Train of Love and Delays in a Philippine Elope Tale
In a railbound melodrama Harry Mallory and Marjeris Newton plan to elope to Reno while a transcontinental run brings a cavalcade of passengers. Stock reports, a baseball game, and rival love strains unfold as a preacher hunt and marital strain threaten the couple aboard.
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Harry Mallory
Philippines
Marjeris Newton
Porter
Tra Tothrop
Escorrs
Little Jimmie
Wellington
Reno
Jimmie
Sammy Whitcomb
Malry
Ira Lathrop
Anne Gattle
Mallory
Mra
Whitcomb
Mar
Jorie
Jimmie Dracoy
Dr Temple
Temple
Train Boundaries and Marital Revelations on the Rail
On a Utah bound train Fosdick and his wife Edith reveal a volatile marriage after a public reunion. The porter notes the canyon entry as Fosdick proclaims their location and illusions to Nevada. Dr Temple jokes about witchcraft and Mormon polygamy as the couple remains distant.
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Ashton
Nps
Eeho Canyon
Utah
Mr. Fosdick
Fosdick
Yaasah
Edith
Jin
Nevada
Dr. Temple
Mra. Fosdick
Espair
Fosdicks
Reception at St Petersburg Shows Ambassadors Grandeur
Reports from German and Russian papers describe Curtis Grund hosting an official reception at a palace once owned by Count Orloff Denison. The event featured Imperial court attendants, Mrs. Guild’s long wait for kissing, and a dining hall surprise with illuminated models of a Russian farm and an American cottage dispensing champagne and wine.
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St. Petersburg
Curtis Grund
Count Orloff Denison
Leishman
Imperial
Moving Picture House Uses Harrowingly Descriptive Gimmick
A proprietor advertised shock value to lure crowds, claiming each film cost the actor’s ire and detailing brutal wrecks and mangling scenes. The tactic filled the house the following night. An Australian diver earned $1,600 by selling a large pearl found in Torres Strait depths.
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Joe
Moving Picture Show
Hievano
Down-thig Chicken Talk Sparks Curious Exchange
In a terse exchange, Mr. Collier and Mrs. Collier debate a chicken’s tenderness. The dealer claims the meat is tender while Mr. Collier doubts the quality, suggesting the dealer might mislead over a mere chicken.
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Mr. Collier
Baby healed by Cuticura remedies after rash misery
Mrs Annie Saunders of Monroe Wisconsin describes a baby's six week old rash spreading over the body with crusting scalp hair loss and severe itching. After trying remedies a friend advised Cuticura she reports improvement after a few applications and a full cure after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Samples offered via Cuticura Department L Boston. Advertisement.
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Monroe, Wis
Annie Saunders
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Fishermen Return Home Hungry on Rainy Night
A group of weary fishermen trudge home in rain with empty baskets and bad tempers. A ferocious dog lunges at one of them, but the man who kicks it expresses a grim wish for any bite just to eat tonight.
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Myers Duke
Wedding ring clue solves a long marriage mystery
A jeweler explains that a woman who had just left the room had been married about ten years. His wife asks how he knows, and he says the ring’s width shows the style from fifteen years ago, revealing she recently wore an older design.
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Marjorie
Mies
Mallory
Harry
Alia
Mattie
Sherrock Holmes
Quay Attacks Notorious Politician at Congress Hotel
Dick Quay in Chicago at the Congress hotel ridiculed a well known politician as self made while noting a dozen investigations. He claimed the man is worth eleven million but aided by nine coats of whitewash from various committees.
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Dick” Quay
Congress Hotel
Chicago
Mr. Quay
Odd Market Talk and Teething Remedies Snippet
Fragmentary dialogue hints at market errands and money worries. Ady and Mrs Becker discuss loss of funds, while Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup is advertised for teething pain. The text also contains harsh slang about people with disabilities.
Scots curler praised for precise shot in Swiss match
In Fry's Magazine a Scots skip praised his teammate after a cutting match in Switzerland. He told him Lie down and des, mon, Ne down and dee Ye'll never lay a finer stone nor that if ye live to be a hundred.
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Lord Lyveden
Fry's
Switzerland
Slum Girl Sees Chickens Run Raw In Barnyard Tale
Rose Pastor Stokes spoke for a New York countryweek charity telling a quaint anecdote about a slum girl visiting a barn. The girl, amid ricks cows and plows, gasped at the sight and exclaimed that the chickens were all running around raw.
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Rose Pastor Phelps Stokes
New York Countryweek
Washington Star
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United States
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Jove
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Mattie Ip
Mrs. Wellington
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W. L. Douglas
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W.L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
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