Not a Hero in Antwerp Tower Scene
Frances Deere and her suitor Ben Ripley clash over plans for the winter in Antwerp. A fall on the cathedral tower leads to a dramatic brush with danger as Ben saves Frances and vanishes to England. Frances later learns he survived a sea incident and reunites with him in Brussels.
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Frances
Laura
Ben Ripley
Antwerp
Frances Deere
Ben
America
Banbury Road
Oxford
New York
England
Brussels
Rotterdam
Will Poetry Survive Changes in Language and Life
A writer in Lippincott's posits that future languages could become condensed, with sounds replacing words and prose and poetry fading. The piece asks whether poetry will adapt to modern life and thought or occupy a diminished, humbler place.
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Lippincott
The Siamese Girl and Her Rural Customs
A Gentleman's Magazine extract describes Siamese girls from birth through adolescence, noting dress on lower classes, use of sarong and scarf, optional jewelry, and frequent smoking. It portrays betel chewing, early intellectual focus on marriage, and elaborate middle class courtship led by an elder woman, with superstitious timing for unions.
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Gentleman’s Magazine
Startling Restaurant Flip Gets Rich Quick
A lawyer described men who profit by opening cheap restaurants, then selling them while showing apparent success. He cited buying a shop for 250, stocking 100 in food, attracting crowds, and selling for 1200 or 1500, netting 800 to 1000 each time before moving on. One man started ten eateries in six months with similar results.
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Arter
New York Commercial Advertiser
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
Forestus D. K. Hoar
Acton
Frederick C. Nash
Cambridge
Acton Enterprise
Charles J. McIntire
Esquire
H. Fousom
Register
Desolate Schoolyards Prompt Call for Gardens
Henry Lincoln Clapp argues in Popular Science Monthly that spending large sums on architecture and stone carvings for schools creates palaces for buildings while schoolyards remain barren. He contrasts with weathered country houses and frontier log cabins that feature gardens, urging plants and beauty as essential to education and inspiration for children.
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Great American
Henry Lincoln Clapp
Popular Science Monthly
New York Fashion Notes on Buttons in Varied Sizes
A fashion writer describes jacket skirt and bodice buttons offered in three distinct sizes. Many small buttons resemble jewels with colored enamel and metals like steel silver or gold. Expensive jet and cord passementerie buttons often pure finish not functional, used as trim or fake buttonholes.
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New York
Grand Rapids Cycle Co
Grand Rapids, Mich
Courpany
Blue Mood Ties Color to Feeling on Gray Days
Mr Murray Hill notes colors affect mood in conversation with Mr Point Breeze. The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph records the dialogue, illustrating a humorous exchange about how rain and dull weather can render a person blue.
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Murray Hill
Point Breeze
Pittsburg
Mystery of the Sea Capt Benner Nearly Imprisoned by Crew
In Jamaica, Captain Blank recounts a tale from the 1830s involving Captain Benner of the Mohawk who, after a ghostly warning to change course to sou west, narrowly avoids being jailed by his officers. A four-man castaway crew survived a hurricane, with the green sou wester belonging to the rescued captain and a dream sequence tying the events together.
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Gow
Benner
Jamaica
Proctor
Captain Blank
St. Thomas
Tropics
Wester
Sou'west
Penner
sou’West
Santo Domingo
Sou
Silver Wedding in Hudson Celebrates 25 Years of Marriage
Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Jefts marked a quarter century of marriage with a Wednesday reception at 111 Central street Hudson. About two hundred guests attended the afternoon and evening event featuring music by Mrs. L. D. Carpenter and Walter Jones, a graphophone display, and remarks by Rev. James Henry Wiggin of Boston. The couple, who wed twenty five years ago in Marlboro, recalled their journey from Marlboro parsonage to Hudson, with travels in Maine New Hampshire and California.
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Jefts
Central St
L.ti. Jefts
Frank T. Beede
Everett Beede
L. D. Carpenter
Walter, Jones
Odd Fellows
R. B. Lewis
George H. Harlow
Clark Kinney
E. 8
PF. A. Morse
Rufus Howe
James Henry Wiggin
Boston
Sidney M. Robinson
George E. Osgood Edwin
F. Simpson
Marlboro
F. P. Glazier
Hudson
Mr. Wiggin
Jeffs
Jetts
Mr. Jefts
Washington, N. N
Taylor
Stow
California
Maine
New Stampshire
Mr. Jeffs
Hudson Lodge
United Workmen
Lodge of Odd Fellows
King Saul
Grand Canton
Worcester
Michigan Telephone Bonds Offered by People's National Bank
The People's National Bank announces the sale of Michigan Telephone Bonds a 5 cent gold bond. Drafts issued in any amount payable globally. Correspondence answered promptly and information freely given. John L. Stone cashier Marlborough 1899.
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Michigan
People’s National Bank
Michigan Telephone
John L. Stone
Marlborough
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Mystery OF the Sea
Ile
Lizzie Bowen
F. B. Jefts
Southboro
Edwin F. Simpson
Albert
Luman ‘Taylor
Wallace Brown
Brown
Clipper Bicycles
Wheels
Joseph Booth
Main Street
Maynard, Mass
the. Rep
Snap
James T, Foote
Horseshoer and Carriagesmith
Maynard
Eagles
Bicycles
Orients
Ty. J. Nevins
Maynard House
Walter
Victor
J. W. Henderson
South Acton, Mass
Grant
F . Irevith & Paiges Monumental Bronze CO
Bridgeport. Com
C. H. Cheeney
Mass
James Devane
West Acton
Maynard Restaurant
Table Board
Ciwix
H. E. Boyd, Maynard Block, Maynard
Westerly
Quincy
Scotch
Q. S. Fowler, Maynard
H. Richardson
E. H. Maker
Concord, Mass
Ernest Hosmer, D. D. S
Hapgood
Anterprise
W. A. White
P. O. Box
Maynard, Mase
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