The Bracelet That Brought Royalist Love
In 1648 a Glasgow Edinburgh coach is halted by a masked highwayman who helps free the stuck coach and eyes the valuables. A young royalist girl secretly rewards him with a bracelet, sparking a romance with Sir Walter Douglas who later reveals his loyalty and marries her. The tale ends with Charles II’s restoration and the bracelet worn at court.
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Poker Scandal Report From Northwest Trip
According to Drury Underwood, Pd Heffernan Charley McDonald and Billy Maloney traveled northwest years ago and played a three handed poker game. Heffernan quit, McDonald and Maloney continued, McDonald went all in, and a strange bed scene followed with a door lock remark about Maloney’s coins.
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New York Sun
Look Out for the Young Man from Vermont
A tall awkward man from Vermont visited a North River boat at Albany in 1854 and beheld the ship bell. He bargained to ring it for a dollar, then rang it wildly causing alarm. The captain agreed to the bargain and finally paid him five dollars plus a free passage to New York to stop ringing.
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urper’s Weekly
Too Difficult to Retract Junto Argument
The late Herr Gotthilf Welstein, a famed German book collector, argued heatedly with a man over a Wsilke. Welstein lost his temper and shouted a stammering insult. The opponent coolly demanded a retract, to which Welstein refused, insisting he could not retract the insult.
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Embarrassingly Enthusiastic Edwin Forrest Play
An amusing anecdote recalls Edwin Forrest staging Metamora with Supers as Indian warriors. A bright Irish lad portraying a warrior forgot his role and shouted as Forrest proclaimed the line, yelling Begorra, ye are, while twirling his tomahawk.
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Dewey Orders Heavy Tackle Raised and Tobacco Dumped Overboard
In a foreign port Admiral Dewey directed the heaviest hoisting tackle from the ship’s hold to be brought out without delay. After two hours of effort the tackle was in place. He then ordered a large chew of tobacco from under a gun to be hoisted overboard into the sea.
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Dewey
Accommodating Readers Seek Real Bloodcurdling Read
A nostalgic plea for an exciting gruesome article prompts a humorous reply about a dressmakers bill. The exchange hints at appetite for thrilling content while playing with domestic roles.
Franks Letter Touches Family From Baltimore
A fragment notes a mother named Julia and a father asking about how much money their son Frank sent, described as a touchins letter from Baltimore.
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Frank
Baltimore American
Mr Battis as Captain Cuttle at the 1913 Chautauqua
Mr Battis portrays Captain Cuttle among a dozen Dickens characters in Life Portrayals at the Chautauqua platform. The act features Battis’s wide vocal range and his notable monologues. A novel highlight is the rapid change of wigs, grease paint, and costumes before the audience.
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William Sterling Battis
Micawber
Scholar Statesmen. England's Distinguished List From Bacon to Morley
England has long joined scholarship and public life in politics and letters. From Francis Bacon to Lord Morley of Blackbane, many leaders combined learning with statecraft. Names like Temple, Bolingbroke, Pulteney, Carteret, Burke, Fox, Canning, Derby, Gladstone, Beaconsfield, Salisbury, Swift, Addison, Grote, Macaulay, and Mill appear as examples.
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Morley
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Burke
Fox
Canning
Derby
Gladstone
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Addison
Grote
Macaulay
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Edinburgh Review
Sponge Cultivation Methods In Florida Waters
In Biscayne Bay Sugar Loaf Key and nearby Florida coasts sponge culture experiments prosper. Seed sponges are cut small and attached to cement blocks then lowered to the ocean floor for a year or two. Later they are detached and replanted with new cuttings. Another approach strings sponges on a horizontal wire but corrosion and loosening posed problems until a copper-core wire improved durability.
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Correcting a Quotation from A Wanderer in Florence
In this book RE V Lucas offers a new reading of a Florence quotation about leaves and Vallombrosa. He notes the line was credited to a cousin abroad and recounts a Vallombrosa visit with hotel rates. An American departing friend is cited saying Milton was wrong about the line meaning thick as thieves.
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RE. V. Lucas
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Flushing Institute Announces Sept 15 Start
The New York Daily Times on Aug 10, 1868 carried the notice under Instruction. Dear Boys Trouble begins Sept. 15. BE. A. FAIRCHILD. The fragment shows a grimly humorous school announcement from the era mentioning Flushing Institute and start date.
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New York Daily Times
FLUSHING INSTITUTE
BE. A. FAIRCHILD
A Rude Little Girl Maiden Aunt Reading
A brief Chicago News item notes a humorous exchange about heaven having no marriage and a maidens aunt character Mazie remarking it may seem heavenly on earth to her aunt. The dialogue highlights social gossip and wry humor from the era.
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Chicago News
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