The Ottawa Visitor and the New York Hotel Clerk
A New York hotel scene centers on a clerk who handles a snowbound reception with wit and tact. An Ottawa visitor, Ronald Farquharson, arrives with a misaddressed card and humorously misreads the clerk’s routine checks. The exchange highlights cross border curiosity and a cordial, comic crossing of paths among Canadians in the bustling hotel lounge.
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Ronald Farquharson
Robinsons
New York
Ronald Parquharson
Ottawa
Canada
Mystery Clerk and a Canadian Reporter Tale
A Ottawa clerk recalls a cunning nameless visitor who posed as a Western paper representative to gain warmth. The man, Bounderby alias Robinson Jones Brown, once a Detroit bookkeeper who vanished with money, fears exposure as he flees. The narrator vows to alert his mother and seek justice, amid whispers of Providence.
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Tom
Mr. Jones
New York
Robinson
Alias Jones
Farquharson
Mr. Brown
Was
Fargularson
Ottawa
Detroit
Bounderby
Jones and Brown
Canada
Khall
An Elin Sinking Told in Younghusband’s Sea Tale
Captain Younghusband recounts the sinking of the iron steamer Anel in shallow water after hitting a sand bank. Passengers and crew escaped by boats or spars while some perished in cabins as boats from another ship offered aid but fled in fear as the tide rose inch by inch.
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Captain Younghusband
Japan
Anelin
Gintsthy
Oll
Self aid toothache tale and rail pass anecdote unfold
A Foxcraft man treated a toothache by tying fish line to a missing tooth and using weights, recalling a Bath man’s self extraction. The piece shifts to Lake Shore Railway history, noting John Newell’s order barring passes on fast trains and a Nickel Plate pass with the inscription not good on passenger trains, ending with the feud between Newell and Caldwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nedeh Bor
Lake Shore Railway Company
John Newell
D. W. Caldwell
Nickel Plate
Lake Shore
Caldwell
Mr. Newell
Messrs. Newell
The Folklore Behind Tea and Its Global Rise
A whimsical 19th century essay traces Chinese tea myth from Prince Darmal to the leaf’s journey. It surveys origins, cultivation, and spread, noting tea’s growth in America, English perceptions, and global varieties.
Pots¢ Not Well Taken in Jitemairy Style Critique
A Chicago Tribune letter from a magazine editor mocks a contributor’s voice and critiques the elderly hearthstone motif. The author notes a longtime writer facing steady scrutiny for about36 years amid debates over style and merit.
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Weill
Esai
Chicago
Telbune
Bismarck Memoir Anecdote On Oysters And Quinine
A reminiscence from John Booth's Memos of the Iron Chancellor recounts Bismarck's eating feats. He reportedly ate 175 oysters, then 50 more after vowing to eat nothing else, amusing onlookers. The note mentions Bismarck at age 26 after returning from England and cites quinine manufacture details in Philadelphia by John Farr in 1820.
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Prince Bismarck
John Booth
Bismarck
Dngland
Philladelphia
John Farr
What a Brier Pipe Really Is
An examination reveals that the so called brier pipe is not made from brier but from heather wood. The term stems from the French bruyere. Heather grows on Tuscan Alps slopes and Corsica, with some in Algeria. French supply is scarce and there is no French Drier term Frepeh Drier. Dinner the Seragnon. We describe a meal in the harem with scones, white soup, boiled meat, curry vegetables, Zagazig pudding, fruit and rice, coffee in copper pots, and a Lily in the Desert server. Noting shells in battle. An army officer recalls seeing only a few shells in the air, often from the gun they fired, and describes dodging shells by taking cover just before fire.
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Heather
Tuscan Alps
North
Uisty
Corsica
Algeria
Jura
France
Alps
Nice
Lily
Desert
London Standard
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S. T. Rhodes
W. F. Pennington
Eugene Lynch
W.H. Anderson
H. C. Hobbs, W. R B. Peters
M. L. Blanchard
Lord
I. T. Baker
J. Culver, H. W. Ingram
Wye
Denton
Greenwood
Ellendale
Milton
Lewes
Queenstown
William M. Corn
Queenstown, MD
WM. Hopps & CO
Baltimore, MD
York
Baltimore Street
Baltimore, Maryland
John K. Calloway
Geo. A. McDaniel P. S
J. W. Wheatley
Dover ST
Easton, MD
Hig
Mathushek Ludwig
Bush & Gerts
Kar
Columbia
Queen
Statin Y
Easton
Wheeler & Wilson
James T. Cooper
Undertaker
Intox
T W. Smith
Cezicta
T. W. Smith
Ridgely, Md
B. C. Bibb Stove CO
Licur Street
Stonewald
Virgenia
Trilby
Wildfire
Stewart Bros
United States
Moody's
Simon
New York Mills
Garrett's
Saul
Puerto Rico
Juniata
Stewart Brothers
J. O. Taylor With
J.C. Shib & Company
Fruit and Produce Commission Merchant
East Camden St
Baltimo
National Bank of Baltimore
First National Bank
Stewartstown, Pa
Stewartstown
Boney
Tascam
Oscar Clark
Denton, Md
E. H. Roe
Queen Anne
Hartley
Baltimore
W. J. D. Lucas
Thomas Carmine
Ridgely
Maryland
Caroline
Adjoining
Talbot
Dorchester
GEO. K. McGaw & CO
N. Charles Street
Mgr
D. H. Mauledale
McGaw & Co
Two Johns
R. CG. Pepper, Jr
Caroline County
Orphans’ Court
Thomas H. Fluharty
Annie C. Fluharty
Mary O. Barrow
James H. Barrow
Thomas HB. Fluharty
A. T. Reichman
Third Street
A.T. Reichman
H. N. Rickards
Meno
Phyllis
John Kendrick Bangs
Lyery
Wis
Mr. Farquharson
Ronald
Nonald Farquharson
Ife
Mr. Robinson
Afcricans
James Scott Muirhead
Pasacs
Prince Carminial
Prom
Boston
Darnial
Ane Iudian
Celestial Empire
Dartazt
China
Dsrmal
Lindles
Althorsh Imany
America
North America
South America
East Indies
Africa
India
York Press
Rome
Tie
Olmo
Light Brigade
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Dinmarci
S@eragnon
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