Brampton College Dinner Ends With Love and Rivalry
Ursula helps the dinner guest Jerrold Greig, an Eastern psychology instructor candidate, while navigating his slimy advances. Rodney Judson wins the appointment over Greig, ending the council's chance at Greig joining Brampton and leaving Ursula and Rodney free to pursue their engagement.
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Ursula
Jarrold Greig
Professor Judson
Brampton college
Professor Judgon
Mrs. Judson
Jerrold Greig
Mr. Grelg
Mr. Greig
Ursua
pasamile
Greig
The Way of It. A Tall Man Married Shorter Ways
A witty exchange notes a tall man marrying and the reality of married life. The punchline reveals humor in domestic expectations versus day to day behavior, with a playful remark about height and happiness in housekeeping.
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Mainie
Beating Heart of Spat Sparks Burden Remark
In a tense exchange from the spat between Mrs. Naggs and Nages, he concedes I am a beast of burden as she accuses him of being a burden. The confrontation centers on a heated personal conflict and accusations.
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Nages
Mrs. Naggs
Twenty Three and the Slang Phrase Twenty Three
The article traces origins of the slang term twenty three tied to skidao meaning to escape. It cites a theater practice of memorizing 18 parts in five weeks to total 23 and a noted Genesis reference in Genesis chapter three verse twenty three as possible explanations.
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Adam
Garden of Eden
Belle And Beulah Scene Describes Shaken Knees
Dialogue captures a moment as Beulah recalls hearing Beulah feeling her father’s approach with his knees trembling beneath him. The exchange emphasizes tension, family dynamics, and a shared memory of fear or anticipation within a household.
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Belle
Beulah
Evolution of the Alphabet Origin Story
The article explains that alphabets evolved from pictures read and written by people, not created by a genius. It traces how symbols like O and L began as eye and house pictures, notes Egypt’s ancient sacred writing, and recalls the Rosetta Stone providing the key to reading picto-letters and modern letters.
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Egypt
Kansas City
Parrot Mix Up At Country Dinner
A bon viveur invites a neighbor to dinner and borrows a stable lantern. He forgets to relight it on return, arrives home all night, and discovers the lantern missing. His note asks for its return, but the reply humorously asks for the parrot and cage mistakenly taken along.
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Jones
J. R. ROBINSON
Robinson
H. P. JONES
Panorama of America in travel prose by Charles Phelps Cushing
A lyrical travel passage surveys American cities and landscapes from New York skyscrapers to California beaches and Gulf Coast scenes. It links landmarks like Niagara, Pittsburgh mills, Mississippi riverside towns, Canal Street, Mackinac, Charleston, Boston rituals, and West Point, celebrating national pride and place.
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America
New York
Tower of Babel
Niagara
Pacific
California
Pittsburgh
Mississippi
New Orleans
Canal street
Mackinacs
Michigan
old Charleston
St. Michael’s
Boston
Lexington
Concord
West Point
Charles Phelps Cushing
Not All So Harmless in a Christmas Treat Tale
A town councilor dons Father Christmas for the annual old folk at the local workhouse. His playful antics charm many, but overheard remarks by inmates reveal a harsher edge to the scene. One elder mocks the show while another questions the harmlessness of such celebrations.
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Father Christmas
Study to Do Your Own Business and Be Quiet
The note urges quiet study to calm inward life and to mind one’s own business. It warns against meddling in others affairs and the tendency to busy oneself with others matters, endorsing the divine and human order of self focus and restraint.
Comic Exchange On Money And Tuna Hum
A humorous dialogue about money asks and lectures on living costs. A wife responds with a tuna humming line before the husband issues an e check for the requested amount, turning a domestic moment into a witty financial quip.
Baltic Esthonians A Daring Militant People Of The Baltie
A National Geographic bulletin from Washington describes the Esthonians as about 1,000,000 people with 400,000 in Esthonia. It chronicles their Mongolian features, historic Baltic piracy, Danish conquests, centuries of serfdom under German lords, Swedish ties, and Russian efforts to suppress their language while noting a strong Lutheran majority and love of poetry.
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Esthonia
Riga
Petrograd
National Geographic society
Washington
Europe
Baltic
Canute VI
Waldemar II
Waldemar IV
Knights of the Sword
Esthonians
Peter the Great
Charles XII
Orthodox Greek church of
Russia
Diamond trade tied to marriages say Kansas City Star
Conservationists question wartime excess while jewelers cite statistics showing diamond demand mirrors marriage trends. US imports reached 84 million dollars, up 70 percent from 1915 and 110 percent from 1924, driven by engagement ring settings and the belief that a real diamond pledges plighted truth.
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Kansas City Star
United States
Meteora From the Moon Theory Revisited by Belot
French astronomer Emile Belot argues meteors may originate from volcanic eruptions on the Moon and other satellites. He calculates that ejecta at speeds comparable to Cotopaxi eruptions could escape lunar gravity and become satellites of the Moon, Earth, or Sun.
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Emile Belot
solar system
Cotopax
arttii
Hilarious War Finish Proposed by Henniker Scheme
A Boston Journal item posits a farcical end to the war using a laughing gas plan devised by Henniker. The scheme envisions dispersing a new gas over German trenches from aircraft, causing German troops including the Kaiser to laugh themselves to death.
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Henniker
Boston Journal
Promising Contralto Voices in Opera Lesson
A dialogue snippet features Alra praising a promising contralto voice while Miss Newrich notes that the professor’s flag blog soprano is much higher. The exchange hints at a music lesson or rehearsal focusing on vocal ranges and performance.
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Alra
His Experience. A terse exchange on coaxing versus driving
A brief dialogue fragment frames a debate about influencing a woman. The speaker contends coaxing might be easier, while the other concedes uncertainty but notes it is much safer. The exchange hints at social norms and gender dynamics of the period.
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