Real Life Romance Behind Movie House Ushers
Molly Lang, an Empire Moving Picture Palace usher for years, obsesses over a loyal couple whose secret affair unfolds during a film. She orchestrates a seating nudge for the mysterious man and girlfriend, witnessing their reunion on screen and in life, ending with Molly choosing real life over cinema fantasy.
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Molly Lang
Empire Moving Picture Palace
Chirlie
Bahl
Nation Counter
Charlie
Tft
Molly
Charley
Bellows Fade From City Blacksmith Tradition
An old New York waterfront blacksmith shop recalls giant bellows once vital to fueling forge fires. The wharves once crowded with sailing ships, now replaced by modern blowers, leave the shop still home to the anvil. Today the smith uses a switch to start a steady fire blast.
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New York City
The Art of Simplicity in Literature
A compact reflection on how true artistry lies in simple expression. The text favors clarity and concise movement, likening literary rectitude to the flawless spontaneity found in nature and animal motion, praising master artists across ages.
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Walt Whtanan
Goats as Nervous Stallion Remedy in Stable Tradition
In old racing culture breeders keep a companion animal for nervous stallions and mares. Goats are common in major stables to calm temperamental horses, a practice likely originating in England where the thoroughbred began. The goat is viewed as the best remedy for stall walking and related stress during training.
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England
Unique Specimen Literary Quip On Genius
A witty exchange elevates a man to literary genius, noting he writes and pays his board at the same time. The remark playfully treats his talent as a handy, practical gift, underscoring the humor in recognizing genius in everyday acts.
Subtle Enjoyment in City Pigs Trade
Mrs Corntessel asks if any pigs were sold. Her husband answers no, claiming he gains more pleasure from driving them around than money could buy. He says the sight makes the city peep envious.
How to Retain Youth Through Wisdom and Discretion
The article argues youth is a spiritual energy not erased by age. Wisdom and discretion grow with years, while aging is not inevitable decay. Mental engagement and purpose keep vitality alive, preventing early senility and preserving the will to act with energy and focus.
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Richard le Gallienne
Harper's Magazine
Sophocles
Dong
Thinker’s Lot and the Heroic Mind
Excerpt from Oliver Wendell Holmes urging true education begins after formal schooling. It stresses solitary toil, inner doubt, and self-reliance to think great thoughts. The thinker gains isolated joy even if unrecognized, aiming to do one’s appointed task and be ready for end.
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Hfe
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Origins of popular sayings and their sources
An overview tracing well known expressions to their origins in calendars and literature. Red letter days come from ecclesiastical calendars printed in red. Murder will out from Chaucer. Truth is stranger than fiction possibly from Byron. Escaped with the skin of his teeth linked to the Bible Job. Necessity is the mother of invention from 1658. Eaten her out of house and home from Shakespeare. Anything for a quiet life from Middleton. Turn over a new leaf first appears in the same Middleton work.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Mordre
Byron
Don Juan
Job
Frnanek
Middleton
Ironies of Life to Omuelson and Other Tales
A collected dialogue of ironies from a retired merchant and hotel keeper, recounting a sheriff closing a store after a talk on business efficiency, the horse breaker Do Juan, a dramatic Irish court verdict disruption, and a failed political speech ending in comic self embarrassment. The anecdotes illustrate fate opposing ambition with sardonic insight.
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Omuelson
Do Juan
File
Jake
Hall of Justice
Conkling
Death Valley’s Ancient Lake Bed and Harsh Desert Heat
The article argues Death Valley in California was once lake filled by a vanished river. A dry wind corridor drains moisture as Pacific air crosses four mountain ranges, leaving the valley extremely arid. Bottom sits below sea level, borax deposits are valuable, yet labor is deadly without water in summer.
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Death Valley
California
Pacific
Dentistry for wild animals and the risks involved
A dentist explains that dental work on wild animals like bears or tigers is as dangerous as it is fascinating. Filling rough teeth, or extracting teeth from uncooperative beasts requires nerve since sedation is not possible. One menagerie owner even fitted an old bear with false teeth, glued in to stay in place.
Had To Overlook Foibles Of Herbert Spencer
A passage recounts Herbert Spencer’s petty habits such as ear-stoppers and cushions, plus a quiet kindness that softened his rigid personality. An unnamed friend recalls Spencer pressing ear stops at lunch and inviting a talk-free carriage ride, revealing a mix of irritations and rare generosity in his character.
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Herbert Spencer
Spencer
Michael Foster
Paris
Alliteration in Ancient Writings Notably Noted
William Mathews notes that while ancients sometimes use alliteration, it is seen as a rhetorical flaw. He cites Cicero, Officies, “Sensim sine sensu actas senescit,” and Virgil in the Aeneid with many marked alliterations.
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Cicero
Virgil
William Mathews
Try Try Again in War Measures Paradox
The quoted exchange notes Lottarox failed for six months to gain passage to the battlefields of France while he had spent two years trying not to see them. The humor centers on wind changing opinions about war sites.
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Lottarox
France
The
American Legion Weekly
Denton
Doan
C.K. Evans
Sixth St
Dean
Mr. Evans
Dean’s
Evans
Lfoster-Milburn Co
Mfr
Buffalo
N. Y
Revenue agency posts record tax haul since 1862
The Internal Revenue Bureau reported the fiscal year ended June 30 as the highest annual tax collection since its establishment in 1862, marking a landmark in government revenue.
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Internal Revenue Bureau
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