Dueling in France and the feared epee de combat
The article surveys French dueling with the epee de combat as a serious, modern weapon. It recounts notable sword confrontations from 1888 involving General Boulanger and M. Floquet, notes risky blows to the neck and armpit, and explains dangers of targeting the lower line the throat and chest.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Paris
D’artagnan
Duc de Brage- Jenne
M. Floquet
Salles D'Armes
Boulanger
Alis
Hippolyte Pere
Infa Vy
Ue de la Grande Jalte
Catullo Mendes
Bernhardt
Hamlet
Prince of
Denmark
M. Vanor
Mendes
Peter
France
Nothing In a Name at a Quick Repair Shop
The fragment describes a speaker awaiting a repair in a shop at an unseasonable hour. The Cleveland Plain Dealer note highlights chairs as difficult pieces to find and prone to wear, reflecting old furniture challenges.
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Pven
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Pan American Exposition Plaza Plans and Odd Bereals
North and West Sides of Plaza at the Pan American Exposition detail the layout for the 1901 Buffalo event. The Electric Tower vantage point shows the Plaza 850 by 500 feet with Propylaea entrances, a 341 by 52 foot restaurant building and curved colonnade to the Midway. Across from the restaurant is the entrance to the Stadium seating 25 000 for athletic events.
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Buffalo
Man pays advance fine seeks refund after assault claim
A man barges into a police station asking the officer how much a case of assault costs. The clerk says ten dollars, and the man pays five plus five for a hasty claim. He leaves, later returning with a battered look and asks for $9.95 back after paying an advance fine.
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Chilus Chilonides
Nero
Atlanta Journal
Secrets of the English Cabinet Oath of Secrecy
The article outlines the strict oath of secrecy for English cabinet ministers. It forbids discussing cabinet conversations even with non cabinet members and bans note taking or records. The oath lasts a minister life and can breach only in extreme urgency.
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England
Privy Council
All Tobacco Cigarettes Revealed On Train
A dignified woman on an elevated train clutches a Y W C A library book and a tin box. An old man correctly identifies the box labeled All Tobacco Cigarettes, triggering surprised reactions from a young man and others as the train stops at Fifty street.
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Y. W. C. A. Library
Fiftieth Street
New York Mail and Express
Income of a Sleeping Car and Its Earnings
The article explains sleeper car income on the New York Chicago route. It notes carriers pay 3 cents per mile and the limited run covers 1,000 miles in 24 hours, earning about 80 dollars daily. When full, berths and sections raise revenue to around 125 dollars daily, with small wages for crew and various costs. With three 1,000 mile trips weekly, earnings exceed 60,000 dollars yearly, though some earn more.
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New York
Chicago
United States
Kansas City Journal
Napoleon's Dog Teeth Revealed by Buffal o Man
A Buffalo resident relays a claim about Napoleon Bonaparte’s appearance noting that two upper front teeth overlapped the lower teeth when he smiled. The anecdote, attributed to Napoleon’s dentist’s son, echoes a detail never highlighted in major biographies.
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Napoleon
Alexander the Great
Caesar
France
New York Tribune
Pays Every Day A New York Millionaire Pays Employees Nightly
A New York financier earns his fortune by unconventional methods paying workers daily. After each business day ends all running costs are settled and the manager knows the daily financial status. The plan allows hiring capable men who have lost prior positions and deprives him of responsibility for their conduct after pay.
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New York
New York Sun
A Saucy Duchess and the Beggars Opera's Rise and Halt
In 1728 Gay's Beggars Opera stunned London with a 62 night run. The nobility led by the Duchess of Queensberry adored it while Handel faced bankruptcy. An order from the lord chancellor abruptly stopped the new piece amid unresolved causes.
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Gay
Handel
Duchess of Queensberry
Newgate
Two Inmates Plan Escape from Asylum Garden
Two harmless inmates in an asylum plotted to escape by climbing over the wall. Jack urged Tom to bend down so he could vault up, but Jack instead vanished over the wall and shouted that he was not yet cured, leaving Tom to face another two weeks.
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Tom
Jack
Missionary in the Great West Recalls Abandoned Town
Rev Cyrus Townsend Brady recounts visiting a town largely deserted for 12 years in The Ladies' Home Journal. An ailing lone Episcopal member recalls a prior church with about a dozen members, most of whom joined the Latter Day Saints after a revival, sparing her due to bedridden illness.
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
Great West
Ladies’ Home Journal
Episcopal Church
Latter Day Saints
Morality and faith clash in sharp newspaper quip
In a Philadelphia Press exchange a moral man denounces a religious impostor using faith as a cloak while a practical man calls the pious stance flimsy and liable to collapse. The quotes reflect period humor on true belief and hypocrisy.
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Philadelphia Press
Check to Frivolity
The Chinese minister remarks on American women costumes as ridiculous, prompting Mrs. Blykins and Mr. Blykins to joke about his perspective and the idea he would value them differently if he paid for them.
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Mrs. Blykins
Mr. Blykins
Last Verses of Mrs Oliphant Dictated June 21 1897
Poem fragment on mortality and faith by Mrs Oliphant. The speaker, aged and weary, contemplates dying and the vast world above. She affirms a single God and a single bond of love sustaining both life and death.
Queer wedding presents from a London Answers item
A vivid London Answers item lists unusual wedding gifts. A rival author sent a scrapbook of harsh reviews to a well known writer, a popular artist received basic self instruction art sets, and a hunter was given false limbs and glass eyes. An undertaker offered two coffins to a crusty tradesman and his wife, while an octogenarian’s gift was a brass cage for a young wife. A scold’s bridle capped gifts to a sharp tongued beauty.
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London
Kate
Living Without Nourishment in Tesla’s Century Vision
Nikola Tesla argues in Century Magazine that life might exist without traditional nourishment, potentially in crystals or other forms with ambient energy as their life source. He suggests nonhuman, unseen beings could inhabit our world undetected due to differences in perception and conception of life.
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Nikola Tesla
Century Magazine
Optician's Latin Fraught Return from College
Hiram, a college student praised for ancient language honors, returns home after an incident in which he fell down when his sister, a shy teen, asked him to translate a sign seen in front of an optician's shop reading thus.
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Optician
Hiram
Consult Us About Your Eyes Phrase Misreads Latin
In a humorous exchange Hiram fails to parse a Latin phrase, noting mixed correct and barbaric terms. His sister counters that Keturah translates it as Consult us about your eyes, prompting Hiram to collapse. The anecdote appears in Youth s Companion.
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Hiram
Keturah
Presence of Mind Averted Tragic Car Rope Accident
In Sheffield England a passenger on a double deck electric tram was ensnared by a rope from an oncoming single deck car. He grasped the rope with both hands and released himself, likely averting a fatal strangulation.
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Sheffield
England
Not All, Teacher Homily on Authorship Sparks Debate
In a terse exchange, Johnny admits he assisted his father with a composition. The matter raises questions of originality as the teacher probes the extent of Johnny’s involvement and the line between guidance and authorship.
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Johnny
Real Scene of Troops in Action Captured in Photos
The text notes photographs showing troops in action. Images depict gun use and soldiers at risk positions, taken from safe distances during combat.
Truth Is Like The Sunbeam Says Milton Phrase
A brief epigraph notes that truth remains pure despite outward touch, invoking Milton to emphasize incorruptibility and resilience of truth in all circumstances.
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Milton
Log jams described by Mississippi lumberman with key log insight
An New Orleans Times-Democrat report recounts a Mississippi lumberman's awe at log jams. He notes how jams form instantly, how hundreds of logs pile up, and the deafening roar as timber is hurled aloft. The "key log" theory guides breaking jams, a skill learned by instinct.
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Mississippi
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Shakespearean Parts and Their Line Counts Compared
The Baltimore American reports the longest speaking roles in Shakespeare, listing Hamlet with 1568 lines, Richard III 1161, Lago 1117, Henry V 1063, and Othello 888. It notes female parts like Rosalind 749 and Cleopatra 670, with many women under 300 lines.
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Hamlet
Coriolanus
the Duke
Timon
Antony
Antony and
Cleopatra
Brutus
Julius Cesar
Falstaff
Henry V
Macbeth
Romeo
Cassius
Julius Caesar
Shakespeare
Portia
Rosalind
Juliet
Desdemora
Beatrice
Cordelia
Kate
Lady Macbeth
Baltimore American
Moonlight over Grant Tomb Draws Lovers to Riverside
New York readers praise watching the moon rise from General Grant's tomb porch. The lofty Riverside Drive site, Hudson River views, and stacked columns create a poetic backdrop as couples gather to witness the eastern moonrise, though solitude fades as popularity grows.
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Grant
New York
General Grant
Riverside Drive
Hudson
Alhambra
Pittsburg
The Lady Scolds a Swearing Boy in Slum Tour
In Pacific Heights a philanthropic woman from Fables In Slang admonishes a boy swearing during a tour. She shakes him and rebukes his language while the boy retorts that there was much cursing the day she was born.
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Pacific Heights
San Francisco
Man Aims to Make Men Happier in Life
Quotations from a Chicago Post excerpt show a speaker declaring his life aim to improve male happiness, challenged by a woman who asks why women are not included in the goal.
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Chicago Post
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Tong
Leeds
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Dane
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