A French Noblewoman’s Distant Echoes Of Love And Loss
Winifred Eyre, the daughter of a poor farmer, navigates class barriers and longing for a life of wealth as she grows under Madame de Montolieu. A chance meeting with Mr Hastings awakens hope of a more elevated future amid family tensions and social constraints.
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Marie
Marie Antoinette
Sir Howard Champion
Sir Howard
Madame de Montoliew
Winifred
Madame de Montolieu
Littl
Miss Eyre
Mr. Eyre
Madame de Montollen
Flora
Eyre
Hana Truble
Miss
Miss Champion
Path Leads Away from Hazell Court in Quiet Farewell
He offers to accompany her but she declines with resolve saying her path goes from Hazell Court. He hopes his presence won’t frighten her from the woods and asks to rely on her using them as usual. She thanks him, bows, and departs while he watches, filled with tender admiration for the woman he loves.
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Hazell Court
Elegant drawing room talk on Hastings and Vane
In a refined drawing room Mrs Champion and her daughter Flora discuss potential matches. Reginald arrives with news about Hastings and a possible dinner, while Flora hopes for Errol Hastings despite Evelyn Vane’s lower prospects. The scene ends with Reginald hinting at a revealing penetration.
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Mrs. Champion
Miss Champion
Mr. Hastings
Flora
Mamma
Reginald
Evelyn Vane
Lord Lancing
Flora Champion
Errol Hastings
Reginald Champion
Hastings
Island Domain of Menier Captures Attention in St Lawrence
The Paris chocolate magnate M. Henri Menier has acquired Anticosti Island in the St Lawrence estuary, 5,545 square miles of domain. He plans extensive fisheries, canneries, a pulp mill, and farming, stocking the island with silver fox and beaver, while moose, caribou, deer, salmon, and sea trout abound. Locals in Quebec debate security of French influence, but business prospects appear strong and unique among Yankee fortunes.
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Chocolate Menier
St. Lawrence
Lord Minto
M. Henri Menier
Paris
Anticosti
Long Island
M. Henri Menter
Dominion
M. Menier
Quebec
Ble
Hartford Courant
Clever dog bids to spend day by telephone
A dog named Bing proved exceptionally clever in Upper Sandusky when Mrs. Edward Brauns invited his host to join her daughter Mrs. J J Burckhardt via telephone. The dog leaped from Brauns to the door and barked, then a call revealed Edward and Bing were already together in Burckhardt’s back room.
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Upper
Sandusky
Ohio
Chncinnati Commercial Tribune
Edward Brauns
J. J. Burckhardt
Edward
Bing
Noted African Explorer Paul du Chaillu Dies at 65
Paul du Chaillu, famed explorer and author who first publicized the gorilla, died in St. Petersburg at age 65 while preparing for a Siberian expedition. Born in New Orleans and long based in New York, he traveled 8000 miles in West Africa with native companions and later explored Lapland. He authored The Land of the Midnight Sun and studied Muscovite races. He left no living relatives and was a guest in Chicago at Mrs. Robert L. Gifford’s home.
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Paul du Challlus
Africa
St. Petersburg
Siberia
New Orleans
New York
Gaboon River
West Africa
du Chailly
Lapland
du Challlu
Robert L. Gifford
East 46Th Street
Chicago
Geography Shapes Nationwide Death Hotspots
A Census Bureau death map outlines 21 districts where diseases dominate. It notes Pacific coast fatalities from gunshot wounds in Washington, with heart disease and alcoholism high there, while lung disease clusters along the Atlantic seaboard and the Mississippi River.
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Census Bureau
Pacific Coast
Washington
Atlantic Coast
New York
Virginia
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Chblo River
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Catskills
Adirondacks
Green Mountains
Michigan
Wisconsin
Missouri River
Dakota Prairie
Czar In Not Omnipotent
Henry Labouchere cites an Imperial order in Russia where the Czar commanded roads be built in Finland to connect with St Petersburg. The order passed through officials who found no funds and faced jurisdictional delays, with the Archangel governor needing money from the Finance Ministry. Three and a half years later no road work has begun.
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Henry Labouchere
London
Russia
Finland
St. Petersburg
Archangel
de Witte
Wichita Boy in Philippine Army Fumes at Giant Joke
A Wichita lad serving in the Forty-ninth infantry writes home in strongest indignation about a big joke played by a colored regiment in the Philippines. The unit, stationed at Sips, supposedly told natives that their race predominated in the islands.
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Philippine Army
Faraway Islands
Forty-ninth Infantry
Sips
Interior Provinces
Colored troops prove white prejudices false in Kansas City Journal notes
The Kansas City Journal recounts a Wichita boy's experience as a member of a colored regiment. It describes white soldiers' prejudices about African Americans, claims about McKinley ancestry, and how the colored troops' words and actions earned belief, challenging entrenched stereotypes.
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America
United States
McKinley
Kansas City Journal
Bee baseball scores reveal the winner for the day
At about four o'clock residents were told they could view the day’s baseball scores and report back on who won. The instruction stressed checking the results before returning with the outcome.
Natural gas origin described as water striking aluminum carbide
A historical note explains that natural gas forms when water acts on aluminum carbide producing methane. The strange aside suggests a man told he looks ill might reflect on his own appearance.
Burglar On The Telephone In Evanston House Raid
A Chicago Inter Ocean account describes a burglar who called a house from a phone while the occupants were away. The intruder gained entry through unlocked windows, chatted with the homeowner on the line, and escaped before police could arrive as the house was ransacked. The tale highlights the perceived drawbacks of having a telephone at home.
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Edgewater
Rogers Park
Evanston
Lelatire
Bis
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Little Kathie Buys A New Baby With 14 Cents
Kathie the seven year old in a family with a busy mother and an invalid father uses a tin parrot bank to save 14 cents to buy her mother another baby. The child defends her mother’s hard work and defies her father’s joke about market purchases.
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Kathie
New York Times
Four Sailors Rescued After Gale Off Long Island
A New York exchange reports the Short Beach Life Saving Station on Long Island rescued four men in a small sloop about half a mile from shore during a gale. The men, half frozen and nearly starved, had attempted to reach safety after abandoning a gunning trip on the Sound. They had sheltered in a desert shanty when fuel and provisions ran out and had later resumed sailing in hopes of finding provisions. The life savers warned it was perilous to risk lives to save foolish acts.
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New York Exchange
Atlantic
Short Beach Life Saving Station
Long Island
Direct election of Senators provokes privation for lawmakers
In the Washington Star, Senator Sorgham voices doubt about direct popular Senate elections. He notes little personal impact but warns it would bring substantial hardship to legislators.
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Sorgham
Washington Star
Salt Rising Bread Method from Old Recipe
Dissolve half a teaspoon of salt in scalding water and whisk in flour to form a soft dough or stiff batter. Beat ten minutes, cover, and keep in a warm place eight hours. Stir a teaspoon of salt into two cups warm milk and add enough flour to form a very stiff batter then fold into risen dough. Mix well, rise again, shape into loaves, let rise, and bake when light.
Tea Cake and Other Edible Delights from Harper's Bazaar
A collection of recipes and notes including Tea Cake with almonds and lemon rind, Baked Eyes with Bechamel and bread crumb topping, Mashed and Fried Eggplant fritter, Watllea batter, Gluten Gemma, Ginger snaps with molasses, Peanut Batter spread on bread, Pineapple Cream dessert, Tomato Soup with rice and seasonings, and Dumplings formed from flour and baking powder in gravy.
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Harper's Bazar
Homegrown Tips From A Historic Newspaper Column
Practical household advice lists vinegar and copper for removing varnish marks, alum in soapsuds to polish embossed silver, rice flour glue for paper crafts, and a nut cookie recipe combining butter sugar eggs milk and chopped peanuts or walnuts.
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Mrs. Forrester
Antoinette de Montolien
Marquis
Marquise de Montolieu
Louis the Sixteenth
England
Maurie Antoinette
Rollo
Flo
Paul DU Chaillu
Nataral As
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