Taught Him A Lesson The Organ Grinder’s Bold Lesson
A wealthy young man Mr Greatscott confronts a Neapolitan organ grinder who endures insults from a clerk named Jones. Greatscott orders the organ to be weighed and compels Jones to apologize, then rewards the grinder with $25 to $30, sending him on his way as the music resumes.
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Mr. Greatscott
house of Greatscott& Co
Jones
Mr. Jones
Clarkson
New York
Boston Transcript
The Human Voice and its Strong Social Power
A crowded narrative of voices shaping crowds and fate. Tales include a fireman urged by a cheer lifting a child to safety, Rome’s basilica alarm and the obelisk ceremony where silent crowds heard a sailor boy cry to wet the ropes. A Chicago Tribune anecdote adds a skull fragment kept for reflection on mortality.
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New York
St. Paul
Rome
Domenico Fontana
Theo
Outh
Building Materials and On-site Estimates by X O X Ben
X O X Ben of Cambridge Maryland offers lumber shingles sash doors blinds mouldings mantles stair work lime laths plastering hair cements calcined plaster and building specialties. When builders request it he will meet at the site to provide on the spot estimates and share information based on long experience.
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Light St
Balto
Eclectic Magazine promotes leading world writers selection
Eclectic Magazine showcases essays science travel poetry and biographies from renowned authors like Gladstone Tennyson Huxley and Swinburne. It publishes two yearly volumes totaling over 1700 pages with steel engravings and a price of 45 cents for a single copy or 3 per year.
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the
Helectia
Re. Mon
W. E. Gladstone
Alfred Tennyson
Professor Huxley
Professor Tyndall
W. L. Matlock
J. Norman Lockyer
RLS
BE. A. Freeman
D.C. Lj
William Black
Mrs. Oliphant
Cardinal Newman
Cardinal Manning
Miss Thackeray
Thomas Hardy
Robert Buchanan
electic
H.R. PELTON
Baxp Strucet
New York
Discourager of Hesitancy and a Curious Ghostly Tale
An anecdotal account recalls a first article that made the author briefly rich and famous as a county treasurer. The piece, titled D, Lynn Q Vent Tacqueslist, featured 1500 characters and drew wide reader interest. A second tale about Horses Pasture oak and a murder observed by a whip poor will circulates as a local legend from Austin, Texas.
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Lynn Q
Ad. C. B. Holding
C. B. Holding
Austin
Tex
New York Sun
London bank visitor claims heir to baronetcy
A genial old man visits a London bank and tells a junior clerk he is heir to a baronetcy after the death of a relative. He asserts an income of at least £10,000 a year and £50,000 in a current account, later fixed at not less than £16,000 annually.
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Thomas Sheridan
Kinzie street
A. C. King
Market street
mate
Marine hospital
Chicago Tribune
London
an mele
cntleman
San Francisco
First Chrysanthemum Introduced to England in 1794
The first chrysanthemum in England arrived around 1794 with blooms first flowering in November 1795 at Mr Cahill's Chelsea garden. Plants from that garden spread, giving rise to familiar varieties including the camelia. Early blossoms were deep crimson, two inches across, and petals twisted like a porcupine quill.
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England
Tough World for Women Warns a Child About Marriage
A child asks if marriage will bring a husband like her father or if she will be an old maid like Aunt Kate. The mother answers yes with amusement, while the girl notes the tough world facing women.
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Flossie
Kate
Mamma
Queen Victoria’s Eccentricities Revealed in Private Rituals
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on Queen Victoria’s peculiar mourning habits. She preserves her late husband’s belongings as they were, with his horses dead in stalls and his slippers arranged as if he might return. The queen is said to believe his spirit visits her in memory of their days.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Advances in dentistry replace anesthesia with electricity
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat dentist notes ten years of progress in dentistry. Electrical extraction and filling methods are now common and favored over anesthesia due to safety. Bridge work advances allow teeth to be fitted without roof plates, and porcelain crowns provide natural appearance.
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St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
Railway accident near chair endangers infant
A fragment reports a frightened wife and a recovering husband in a rail road family incident. She screams as the husband nearly sits on the chair where the baby had been placed, blaming railroad life for the danger. The text reflects a chaotic, informal dialogue with garbled phrasing and stray words.
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