Man Daddy Comes Home To Queen Of The Garden
A small girl named Joan wanders a garden in search of Man Daddy who has been away years. She endures fatigue and longing, clings to flowers for solace, and dreams of his return as her mother battles illness. A telegram and a delayed reunion bring a fragile, hopeful ending.
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Joan
Mother
Man Daddy
Daddy
Tenn
Fido
Joen
Miles
Indy
Alan
Les
Nora
Grace Craig
St. Louis
Miss Grace
O’fallon
Ill
Miss Craig
Lucille Withnell
Vassar College
Martin Delaney
India
Berliner Tageblatt
Berta ‘von Suttner
Carmen Bylva
Sarah Bernhardt
Eleanora Duse
Marie von Efier-Eschenbach
Ural
St. Petersburg
Alaska
Sitka
Russian inventor's gauze garment shields wearer from lightning
A Russian savant claims a light flexible gauze brass thread garment protects a person from electric shocks. A shirt and trousers with gloves and hood deflect current to ground, allowing the wearer to stand between high tension poles without injury. Tests with 50,000 volts showed sparks entering the suit but causing no harm, leaving only minor holes at contact points. Also notes ants in South America building a three mile tunnel.
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Jove
Vermonters Pursue Last Painter Amid $12 Bounty Tale
Vermont locals recount a winter hunt for a so called painter or panther in the mountains. Theodore Sheldon and William H. Jewett tracked the animal, shooting it after a long chase through Cold Hollow. They claimed the $12 bounty from Montgomery Center, ending Vermont’s long run of panther reports.
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Vermont
Black Bear Joe
Hen Mountain
Boston Journal
Burlington
Montgomery Center
Critturs
Arizona
Canada
New York
Maine
New Hampshire
Bakersfield
Bear
Teddy Sheldon
Uasses
Painter
Theodore
William H. Jewett
Bakersfield Mountain
Callate
Jewett
Sheldon
Back to the Farm by a St Louis Cop Turned Farmer
St Louis police veteran Hugh McMahon leaves city life after ten years to return to the country. He leaves crime and politics for farming and gardens, trading writs, arrests, and pool rooms for roses, sunflowers, and peaceful fields. The piece questions whether country living is the better path.
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St. Louis
Hugh McMahon
Clarence the Cop
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Population Center Man of the United States
Henry Marr of Columbus Indiana stands at a barn lot slab inscribed 1900, becoming the center of population for the nation as 18,650,000 people surround him. The piece notes some roles need men who do not know much.
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Henry Marr
Columbus
Ind
United States
Women and Wealth in a World of Titles
A column considers whether women should hold great fortunes and the clash between wealth and gender. It questions primogeniture and notes English practice to shield estates, then contrasts prudent stewardship with stinginess and the dangers of wealth in a wife.
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Alice Thaw
Pittsburg
Herod Herod
Washington Times
Paris Women Doctors Break Barriers in Medicine
Paris has seen a long struggle by women to enter medicine as male doctors opposed licenses for women. Now 57 women practice among 3,600 physicians in Paris. French women remain a minority in medicine though many graduate yearly, with Russians and Boumanians among the passers. One midwife, Mme Gross, holds the Legion of Honor for wartime gallantry.
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Paris
Montpelier
Ellen Terrys Toe Rescue on Stage Trap Door
As a child Ellen Terry played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. A trap door snapped shut and broke her toe, but Mrs Charles Kean urged her to finish the scene. She bravely persisted and completed her cue in King John, despite the injury.
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Ellen Terry
Puck
Charles Kean
Nelle
Arthur
Cross of a Queen Necklace Ornament Revealed
A contemporary recounts the history of a cross worn by the Queen of England, suspended from a diamond and pearl necklace gifted by her father King Christian just before marriage. The cross, a favorite ornament, is a replica of a cross found on opening a tomb of a former figure.
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England
Christian
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Ij Oane
South America
Misa Mary E. Pretty
Philadelpha
Patent Office
Washington
Philadelphia
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