A Role of Normandy Continues in Dark Paris Plot
In a stormy night in Paris, Colbert meets a muffled messenger in the Hotel de Ville area. The envoy reveals a hidden letter from Laval, Bishop of Quebec, urging Colbert to hinder Sieur de la Salle’s colonial plans while Colbert plots to advance his own power.
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Pont Notre Dame
Hotel de Ville
Jean Baptiste Colbert
Colbert
Quebec
la Rochelle
France
Paris
Sieur de la Salle
Laval
Great Society of Jesus
New France
New World
Rheims
la Salle
Billingsgate
Kingdom
Choisy Mademoiselle and Her Quiet Summer Realm
The passage portrays Louise de Montpensier, Mademoiselle, at Choisy a grand Paris region estate 234 leagues from Paris. It details her regal lineage and past aims to crown France while highlighting Choisy as a private refuge where she trains hounds tends aviaries rows on the river and hosts Corneille Racine and other guests in a season of quiet leisure and gossip.
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Paris
Choisy Mademoiselle
Orleans
Seine
Louise de Montpensier
Mademoiselle
la Grande Mademoiselle
Gaston
Duc d’Orleans
Europe
France
Germany
Bastille
Charles II of
England
Phillip
Louis
Corneille
Racine
La Grande Mademoiselle And The Youthful Companion
A vivid portrait of La Grande Mademoiselle and her 19 year old companion Renee d Outrelaise. The scene shifts from regal courtly space to intimate private rooms revealing a softer bond and the dangers of royal desire. The young woman is portrayed with healthful vigor and moral firmness, sheltered by her patroness.
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la Grande Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle
Renee d’Outrelaise
Poitou
Comte
Paris
Renee
Palace of the
Luxembourg
Simplifying Life for Mothers of Girls in Modern Homes
Kate Upson Clark argues that mothers of daughters juggle daily chores budgets and family welfare. She cites three duties feeding the family managing expenses and tracking health education and social duties while urging adoption of simpler cooking laundry and dressmaking practices inspired by uncooked food ideas to ease the load.
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Kate Upson Clark
Joseph B. Bowles
Beef Trust
The Minister and the Widow
The Rev Samuel Robbins noted for wit in Framingham Center recounts a retort with a widow from his former Unitarian church. She says her son Edward needs a father's care and he quips that she plans to marry to raise Ned, reflecting a humorous exchange from decades past.
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Samuel Robbins
Chandler Robbins
Boston
Framingham Center
Unitarian Church
Edward
Mr. Robbins
Ned
Boston Herald
Novel cushion cover with olive silk and pale blue border
Intended for small size, the cushion features pale olive silk foundation with a three quarter inch depth drawn threads and cording stitch edges. A pale blue Nag in Amu China ribbon border, green stalks in cord ing-stitch, and blue knot stitches form the design, measuring 15 by 13 inches with a silk frill edging the cushion.
Fashion notes from Chicago News on spring style details
The Chicago News outlines spring fashion items including green hats, Coque de roche heraldry, ecclesiastical robe touches, Dolly Varden sleeves with eight inch cuffs, opalescent gauze and paillettes, a realistic dead rose headpiece, flowered net robes, silk blouses cut like men's shirts, stockings with cross stitched beadwork, foldable parasols, German Valenciennes lace, new leather belts, mohair belts, long redingote style coats, and skirt trimming imitating redingote lines.
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Legion
Chicago News
Coque de Roche
Woman killed by wolves in Wichita Mountains
Lawton Oklahoma reports say wolves and coyotes threaten calves and travelers in the Wichita mountains. A rancher found a woman’s body in a wolf den and a cowboy was attacked, while authorities plan extermination with no fence funding yet.
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Lawton
Okla
Wichita Mountains
United States Forest Superintendent
Congress
Homemade Benin Clarified Neck Cream Preparation
The article describes a nightly bath for rough neck skin using water with benzin added, followed by thorough drying and a good cream. It lists Lanolin, spermaceti, white vaseline, coconut oil, sweet almond oil, tincture of benzoin as ingredients and instructions to melt and mix until a concrete mass, with optional violet extract or perfume.
Pneumonia Germ in Mouth Not Yet Cleared by Tests
The New York pneumonia commission reports broad studies from colleges and hospitals nationwide. Progress on causes treatment and prevention remains inconclusive with focus on bacteriological results including the presence of the pneumonia germ in mouths and discussions on disinfectants and public building air control.
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New York
Pneumonia Commission
New York Board of Health
Bacteriolog
Ali Sees Rim of the World on Swing Ride
The narrator Ali recalls flying high on a swing pushed by Ray and describes a vision of distant gardens hills and a blue horizon beyond the world. She phrases herself as a wave chasing life beyond the rim and vows to seek it at dawn with Ray. The scene ends with a resolve to leave and search for Life.
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Ali
Ray
Washington Star
Trick With Water: A Paper Roller Water Race
A science trick uses capillary flow and sliding water to run drops along a paper strip laid over stacked books. Oil or graphite makes water bead and roll, letting drops jump from book to book toward a dish at the end.
Curious Things in Flowers Interesting plant folklore from Philadelphia Press
The piece notes symbolic meanings in flowers with playful, fantastical images such as the Passion flower signaling, Brake fern revealing an oak, periwinkle housing a brush, and other whimsy like a pansy with a pulpit man and a snapdragon that yawns when pinched.
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Philadelphia Press
His Enviable Position in a Puck Caption
The Old Dodger grumbles about Robinson Crose, joking that he is “out of humanity’s reach” and can only pressure his man Friday for loans by docking wages. The caricature uses sharp aural humor to lampoon debt and social standing.
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Dodger
Robinson Crosce Ort
Puck
Mean Advantage Strikes and Impromptu Concessions
In a witty Royal Magazine exchange a first gentleman jokes about a valet going on strike. The second man claims he had to concede to demands to avoid the valet quitting while the speaker was half dressed.
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Royal Magazine
Admission Price to Big Exhibit at Lewis and Clark Exposition
Fifty cents is set as general admission to the Portland Lewis and Clark exposition with commutation books available for purchase.
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Portland
Wild Animal Farm Brings Circus to Country Roads
A 300 acre farm near Allen town Pennsylvania houses a cosmopolitan troupe of circus stock. Camels yaks llamas and other creatures roam the world’s enclosures while Barnum and Bailey caravans parade them across country every fall to winter quarters.
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Asia
Africa
India
Allentown
Francis Arnold Collins
St. Nicholas
Pennsylvania
Barnum & Bailey Circus
India Jugglers Trick Dazzling Boy Vanishes Before Crowd
A Boston Globe report explains a juggler’s vanish trick mimicking a butterfly camouflage. The dancer flips bright garments to reveal white, then hides against a white backdrop while white face powder completes the illusion.
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India
Boston Globe
The Little Jap Girl
A fragment poem or verse about a girl named Little Almond Blossom with funny feet and a tiny dotire, describing her charm and sweetness in a whimsical tone.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Pop's Proposition Sparks Elopement Plan
A father offers to cover the wedding costs to start housekeeping, as a couple discusses eloping and what the father would do in that scenario. The exchange highlights family support shaping a romantic decision.
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Pop
Houston Post
New York Couple Donates Claverack Estate to Crippled Children
Mr and Mrs Charles Thorley of New York purchase a large house and grounds at Claverack NY and deed it to the Free Industrial School for Crippled Children of New York City.
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Charles Thorley
New York
Claverack
N. Y
Free Industrial School For
Beth Alike
A brief dialogue vignette from Cassell's features a playful exchange between Beth and Mr Johnson regarding marriage prospects as a sister’s remark echoes the question. The snippet captures light domestic humor framing a family conversation.
A Busy Season Says Senator Sorghum on Off Session Work
In a Washington Star exchange Senator Sorghum jokes that a quiet congressional season still holds serious work. He and colleagues say most important duties occur when Congress is not in session.
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Senator Sorghum
Congress
Washington Star
Her Only Complaint Courtship Ends in Brief Marriage
A Michigan woman ended her marriage after nine years of courting when her husband failed to provide a fine home, leaving her husbandless just seven days after the wedding.
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Michigan
Foxtail Millet Varieties Across America
Several forms of foxtail millet from Japan and Korea are being grown in the United States. Japanese millets tend to be large and productive but poor in drought tolerance. Korean foxtail millet, shown in a illustration, differs from both the Japanese and native types and has only begun local testing in the country.
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America
Korea
Farmers’ Review
Agricultural Department
Washington
Rotating crops helps escape insect pests on farms
A Michigan farmer advised in Farmers' Review that rotating crops is the best way to reduce insect pests. He notes that continuing the same crop allows colonies of lice and ants to form, while planting oats breaks the ant–lice cycle. To banish Hessian flies, switch from wheat rye and barley for a year and avoid volunteer grains in corn or potatoes fields.
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Michigan
Farmers’ Review
Butchering at Home Promotes Self Slaughtering Change
An article argues farmers should butcher their own livestock and sell directly to consumers. It notes the custom is fading and presents a simple method using a tree and pulley to bleed and butcher animals in suitable outdoor spaces.
Beehive Swarm Prefers Open Air After Tree Fall
In June last we cut a bee tree the hive was emptied when we found it later. Four months afterward the swarm was seen under part of the tree with combs a foot deep, substantial brood and honey, all exposed to open air.
Good Drinking Fount for Chicks
Instruction from Commercial Poultry on making a safe chick water fountain. A shallow pan filled with pebbles the size of nuts to walnut, then water. chicks drink between pebbles, stay dry. Scald out vessels two to three times weekly.
Milk as a Perfect Food Across Ages
The article extols milk as a perfect food essential for all ages, noting eggs bananas and other foods may help but Irish potatoes will not. It emphasizes pure, unskimmed milk as superior and difficult to surpass as a sustenance.
Have the Collar Fit
Farm Journal notes a well fitting collar is essential for a work horse. It stresses the collar must sit correctly on the shoulders to prevent strain as the horse wears it all day and works continuously.
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Farm Journal
Keep Incubator Clean After Every Hatch
After each hatch thoroughly wash the incubation chamber with hot sap suds and leave it open until perfectly axy and sweet. Proper ventilation cannot counteract the ills of a foul champ.
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J. B. M. Wright
Normandy
William R. A. Wilson
Wisconsin
Amu
Jap Girl
Beth
Mr. Johnson
Johnnie
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