A Lawyer's Love Affair and a Widow's Reply
Alfred Marshall of Colne Valley & Marshall uncovers a forged set of letters from Mrs. Fairfax to her daughter Mayford. He helps the widow, reveals the will's misnotes, and secures a new codicil that grants her relief and a happier union with his nurse Claire Mayford, ending with a moral about obedience and mercy.
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Alfred Marshall
Colne, Valley & Marshall
Supreme Court
Marshall
Mayford
Fairfax
Maylord
Bagleys
St. Anne’s Grove
Streatham
Mr. Marshall
Madan
Imm
Letitia
Deaf subjects hard to photograph say photographer
A photographer explains that deaf people have a fixed tense expression before cameras. The bass of the issue is the expected look of listening for instructions and the inability to relax facial muscles, making deaf portraits especially challenging for portrait artists.
Ministers Late Risers and the Lazy Morning
A cook recalls entertaining maids and noting ministers as the latest risers. She cites ministers waking late, lacking early duties, and enjoying lenient schedules. She praises their generosity but laments their habit of lingering in bed. She claims forty seven past jobs, eleven with ministers, praising their conduct yet urging earlier rising.
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Pye
Bird in Hat Sparks Quick Millinery Alteration
A woman returned to a chic millinery shop to have a new hat adjusted after complaining that a bird with a large wing stuck in the eyes of men. The milliner relented and removed the bird from the hat, ending the dispute.
Seedtime and Harvest Whittier Poem Reflection
A Whittier poem on duty and freedom contrasts labor in fields with divine purpose. It speaks of sowing in cold weather, hoping for warmer sun and rain, and finding all tasks aligned with God’s plan. The speaker questions praise and emphasizes unity with a higher will.
Absent Minded and Home Training Tales
A dialogue between Bridget and her mother recalls strict table manners and past scoldings from County Gilway. The exchange highlights family pride and the habit of overlooking table setup before meals while referencing a pig roaming outside with a vimble in its mouth.
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Bridget
County Gilway
Maitland Arrives From England to Paint U S Notables
Viscountess Maitland, famed miniature painter, arrived from England for an extended stay to create portraits of prominent Americans including half a dozen commissioned for members of the President’s family.
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Viscountess Maitland
England
Patriotism Honors Chef Nebain Dubois Statue Planned
Nice residents prepare to honor Nebain Dubois with a statue. Former chief cook to the kafiser's grandfather King William of Prussia, he earned $75,000 annually and resigned at the start of the Franco Prussian War to fight his former employer.
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Nice
Nebain Dubois
Kafiser
William of
Prussia
Lightning's dangerous reach spans long distances and wires
An Anaconda Standard recounts two stories about lightning shocks. A placer miner was paralyzed after a bolt struck a steel pipe connected to a hydraulic nozzle. A ranch hand survived a blue flame strike along barbed wire fencing, fleeing as storm clouds approached, learning to avoid wires when storms loom.
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Anaconda Standard
Wisconsin Creek
Sheridan
Iman
Earth
Still Trims: A Brooklyn Millionaire Keeps Poverty’s Hair Ritual
In Brooklyn an elderly millionaire, now well off, and his wife cling to a poverty era custom. The wife cuts his hair yearly after he visits a barber, then reproduces the same style for the year. He shaves himself, and they value frugality despite wealth, recalling days of struggle. Sometimes she invites him upstairs to have her snip his hair, reviving old memories.
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Brooklyn
Rebuked for His Carelessness
A Kansas City railroad man tells his wife of a dream in which he is an agent in San Francisco earning double, but he misses the trip after stepping off to watch a dog fight at a Kansas station. His wife rebukes him, saying such instincts will ruin him.
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Mary
Kansas City
San Francisco
Kansas
Henry
Ly Times
The New Year Miracle in a Century Poem
Clifton Dangerfield imagines the New Year as a grown boy of radiant joy. The speaker feels renewal and freedom, with the world’s pulse rising under snow and old doubts fading. Hope, life, and love align as the Year promises achievement and conquest.
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Geotade
Fle
Clifton Dangerfield
Shy On Table Etiquette in a Connecticut Hotel
A traveling man notes differing table manners in country hotels. He recalls dining in a small Connecticut town where pumpkin pie features in the bill of fare and a waiter quips about stacking dishes as the plate is not cleared yet. He ends with a rebuke for his manners.
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Connecticut
Prof Park the Light of Andover Seminary Tales
Stories recount Prof Park of Andover Theological Seminary famed for sharp wit and memory. An anecdote recalls Dr Tholuck admitting defeat in an argument, and Park’s quick quip on the Pisa tower. He challenged a student by name and elicited surprise at Jones spelling.
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Park
Andover Theological Seminary
Germany
Tholuck
America
Andover
Tower of
Pisa
Jones
Pathos and humor weave through Old Strike tales
John Mitchell recalls a coal strike tale of privations as a child asks for marrow bones for soup while neighbors barter time and meat. Rider Haggard shares a comic obituary mixup when a Hungarian ballet editor keeps a death notice as truth and rejects a denial.
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John Mitchell
Funeral date chosen by almanac memory
An elderly Weston doctor recalls a patient whose widow insisted on a funeral on a pleasant day found in Farmers Almanac. The tale shows how past generations trusted such guides for burial timing and weather.
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John Edward Strangeways
Saxbridge
Messrs. Colne, Valley and Marshall
Jack Johnston
Jack
Tor
Strangeways
Johnston
Claire
Green Park
Fred Marshall
Marrshall
Mrs. Brown
Galen
Fred Marshal
Myr
Urison
John Greenleaf Whittier
Haggard
Rider Haggard
Hungary
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