Scare and Deception Stirred Town Wife Becomes Visitor
A bold young married man in a small town becomes entangled with a flashy widow type figure. After a theater seating encounter and later street car meet with a jealous wife, a mistaken visit to a “Mrs Naught” unfolds. The faux paramour arrives, is revealed as a club acquaintance, and the couple quibbles over the misunderstanding before peace returns.
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Young Woon
Widround
Carefal
Soins
Hank Mrs. Naught
Mrs. Naught
Kouw
Jack
Washington Star
Intalible Stock Tipster and the Weathered Market Ruse
A New York Sun reader reports a stock tipster trick where a firm uses an unreliable weather observer to pick stocks. The firm buys every stock the observer does not select, claiming weather forecasts become sound market wisdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y. Sun
Furniture Movers and a Fragmented Justice Tale
A chaotic clipping shows Justice Myrrett ruling on a suit by Miss Serah Farrell against furniture mover Wol Arnold amid fiery street chatter. The text meanders through stray captions about mines, wax figures, a political secretary, and unrelated quips, with garbled names and unclear events.
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Cinityre
Justes Myrrett
Serah Farell
Wol Arnold
Arnold
Vassir
Love Affairs End In Marriage headline shocks readers
A reader notes how a sensational love affair ending in marriage is portrayed by newspapers. The Philadelphia Public Ledger quotes a man regretting quarreling with a woman while the Louisville Courier Journal reports a "new thought" damsel reacting with a shudder to the shocking headline.
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Lousville
Mot Que Clear and Simkins My Brother in Accident
Fragmentary note from Chicago Tribune and Bosian Fost style lines. Mentions a serious accident yesterday and comments on a laundry being a place where shirts are exchanged. Mixed quotations suggest a clipped, surreal local item with unclear specifics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simkins
Timkins
Chicago Tribune
Twilight in Tenap's Studio Sparks a Heist of Pride
The tale recounts artist Tenap dismissing a beloved work Twilight as a jewel barely valued by the creator. Gorman, a warm friend, admires the painting and secretly saves to buy it, while Spargo helps secure it. A botched brag leads to an awkward, unresolved transfer and a starstruck dealer left waiting.
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Che
Seema Aither
Tenap
Gorman
Laing Tenap
Waltage
Thnis
Alnalire
Gor
Tian
Garmad
Garmad Came In He Would Help Twilieher
Temap
Fenap
Spargo
Tenay
Chicago Daily News
Slaves and Slaveholders in a Turbulent Age
A fragmentary 19th century letter mentions a single claimed U S slave from Morocco owned by painter Gilbert White, doubts the claim, and references tiny Seloinore Indian remnants in Vlora as new slaveowners. It notes a remote unmapped village Valliyfajassa, about 15 miles from a river site, and hints widespread slave use among Floridian Indians with enslaved Africans, while the author doubts abolition progress amid Everglades isolation.
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United States
Morocco
Gilbert White
Vlora
Bourghace
Japanese in New York Seeks Knowledge and Status
A fragmented report notes about 2 000 Japanese in Greater New York and surrounding states with 200 Christians. It lists 320 stores, basements, 4 major companies, 20 Columbia University students, and multiple Japanese students at Union Theological Seminary. It portrays Japanese as merchants, artisans, engineers, and students, ambitious and discontented with servitude.
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New York
Atlantic Coast Trail
New Yomnang
Baslheny Allies
Japan
Columbia University
Union Theuvsonial Seminary
Switt Tobogganing and Industrial Markets Clash
The fragment describes a tobogganing run at St Moritz with flaring speed and leaps down a steep slope, noting riders blasting over the hill and into a landing zone. It then shifts to a disjointed column about American industrial expansion, markets in Europe, and perceived global conquest, mentioning England Germany France and Saint Louis in a period voice.
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St. Moritz
Abe
Nul
Uesur
England
Germany
France
Europe
St. Lauls
Pat
Bird's Nest Pudding and Quick-Taken Snippets
A fragmented clipping blends a recipe for Bird's Nest Pudding with assorted light humor and notices. It outlines a fruit dish with apples and a biscuit-like topping, then jumps to cartoon-like dialogue about eloping and money, followed by quips from Chicago papers and a note that Italy will open 3,450 evening schools for illiterate adults.
Mountain Health Claim From High Altitude Bacteria Note
An advertising piece touts a tonic claiming health by altitude science. It asserts mountain air and elevation deter bacteria, citing a Swiss scientist and a 2500 foot claim. The article links digestion, appetite, and strength to the tonic and mocks swampy lowlands as disease-prone.
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Alabama
Cincinnati Tribune
D'Anber
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Snohson
Detroit
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Little Willie
Chicago Sun
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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Oberlin Business College
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