The Poet and the Peasant on Broadway
A poet friend submits a nature filled pastoral to an editor who calls it artificial. A Ulster County farm man travels to New York, hungrily chasing a graft, costing him nearly a thousand dollars in folly as he learns the city will not credit rustic charm. Conant, a novelist, signs another rustic verse, and the editor ultimately praises the poem after a costly urban misadventure.
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Doubleday, Page & Company
Conant
Commit
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forty-second street
Mr. Blaney
Eighth avenue
Bunko Warry
TWarry
Proctor’s
Ulster county
Poughkeepsie
sport
ancent
Rubes
Nike
Brooklyn
Ife
Bunko Tarry
Pittsburg
Jarry
Shaylocks
Harry
Naytocks
meister
phonograph
Mike
jny
McAdoo
Saylocks
Mr. Edison
Broadway
eags
Haylocks
newsy
tink
keno
old Ulster
Ike
Tony Pastor
Mr. Scolty
Death galley
Taylocks
folka
New York
Haslocks
cove
gers
Long Acre
Dhn
West Forty-seventh street
Lovely Lucerne the Playground of Europe and its Alpine panorama
Lucerne in central Switzerland is praised as the tourist center of the Playground of Europe. The city sits beside Lake Lucerne with the Pilatus and Rigi mountains nearby. Viewers can see the Lake of the Four Cantons and a panorama of glaciers and peaks including the Bernina Gothard Unterwalden and Bernese Alps on clear days from the Rigi. The Mig presents fourteen lakes visible, including Sempach, site of a historic Swiss victory.
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Lucerne
Switzerland
Europe
London
Cantons
Rigi
Bernina
Gothard
Unterwalden
Bernese Alps
Sentis
Naming a Yacht and the Perils of Titles
A 19th century note compares naming a yacht to book titles, warning against plagiarism and confusion. It cites a British cabinet minister who christened his yacht Flirt, a choice his daughters found inappropriate, highlighting family dismay at the playful label.
Methods of Capital Punishment in Old World Nations
The article surveys global execution practices, noting flogging in Morocco, strangulation in Austria and Spain, and garrote methods. It traces historical methods from English hanging to French guillotine, the electric chair in New York, and Prussian beheadings, ending with remarks on abolition in Switzerland and Italy.
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Morocco
Mulal Safid
Shereef Kittab
ameer
Afghanistan
Kabul
Persia
Tehuran
England
Austria
Spain
state of
New York
Germany
France
Bethune
Guillotn
Switzerland
Italy
St Louis
Where Ears Grow Sharp Balloonist records sound from high altitude
A French balloonist notes sounds heard from ground at height of 5000 feet such as hooves on a road and ducks splashing, and at 7000 feet crowing cocks. Sounds pass through cloud cover while a hush in the air reveals the balloon’s rope stretch as it expands.
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Harper’s Weekly
Printer’s advice on hotel sign wording leads to question
A hotel proprietor asks printer Mr Dash for help painting a sign reading Writing Room Free to Our Patrons. Dash questions the word patrons and suggests a better phrasing. The exchange pivots on how to phrase the notice.
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Dash
Mr. Dash
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