern feet says manufacturer
A New Orleans Times-Democrat interview reveals a shoe maker asserting clear distinctions between Southern and Northern feet. He notes southern customers prefer aristocratic insteps and smaller overall foot size, arguing the so called cre ole last is less suited to high-class Southern trade.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Mason and Dixon
Law as Interpreted and Police Power in Commerce
A summary of legal interpretations across cases: Beck v Wagener upholds licensing and regulation of commission merchants as a valid police power. re Morgan Cole holds eight hour mine work limits violate liberty and property rights. Holler v Holly finds insufficient notice for out of state service invalid for due process in foreclosure actions.
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Beck
Wagener
Minn
Morgan Cole
Supreme Court of the United States
Holler
The Insurance of Children Policy Sums and Premiums
The article outlines an industrial insurance plan for children, detailing premiums of 5 or 10 cents weekly and burial expenses. It lists age based death benefits from 8 to 120 dollars for a 5 cent premium, rising with age up to ten years, with average premiums around 6 cents and typical claims near 30 dollars for under ten. It notes coverage begins at age two and expands as children grow, as reported by Les le's Weekly.
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Lesle
Washington and the Corporal Lesson in Leadership
During a siege repair, a plainclothes officer asks a lone corporal why he does not help. The corporal cites rank, the officer rebukes gently, then lends a hand. He tells the corporal to call the commander in chief next time, promising to return to assist. The anecdote portrays Washington’s humor and mentorship.
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Washington
Woman’s secretive request about age to close friend
A woman’s most intimate friend is often asked not to reveal her age. The remark underscores privacy in personal relationships and the social sensitivity around aging in close companionships.
Spring Returns Slower as Rheumatism Worsens
A remark on how a man's rheumatism worsens each year, seemingly delaying the arrival of spring and tempering his sense of seasonal change.
Drought Eases as Rains Reach Atlantic Coast Regions
A government crop report released Tuesday notes drought relief from local rains across Atlantic coast districts except southern Florida. Across the eastern U S the week brought favorable temperatures and moisture, with corn making rapid progress and early plantings nearing maturity in southern corn states. Winter wheat harvests near completion, and spring wheat harvests expand from the Red River valley northward.
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Atlantic
Coast
Atlantic Coast
Florida
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
Oregon
Washington
Villeys
Carolinas
Virginia
Red River Valley
North Dakota
Minnesota
South Dakota
West Virginia
Indiana
Ilinois
Powers Denial in Goebel Case Opens Testimony
Caleb Powers testified in Georgetown Kentucky denying derisive comments after Goebel assassination. He described flight as advised to avoid an unfair Franklin County trial and noted a probable change of venue. George F. Weaver, linked to a perjury warrant, allegedly not in Frankfort at the time.
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Caleb Powers
Goebel
Georgetown
Ity
Louisville
Golden
Burton
Breckinridge County
Powers
Hipacle
Davis
Franklin County
Frankfort
George F. Weaver
Colorado
Weaver
Kaiser Speech At Bremerhaven Urges Brutal War Message
The German Emperor’s Bremerhaven address before troops bound for China demanded uncompromising force against China. He warned no quarter would be shown and urged soldiers to prove German efficiency, devotion, and discipline while pursuing what he framed as a civilizing mission. The Lokal Anzeiger framed the speech as revenge for affronts to ambassadorial immunity and hospitality.
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Bremerhaven
China
Lokal Anzeiger
Artillerymen Sail From San Francisco for Taku Campaign
The transport Hancock departed San Francisco at 100 o clock Sunday for Taku China via Nagasaki carrying four batteries of the Third artillery totaling 475 men under Captain Charles Humphreys.
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Taku
Hancock
San Francisco
China
Nagasaki
Third Artillery
Charles Humphreys
Russians Burn Moho Amid Gold-Mine Industry Clash
Dispatch from Gen Niedermiveller at Stretensk reports Col Schwerin occupied and burned Moho, the center of the Chinese gold-mine trade. A local garrison of 500 men and about 10 inhabitants fled the town in retreat.
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Moho
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