Brave Girls Save Lives Across Water and Fire
A survey of remarkable young heroines from New Jersey to Connecticut and New Haven. Girls and women dive into floods and rivers to rescue strangers and kin, pull frightened riders from peril, and even choke dangerous animals to protect others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Hopatcong
Edna Hartman
Miss Hartman
Effie Field
Rutherford
N. J
Walter Hutchinson
Frederick G. Ware
Ansonia
Conn
Charles Cahill
Wrestling in Scotland at Grasmere Fair Grounds
The London Standard describes Grasmere in Cumberland where wrestling occurs on a verdant lawn near a grandstand and a ridge. Spectators watch from rings and carriages while girls sew embroidered tights for wrestlers. Children and experienced men compete as observers imagine Rosalind in the crowd.
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Grasmere
Lord’s Cricket Ground
Cumberland
Orlandos
Charleses
Rosalind
London Standard
Vote buying in England in the 18th and 19th centuries
The article recounts repeated British election corruption from Wendover to Hindon Wakefield Dublin and Shaftesbury. It describes schemes including money carried by a Moon messenger at Hindon and holes in doors or walls used to distribute sums to electors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendover
Hindon
House of Commons
Wakefield
Dublin
Shaftesbury
Russian Revolution Eyewitness Letter From Helsingfors
Mrs. Isabel Donner, widow of Herman Donner, writes from Helsingfors to her son in New York with vivid observations on the Sveaborg mutiny days. She describes shelling, fires, and the fear in streets, notes the Red Guard’s influence, police pay, and calls for reform. She recounts the Stolypin assassination attempt and broader terror, urging cautious action amid revolutionary violence.
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New York
Finland
Isabel Donner
Herman Donner
United States
Helsingfors
H. Montague Donner
Skatudden
Socialist-Revolutionary Party
Red Guard
Hagnas
Senate
Droschka
M. Stolypin
Apothecary Island
St. Petersburg
Russia
Sveaborg
Kronstadt
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Central Committee
A Roomier Universe and a Wider Vision
Our view of God expands with knowledge of the universe. Early thinkers linked heaven to the skies, while old images of Atlas and pillars gave way to a broader sense of God. As humanity learns more, heaven and God become spiritual rather than material, near us and within our capacity to contain him. Jesus Christ’s capacity for holding God is infinite, and we should strive to imitate him.
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God
Heaven
Hell
Milwaukee
China
Atlas
Jesus Christ
Resurrection Day Crowd at Yale Harvard Game
Harper's Weekly notes the Yale vs Harvard football clash in New Haven drew over 30 000 fans flooding the Elm City streets. A clergyman's little daughter, walking with her mother, asked what was happening and exclaimed about Resurrection Day.
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Prescott Street
Jersey City
Anna
Harry
Fannie Haskowitz
Hopkins Street
Brooklyn
Julia
Sumner Avenue
Fannie
Madeline Spinello
New Haven
Yale
Harvard
Elm City
Not Encouraging Joke Trade Sparks Editor Banter
A witty exchange between a caller with unbarbered hair and a busy editor in the Chicago Daily News. The caller asks about a vacancy in the joke department while the editor notes a vacancy will open once the office boy clears the waste basket.
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Chicago Daily News
Light of Other Days The Evolution of Lighting
The article traces medieval lighting from sconces to lanterns and candles, noting luxury traveler’s candlesticks and wash basins, tragic torches at a Charles VI ball, and the rise of crystal candlesticks and crystal pendants. It covers street illumination in Paris, the 1667 edict, and London link boys, ending with reading in bed by candle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles VI
France
Francis I
Louis XIV
la Valliere
Paris
London
Watt Smatter and Heetall Wright at new flat
The Chicago Tribune notes Watt Smatter asks how his wife likes the new flat. Heetall Wright replies she is delighted, yet voices concern that many families occupy the other apartments in the building.
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Watt
Heetall Wright
Chicago Tribune
Rival Hidden Real Estate Versus Words of Love
A dialogue echoes a clash between a rival with vast real estate and a suitor who has only words. A stern reply favors action over speech as a resolve to marry a man of deeds, not of words, resonates in a Houston Post style exchange.
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Mr. Slimpurse
Houston Post
Not a Candid Moment as Charlie Proposes
A Detroit Free Press snippet describes a proposal where Charlie appears terrified, his teeth chattering, eliciting laughter from his partner Dora and the amused reaction of his mother.
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Charlie
Dora
Detroit Free Press
Knickerbocker Salaries Spark Team Debate
A New York Sun item notes two players receive different pay: one earns five dollars, the other ten, prompting discussion over team compensation and payroll disparity.
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Bocker
N. Y
For Bill Heads Letter Heads Fine Commercia Get Our Figure
A terse note discusses producing bill heads and letter heads for a commercial client. It emphasizes achieving a clear figure or price target and mentions potential turnaround timelines and placeholders for company branding.
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New York World
Earl Buckley
Island Heights
W. Floyd Campbell
Frederick E. Crane
Brook
Lyn
Saybrook
Cedar Grove
Pauline Weiss
Miss Weiss
George Corwin
Stamford
Bridgeport
Annie Barner
Elizabeth
Edward Copeland
Mad Dog
Anna Winters
Mary Edick
Shields
Tommy Williams
Hudson River
Grand View
Tommy
Mary
Mr. Edick
the World Magazine
Esther Evans
West Twenty-ninth Street
Margaret Hayes
East One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Street
Rena Elson
Battle Creek
Mich
Hannah Lavin
East One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Street
Hannah
Joe
Scotland
England
Progress «i
Sofie
Mr. Cooke
Stolypin
Kuzmin-Karaviev
Military Academy of Jurisprudence
Kalaiev
Sergius
Caucasus
Baltic
Poland
Hagnas Square
Longa Bron
Long Bridge
Skyddsgarde
Admiral Dubassoff
Moscow
Gen
Min
Col. Riemann
Warsaw
M. Stolypir
Harper’s Weekly
MH. Fisher
Columbus, Co
Cincinnati
Louisville
Chattanooga
Addrees J. A. Williamson
Toledo
Ohio
D. G. Edwards
A. & DL Railway
Defiance Tae
Deshier Ee
Tee Enews
Deshier
Letpste Je
Lima
Ewee
Wapakoneta
Wacseed
Sidney
Sore
Piqua
Dayton
North Bound
Neib
Hamilton
Dayton Seen
Bon Vy
Columbus Or
Ottawa
Leipsic Je
Ecscscceses
Ar Deshler
Ly Deshler
Ar Defiance
Bill Heads
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