Miss Merediths Present in Ford Memoir Notebooks
The death of novelist Paul Leicester Ford brings memories from friend Kate Douglas Wiggin. Wiggin recalls Ford’s Brooklyn childhood, his small stature, and his quirk of keeping several desks in his study. He dubbed his Sev enty seventh street home Miss Merediths present to me.
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Miss Meredith
Paul Leicester Ford
Kate Douglas Wiggin
College Settlement
Ford
New York
Brooklyn
Janice Meredith
Seventy-seventh Street
Grant and Pettus and a Grant interview tale
Senator Bacon recounts a Civil War anecdote about Senator Pettus of Alabama, a Confederate colonel captured before Vicksburg. Grant praised his defiant reply to a direct question and ordered him to be treated kindly, a moment Pettus never forgot.
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Pettus
Senator Bacon
Georgia
Senator Pettus
Alabama
Vicksburg
Washington Post
A Charming Azure Etamine Gown With Lace and Velvet
A Chicago Record-Herald description of a refined afternoon gown features azure etamine with a deep haircloth lining, blue satin bands, and a pointed rabber front. The back gathers into a flounced skirt, a round bodice with black velvet ribbons, Italian lace, and blue silk collar. A white tulle hat with a wire frame and pale pink wild roses completes the look.
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Chicago Record-Herald
A Cab Fare Stirs Lively Funeral Memory
Two members of Congress, returning from Amos Cummings funeral in New York, argued with a cabman over a $3 fare. A policeman ruled for the cabman, telling the lawmakers to pay or face the station. They relented, saying they came to bury their friend. God bless him, the cabby received a dollar and they left for Washington.
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Amos Cummings
New York
Cortlandt Street
Washington
Door Opens the Wrong Way in Melodrama
English actress Miss Evelyn Millard, famed for stage work, was in a melodrama scene where a villain locks a door and proclaims the captive line. She struggles, battering the door, and vanishes from view as voices in the wings announce the door opened the wrong way, prompting comic relief.
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Evelyn Millard
Potato Soufflé From Old Recipe Directions
A damaged OCR recipe fragment describes making a potato soufflé by blending two cupfuls of smooth cooled potatoes with seasoned padding and stiffly beaten egg whites, then baking until brown in a hot oven.
Plateaux hats dominate smart women's fashion abroad
Vogue notes exclusive millinery focuses on flat hats and plateaux with bold size and simple trims. The key is hat line, as even the largest headwear must have the right silhouette to look smart, while affordable straw hats trimmed with a coup enable versatile wear everywhere.
Hat Description From Sketch in Philadelphia
The second sketch features a white straw hat trimmed with three ostrich feathers in green tones. It includes tong loops and green velvet ribbon ends, a facing of white chiffon, and a small bow of white satin ribbon.
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Philadelphia
Favorite Nations And Butcher Linen Gowns Described
The text describes gowns in black and orange with French knot embroidery and a mandarin orange tone. Dresden shepherdesses are cited as models for summer wear, featuring ends of black velvet and mixtures of pink and blue.
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Dresden
Glass water pipes emerge in Germany with asphalt shield
In Germany glass water pipes are produced with asphalt wrapping to curb fractures. The article notes they resist penetration by gauges and remain intact when exposed to acid and salt, highlighting material durability and underground placement.
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Germany
Great Lakes cities and their industrial rise described
Richard Linthicum surveys the lake region’s growth highlighting Chicago as a world food market and commerce hub, Buffalo and Cleveland as key rail water exchanges, Detroit’s expanding industry, Milwaukee’s brewing yet metal and meat output, and Duluth’s rise. The piece notes shipyards near Duluth and West Superior building the whalebacks. It then shifts to an advertisement touting Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for digestion, with a testimonial from W. T. Thompson of Montana and an offer of The Common Sense Medical Adviser by mail.
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Interlake
Lakes
Richard Linthicum
Ainslee’s
Chicago
Great Lakes
Buffalo
Empire State
Cleveland
Lake Erie
Pittsburg
Detroit
Milwaukee
Lake Michigan
Duluth
Lake Superior
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
W. T. Thompson
Townsend
Broadwater
County
Montana
Common Sense Medical Adviser
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
Appendicitis Through the Ages in Plain Dealer Quote
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes appendicitis has long existed though mistaken identities hid it as bowel inflammation. A physician recalls historical surgery risks and society’s evolving understanding from ancient times to the present.
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Adam
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Shad Migration Sparks Ohio River Abundance
An unexplained shad movement shows the species vanishing from Connecticut waters while appearing in large numbers along the Ohio River near Cincinnati. The first Ohio catch was in 1876, a rarity sent to the Smithsonian, with five years of rapid growth now producing plentiful catches within five miles of Cincinnati. The route from the Connecticut river to Ohio via New Orleans is suggested, as crossing the Alleghenies seems unlikely.
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Ohio River
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Patti Sings at Albert Hall Praised for Voice Preservation
Adelina Patti entertained at the Albert Hall London with critics agreeing on the extraordinary preservation of her voice since retirement. A veteran critic said her voice remains as resonant and powerful as when she first amazed London forty one years ago. Mme Patt has always protected her voice and reaps the reward.
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Adelina Patti
Great Albert Hall
London
Mme. Patt
Danish West Indies Purchase Talk in U S Press
The Washington Post study notes that chances to acquire the Danish West Indies look bright. If endorsed by the folkething and passed by the rigedag, the proposal would go to the rigsret for approval of the holesteret and final signoff by the stateraadet.
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Washington Post
Judge Wickersham Returns Home Across Nering Strait
Nome judge James Wickersham travels by ice across the Nering Strait with three companions. They reach safe shore after a brief, harsh crossing amid Arctic conditions.
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Nering Strait
James Wickersham
Nome
Alaska
Svate Ton
No Fit Companion for You Says Mother to Johnny
In a classroom style exchange a mother scolds Johnny for improper speech calling him unfit company while defending Shakespeare as the source of coarse language. The dialogue captures a parental warning about moral choosing and literary exposure.
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Johnny
Shakespeare
Old Friend Seeks Talk With Book Promise
A man bursts into a doorway offering Professor Slinger's celebrated treatise on How to Hold Easy Conversation In All Post. The woman dismisses him, cutting short the encounter as the door slams shut in Baltimore News.
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Professor Slinger
Baltimore News
His Grim Ambition
A beef magnate defends price hikes by saying his contempt for money drives him to prove porterhouse steaks are worth more than the riches of aristocrats. The Washington Star quote frames a clash of wealth and status centered on appetite and pride.
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Washington Star
Not All Genuine Imitations Curb Compliments
A dialog mocks flattery about a splendid figure. A rival quips that admiration echoes advertisements and warns against imitations, echoing a Chicago Post caption. The exchange ends with the line Beware of imitations.
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Chicago
Beef prices drop in boarding houses say records
Sharpe notes prices already cut in some areas. Wheaton confirms reductions exist now in boarding houses. The Philadelphia Record quotes Sharpe lamenting only half the former amount received.
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Sharpe
Wheaton
Philadelphia
The Comedy of Pretense Dialog Exchange
Eleanor asks Edmonia why she left society and Edmonia replies she tired of people who are nobody pretending to be somebody and those who are somebody acting like nobody. The exchange captures social pretension and weariness.
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Eleanor
Edmonia
Puck
Do You Think Perfection Is Attained In This Life
A Washington Star quotation features a serious youth asking if perfection exists in life. Miss Cayenne responds that perfection appears as perfect chores in some people. The witty exchange reflects perceptive humor about human striving and duties.
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Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Radiant Father Watches Baby Coach Pass
A radiant young father continues walking after the baby coach, noting marriage as a lottery and Tam as a prize in a brief Philadelphia North American fragment.
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Tam
Philadelphia
North Amer
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