Jericho town debates circus pictures in moral meetin
Moses Harper leads Jericho residents in a moral debate over circus wagon pictures on Jonas Teachout barn. Deacon Spooner and Silas Lapham question vice and hard cider, ending with a resolution to allow the circus despite moral concerns.
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C. B. Lewis
Moses Harper
Jericho
Evenin
United States
Moses S
Moses
Porto Rico
Jonas Teachout
Jonas
Deacon Spooner
Silas Lapham
Silas
Ivy
Enos Williams
Enos
Sodam
Lish Billings
Lish
Deadhead
M. Quan
Hired Girl's Progress Moral From City Tale
A country girl moves to the city to work for wealthy families and wins a series of raises through three friends. Gossip spreads, tensions arise, but the girl eventually marries a dashing suitor as the three friends remain content. The tale closes with the moral about not praising hired help.
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Detroit Free Press
Dueling in France and the epee de combat
The article explains the epee de combat as France's duel weapon, its protective hilt and modern rapier lineage, and recounts historical duels of Boulanger vs Floquet and others. It argues dueling wounds target hands, forearms, throats, and chests, noting the lethal risks and the duelists’ skillful strokes.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Paris
D’artagnan
Duc de Bragelonne
Boulanger
M. Floquet
Chamber of Deputies
Harry ‘Alis
Debats
Hippolyte Percher
Ile de la Grande Jalre
Kongo
Catullo Mendes
Bernhardt
Hamlet
Prince of
Denmark
M. Vaner
Mendes
Percher
France
Dachshund Tragedy Over Button Incident
A Plain Dealer cartoon caption details Stimler’s dachshund swallowing a collar button rolled under a bureau. The dog became stuck, the janitor helped lift the heavy furniture, and Stimler kept the button for possible future "collar" trouble.
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Stimler
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Long Lightning Conductor Claims World Record at Zug Spitze
A Bavarian claim describes a lightning conductor extending five and a half kilometers from the Zug Spitze meteorological site down to Hol lenthal below, allegedly the world’s longest. The piece adds aphorisms about failure and memory from city papers.
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Bavaria
Zugspitze
German Empire
Hollenthal
Nothing In a Name and the Unseasonable Hour
A humorous exchange notes a person waiting in a quick repair shop for a single pair of shoes. The Cleveland Plain Dealer cites the challenge of finding good chairs as among the hardest pieces of old furniture to locate due to heavier use and faster wear.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Singing Teacher Discovers a Promising Voice
A Washington Post excerpt recounts a teacher lamenting a stenographer who could have become a prima donna if superstition hadn’t blocked her early morning practice. He notes her voice as vast and refined yet faute de temps and belief in ill fortune derailed her career.
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Washington Post
Serenade of Wolves at National Zoo by Ernest Seton Thompson
Ernest Seton Thompson recalls how he started a wolf serenade at the National Zoo in Washington. One moonlit night he howled to the wolves as coyotes and wolves from Colorado joined, singing a wild hunting song. The chorus echoed through the woods until the beasts slunk back to their dens, their hunting days ended.
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Ernest Seton-Thompson
Plains
Colorado
Puppet Show Gatekeeping at General Banks Headquarters
An anecdote recalls a military official who required a staff ticket to gain entry to General Banks. A burly colonel, denied entry for lacking a ticket, asserts he will pay 25 cents to see Banks when he is a puppet show, and is eventually admitted.
The Sleepless Seven Jurors Discharged
A Chicago Tribune report recalls seven of twelve jurors who refused to sleep through deliberations. The jurors woke others repeatedly, forcing continued wakefulness, described by a discharged juror as the “rousing majority.”
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Chicago Tribune
Corroborative Evidence From Old Chi Ta Tales
Dialogue from Harper's Bazar about Miss Summit and Miss Palisade discussing family lore. They claim ancestors never kept servants as part of a transmitted tradition, highlighting social habits and lineage in a facetious tone.
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Miss Summit
Miss Spindle
Miss Palisade
Harper’s Bazar
Ocean Liner Kitchen Scale Reveals Vast Hotel Like Ship
An Ainslie's Magazine excerpt compares a great steamship kitchen to a hotel, detailing massive appetites and store needs. It lists quantities such as sixteen tons of beef, three tons of sugar, and two thousand quarts of milk, illustrating the vast commissariat of a transatlantic liner.
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Ainslie’s
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Chicago News
Atchison Globe
National Zoo
Washington
Walton & CO
G. W. Ensley
West Side Square
Chariton, Iowa
Man OF the Hour
McKinley
America
Patriot
Chariton Patriot
Algeria
Argentina
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