Wisner Seeks Love With Lottie in Undervale Store Romance
Wisner, owner of the Boston store in Undervale, woos Lottie Vincent after transforming the dry goods shop into a citylike department store. He hates he must win her over with real life charm, not stage tricks, as he awaits the right moment to propose after advice from Bennington of the Clem ons troupe and days of courting in her preferred shopping rounds.
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Undervale
Lottie Vincent
Lottie
Lottle
Sidney Wisner
Boston
Benson Block
Undertale
Jromer Vincent
Bank and Trust Company
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Fie
Ife
Clemmons Comedy Company
T Lottle
Ralph Rascevar
Clemmons
Lot
Imubert Pennington
Bennington
Bonnington
Bargain Wins Lotties Heart At Store Window Display
Lottie buys a bargain after a playful display scene at a store. Sid Wisner, busy dressing the window, catchs her smile through the glass as he clings to a sentimental moment. Lottie decides to take the item home to discuss it with her father Homer Vincent. The scene ends with her affectionate uplift and a light hug.
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Lottie
Wisner
Tie
Homer Vincent
The Playful Porpoise on a Black Sea Boat Trip
Henry C. Rowland recounts a Black Sea motor boat trip in Appleton's as porpoises joined the voyage. A playful youngster romped near the stern and bow, rubbing the boat and performing a toy like roll while the water stayed crystal clear and calm. The author notes the porpoises were fearless of noise and reminded him of kittens in their playful antics.
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Black Sea
Henry C. Rowland
Appleton’s
Mill Pond
Watering Steam Engines On The Run
A nineteenth century note explains a method to water transcontinental engines while in motion. A soldier or engineer shapes a trough and scoop system along the track to capture water as the locomotive speeds by, filling the tender without stopping for long refills.
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Freman
Herald
Uses For Baby Carriages In East Side New York
The East Side relies on baby carriages until they fall apart. Carriages serve as market wagons piled with potatoes, greens, fruit, and goods from stores. Boys collect wood from demolitions, push carts home, and other items like laundry, garments, coal, or even a plaything when worn out.
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East Sliders
New York
New York Press
Uncommon Talents and Wise Caution Compared
A dialogue recalls old customs when a woman boasting about her family faced public shaming or fines while the cautions about “uncommon” talents imply that people learned from experience. The speaker muses on how society treated bold behavior versus rare gifts.
Not Original Braggs Endorses Unusual View
A Chicago News item quotes Braggs and Nagges debating originality and satisfaction. Braggs claims he is not original and aims to be different. Nagges responds that others may be content with the status quo.
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Chicago News
Photographing Aileen in a Park Scene
Marvin Morton buys a camera and plans to photograph Aileen in the park. Aileen agrees to model in stylish autumn settings, but the clerk forgets to load plates, forcing a fallback chat under a tree while their plans for a first shoot fade. He then hints of a deeper feeling as she questions his meaning.
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Marvin Morton
Marvin
Custom House
Aileen
Pye
Airiea
Ecamera
Vingulug
Ife
Kodak
Thase
Picture Gallery of a Life Love Scene Between Aileen and Marvin
A narrator recalls a memory filled with portraits of Aileen in many moods, bright and fading not at all. The scene shows Aileen and Marvin, with her soft plea for his memory to stay vivid, and his plan to keep pictures bright by making her always present.
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Aileen
Marvin
Left to Right: Sun Worship and Hidden Beliefs
A veteran explains why people, objects, and even sports actions are believed to progress from left to right. He cites batter stirring, clock winding, screw turns, and whaling ship starts, linking these habits to prehistoric sun worship and a subconscious reverence for directional flow.
Cannon's Sneeze Delights School Audiences
Campaign visit by Speaker Cannon in his home state included a humorous episode in a public school. A student attempted Byron's Battle of Waterloo and, amid a rousing line, Cannon sneezed twice, provoking laughter from dignitaries. The boy then shouted a playful line about the cannon's roar, prompting more giggles and the speaker's quip about not shooting any more.
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Cannon
Demosthenes
Byron
Uncle Joe
Success Magazine
The Division of Time in Babylonian Chronology
The Babylonians divided the day into twenty four parasangs with each parasang an hour and each hour into sixty minutes and sixty seconds. Hipparchus introduced the Babylonian hour to Europe and the sexagesimal system was chosen for its sixty divisions. The sun’s progress in one hour at the equinox equaled one parasang, and the full day was twenty four parasangs.
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Hipparchus
Europe
Kissing the Hand as Roman Deference
The article explains that kissing the hand began as subservience and respect in early Rome. Under the first Cae sars the custom endured briefly, then limited to high rank as a special mark of condescension. Roman fathers kept such delicacy, never kissing their wives in front of daughters.
What She Inherited Left Handedness Manicurist Claim
In a quoted exchange the left handed manicurist asserts heredity determines skill and handedness. She notes her father grandfather and great grandfather were left handed, as were ten members of her family. The dialogue contrasts inherited trait with her chosen craft.
Happy Hunting Ground dialogue in Yonkers Statesman
A brief exchange humorously notes how a married woman seeking a husband might look in a club. The quip contrasts a woman’s search with a man’s view, reflecting social attitudes of the era.
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Yonkers Statesman
Not a Free Agent Noted in Ambiguous Marital Query
A cited quotation describes a colored citizen answering a question about his marriage with a deflective remark indicating uncertainty. The dialect signals historical context and likely editorial framing in a late 19th or early 20th century publication. The fragment preserves a candid personal response without sensational detail.
Joker Nugget Among Early Australian Gold Diggings
An 30 ounce Joker nugget sold for 600 dollars highlights a fortune in early Australian gold digging. A miner hid the find to avoid others at his claim, tainted by his laughter and fear, until ten days later the rumor spread and the claim remained unclear.
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Roman
Passing It On Greatness From A French Revolution Tale
Agostino Potidori, Italian great grandfather of Dinte Rossetti, recounts in his brother’s Life of the poet the moment he found himself armed during the 1789 Paris crowd at the Bastille siege. Facing a powdered wigmaker’s shout to fight, he fled the weapon by passing it to the first unarmed person he met, then returned home.
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Agostino Polideri
Dinte Gabriel Rossetti
Potidort
Paris
Palais Loyal
Party games map famous books with rebus puns
At a church function guests wore book themed devices and guessed titles from rebus clues. A card reading Ter implied A Tale of Two Cities by syllable pun, while another side with Ans led to The Last of the Mohicans as the final puzzle solution.
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Atonchurch
Manchester
Leicester
Chester
Lancaster
Gloucester
Chichester
Exeter
Quotations From The New York Sun And Lavater
An assortment of misquoted lines and aphorisms mentions a fashionable woman described pejoratively as a slut and a rocker’s worn mattress as a metaphor. The piece cites Lavater and a line about concealing joys versus criefs.
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New York Sun
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription Promises Women’s Health
The article urges readers to demand knowledge of ingredients in medicines. It extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for menstrual pain, strengthens nursing mothers, aids pregnancy, and relieves nervous disorders. It cites authorities and offers a free booklet by post from Buffalo NY.
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Pierce
Picerle
R. V. Pierce
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
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