Elopement of Princess Hildegarde Shocks Town in Barschelt
Arthur Warrington recounts a night at Muller's tavern in Barschelt where Princess Hildegarde vanishes after a courtly dinner. Max Scharfenstein arrives with news of the princess’s escape as officers confront the revelers and a tense scene unfolds over a concealed pistol.
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Arthur Warrington
Barschelt
Tella
Hildexgarde
Dopplekinn
Warrington
Hilderéo
Hon
Fettyvore
Boppliekinn
Amorning
Scharferstein
Muller's
Max
Russia
Cuba
Germany
France
Eltar
Scharfenstein
Tle
Muller's Rathskeller
Kahn
Vienna
America
Miairseheithe
Volksgarten
Barsechelt
Muller
Bols
Hildegarde
Doppelkina
Lieut. von Storer
Champ Clark’s Wichita Money Making Tale
A Wichita letter in the Topeka Capital recounts Champ Clark, Missouri congressman and lecturer, once trying legal work in Wichita in 1875. He opened an office near the Pacific Express building, struggled for clients, and after earning a dollar for a day’s corn cutting he decided to leave town to pursue money elsewhere.
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Champ Clark
Missouri
Wichita
Kan
Topeka
Pacific Express Company
Congress
Ros Harris
Clark
Importance of Being Forty and Delayed Marriage
A lecture summary notes that while fortieth year marks fewer opportunities, aging parents and rising living costs push marriage later. Dr Rabinovitch cites 74 biographies showing 80 percent of eminent figures were born to middle aged parents and were youngest in large families.
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Louise Rabinovitch
Congress of Psychiatry
Amsterdam
Napoleon
Benjamin Franklin
Coleridge
Balzac
Rembrandt
Rubens
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Wagner
Schumann
Schubert
Child amazed by peacocks and turkeys with Christmas-trees tails
Inference Natural Jr. is newly moved next to a handsome country home. He sees birds with plumage and walks home to tell his mother that Mrs. C. has turkeys with Christmas trees for tails, astonishing him with their appearance.
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Charles, Jr
Smoking in clubs and the Marlborough smoking rooms
The London Chronicle notes the mid nineteenth century ban on smoking in many clubs with smokers relegated to dismal rooms. King Edward as prince of Wales changed norms by allowing smoking throughout White's, and the Marlborough followed by permitting smoking in every area except the dining room.
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White's
London Chronicle
Edward
Prince of Wales
Marlborough
Juarez Tour Ends With Blunt Beer Sign Incident
A group of tourists touring Ciudad Juarez praises the town while a New York man points to a whitewashed mud house bearing the sign Biggest Beer In Town, 60. The maiden lady reacts with a freezing glare and refuses to speak for the rest of the visit.
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Ciudad Juarez
Rio Grande
el Paso
Texas
United States
New York
New Seed Catalog Offer From Salter Co La Crosse Wis
A flyer advertises a seed catalog from John A Salter Seed Co La Crosse Wisconsin offering 12 cents for a catalog and 16 cents for an extra Berliner Earliest Cauliflower. It lists seed packets including Quick Quick Carrot Earliest Ripe Cabbage Early Dinner Onion and La Crosse Market Lettuce. The notice implies large profits from selling seeds and mentions a juvenile drummer seeking opportunities.
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Illinois
la Crosse
John A. Salter Seed Co
Principal questioned over insult claim at school board
The school board questions the principal after Miss Squirming accuses Mr. Dennis of grievous insult when he visited her class last Friday. The principal defends Dennis as a poor man whose son is badly behaved and notes the remark was a misinterpretation of a just protest.
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Squirming
Danger for the Witches
A sour old witch laments that FE cannot ride a broom due to clashes with gas bag airmobiles. The verse contrasts magical travel with modern flying machines and ongoing collisions.
Woman Praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
A Denver woman Mrs A Gregory writes that after years of illness and an unsuccessful operation she recovered health with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter touts relief from backache bearing down pains and periodic discomfort and invites other sick women to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
A. Gregory
Lawren &J
Denver
Col
Pinkham
Lydia LE. Pinkhham
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Ferdinand
Henry Haake
Indiana
Princess
Harold McGrath
Moarte and
Masks
Sebbs
Mariit Uo
Ellis
Dresden
Doppelkinn
Max Scharfenstein
Jand
Barscheit
Burseheit
Gatte
Lieut
von Storer
Doppelking
von Sorer
Kanene Town
Market Reports
Cincinnati
Robacco
Burley
Chicago
New Yorker
Mary Ellen Barraby
Brockton, Mass
Carters
Canada
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Rales
H. M. Williams
Law Building
Toledise, Ohiss
Navy
Navy Recruiting Station
Ohio
Mall Wach
Certified Public Accountant
Detroit Business University
Bottatt
Mich
W.l.douglas Shoes
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