Early Poem Sale by Brooklyn Schoolgirl Kittie K
Kate Masterson recalls sending a poem as a schoolgirl in Brooklyn under the signature Kittie K. It was accepted and published with an illustration and a $2 check. She later sent verses to Puck, signed Kittie K, written as a masculine voice, and Bunner’s witty replies followed.
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Kate Masterson
Masterson
Brooklyn
Judge
Kittie K
Puck
H. C. Bunner
Banner
Saturday Evening Post
Base Apathy and the Indifferent Father
A dialogue from Harper's Bazar features Holmes denying brutal indifference to his children while his wife accuses him of selfish neglect after son Johnny goes missing. He recounts notifying police, hiring detectives, and mobilizing neighbors, but she demands militia involvement and stronger action.
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Thompson
Holmes
Johnny
Harper’s Bazar
Medill Deafness and a Loud Misstep at the Tribune
The Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Medill, known for partial deafness, reacts as a young employee shouts in his ear and curses him. Medill refuses to chase himself around the block, the worker quits, and the incident ends with a quiet lesson learned by the editor.
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Joseph Medilla
Chicago Tribune
Mr. Medill
Judge Culberson Calls House to Order During Storm
In the Fifty-first Congress Speaker Reed earned the title czar by ruling, while Judge Culberson, a strong supporter, publicly withheld endorsement for political reasons. Amid tumult and a thunderstorm lightning struck, inspiring silence before Culberson declared in a firm voice that it was God calling the house to order and urged proceeding with business.
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Reed
Judge Culberson
Money, Power and Silence The Senator Says
A Washington Star dialogue notes that wealth often relies on discretion and quiet operations. The exchange features a man stressing money talks and Senator Sorghum asserting that successful pecuniary enterprises hinge on staying perfectly still.
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Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
May and Marion Discuss Engagement News
May and Marion talk about an engagement, with May insisting the fiancé announce it personally when the time comes. The Detroit Free Press captures a light social moment between the two women as they ponder shared gossip.
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May
Marion
Detroit Free Press
Laborers in Japan Wear Minimal Clothing and Straw Gear
Description notes laborers and coolies in Japan dressed in a narrow loin scarf and straw sandals. They shield against rain and cold with a loose straw Mackintosh over the shoulders and a large rough hat.
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Japan
Tiv annual expenditure in England Wales on funerals
The item estimates that annual spending on funerals in England and Wales may exceed six million pounds. The report highlights rising costs and potential implications for families and the funeral industry.
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England
Wales
Misnamed Train Proves No Eatery on Accommodation Train
A rural passenger boards a Philadelphia bound train at a Pan Am Exposition station and asks where the eatin car is. Conductors reply none exists and deny cigars, shoes shines, barber services, or other comforts. The man grumbles that he was promised an accommodation train.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Rush of a Shell in Frightful Electric Shock
Historical notes describe shells rushing at 1000 miles per hour gaining electric charge and shocking soldiers. A British soldier died instantly after a shell passed in front of him. Two officers in a separate scene lost sight and sight in one eye respectively after a shell passed between them. An American officer in Cuba escaped injury when a shell caused his horse and him to collapse from electric shock.
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London
Self
Steed
Private Loan Request Sparks Polite Rebuff in Lawyer Office
An afternoon incident shows a man asking a lawyer for a private loan of a quarter at a Loan and Trust building before the lawyer declines and public dialogue ensues. The tale transitions to Josiah Flynt’s note on courtesy among tramps and an English vagabond’s bluff in Glasgow with a sharp retort.
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Loan and Trust
Ness
Washington Post
Josiah Flynt
Glasgow
Deceitful Man Tricks Wife With Probate Postcard
In a post office tale a man exposes a fake society card scheme claiming a secret club requires members to pay fines. The ruse reveals the wife unwittingly passes the card to him at home. The con operates by millions of similar cards directed to recipients’ houses, deceiving many wives.
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Post Office
Brother Blank
Her Touch and a Mother's Silent Visit
A sailor grievously injured is taken to London hospital. His mother pleads for access to his bedside and, after a strict condition of silence, softly touches his brow. The dying man awakens with the memory of his mother's touch and the nurse reports his words.
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London Hospital
Rat Tail Tendons Used as Sutures in Wound Care
Rat tail tendons provide strong natural sutures. a single tail yields five to six tendons suitable for threading. Proper preparation allows these tendons to be used directly as wound stitching material.
A Bargain May Have Won Fay’s Heart
In a witty exchange from the Philadelphia Press, Fay recalls that a frugal suitor seemed so cheap in his proposal that she could not resist him, turning a bargain into a marriage spark.
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Fay
Philadelphia
Poodle Provokes Lions in Art Institute Scene
A small white poodle in stylish collar approaches Kemeys' lion sculptures at the art institute, then charges with ferocious barking, leaving observers to joke that the horses Montgom ery paints may be stirred to bite if the lions provoke a dog.
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Montgomery
Art League
Art Institute
Mr. Montgomery
Kemeys
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Wanted a man for a pleasant indoor position
A London newspaper business manager dictates a classically misworded help wanted ad promising short hours light work and a £1000 yearly salary. The clerk reports eighteen thousand responses, illustrating the vast reach of a single classified insertion.
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Great
London
George
Defeated crew jeers at crabbing pace in exchange
In a playful exchange a defeated crew quips they would have won if they hadn’t caught so many crabs. The winning eight’s captain retorts that crabs are not slow enough to hinder them. The banter echoes a rowing match aftermath.
Why Four Corners Sought If Earth Is Round
A brief反quirk from the era questions the seeming contradiction between a round earth and talk of its four corners. The remark reflects playful skepticism about geographic terminology in period newspapers.
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Philadelphia Times
Unexpected Opposition at Rightman Farm Destruction
Lord Kitchener halted a Prieska area destruction when an Irish sergeant failed to force entry to Rightman’s farmhouse. A Dutch girl in a sunbonnet blocked the doorway as Kitchener’s staff witnessed the stalemate before he ordered the abandonment of the mission due to unexpected opposition.
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Kitchener
Rightman
London News
Tribute to the mother in law from the New York Sun
A humorous New York Sun note reflects on the mother in law, praising her substantial worth despite flippant depictions. The piece points out male writers rarely mask their sincerity even in jest.
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New York Sun
Eulogy Reveals Lincoln Assassination Moment
Lieutenant A W Thomson recalls entering Charlotte under a flag of truce near civil war’s end. In Echols headquarters a roomful of officers, including Col Morgan and Jefferson Davis, discuss dispatches as news breaks of President Lincoln’s assassination.
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A. W. Thomson
Independent
Lincolnton
Charlotte
N. C
General Echols
Echols
Gillam
Colonel Morgan
Jefferson Davis
Mr. Davis
Goodby exchanges at the gate between two married women
A mild evening farewell at the gate shows two married women bidding goodbye and promising to visit, with light chat about bringing Sarah Jane and the baby, and noting the child’s fifth tooth. The scene ends as they separate.
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Goodby
Sarah Jane
With Buller's Column excerpted battle soundscape
An evocative passage from Richard Harding Davis's With Buller's Column in Scribner's describes the roar of naval guns and machine fire, the wind's windward force in a valley, and Tugela River imagery, contrasting violent noise with still air and the river's calm advance.
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Navy
Niagara
Buller
Richard Harding Davis
Scribner’s
Prayed Up Bishop Braves Winter Night
A bishop travels in deep winter and stays with a presid ing elder. The room is icy and bitterly cold. The elder chides the bishop for not praying, but the bishop replies that he always keeps prayed up in preparation for nights as cold as this.
Natural as Life meets after years in weather chat
Two women who had not seen each other for years meet in the street. They greet warmly and remark on how little each has changed. The exchange ends with the remark that they last met about ten years ago and that weather has kept them apart.
Growing Cold
Mrs Bridey sobs that Harry loves her less though her mother recalls his past praise. The exchange captures a strained marriage moment from a Philadelphia Press snippet.
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Mrs. Bridey
Harry
Philadelphia Press
Friendship's Trials and Deceit Among Friends
A dramatic excerpt from the Detroit Free Press captures a confidant woman confronting betrayal. She laments a rival's manipulation as a bank‑account tied, eligible young man arrives in the city, turning a friendship into a tangled feud.
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Blue
Detroit Free Press
Spareing of Her Remedy and the Faith in Prayer
A Chicago Times Herald report recounts a Kenwood couple trusting prayer during a risky business venture. Early profits brought joy but a late downturn forced the husband to admit losses and seek expense cuts, prompting the wife to resume nightly prayers.
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Kenwood
John
Chicago Times-Herald
A Famous London Tavern the Mermaid Times
The Mermaid tavern in Broad Street was a famed gathering place for Elizabethan writers and actors. Noted figures such as Shakespeare Jonson Beaumont Fletcher Selden Carew and Donne met there and the Mermaid club reportedly originated with Sir Walter Raleigh. The Bread Street site burned in the great fire, though other Mermaids existed in Cheapside and Cornhill.
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London
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Beaumont, Fletcher
Selden
Carew
Donne
Mermaid Club
Walter Raleigh
Broad Street
Bread Street
Friday Street
Cheap Street
Tolstoys Sense of Honor at a Tolstoi Party
At Count Tolstoi's music gathering a lady's singing displeased his sons who answered their father's rebuke with a muffled admission. Lyeff Nikolaevitch urged them to voice their complaint openly, but he dismissed their quiet squealing as rude yet dishonest and refused to tolerate such protests.
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Tolstoi
Count Tolstoi
Lyeff Nikolaevitch
Newcastle
England
Handel taunts singer in humorous baroque clash
A singer named Gordon complained to Handel about his accompanist’s style. Handel replied by offering to advertise Gordon’s dramatic threat to jump on the harpsichord and destroy it, suggesting more people would attend to see the act than hear the singing.
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Gordon
Handel
City Rushes to Build Homes as Market Booms
In a brisk city-wide push, developers report a surge in housing projects with numerous new residences rising across neighborhoods. Officials say the pace reflects rising demand and funding approvals, while critics caution about infrastructure strain.
Amber Mouth Pieces Guard Turkey Pipe Users
In Turkey amber serves as a safeguard against the evil effects of nicotine as the people, heavy tobacco users, freely indulge in its use. They protect themselves by using amber mouth pieces for their pipes.
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Turkey
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