Dramatic London Premiere Brings Miles and Esme Face to Face
In a London theatre crowd Captain Gee introduces Miles Brabazon to Mrs Bohum as Esme Brabazon and her cousin Miles cross paths with Esme. A dramatic confrontation unfolds when Esme recognizes Miles amid the audience, exposing renewed tension from a past engagement. The scene spirals as Miles contemplates escape.
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Cilaimier
Evlatns
Troy
Tintian
Captain Gee
England
Miles
Esme
Phis
South Africa
London
Teddy
Tad
Gussie
Cape
Trent
Jone
Waysiaiay
Heme
Brabazon
Mame
Fragmented passages reveal misunderstood confrontation
The text portrays a confused scene where Mr Hepburn, described as a foolish youth, faces a tense moment with Miss Bewe. A soldierly man is implied and suspicion arises about unseen events. The narration hints at agitation and emotional strain without clear context or resolution.
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Hepburn
Bewe
Beauty's Greatest Foe: Bad Temper Fast Tracks Wrinkles
A Woman's Home Companion excerpt argues that temper and worry drain nerve energy and accelerate aging. It details how anger dulls eyes, loosens muscles, and wrinkles the skin, claiming women value youth and beauty above all. It urges calmness to preserve looks.
Animal actors in London hire hundreds of horses
The London stage market demands hundreds of trained horses and other animals for pantomimes pageants and touring shows. Last year alone over fifty horses were sent on touring, with managers hiring leading horses for city rounds and provinces. A firm currently puts on hire more than two hundred horses for these stage uses.
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London
Stase
Printer Alters Wording of Poems Says Man
A long haired man notes that printers often mix words in poems, causing different ancalling and thoughts from the author’s intent. A practitioner asks how much the printer charges, prompting further inquiry.
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Iniiapapolis Sun
Feast day of St Bede observed by Roman Catholics worldwide
A recent decree of the sacred congregation in calendar reform places St Bede the Venerable’s feast on May 27. The observance will be observed in England and across Catholic communities globally from 401 onward according to the decree.
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Bede
St. Bede
England
Sacred Congregation of Rhca
Weather Notes From an Elusive Forecast
A cryptic weather brief describes sporadic rain on a coastal stretch near Lower Egypt and the Mediterranean. The forecast is unclear, with references to uncertain dates and an elusive regional focus.
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Egypt
Mediterranean
Astor’s exile tale as insulted Milne earns him a countryless fate
William Waldorf Astor, famed New Yorker, fell from grace after insulting Sir Archibald Milne, a friend of the Prince of Wales. Once powerful in New York society, he sought status in Britain, moving to London, building élite ties, and courting a peerage, but remains barred from royal drawing rooms.
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William Waldorf Astor
Archebald Milne
Wales
Wind
Wen Amons
Bfe
Williggm Waklorf Astor
United States
John Jacob Astor HL
Waldorf
Germany
Ufe
William Waldorf
Astors
New York City
Knickerbocker
Astor
Law School
Columbia University
Disraeli
Congress
Levi P. Morton
Roswell Flower
Italy
Arthom
Mr. Astor
New York
America
Wiliam Waldorf Astor
John Jacob Astor
Solety
John Jacob
Willman Waldorf
London
Litmouney
Eng
Imag
Amereu
Mugtishman
Prince of Wale
Prines
Handolph Chwehill
Ogden Gottet
Duke of Westminster
England
Cliveden
Aster
USA
Telegram Thriller Interrupts Theater Audience
A dramatic telegram delivered mid act shocks Miss Vermont in Willesbarra VA as she reads a note signed Jack with urgent wire at once. The theater crowd watches, sharing the nominee’s fear as the message reveals family emergencies behind the envelope.
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Willesbarra Va
Vermont
Washington
Jack
Mother
Father
Beggar's Stories reveal a man’s perilous life in tape
The piece titled Charkties recounts an Englishman described as a devotee of hard luck. It details three wives, seventeen children, two mothers, four bankruptcies caused by a treacherous brother, job losses for religious conviction, a shipwreck, and total ruin, portraying a vivid, cautionary chronicle of misfortune.
Wind Power Mills Transform Prairie Farms Across Kansas
A feature on the Perkins wind mill revolution, detailing its evolution from early four and six arm designs to modern self regulating machines. It highlights water pumping for stock, irrigation in Kansas, and a transmission system enabling fodder cutting and tool sharpening, praising the inventor and noting a Mishawaka factory study. It closes with a toothpaste ad and a quip about narratives and color.
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Pitty
Crows Road
McCormick
Perkins
East
Great West
Kansas
Mishawaka
Ind
Plaward
Miake
Chinese News Bearers and the Emperors Reward System
A quirky excerpt discusses a staffer at a great daily who writes Reveries of a Bachelor and inquires about work at the Journal- Sie establishment. It notes the ancient Chinese practice where the emperor rewards good news and punishes those who bring bad news.
Perina Tonic Promises Renewal for Mor bid World
A fragment urges women to uphold grace and duty while homemaking and educating children. It laments a weary world and promotes Perina as a restoring tonic to revive vitality and vigor.
Pe-ru-na Promoted as Universal Female Remedy
An advertisement extols Pe-ru-na as the one medicine women can rely on for inflammation and catarrh across bodily mucous membranes. It claims the remedy addresses any mucous membrane congestion and cures many troubles where others fail.
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