Miss Mivarts Carbine Feat Sparks Post Rivalry
Miss Georgia Mivart arouses envy and scandal as she learns to shoot a carbine at a military post. Rival lieutenants Burton and Greville train her, sparking a contest, jealous whispers, and a social finale at a hop where claims of training with their own weapons unsettle the officers.
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Miss Mivart
Flobert
Georgia Mivart
Garrison
Kreutzer
Mivart
Holy
Greville
Zuleika
Burton
Rton
Gre
Miss Art
Tean
Express
Dance Confusion Sparks Misdirected Pairing
In a San Francisco Argonaut passage, a man misreads a dance partner as Miss Mi vart resists, declaring the correct partner is Mr. Greville. She steps toward Greville, laying her hand on his arm, asserting the proper match in a moment of social theater.
Standard of English prose set by the Bible in Atlantic essay
The Atlantic Monthly asserts the King James Bible defines English prose style as the keystone of all writing. It contrasts its clarity with the colloquial drift toward journalism and with the ornate prose of Browne and Johnson, arguing the Bible’s style unifies the literary arch.
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Dryden
Sir Thomas Browne
Dr. Johnson
Atlantic Monthly
The Pin Essay by a Georgia Schoolboy
A student essay on the usefulness of pins outlines their cheapness and early origins in Britain and France. It imagines a boy repairing a torn coat with a pin, sharing a moral about honesty and gratitude after a whipping. The piece blends crude facts with moral lessons about a simple domestic tool.
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On Georgia Schoolboy
United States
Europe
Georgia
Great Britain
France
Catherine Howard
Reader Attacks Serial Hero in Mock Letter
A writer recalls reader feedback on a Simeon Stacy serial in Blank Magazine. An indignant letter from a reader renamed Andrew Jacobson mocks the titular hero, claiming the main character is detestable and noting a name change to dissociate from the character.
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Simeon Stacy
Andrew Jacobson
Queen Victoria to Own Prison Carpet Weaving Feat
An Indian prison in Agra produced a renowned carpet for Queen Victoria. Two years ago the superintendent ordered a special design, with twenty eight convicts completing the work. The carpet spans over 71140 feet and contains an estimated 50,000,000 stitches.
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Queen Victoria
Agra
India
Bicycles in Paris Cars and Funeral Imagery
The fragment depicts bicycles in Paris and a petroleum bicycle moving in traffic at twenty miles per hour. It also muses on social prestige through lavish wedding attendants versus a large list of pallbearers at a funeral, conveying a somber urban image.
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Paris
Pedestrian summer tour and frugal travel wisdom
A guided pre tour plan for walkers argues small luggage a light wardrobe and simple gear. It stresses work as a path to fund travel and notes farmers willing to hire honest wanderers. Tips cover laundering clothing, sturdy shoes, a short satchel, a walking stick and reading in taverns between scenic days.
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Catskills
Bray
Mother Grundy
Red haired man and wife drive chaos at boarding house
The landlady lists past tenants who caused trouble from auburn hair to a wife with snap ping black eyes. A red haired couple with quarrels and disruptive habits wreck dining and dining area, inflaming hosts and staff in a string of incidents.
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Anks
Primitive Peon Homes Describe Unusual Construction
Fragmentary OCR describes crude dwellings made of bare strips tied with vines, spaced by lines of poets and a growed serving as some unclear feature, leaving the scene obscure and difficult to parse.
Witty quotes and oddities from historical figures
Anecdotes from the Oxford Magazine and others feature witty quips by Dean Dickinson and a cloth factory tale about holes in cloth. Also recounted are quips by George W. Peck and humorous contrasts between Toombs and Stephens on preparation, highlighting lighthearted political humor of the era.
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C. H. Spurgeon
Mentone
Oxford Magazine
Oxford University
Dean Dickinson
Chapel Royal
Dublin
Viceregal Lodge
Emerald Isle
Fitzgerald
Ireland
Niagara
Scotland
Ile
George W. Peck
Wisconsin
Peck
Pineries
Brick” Pomeroy
Democrat
la Crosse
Wis
Pomeroy
Robert Toombs
Confederate Congress
Federal Congress
Toombs
Tombs
Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Confederacy
Stephens
Money in Cocoanute Cocoanut Industry Worth Attention
A Manila correspondence from Leslie's Weekly notes cocoanut trees yield fruit within five years and bear for over a century. Shipping copra to Europe earns about one dollar per year per tree. Ten thousand trees fit in a small area with no branches, and the fruit has broad uses amid strong demand despite poor soil. The piece ends with a reflection on human nature and marriage.
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Europe
Manila
Leslie
Inventions and natural science notes from old periodicals
A compilation of 19th century science topics and anecdotes covers Janet's lamp filament temperatures, rubber extraction via dilute sulfuric acid, Leeds textile research college aims, a Strasburg gutta percha substitute, sea water effects on thin plates, and Rothamsted rainfall insights. It also notes spider webs on fruit walls, a hurricane’s impact on St. Vincent hummingbirds, bird migration theories, and debates on salt and sugar dissolution.
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Leeds
England
Clothworkers’ Company of
London
Aml
Strasburg
Rothamsted
France
Isos
West India Islands
St. Vincent
L. M. Looms
Pacific
Prof. Ostwald
Mendeleef
Gentle Sophism in a Charcoal Schoolroom
A dialogue at an art school debates gentleness as a virtue. A young man praised for meekness is contrasted with a “real nice boy” who lacks firmness. Older girl advocates a balance of gentleness with noble, definite views and positive resolve, even joking about a harsh method to spur courage, while another voice recalls a mother’s harsh training for a boy to become manly.
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Tim
M. Perrault
Canada
Giovanni Gaboto
Cabot
Denys
Verraczani
France
Revue Scientifique
Cruel Railways in Russia Kill Ten Times More
Russian railways kill far more people than other nations per year, with 6,107 fatalities among 52 million passengers and 6,800 in the U S out of 500 million riders. Russia’s 25,000 miles vs U S 186,000 miles. a Vladivostok report notes experiments on the St Petersburg and Warsaw lines introducing an iron tube brake system to halt trains immediately on irregular movement.
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Russia
United States
ISM Kusaia
Siberian
Vladivostock
State Department
St. Petersburg
Warsaw
Gar building sparks city pride on Grand River avenue
A Detroit Free Press excerpt describes a city cousin admiring the Gar building on Grand River avenue and Cass street, praising its beauty while clarifying it will be a private residence for Mr. Gar rather than a hotel.
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Grand River Avenue
Cass Street
Gar
Ungallant French telephone reform moves to automation
In Paris a shift from women operated central exchanges to automatic equipment is proposed to end delays caused by chatty operators. The change aims to curb interruptions during important calls by replacing the exchange girls with machines.
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Paris
Exchange
France
Heating in Uruguay Lacks Domestic Stoves and Chimneys
In Uruguay few houses have heating stoves and no chimneys. A recently built house cost $14,000 and features a single stovepipe from the kitchen serving as the sole chimney.
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Uruguay
Horses Exported and Planting Excuses Highlighted
In the nine months ended March 1, 1931, 30 625 horses were exported from the United States at an average price of 120 dollars. A woman who says she does not understand flower care reveals a reluctance to work. A man needing a tooth pulled encounters numerous dental signs and notices.
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United States
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