President Buchanan's By Myrtle Reed A Sad Love Story
A newspaper excerpt recounts James Buchanan's youthful betrothal to Anne Coleman, clashes with gossip, and a heartbroken Lancaster family. Anne's sudden death in 1819 ends the engagement, with a poignant letter from her father detailing loss, scandal, and endurance.
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Buchanan
Myrtle Reed
James Buchanan
Anne Coleman
Heber Ncshaiay
Corol Lancaster
Shoata Aaid
Duchanan
Miss Coleman
Miss. Coleman
Ubelesa
Aie
Philadelphia
Lancaster
Robert Coleman
Go to the Ant Lessons for Human Affairs
A satirical essay argues that in ant society a third sex of neuters performs all labor while royal males and females enjoy ease. It draws a parallel to human life, urging readjustment of social roles and questioning modern ambitions and conflicts. The piece treats gender dynamics and labor with ironic comparison to nature’s order.
The Boy Problem and the Gospel of the Movement
A minister in a crowded New York parish explains a new approach to the boy problem. He runs a clubroom where older boys and men play non gambling games to keep them from drinking and vice. The visitor questions church tolerance but the minister argues mercy and practical shelter aid moral return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sly
New York
Mada
New Movement
The Meaning of Education By William Newcomb
The article argues education means gathering all information across subjects and testing ideas against others. It emphasizes self knowledge, universal brotherhood, and learning from others to unlock broad understanding, with historical notes on skees and northern life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Newcomb
Yod
Observations on Diurnal Sea Breeze Height Records
The article notes measurements from captive balloons and kites to track sea breeze heights. It cites a 1809 offshore wind, 1300 feet, with offshore currents between 10 and 2000 feet, and a 1902 West Coast example where kites failed to rise above 500 feet on sunny afternoons.
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Coney Island
Towlon
Sceathind
Gothic Verse Fragment Sparks Reader Note in Towne
The passage presents a fragmentary lament referencing a character named Charlie Marson Towne in a Reader periodical. It evokes themes of love and suffering with archaic diction and surreal imagery, hinting at a broader poetic or editorial context within the publication.
The Cold Water Man and a Fatal Cure
The narrative details George Rone a zealot of cold water therapy who created a home cure using a high tub and constant immersion. His first wife Mrs. Rone died from the overuse of cold water claimed by him as a death from lack of cold water. He then pursues a second wife Patty Fields, but their wedding is disrupted when the groom remains in a bath while guests wait.
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George
George Lved
Rone
Miy Rone
Patty Fields
Ciorse
Patty
Rawe
Mr. Rowe
Old Fields
Rowe
Tal
Steight
Bathhouse Experiment Ended In Watery Escape
In a strange tale from the New York Weekly, George Sundtle hides in a bathtub during a wife’s water ordeal to test a bath experiment. Mrs. Rane clamps the tub, water pours over the prisoner, and he clings to a bar as she gloats that science demands it. George suffers rheumatic cold and later shifts to squash farming after the failed experiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Sundtle
Knightly
Patty
George
Seb
New York Weekly
Frames for honesty in a surprising optometrist tale
A man visits an optometrist claiming no eye issue yet requests glasses to look honest. The optometrist sells riding bow frames for six dollars, noting the wearer’s wish to project integrity. The tale ends with a dream of jewelers and con men in a grand spectacle.
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Patrdon
Renalr
Fragments on moral maxims and a legal case in Centropolis
An article fragment combines quotes on virtue and ambition with a legal notice. J. E. Savage files a complaint in Centropolis against Frank Hudson, Lee Majors, and L. J. Smith seeking $30 for a cow’s death from grazing in a pasture leased to Hudson & Majors. The dispute centers on responsibility for the cow’s feed and resulting damages.
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Justice Jenney
Hecie
J. E. Savage
Frank Hudson
Lee Majors
L. J. Smith
Quilty
Tim
Savage
Centropolis
Hudsen & Majors
Smith
Jumbled Punchlines and Snippets From Campus Life
A collage of quips and cartoon captions quotes from various papers including the Atlanta Constitution Philadelphia Record Princeton Tiger and Chicago News. Jokes touch on streetcar straps elocution babies and the world owing me a living with a mix of sports and humor references.
Walnut grove search and playful yeutings in period wit
A light newsroom fragment depicts a walnut foraging scene in a grove with romantic lines about love. A playful banter between a man and woman, and a note about a father in Yellowstone Park, adds period flavor and literary references.
Oddities and anecdotes from old newspapers
A collage of quips and notes from various papers recounting strange remarks about stock quotients blocking luck with weddings and engagements. It notes oddities such as a wooden wedding gift, a rolling pin present, and talk of superstitions linked to Friday the thirteenth and numbers at a wedding.
World Commerce and Debt Totals by Nations Revealed
The Bureau of Statistics release details exports of 10.28 billion and imports of 11.02 billion for a combined 21.80 billion in world trade. It lists population 1.487 billion, area 8.47 million square miles, total revenue 7.85 billion, expenditures 7.18 billion, and global indebtedness at 5.0 trillion with interest near 1.42 trillion. Major debts include France and the UK, with per capita figures for several nations and the US debt at 11.51 per person.
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Mwastington
D. C
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Statistics
United Kingdom
Germany
United States
Netherlands
France
New Zealand
Belgium
Switzerland
Commonwealth of Australia
Hursia
Italy
Spain
Australia
Portugal
Uruguay
Londurag
Argentina
British Rout Dervishes in Somaliland Victory Declares Loga
British expedition in Somaliland reports success against the dervishes. Five thousand dervishes were routed with about a thousand killed and many captured. British losses: two officers killed and nine wounded, nine privates killed or wounded. General Egerton notes the Mullah’s main fighting force was present though the Mullah was absent. Governor Murphy objects to large advertising billboards on railways and seeks time to remedy the issue.
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Landoo
Eng
Somaliland
Fidballi
Egerton
Hdballi
Augusta Fire Destroys Blocks as Warships Sail
The Augusta blaze destroyed two large Dechy occupied by First Savings Bank and several stores in Augusta Maine. Japanese cruisers sailed from Italy toward Albraltar with British warships following. Mamuel McTyeun of Coffer County Alabama was fined $2000 by a federal judge in Montgomery for peonage.
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Augusta
First Savings Bank
Italy
Albraltar
Mamuel Mc Tyeun
Coffer County
Alabama
Ateral
Montgomery
Labor unions and strikes across the nation and regions
Reports note the largest labor union in the country with about ten thousand members in Chicago planning events. Railroads in the Mississippi Valley shorten workdays without laying off machinists. A lecture plan by Sigurd Thien on his Norwegian father's plays is mentioned. Senator Gallinger backs a 15 million forest reserve in the White Mountains. Regatta dates at St. Louis are proposed for mid August. Strikes and manufacturing layoff tensions rise in Pax River district and Northern Timber.
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Crown Palace
China
United States
Simamer
Wn- Hiwr
Wong Kai Kah
St. Louis
Missierippi Valley
Dy Sigurd Thien
Senator Gallinger
White Mountains
Congress
St. Catharines
Louis
Pax River
Timore
Minor Events Of The Week Washington Items
Washington notes report various actions in Congress including a bill to authorize promotion of Major General Brooke, confirmations of civil service and commerce posts, a theatre disaster sympathy resolution in the House, and debates on penal codes and Philippine affairs. Also covered are foreign and domestic items from Honolulu to Chicago and Manila with appointments, trials, and policy notes.
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Quay
John 2. Brooke
Senate
W. J. Buchanan
Panama
Joan J. Mecaais
Paul Minn
Pont
Henry A. Castle
Minnesota
United States Supreme Court
New York
Leonard Wood
von Sternburg
Root
Roosevelt
John G. Binck
Illinois
Lawrence ©. Murray
Ilinois
Commerce and Labor
House
Emertch
Chicago
United States
Taft
Philippines
Postmaster General Payne Seeks Postal Reform
The annual Postmaster-General Payne report to Congress outlines 1903 receipts of 134,224,443 and expenditures of 138,784,487 with a 4,500,044 deficit. For 1904 the forecast is 146,314,642 in revenue with 153,511,000 in appropriations, a 7,200,008 deficit. 1905 projections show 150,472,000 revenues and 168,085,770 expenditures, an 8,613,700 shortfall, plus numerous legislative recommendations on mail boxes, postage rates, rural delivery, and anti fraud measures.
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Washington
D.C
Payne
Post Office Department
Congress
Postmaster-General
Enabliz Rt~ Trent
United States
Postal Service of
Department of Jupitcr
Rockefeller Gifts Aid University and College News
John D. Rockefeller gave 1 850 000 to the University of Chicago. The Russian University of St Peters burg claims the most complete library besides Oxford. Washburn College at Yoopea Kan bans the Socialist Club meetings. A 12 500 needed to save Valeer University from closing was provided by an unnamed donor. Massachusetts has most Dartmouth students. Dr Abert D Mead returns to Brown after Europe tour. Harvard President Charles W Eliot to address Boston Content Labor Union on Sunday February 7. The College of Physicians and Surgeons Boston to become Brown University medical faculty.
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John DD. Rockefeller
University of Chicago
Abert D. Mead
Brown University
Europe
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Boston Content Labor Union
College of Thysicians and Surgeons
Boston
Mass
Brown University of Providence
Elsie's Three Husbands and Other New Jersey Scandals
In Cumberland County Court Bridgeton Elsie Shaw pleads guilty to leading three husbands in two years and courting a fourth as bigamy case opens. Other items note a Riverside farmer swindle with a wagon tongue, Major Quay household assault case, a fatal near-miss at a Burlington railroad crossing, tuberculosis culling of Guernsey cows, a new Perth Amboy bridge scare, Paterson centenarian death, Clementon blaze stopped by ax, and local notices on postmaster nomination and saloon reductions.
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Elsie
Liste Shaw
Cumberland County Court
Bridgeton
Trenchard
Namer
Abe
Elsie Pennington
Walter Mick
Haddonfield
J. Br. Shaw
Shaw
Aliville
Riverside
Major Quay
A. G. C. Quay
Pennsylvania
St. Charles Place
Atlantic City
Richard Christmas
Alice Oliver
Quay
Quay Cottage
Christmas
Lillie Sharper
Minnie Simpson
Broad and
Tatham Streets
Burlington
Len
Adama
Adams
Lawrence W. Sickler
Glasboro
Senate
Burington
Clty Cannell
Ico
Paxtine
Cedarville
Nantuauxet Creek
Hira Bilzzard
Henry Duel
Rancoeas
South Jersey
Lower Alloway
Townshi Committee
Hit
Beverly Post Otice
Coopertown Road
Buneington
Creeping Mountain Threatens California Tunnel
A rock formation near a Southern Pacific cut off between Los Angeles and San Francisco shows shale that is slowly moving westward causing tunnel walls to bulge. Heavy braces and cement fail to hold as the mountain shifts under unknown deep earth forces.
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California
Ataut
Denda Susana Alfontain
Southern Pa
Low Angeles
San Francisco
Caretu
Pacific
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the Boy Problem
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Skee
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Chalmers
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Lens
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Princeton Tiger
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Hardman
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Critle
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Gray
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Grenn
Butte
Mountain
Jack
Ming Pretiyum
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Chua
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Loga
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Aturphy
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Drivers' Ciloy, No. TO
Luzon
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Japan
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Society of Christian Endeavor
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Customs Court of Appeals
Manila
Union National and Colonial
Cleveland
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Milwaukee
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Ohio
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Ill
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San Domingo
Tome
Tony
Arywag
Wa Tanllap
Ghintlert
Annual Postals Report
Thomas Bolly
Newtown
L. I
Springfield
Axa S. Bushnell
State Board of Arbitration
Brave
Hicks Lake
Micah
Guernseys
Guernsey
Charles
Richmond
Daretown
Haid
Raritan
Perth Amboy
South Anbory
Paterson
Michael Champion
Champion
Ireland
Rogers
Clementon
W. C. Helweg
Herbert Sugden
Atantic City
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