Romance in a Graft as a Rural Wedding Farce
A humorous tale from McClure's Magazine recounts Buck and Miss Malloy eloping under false pretenses with a fake preacher. The farmer and farmeress witness the ceremony while a traveling preacher, Rev Abijah Green, is mistaken for the real one. The spoof ends with forged marriage certificates and graft level absurdity.
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Buck
Miss Malloy
Abels
Caney Creek
Farmer
Rev
Abijah
McClure’s
Great Fires of Miramichi Peshtigo and Hinckley
The Miramichi fire of 1825 destroyed 80 by 25 mile belt, killed 590 people, burned 590 buildings, and devastated Newcastle Chatham and Douglastown in New Brunswick. Peshtigo 1871 burned over 2,000 square miles in Wisconsin, with 1,200 to 1,500 dead. Hinckley Minnesota 1894 killed about 500 people and left 2,000 homeless with $25 million losses.
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Miramichi
Newcastle
Miramichi River
New Brunswick
Chatham
Douglastown
Peshtiggo
Wisconsin
Peshtigo
Michigan
Lake Michigan
Lake Huron
Hinckley
Minn
Wild Flower Dreams From City Daisies
A wilted city street daisy becomes a symbol of longing for rural fields. A ragged girl finds the flower and dreams of a country home as a mother recalls blossoms gathered long ago. The poem urges giving daisies to brighten dreary tenements and hopeful hearts.
Actor’s Youth Shines Through in Stage Light Tale
From a New York Times clipping, veteran actor Frank Deshon recalls a backstage moment during The Princess Chic where a lighting error turned into a boastful exchange. He jokes about how lighting and lineage sparked a surprise compliment about his father’s acting prowess.
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Frank Deshon
Normandy
Rialto
Princess Ghic
Revival Plan For Long Branch Beach Casino Boardwalk
Long Branch leaders seek to revive the resort by urging city purchase of ocean front property to build a casino and a boardwalk. Citizens pledge to restore the once thriving summer scene once popular with society leaders and visitors.
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Long Branch
Gummer Resort
Rafter
Ocean Front
Printer’s sign prompts reform in mankind and strategy
A New England printer of the Roycroft school hung signs at his shop to curb criticism and force thoughtful discourse. He placed a second sign depart without knocking and a nail with Hang your hammer to deter aggressive opinions, aiming to temper readers and visitors. The column then shifts to a note on land use, estimating 22 acres sustain one man on meat and varying outputs for crops and staples.
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Elbert Hubbard
Scthool
New England
Roycroftle
Dyaks’ Tugong Bula Curses Liar With Tree-Branch Monument
A Straits Budget correspondent describes the tugong bula customs of the Dyaks. Passersby add branches to a growing heap beside the road to curse a liar, a practice rooted in ancient times and viewed as a sacred duty. The pile expands over years, becoming a public monument to untruth, feared by the deceived and their descendants.
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Straits Budget
Straits Settlement
Liat
Inside a Russian Village Stove Life and Living Conditions
A traveler portrays a village scene with crude wooden houses and intertwined brick stoves. He notes crowded family sleeping on the stove and floor, extreme heat and stench, infrequent washing, and woolly pellettes. He details the peitchka stove as a wall and dresser, warmed by a central fire that could heat a room for over twelve hours.
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Russia
Tme
Great Woman Rules China Empress Dowager Captures Authority
The article describes Empress Dowager Cixi as a remarkable, despotic yet charming ruler who rose from obscurity to dominate the Chinese court. It contrasts her two natures, detailing how she stripped the emperor of real power and maintained autocratic control over 400,000,000 subjects, with lingering questions about her character.
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Adieus
Mrs. Conger
Empress Dowager
China
Kang Yu Wei
Tsi An
Confucius
Should geniuses marry in a satiric home farce
A playful verse from Horace Seymour Keller in the New York Herald questions whether geniuses—warblers poets sculptors painters musicians—should marry. Each fragment shows a creative figure facing domestic mishaps as household pipes burst and rooms flood, humorously linking talent with domestic chaos.
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Olle Bulley Corneto von Squeak
Butcher
Ollie Bulley Corneto
Horace ‘Seymour -Keller
New York Herald
Letter B and Letter D in Bad and Good Tones
A Pearson's Weekly snippet muses on letters as moral lenses. It lists many foods and blessings beginning with B and contrasts with a long chain of negative D words, joking on how letter choices shape mood and meaning.
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Pearson’s
Western Governor Receives Suspicious Irregularity Tale
An unnamed citizen visits a Western state governor to relay rumors that Col Blank, head of the Irrigation Board, has died just hours earlier. The caller seeks appointment as successor, and the governor motions him to wait in an anteroom while the inquiry unfolds.
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Garfield
Civil Service Commission
Col. Blank
Irrigation Board
New York Herald
Secret of Long Youth and Simple Living
The piece urges simple diet plain living and outdoor activity to develop physical and moral vigor. It notes nerves exhaust from petty cares and household overwork and advises dusting well resting properly and taking afternoon naps to avoid premature aging.
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Wousekeeper
Strength in God’s Hand in Bayard Taylor Verse
Poem fragment reflects faith and endurance. The speaker asks for patience through sorrow and weakness, trusting God’s strength to illuminate life and endure mortal obscurity. The lines invoke eternal day beyond earthly clouds and distant beams of light.
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Bayard Taylor
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