Wall Makes Way for Love in a Miser’s Tale
A misanthropic baronet Sir Giles Travis in retirement at Travis Towers spies through a hole in the wall where a young couple Jack and Joan exchange love notes and plan marriage. After Jack inherits a practice and funds from a sale of the old physician, the trio’s fate tightens around the wall as years pass with Sir Giles watching a growing family beside him.
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Gilea ‘Travis
Qiles
Zootman
Giles
Sir Giles Hand Pean
Jack
Travis
Sir Giles
Travis Towers
Loti
Joan
Hoe
Giles Travis
Consumers’ Queer Whims Expose Food Color Deception
A government pamphlet, credited to George K. Holmes, critiques how consumer demand for color over quality drives adulteration. It cites brown eggs, white butter, dyed ketchup, caramel coloring for cider and whisky, and bleached prunes and walnuts, arguing public taste fuels fraud and poor standards.
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Department of Agriculture
George K. Holmes
Ilvision
Bureau of Statistics
Boston
New York
San Francisco
Chicago
Washington
Heat, humor, and a bemused cashier in a bustling city
A hot day drives a downtown cashier to sigh at an impatient passerby while a playful exchange of quips unfolds. The scene shifts to a minstrel vignette and a glimpse of Derby lore, with a Detroit joke and a London Chronicle note on the twelfth Earl of Derby, cuing the era’s mood and cultural references.
Castle of Russian Dukes and Their Vast Holdings
The 33 Russian grand dukes reportedly own castles and palaces in Russia and abroad and an army of about 20,000 servants. They hold one-fortieth of Europe’s best lands, while six of the 33 are said to have only the most basic literacy. A villager’s quip about Edwin’s horse is recounted, and a gondola dinner at a New York hotel showcases a lavish flower display featuring tens of thousands of blooms and yards of sunilax.
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Russia
New York Hotel
The Postveritagraph and the Hooded Inventor
An amused visitor recalls meeting a suburban inventor and his odd device named the postveritagraph. The gadget, a letter box with wires and a black box mechanism, prompts the guest to act as postman. A mishap leads to a tense search for pliers, a comic scramble, and a supper invitation before the narrator departs for another engagement.
Where is your paper and sale notices in a domestic scene
A husband reads aloud to his wife as she plans shopping and a home breakfast routine. The scene shifts to a vivid collage of sales on talferaa, mohairs, linen suitings, and fashion details, interwoven with a crime report about a man attacked for his watch. The piece closes with light anecdotes about grammar corrections on a streetcar and a short exchange about a missed kiss.
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Mary
Thumintinger 4 Co
Panama
Pricoa
Lcannot
Maris & Downd
Atlantic City
Sam
Charlie
Sun
City of Nomanana and the tale of To-mor row
A fable set in the City of Nomanana contrasts daily toil with the chase for To-morrow. A Man from Nowhere exposes that the people live for labor and wealth, not happiness, and declares To-morrow never arrives while To-day lasts. Evening stars soothe him as he finds peace in the present.
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Namanana
Mai
Jong
Uegert
Nomanana
Bluff Man From Montana Encounters Spiritual Seance Twist
A Western prospector, seeking pay rock, recalls a fatal lightning strike that killed his partner Cole Rigley. Years later in Pittsburgh he attends a seance with a commercial traveler and receives a slate message naming Cole Rigley, surprising the skeptical narrator.
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Montana
Pay Rock
Washington
Pilixbury
Cole Rigley
Kootenai
Smaji
Cole
Jock
Painter
Theo
Colorado Hills
Jess
Pittsburg
New York
Denver
West
Jack
Far West
Washington Star
Great Lakes Ashing Marks New Era With Salmon Catch
In Lake Michigan, a ten pound fresh water salmon was caught off Waukegan by Gamash, Smith & Co. The government planted young salmon years ago. few appeared then, but now hundreds three to four pounds are reported near Milwaukee and Waukegan. A Washington report will follow. The rest is a whimsical aside from Puck.
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Great Lakes
Gamash, Smith & Co
Waukegan
United States
Lake Michigan
Waukeyxau
Washington
Dressed to Kill Nero Prowls In The Arena
Dressed to Kill Nero proclaims in the Roman senate that he is dressed to battle, wearing goggles and a rubber coat. Meanwhile a French torpedo boat engages porpoises off Brittany as two Munich scientists photograph the human heart between beats using the Roentgen method.
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Nero
Brooklyn
Brittany
Munich
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BY & Platt
Ycager
Chicago Record-Herald
Yambo
Tambo
Highcallah
Miss Toober
Detroit Tribune
Earl of Derby
Anza Parren
Lawrence
Epsom
Porter
London Chronicle
Sern Adwin
Edwin
L. Lumley
Lalighe
Plerr
Westport
Kansas City Times
Grayce
Maude
Gladys
Perdy
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Edwin Bjorkman
Betefs
Puck
Attention
Denver, Colo
Clayaimnd
Grafton
Wellington
Psotta
St. Louisa
B. &. Kensity
Trav
Pass
Cleveland
Hiro
H. A. Dykeman
Grand Aerie Orde of Eagles
Callon
Warnes J. Lynch
Cincinnati
Ohio
B. C. Kerney
Gleveland, Ohne Seng
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