Sporting Notes
Lady of the Manor sent to Cleveland to be bred to Direct Haul. Rigby Trotting Park in Portland sold at auction for 9000 dollars. Vanderbilt hires jockey George Thompson for France. ONeill brothers of Scranton viewed as strong battery by St Louis fans. Jowett Meefman now a Memphis pitcher in Southern League. Denver police ban betters Young Corbett and Dave Sullivan. fight likely in Louisville or San Francisco. Dolly Bidwell retired after this season to be bred to Bingen. Captain S. S. Brown buys Sam Salyer fair and plans breeding complex with Blue Wing Troubadour and Gary Herrmann.
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Cleveland
Rigby
Portland
Auchoh
W. K. Vanderbilt
George Thompson
France
St. Louis
O'Neill Brothers
Scranton
Jowett Meef
Bingen
Captain
Brown
Pittsburg
Sam Salyer
Lexington
Blue Wing
Troubadour
Garry Herrmann
ENGLISH ETCHINGS AND BRITISH NOTABLES
A collection notes English curiosities and oddities from the era. Highlights include the Hussars nicknamed The Cherry Pickers for crimson overalls since 1840, a Thames houseboat refreshments venture at Windsor, social oaths in London a century ago, golf’s rising fashion, the largest oyster dredged off Christchurch head weighing 3.5 pounds, Stratford-on-Avon boys offering Shakespeare lore for a halfpenny, safety concerns over a Trafalgar square tube railway, and a Winchester moonlit aurora observed between 9 and 10 pm with eastward brightest beams.
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Hussars
Thames
Windsor
London
Christchurch
Stratford-on-Avon
England
Navy League
Trafalgar Square
Winchester
Breims
Colorado's Mighty Peaks And Lakes Feature In Scenic Muse
Colorado boasts 300 mountains with half unnamed and 900 lakes amid 60 rivers. Altman is the highest town. Colorado sits high above sea level with 12,000 feet in places. The piece cites sublime gorges like the Royal gorge and compares Rocky heights to Alpine scales, invoking Trewy PY. Phelps.
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Colorado
Centennial
Heighest
Altman
Cheyenne Canyon
Rocky Mountains
Alps
St. Bernard Pass
Iteyal
Trewy PY
Phelps
Bright Sayings by Diminutive Mites of Humanity
A collage of children’s quips and motherly replies from a Chicago News page. Tiny jokes reveal child logic on balls, fattening bodies, candy in heaven, blue eyes, and angels. The piece features a mix of endearing lines and parental admonitions with a humorous tone.
The Name That Pleases All
A committee asks a famed man to select a name for their new baby. He declines, saying he does not undertake the impossible, despite his fame for naming sleeping cars cigars health foods and games.
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Nan
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Atlas and the Rich Wife in a Tiny Lesson
A New York Times anecdote recalls Joseph Jefferson asked by a child to recite a lesson in ancient history. The child asks who supported Atlas, and after a moment he replies the world likely rested on Atlas because he married a rich wife.
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Joseph Jefferson
Atlas
New York Times
Popular Congress Joke About the House of Representatives
A Boston Evening Transcript quip notes the House of Representatives being called the popular branch due to members' respect from the public. A father and son exchange humor about Congress as a humorous anecdote.
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Congress
Beagles
Jennings
House of Representatives
Boston Evening Transcript
Millionaire's daughter asks, would you marry red hair
A brief Chicago Record-Herald item quotes a witty exchange: the millionaire's daughter asks the poor suitor if he would marry a girl with red hair. He replies that his heart belongs to one with rich auburn tresses, and she sobs with joy as he declares her his.
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Chicago Record-s Herald
Early Morning Milkman and Willie in a Dime Novel Scene
A Philadelphia Press fragment depicts a milkman greeting Willie at dawn. Willie, absorbed in his dime novel, answers that his mother sent him to bed late after Handsome Harry attempted to rescue a beautiful maiden.
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Willie
Harry
Philadelphia Press
After the Wedding Bridegroom Refuses Fare
A Chicago American snippet reports a wedding scene where the bridegroom promises to take guests to the station for three dollars but pays fifteen, while a loomp (guest) mistreats the groom with an old shoe. The text mixes dialect and humor with a travel fare dispute.
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Americin
A Sofa Cushion Embroidered in French Ribbon Work
An article on ribbon embroidery for sofa cushions notes France leads in this art and explains how to craft a cushion with soft ribbons, describing how to use wide-eyed needles to weave apple blossom motifs and stems into the design.
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France
Ribbon work sofa cushion embroidery from Collier's Weekly
A detailed note on ribbon embroidery for a sofa cushion. Flowers are formed by drawing through ribbon to create crinkled petals with proper puckering toward the ground fabric. Gradation shading runs lengthwise, petals aligned to the ribbon, stamens done in yellow floss with radiating stitches and French knots.
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Collier's Weekly
Single Beds Heeded in Health and Education
Sanitarians urge universal use of single beds to reduce nervous drain from constant companionship. Americans’ tendency toward sociability prompts calls for solitary time. Some women’s colleges require a daily half hour alone, and an address to teachers urged having a room of one’s own to retreat behind a closed door when needed.
Resting the Feet
Some women know how nerves in the feet connect to the heart stomach and brain and Mme Calve is one. When anxious or tired she slips off slippers and stockings and lets her feet breathe by wriggling her toes in sun or pacing the room. Her maid then chafes the soles until she sleeps and awakes refreshed for work.
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Mme. Calve
Remarkable Swansea Woman balances books and business
One of Britain's notable women lives in Swansea Miss Dillwyn writes successful novels reviews as a critic serves as farm bailiff and now partners in a booming spelter business She walks three miles to work each morning and stays at her office from 9 to 5 She serves on the school board and chairs the hospital committee.
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Great Britain
Swansea
Care of Brushes and Combs
A girl’s idea of neatness is like the ostrich hiding its head in sand. Many girls wash hair but neglect brush and comb cleanliness. A specialist urges weekly brush washing, and twice weekly if dandruff is present.
Individual Omelet Recipe Note
A simple guide for making a single omelet uses five eggs beat with six tablespoonfuls of milk and a pinch of salt. Cook in a hot pan until set, cut into quarters and fold to form tiny individual omelets. This amount serves four people.
Talking Rivers A Geography Game for Indoor or Outdoor Play
A New York Herald feature outlines a classroom or party game where players are assigned countries such as United States England Scotland Ireland Germany and Russia. After a thinking period players must name a river from their country when called on guiding educational geography recall and quick mental mapping through rivers and cities.
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United States
England
Scotland
Ireland
Germany
Russia
Rhine
States of the Union
New York Herald
The Singing Mouse and Other Tales
A compact note describes a singing mouse with large ears that delivers warbling tunes and a double song, rivaling birds. The piece cites W HL Worrall of the Indianapolis News, remarking that if such a mouse lived in homes, canaries might be unnecessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. HL. Worrall
Indianapolis News
Giant Soap Bubbles Technique Described
Instructions explain making giant soap bubbles by using a straight lamp chimney as a wand. Dip one end in soap and water, form a disk film, blow gently to start a bubble, then pull the chimney two inches from the lips and continue. A touch of glycerin improves results.
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Freeland Tribune
the Tribune Printing Company, Limited
Orvick
Main Street
Centre
Freeland
The
Tribune Printing Company, Limited
Freeland, PA
Sporting Notes
Tae
Father
Johnny
Papa
Margie
Mamma
Bobby
Chicago News
Agr
Pest
Will
Aentleman
McMenamin
Hat and Shoe Store
South Centre Street
Natures Tonie
Walter D. Davis
Ehigh Valley Railroad
Weatherly
Mauch Chunk
Allentown
Klehom
Euston
Philadelphia
York
Sandy Run
White Haven
Wilkes-Barre
Pittston
Servite
Mu Chunk
Bethlehem
Easton
New York
Delano
Pottsville
Hazleton
Boston
Hethlehem Allentown
Lee Mt. Carmel
Shenangoat
Mahanoy City
Harleen
Rollin H.wilbur
Cortlandt Street
New York City
Cortlandt
Drifton
Oneida Junction
Harwood Road
Humboldt Road
Oneida
Sheppton
Hazleton Junction
Deringer
Tombicken
Cranberry
Harwood
Roan
Mead
Skeppton
Beaverlow Road
Stockton
Unazle Brook
Eckley
Jeddo
S Llam
Beaver Meadow Road
Hazle Brook
Eddo
Oftigg
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