Marvelous dreams trace crime from visions across oceans
The Philadelphia Times recounts dreams guiding police to killers. In St Louis Mary Thornton’s dream led to George Ray’s confession of her husband’s murder. A Gravesend sailor’s widow foresaw a peddler’s crime, a Rennes banker’s dream exposed burglars, and a Boston forger was caught after a child’s dream. The piece ponders telepathy and cites Hamlet.
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St. Louis
Mary Thornton
George Ray
Drew
Gravesend
Rennes
France
Boston
Blank
Maine Street
Papa
Hamlet
Heaven
Earth
Horatio
Philadelphia Times
Fashionable society and a physician's cautionary tale
A young physician recalls a patient case where an elderly woman living with her daughter's family faced a fatal illness. He explains he delayed informing the family about the prognosis, while noting the social pressures and lavish living of the daughter influenced the household. The story hints at society's reach into private medical matters.
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Sam
Mystery of a dying mother foreshadows party invitations
A daughter recalls a dying patient who warned secrecy as invitations for a dance were sent, only to see the mother die days after and the social plans abruptly canceled. The tale weaves with a note on steel combs used by furriers and dog grooming, including a French poodle reference.
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New York Sun
Ice Cream Praise From Uncle Zekel
Uncle Zek'el Watson enjoys a city restaurant ice cream but criticizes the accompanying sweets. He notes the ice cream is excellent yet laments the small sponge drops called lady fingers, saying there is not enough of them and they are merely gape and swallow.
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Zek
el Watson
James Freeman Clarke Praises Books For Hope And Unity
The speaker extols books for sustaining hope, inspiring courage and faith, easing pain, offering noble ideals, linking distant ages and lands, and revealing heavenly truths, offering eternal blessings for the gift of literature.
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James Freeman Clarke
Debate temper falls from political heat in Detroit tale
An elderly Detroit observer recalls how campaigns once used harsher rhetoric and taunts. A legislature race debate ends with a jab about a father’s dog, illustrating lingering pugilistic talk but mild outcome as a fretful figure stays home.
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Detroit
Lance
Cuban stamps feature Havana statue and island imagery
The new Cuban one cent stamp shows the Columbus statue in the Havana courtyard. Two cent stamp carries a map of Cuba, three cent depicts La Cubana statue, five cent features a New York and Cuban mail line steamer, and ten cent presents a Cuban plowing scene with a tobacco field and royal palms in the background.
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Columbus
Havana
Cuba
Tree Killed by Aged Wire In New Orleans Incident
A New Orleans resident charged an electric company with killing his twenty year old tree that his family valued. An agent found a wire across a branch, cut two years ago and nailed from a barn roof to a discarded pole, rendering the tree ill but the wire dead.
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New Orleans
Electric Light Company
Millin
Tramp Receives Bread on Christ's Day in West Philadelphia
A cold tramp, claiming temporary unemployment, asked at a West Philadelphia residence. The mistress gave him half a loaf, saying she did so for Christ on His day, but the tramp replied asking if she might add a little butter.
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West
Philadelphia
Christ
Samarian
Call for White Crest floor at TNO
Readable note states a call for a White Crest floor at TNO by Lawrence & Co, indicating a procedural or procurement action involving the two parties. No further specifics on date, location, or outcome are provided in the legible text.
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White Crest
Tno
Lawrence & Co's
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