The Doddsworth Household Drama and a Secret Wedding
The narrator encounters the Doddsworth family in a sod house in Western Kansas. Bemis and Mary are involved with Mary by a bashful farmhand while Sally Doddsworth clashes with her husband over the match. The narrator stages a confrontation and learns Mary and Bemis married the night before, and he departs the next day.
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Kansas
Doddsworths
Bemis
Mary
Pearl
Tilly
Doddsworth
Sally
Squire Quinn
Doddswords
C. M. Harger
Detroit Free Press
Upas Tree Myths and Real Poison in Historical Accounts
Accounts from 1642 Paris letters to 1783 Foersch stories describe a deadly upas tree whose roots kill within ten cubits and whose juice is a poison. Critics note myths persist though Darwin popularized them, while Java’s barren zones result from carbonic gas, not Upas.
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Paris
Vava
Foersch
Bennett
Darwin
Upas
Java
Baby in the Bureau Causes Safe Yet Odd Cradle Trick
In a Pennsylvania town years ago a mother used the bureau as a makeshift cradle. She removed the top two drawers and sat the baby in the lower drawer, sliding it shut with the key turned. The child sat up and crowed contentedly, sometimes left alone for hours during the mother’s errands.
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Pennsylvania
No-aimed Harm Noted as Mother Acknowledged Knowledge
The passage reflects a scenario where the subject could not injure itself or surrounding objects, and the mother acknowledged that she knew this limitation. The context implies awareness of risk but no intent to cause damage or danger.
Funeral Customs for a Chinaman in Philadelphia
At a Philadelphia funeral for a Chinese man the deceased wore light garments and a straw hat, held a fan, and was provided money to pay passage to the unknown country. Mourners contributed coins that the undertaker could not fit all in the mouth, with half the pieces ending up in his pocket. Red white and black bunting marked the Sing Ye Hong Society burial.
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Philadelphia
Hong
Sing Ye Hong Society
Chinese Freemasons
Child waits in park as policeman questions him
In Central Park a wary boy tells a cop he is listening for his mother to tell his father about coming home late. He lives near Grand Central Depot and grins that the further the father is from home, the better it sounds, echoing a New York Mercury line from 9.
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Central Park
Grand Central Depot
New York Mercury
A Desirable Tenement and Its Basement Saloon
A Boston Courier remark questions landlords over high rents in a plebeian neighborhood. The reply notes a basement saloon accessible via back stairs on Sundays, illustrating urban tensions between housing cost and saloon proximity.
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Boston Courier
Modern Cushions and Prose in Old Theatre Banter
A dialogue mocks compliments and insults among characters, while a Ben Jonson reference links inflated cushions to modern comfort. A separate anecdote mentions a sick guest with expensive rooms described as suffering from nervous prostration in a focus on contemporary satire.
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Ben Jonson
Sir Epicure Mammon
India
Jim Jams
Secret of beauty: Be born pretty, says physician
A brief quip notes beauty as a born trait. The anonymous doctor suggests that even a well drilled society man will not admit boredom, framing charm as innate rather than cultivated.
A Thing of Beauty Remains A Timeless Joy
A line from literature proclaims beauty a lasting joy until fashion shifts. the idea endures as style and taste evolve with era and culture.
Refugees Recount Mountain Tragedy And Narrow Escape
In the mountains a man and boy pick up a refugee child who barely walks, then share how their families escaped floods and fire. Survivors describe the grim language used to avoid harsh terms as they learn a banker’s daughter was lost and a father and son meet on the road seeking news.
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Sister
South Fork
Be Merciful to Yourself With Stomach Bitters
A historic advertisement urges self mercy to the liver when ill noting right side pain yellow eyes furred tongue sour breath and bowel irregularity. It touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a prompt remedy to restore digestion headaches bowel activity and sleep, claiming benefits in malaria kidney rheumatic and nervous complaints.
Bold Cavalry Leader J T Wilder and His Civil War feats
The Washington Post profiles Gen J T Wilder a New Yorker turned Confederate mounted infantry leader. His brigade used Spencer repeating rifles to strike like a division and later built iron furnaces before turning to railroad construction. The piece notes his bluff manner and postwar ventures including the Charleston Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad. An advert for B F Johnson & Co invites readers to mail for wealth plans.
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Sherman
J. T. Wilder
Rosecrans
Thomas
Wilder
Ohio
Rockwood
Chattanooga
Ebbitt
Charleston, Cincinnati and
Chicago
Washington Post
What She Would Do in McQuade Trial Outburst
A New York woman, not bright in judgment, read the McQuade trial proceedings and grew indignant at the testimony. She exclaimed she would
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New York
McQuade
Dozzins' Electric Soap Purports Pure Hand Care
Advertises an electric soap claims to prevent chapping and cure salt rheum while preserving and whitening clothes. Encourages readers to have grocers order and try the product now.
Trust in Human Nature Fails in Grocery Store Context
A remark notes that faith in universal human integrity may suit prayer meetings but proves useless for everyday shopping, challenging optimistic views of plain honesty in routine commerce.
Return of the young man sparks football association invitation
The old gentleman protests the visitor's presence at the door while the youth asks to join the football association, moving from irritation to a mix of pain and admiration as the request is made. The scene reflects social tension and a budding sports affiliation in Boston.
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Vilrain
Our Football Association
Boston Beacon
Confidence in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Promised
The advertisement boasts a money back guarantee if the liver blood or lung remedies fail to cure. It claims extensive cures for skin eruptions blood taints and gland and bone diseases including scrofula and tuberculosis in time with persevering use. It also notes Drake Sage's Catarrh Remedy and a humorous note about a patient fearing burial alive.
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Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical
Palmer
B. A. Gavise
Franklin St
Chicago
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Mass
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Bryan
Business College
Buffalo
N.Y
CATON
Cs.com
Caiun
Kostom
Highland Park, Ill
Northwestern Military Academy
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Galery
Whatnessy
Standard Silverware Co
Boston
Masa. i — Ggg
Grannan Detective Bureau Co
Radway's
Mark
Hci Ae Pbalto
Mitmres Oate Medical Coq
Richimone
Theodore Hound
Box
Philada
Chadwick’s Mandal
Ness College
Sterling, DL
Gatarah
T. Hazeltine
Warren, Pa
Ata His
P'S
Jones
Emahemion
Binghamton
Hamton
N. Y
Northern Pacific
Minnesota
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Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Aps
E. Addrem Chas
B. Lamborn
Singer Sewin
M. A. Scullen & Co
West Lake St
Cincinnati , Ohio
CN. U
G. H.ingraham
Amsterdam
Big G
D. R. Dyche & Co
Dreggiukm
Joseph H. Hunter
Washington, D. C
Delav
Ayant & Stratton
Chicago Business College
B. Bryant & Son
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