New Adam and Eve in a Country Cottage Romance
Eve Sherburne, a former mechanized worker, moves to a cottage owned by Adam Everett. She resumes gardening and music as their friendship grows, gifts of vegetables and flowers deepen their bond, and Everett confesses he has eaten Eve's forbidden apples inviting paradise.
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Esteben Guineau
Adam Eve
Eve Sherburne
Tam
Adam Everett
Ries
Eva Sherburne
Sherb
Eve
Adam
Paradise
Sostom
A Topsy Turvy Land Observes Japanese Customs
A New York Herald piece contrasts Japanese life and customs with Western norms. It notes mourning colors for men and women, age signaling in dress, rooftop construction, post dinner speeches, and symbolic art such as cherry blossoms plum and pine. It discusses views on blinks, eye shape, and geographic latitude as explanations.
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Japan
Bridal couple plans Niagara tour after dramatic forecast
Mr Linger and Miss Fracks discuss Niagara Falls and a Geological Survey prediction that the falls will vanish in 3,800 years with the riverbank dry and lakes emptying into the Mississippi. They resolve to visit now and begin their bridal tour, ending in happiness.
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Falls of
Niagara
Mr. Linger
Miss Fracks
Niagara Falls
United States Geological Survey
Great Lakes
Archbishop's Palatial Bill Sparks Witty Counter
A London architect bills Archbishop of Canterbury for designs for Lambeth Palace reception hall. The archbishop quips about paying well, saying in his profession he counts as an archbishop. He signs the check amid a joke about being imposed on.
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Archbishop of Canterbury
Lambeth
London
Dorcas the Disciple and Her Needle Benevolence
In a sermon from Joppa Dorcas is praised for charitable needlework aiding the poor. Her death brings mourning, resurrection by Peter, and a call for women to seek God. The sermon extols practical charity, contrasts it with rhetoric, and envisions lasting rewards for true Christian service.
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Peter
Simon
Apostle Peter
Apostle
Erica
Tabitha
Dorcas
God
Christ
Garden of Eden
Solomon
Elizabeth
Joppa
Dorca
Conti
Blanche
Louis VIII
France
Queen Maud
Thenry [L
Sanitary
Christian Commissions
Gettysburg
South Mountain
North
South
Dorean
Mediterranean
Church of God
Josephine
Mrs. A. J. Beveridge Dies After Prolonged Illness
Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge wife of the Indiana senator died after a lingering intestinal inflammation. She accompanied her husband to the Philippines and Japan and later sickness struck in Dansville New York where she died. Her father George Langsdale works in Porto Rico postal service and her brother George is Beveridge's private secretary. The Beveridges met at DePauw University Greencastle Indiana and married before graduation.
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Indiana
Albert J. Beveridge
Philippines
Beveridge
de Pauw University
Greencastle
Ind
Kate Langsdale
George Langsdale
Postal Service
Porto Rico
George
United States
Japan
San Francisco Butchers Suspected of Using Horseflesh in Sausages
A Chambers' Journal summary discusses San Francisco butchers selling horse meat as a substitute for beef in sausages and other foods. It notes the practice is common in some countries where sales are licensed and animals are killed under sanitary conditions. Detection methods using iodine indicate horse meat presence even at 5 percent.
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South Africa
San Francisco
New York Medical Journal
Chambers’ Journal
A Single One Escaped in a West Town Visit
Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady recalls in the Ladies' Home Journal his visit to a western town nearly abandoned for twelve years. An old bedridden Episcopal member kept the faith as others joined the Latter Day Saints after a revival. She quips she was unreachable due to illness, yet remained a Christian.
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
Great West
Ladies’ Home Journal
Episcopal Church
Latter-Day Saints
A Rabbit's Possessions and the Actress's Marriages
A San Francisco anecdote about a rabbit joke ends with a teacher prompting a sentence using anecdote. The piece notes a quip that a rabbit has four legs and one anecdote. It adds a wry line about actresses often having multiple husbands in their careers.
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Johnny
San Francisco News
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Ferever
Kecep
Ansel
New York Herald
Mr. Singer
Harper's Weekly
Louis Klopsch
R. Talmage
Europe
Orient
Lebanon
Jerusalem
Napoleon
Durcas
Mary
Martha
Jesus
Wong
Isis
England
Inkermann
Alma
Balaklava
Sevastopol
Huzza
Jesus Christ
Earth
Bethlehem
Nazareth
Gethsemane
Calvary
Mrs. Ferguson
Laura
Mr. Ferguson
Korea
A. J. Beveridge
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