New Year at Home with the Ollapodrida Club
In a cozy den on New Year’s Eve George Augustus and Dorothy reflect on family life. He worries about their boys joining a local prankish club while Dorothy urges balance and renewal. A taunting voice and a tin box of clipped stories frame their farewell to club life and a pledge to strengthen their home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Busta
Dorothy
Johnnie
Johntle
George Augustus
Ollapodrida Club
Shadowland
New Year Reflections and Poetic Notes from the Press
A collage of New Year thoughts and verse from the Detroit Free Press and Boston Watchman. It muses on faith, self-examination, courage, and moral renewal, plus poems about saying goodbye to the old year and hopeful journeys to future lands. It includes lines about a tragic New Year moment and a light-hearted exchange about turning over a new leaf.
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Politi Zaing
Boston Watchman
The New Century Love's Harmonies Open World
The passage celebrates a dawning era with harmonies of love and hopeful courage. It paints discord fading as the subject steps toward life’s threshold with a brave yet reluctant heart, embracing a full, sweet future.
Cudahy Kidnapping Ends With Ransom Payment
Omaha Neb Dec 21 Twenty five thousand dollars in gold was paid by Edward A Cudahy for the return of his son Edward Jr abducted by a gang last Tuesday night. A note demanded 245000 and plans were outlined to trap the bandits. The boy was recovered about five miles south of South Omaha after the ransom was left. Police have no solid clues to identify the kidnappers.
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Omaha Packer
Omaha
Neb
Edward A. Cudahy
Packer
Edward Cudahy, Jr
Cudahy
Mr. Cudahy
Lnd
South
Reform School
South Omahna
Ile
Army post site approved for Des Moines Washington
Des Moines Des Moines army post site approved after Representative Hull pressed the war department. General Miles promised to back establishing a cavalry post at the site, starting with four companies and potentially expanding to a regimental post. A mix of old customs and a widow’s tale close the report.
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Dew Moines
Washington
Des Moines
Hull
War Department
Miles
Gratitude Letter to Dodd's Kidney Pills from Mrs Hyde
Mrs H D Hyde of Folsom Custer Co South Dakota praises Dodd's Kidney Pills for curing her heart pain and improving her daughter's weak kidneys after using the medicine for three years. She shares her belief in the pills' efficacy and urges publication of her statement. Numerous other advertised remedies and household tips appear in the page.
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Booth
Dakota
Folsom
Custer Co
South Dakota
H. D. Hyde
Dadd
Dodd
Adi
Garfield
Anecdotes on Walden Pond and Gladstone’s fall
Robert Barr discusses Thoreau and simple life versus modern luxuries with Bret Harte and Emerson. An anecdote from Sir Wemyss Reid recounts Gladstone bruised after slipping in a Mayfair street, no one aiding him, leading to the belief he was drunk.
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Robert Barr
Bret Harte
Henry Thoreau
Walden Pond
Barr
Harte
Emerson
Emerson Homestead
Gladstone
Wemyss Reid
Reid
Mr. Gladstone
Lord Gramville
Mayfair
Jessi
Delineator 1901 decade opens with new fare and notable reviews
The January issue signals a bold start for The Delineator with 1901 plans. It reviews Through Old Rose Glasses by Mary Tracy Earle, praises its humor and setting, and previews a rich year of articles on dress, housekeeping, child care, and living well. It highlights reviews of A Hundred Years of the District of Columbia, a Reconstruction study in Atlantic Monthly, Birrell travel pieces for The Century, and The Prodigal from Houghton Mifflin with Foote’s western-life storytelling.
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World
Mary Tracy Earle
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
New York
District of Columbia
National Capital
Albert Shaw
Federal District
Washington
Atlantic Monthly
South
North
Augustine Birrell
London
Fifeshire
Castaigne
Houghton, Miffflin & Co
San Francisco
Mary Hallock Foote
Low rates to the South excursion tickets offered
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway sells return excursion tickets to southern resorts including Jacksonville Florida Mobile Alabama New Orleans Louisiana Savannah Georgia El Paso Texas valid until June 1 1901. Rates routes times and details available from any coupon ticket agent. Nearly every man thinks he is the only person living who believes he can tell you all about real work.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Jacksonville
Fla
Mobile
Ala
New Orleans
Savannah
EL Paso
Tex
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Romfort
Forward
Detroit Free Press
Alice Jean Cleator
Fielle
Chicago Post
Racine
Wis
Oxford
Mackintosh
Osborn Gordon
Christ Church, London
Glasgow
Pat
Thos
Root Avyroves Army Post Site
California
Minneapolis
Emma
Kemp
E. W. Grove
C. H. Crabtree
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Gladiator
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Tadies
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Olmsted
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