Open Letter Attributed To Bret Harte Wagers Imitation Skill
Sam Davis of Nevada claimed he could imitate any living or dead poet so well that critics could not tell the fraud. He authored "Binley and 46" under Bret Harte's name, printed as an Open Letter. Leslie's Weekly published a full page with Harte’s portrait praising it, long after Harte denied authorship.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Binley
Leslie's Weekly
Bret Harte
Harte
Success Magazine
No Surprises In Dreams Suggest Dream Memory Absence
A New York Press excerpt argues that dreamers lack memory, so improbable events such as lions chasing through streets, flying balloons, or speaking with the dead feel normal in dreams. The piece contends memory absence explains why dreamt actions and encounters seem unsurprising.
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New York Press
Remembering a Telephone Number In Germantown
A Philadelphia Record anecdote recalls two friends meeting after months. One man boasts of a new Germantown home and warns about his penates and coal bill. He struggles to recall his new telephone number, joking that he multiplied it by two then divided by four to aid memory.
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Chestnut Street
Germantown
Penates
Telene
Philadelphia
D. Kauble
Nevada
E. O. Dewitt & CO
Chicago
Clothes and Conduct as Shaped by Dress Across Society
A London Chronicle quote notes clothing’s moral influence, from the bushman maintaining gentility in evening dress to Addison’s need for attire to write, and the belief that attire elevates behavior from naughty girl to proper, and the khaki clad hero to public virtue, envisioning a future where fashion molds humanity.
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Addison
London Chronicle
Diagnosis of Headache and Mindset in Success Magazine
A physician cites over fifty headache types and links common pains to dyspepsia liver malnutrition and eye strain. The piece urges continuous growth and rejecting a static mindset as essential for vitality, warning that stagnation leads to a half-dead life at fifty.
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Success Magazine
The Honeymoon Ends In Quiet Farewell
A couple laments the end of their wedding era with hollow humor. She complains no visitors now that she is married, while he confesses he has no evenings to spare for calling on her as before.
Too Much Levity At Bill Collecting
Kilduff notes Dunn shows ill timed levity when pursuing debtors. Skidmore asks how. Kilduff recalls Dunn cheerfully asking, Did you want to see me today as he comes after an account.
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Dunn
Skidmore
A Rule For the Day Inspires Morning Smiles
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson urges waking with smiles and laboring with a cheerful heart as the sun brightens the world. The verse frames kindness as a light for a home and daily life.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Luck as the final option in inviting success
A brief Kansas City Times reflection suggests luck remains a last resort after all means have been exhausted to invite success. The piece frames luck as a supplementary factor rather than a primary driver of achievement.
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Kansas City Times
Presence of Mind and Odd Coincidences Featured
A collection of anecdotes includes a magpie omen sequence affecting household mishaps and vehicle parts, observations on presence of mind, a census tester’s cautious humor about marriage, and a sword maker praising Japanese blades with a test involving leaves under a tree.
Envious Canada on the American Woman Abroad
The Canadian Magazine questions the aura of the famed American girl and argues that true appeal lies with an educated American who imitates English and French fashions. It critiques how wealth from Chicago pork trusts or New York stocks is used to purchase worldly graces, echoing concerns about cosmopolitan influence.
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Canada
Chicago
New York
Proverbial Wisdom and Comic Quips Across Press
A collection of short proverbs and humorous quips from old newspapers. The items include a Japanese saying on knowing and ignorance, a Puck joke about klepto mania, a Washington Star quip about Faro Jim, a Great Provocation anecdote, and a reflection that the poorest people are those who maximize what they have while undervaluing themselves.
W T Young Seeks Brazos County Seat in 1906 Campaign
In a Bryan Texas appeal dated April 10 1906 W T Young lays out policy views for a possible legislative bid. He supports labeling all patent medicines in English with penalties, state refining of kerosene with convict labor, convicts on public roads, probate docket limits for small estates, witnesses leaving Texas in felony cases, blanket primary elections, four year terms with limited re elections, pay for veniremen in capital cases, and other reforms. He ends with a note about new mercerized batistes from Wagner Brandon.
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Bryan
Texas
Great Trust
W. T. Young
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Edison
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