Newport Society Debut Ends In Quiet Plot Twist
A Maine editor recalls a lively town meeting moderator and a Newport society tale of Lady Blackburn and her daughter Constance. The journalist follows the debut poised to woo wealth, then learns a hidden romance ties to a stolen jewel and a hurried, final decision to bury the sensational scoop.
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Newport
Lady Blackburn
Europe
Lions of
Newport Society
Bertin
Blackburn
Montana
Indyship
Rock House
Constance
Rock Trouse
Blackburns
Senator Gray
Stock House
Abandoned Baby At Jersey Ferry Echoes Hidden Story
A working woman recalls finding a refined woman with a baby left at a Pennsylvania railroad ferry. The seeker ferried across to New York, failed to locate the mother, and searched Bellevue, Blackwell’s Island, and Jersey City records for the infant. The tale ends with no trace of the child’s mother.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Jersey City
Ching
New York
Jersey Ferry
Cortlandt Street
Bellevue Hospital
Blackwell's Island
Walt
Bellevue
New Jersey
Uncle Sam as a Publisher in Government Reports
A Saturday Evening Post piece notes the vast scale of official government literature. It highlights thousands of reports and volumes, with maps and plates, and mentions that private firms also handle substantial printing work despite the Government Printing Office being the largest in the world.
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Uncle Sam
Government Printing Office
Government
Saturday Evening Post
Interior Department Manages Broad Duties Highlighted
The Tangest Department of the government has least public interest, with eight divisions including pensions general lands Indian affairs education railroads geological surveys and census each needing far more work than cabinet offices a secretary of the interior leads these divisions and also oversees national parks hospitals and eleemosynary institutions per Saturday Evening Post.
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Ricgeant
Department of the Interior
Secretary of the Interior
Saturday Evening Post
How He Dealt With Cowards Pasha Osiman Pasha and public discipline
Osiman Pasha son of Plevna is sketched as a plain uniformed leader who hates foreigners and detests war correspondents. He deals with cowards by publicly boxing their ears and his anger turns to tears. the Czar Alexander II reportedly praised his defense as one of the finest feats in military history.
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Osiman Pasha
Plevna
Napoleon
Tie
Aten
Alexander II
Pittsburg Dispatch
Quotes on advice and editors in two papers
The dialogue runs with Lawyer asking why the lawyer did not seek advice and Kraft replying that any counsel would be poor or overpriced. The second line notes the editor in a busy town tries to publish ten pages in a four page issue, attributed to the Philadelphia Press and Washington Post.
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Washington Post
Duel in Louisiana Ends Before It Starts
The account describes a 19th century duel challenge between M. Marigny of Louisiana and a Georgian ex-blacksmith named Humble. Humble refused at first, then accepted with a condition to duel in Lake Pontchartrain with sledge hammers in six feet of water. Humble, taller than Marigny, joked at the outcome but the duel never occurred.
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Minnie Waller Myers
Gulf Coast
Louisiana
M. Marigny
Humble
Georgia
Tts
Lake Pontchartrain
Some Queer Definitions From Bailey’s Etymological Dictionary
An 18th century sample list defines terms with playful and idiosyncratic meanings. Entries include Thunder as a noise known by persons not deaf and Lightning as a meteor, with others such as Balloon for a football and Peacock as a fine bird.
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Bailey
London
Reneon
Tropics
Paderewski the Deceiver Critique from a Kansas paper
A Kansas City newspaper columnist attacks Paderewski calling him deceitful and failing to perform a tune. The critic describes his stage presence as distracting and偉 melodious yet unfulfilling, accusing the pianist of fake artistry and illusion.
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Paderewski
Kansas
Convention Hall
Kansas City
Tie
Ike Paderewaki
Jim
Tower of Famine in Pisa Agrim of Ugolino Tale
The Torre della Fame once stood in Pisa and bears a gruesome history. Count Ugolino della Gherardesca led the Guelphs and was overthrown by the Ghibellines. He and his kin were imprisoned in the tower where starvation killed them. The tower’s door was locked and keys tossed into the Arno.
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Pisa
Italy
Ugolino Della Gherardscha
Dante
Arno
Fish Sounds Through The Oceanic Orchestra
Many fish generate musical sounds with varied mechanisms. The trigla emits long drawn notes spanning about an octave. Some ophidum species use movable bones to create sharp rattles. The umbrivas creates a curious drumming audible at twenty fathoms depth.
Newly Appointed French Mayor Sets Weather Linked Review
A newly appointed French mayor inaugurates his regime with a notice stating the fire brigade review will occur in the afternoon if it rains in the morning, and in the morning if it rains in the afternoon. The instruction links the review to the weather on the feast day of their patron saint.
Quotations and notes from Sharper's Bazaar
Fragmentary text includes ad style lines about neckties and a wife gift and a general reflective note on invention and opportunity. The passage mentions Sharper's Bazaar and a comparison of daylight between London and Glasgow, indicating a miscellany of quotes and musings from a period paper.
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Ak Oe
P. H. Golt, W.H. Denny
J. HR. Merrieen
W. F. Pennington
Eugene Lynch, R. T. Carter
W.H. Anderson, H. C. Hobbs, W.R. Peters
M. L. Blanchard
Lord
I. T. Baker
J. Culver, BE. W. Ingram
Wye
Tuckahoe
Denton
Greenwood
Ellendale
Milton
Lewes
Queenstown
William Mf. Conn
Wm, Hopps & CO
Baltimore
Hertford
United States
Mammoth Hardware Store and Machine Shope
Salisbury
Maryland
Irving and
Lady Irving
Rosemont
Bright Oak
Nuttle Hardware Company
HE Hughes Lumber and Coal Company
J. W. Wheatley
Dover ST
Easton, MD
Weaver Carpenter
Mathushek
Ludwig Bush
Geris
Columbia
Exstan
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
James T. Cooper
Undertaker
POLY
T. W. Smith
Ridgely
Joan W.causey
Ris
Wam, Dianey, Sfcy and
Taras
Kent County Mutual Insurance
Dover
Delaware
John T. Carter, Jr
Denton, Md
R. Plummer
Greensboro, Md
Alex. Noble
Preston, Mil
Colston'’S Pharmacy
Colston
David Haenm
Richard Carvel
Robert Hardy
Philip Strang
Peck
Kay
Squire John
Dora Tenny
Andrew
Sally Charles
Nerine
Dorothy
R. J, Colston
WM. J.C. Dulany Co,ublishear
Milton Bradley
Baltimore St
T.L. Day, Swing & Company,anufacturers
Fallowfield & Temple
Marydel
W. W. Golpsporovuah
Greensborough
T. L. Day
Swing & CO
Ridgely, Maryland
Town Meeting
Town House
Maine
Cephas Johnson
Perkin
Ira Patterson
Ezzy Goll
Lewiston Journal
Mamma
Lady_ Blackburn
Wiese
Ion
Constance Blackburn
Dung
Janes
John
Pringe
the Tower of Famine
Jewett
Glasgow
Pefr Prrter
Emlniy
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