O GORMAN S HOUSEMAID AND A SHAM COIN CAPER
In a Dublin studio a painter, O Gorman, hires Mrs Malone a rugged widow to cook and clean. O Keefe, a down at heel friend, plots a housemaid tale while O Gorman suspects a sting yet supports the hire. A nighttime sting reveals false coin forging and a police takedown, ending in release but lasting legend.
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Gorman
O'Keefe
O'Gorman
O'Gormer
O'Reilly
Derry
Malone
Olinkilty
O'Corman
Dublin
Richard
Mrs. Malone
Miles
Clonkilty
Raisin’ Cain
Blaggard O'Keese
Jim
Allas Mitchell
Moriarty
Allas
Leger
Missing Soldiers Puzzle for a Tubephone
A historical puzzle item explains cutting tubes to specific lengths to form a tubephone that yields the major scale notes when struck. It describes assembly with cords and rods as handles and mentions a cork hammer. The piece then cites Harper's Magazine coincidences about magazine production and notable deaths alongside portraits.
Dishes Game and Tubophone Craft From Brooklyn Eagle
A children's kitchen game pitches dishes as vessels and voyages to make chores fun. The piece also outlines constructing a tubophone from pasteboard tubes, detailing lengths for notes and the potential to play in several keys.
Life of Ovid Recalls Poet of Augustus Era
The life of Ovid, a Roman poet of the Augustan age, equestrian by birth, once trained for law and public service, left the career for literature and pleasure. He authored Amores Fasti and Metamorphoses, and was a friend of Horace and Virgil.
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Ovid
Horace
Virgil
Land Loss and Industrial Expansion Across Continents
Surveys show forty thousand acres lost along the English coast since 1867 with New Romney’s shore pushed two miles seaward. Burma has ninety seven rice mills and fifty eight saw mills expanding locally, cutting timber costs and boosting employment. A lignite colliery near Bodorf, Cologne, built a central generator, proving transport costs high but local power valuable. Copper use in electrical industries reaches 170 million pounds yearly, plus about 60 million more for phones. The milky sea remains enigmatic, likely phosphorescent. A swinging pivot radiator for steam or hot water gains use in homes and hospitals, guiding heat with a top-bracket support and minimal leakage, designed for easy cleaning and reduced dust and germs.
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New Romney
Hunting Ground Boasts Deer and Game Rarity
A Highlands estate lets shoots while the master is abroad. Gamekeeper Donald, asked about stock, replies with mock exaggeration. When pressed for gorillas he quips that they are not so plentiful, "they jist come occasionally, noo and agin, like yourself."
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Highlands
Donald
Lost in the Nest in West District
A frontier woman struggles to hire help in a remote western district. Eastern maids fail as wives, until a stern elder arrives. A miner visiting for water comments on the lady’s “nest egg” as she sweeps the steps.
Stoneware furniture and tiled finishes for German meat shops
The article notes German plans to finish meat shops with glazed tile for cleanliness and attractiveness. Stoneware furniture is seen as a novelty that could be adopted in this country, appealing to meat shops, fish markets, kitchens, and sculleries. It cites German practice of tile walls and counters as similar to American bathrooms. An unrelated line mentions an electric plow used in France in 1879.
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Philadelphia Record
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Ty David Chistie Murray
Valley of the Kings
Augustus
Scythia
Black Sea
Chicago
Ously
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Harper's
Johnstown
Ross
Baltimore
Wysterl
Children's Department
Bridget
Mother
Steve Rice
Lana
Brooklyn Eagle
Burma
Bodorf
Cologne
Bonn
Indian Ocean
Sermaize
France
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