Artificial Flowers and The Amazon River Mystery
An article notes hard work and pay in artificial flower making with orchids and American beauty roses as prized crafts, produced for millinery and corsage use and often done at home. It also describes the Amazon River's vast tributaries, width at the mouth, and its yellow-tinted floodwaters reaching far inland, with natives astonished by the opposite shore.
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France
Leslie's Weekly
Amazon
Para
Brazil
Not the Main Attraction
A short, curt note hints at an upcoming marriage with playful gossip about financial arrangements and a demand not to wake the groom by interrupting his nap. The fragment suggests social intrigue without naming individuals or places.
The Skillful Driver Moonlight Sleigh Ride Verse
A poem excerpt describes a sleigh ride under bright moon and soft breeze. The speaker feels rooted in Missouri while watching sleigh bells ring and the sleigh glide over crystal snow as a rider holds on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Man Wishes Wife Makes Her Own Bats
A man longs for his wife to craft her own baseball bats until he witnesses her produce one herself.
No Procrastination and a Propose a Quip of Wit
A string of witty exchanges and quotes opens with a playful engagement in which Charles asks Ethel to marry him and she coyly replies she will decide when she finds out. The remarks include Thoreau on simplicity and a joke about surgeon garb from the Minneapolis Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel
Charles
Mabel Hicks
London
Thoreau
Minneapolis Tribune
Postage Stamp Tongue Described By Physician
A physician says postage stamp tongue covers ailments from licking stamps and that three or four patients weekly seek help for throat trouble skin disease or pulmonary complaint caused by stamp licking. The Philadelphia Bulletin notes the hazards and prevalence of the habit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Bulletin
The Tip Conundrum in a Lender and Borrower Dialogue
A dated verse exchanges about tipping ethics and debt, contrasting lender borrower roles with casual dining costs. It recalls social norms on gratuities, responsibility, and memory of debts amid humorous quips about tipping and life moments.
How does he keep her no sweet tempered
A fragment hints at a story of courting habits with a man bringing a box of candy each night, suggesting a ritual or romance. Limited by incomplete text, the report notes his nightly gesture and the subject of the relationship.
Unclear prompt fragment on a woman's scene
The readable text fragment hints at a question about a woman's situation and an unknown man’s head size. The context is insufficient for a concrete event,人物或地点。 Further details are needed to form a proper news-style card.
When a Boy Is Sick the Switching Opportunity Arises
A saying notes that illness often prompts a boy to take ill to seize a chance to be excused. The idea frames sickness as a pretext for obtaining special treatment or attention.
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Gould
Lynch
Fisk
Belden
Speyer
Brooklyn
Georgie
Dothan Guano CO
Dothan
ALA
Pert Parag
APHS
Dorothy Dodd
Crossett
Hanai and
O. P. Creen
Dothan, Alabama
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