From the Enemy's Line: Sergeant Wilkins Escorts Cuban Refugees
Sergeant Theodore Wilkins of Company K and a guard escort two frightened women from besieged Santiago through hot Chaparral as U.S. volunteers resist Spanish guerrillas. The young guardian ponders opera style danger and compares the scene to Carmen, seeking reassurance amid war chatter and heat.
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de Jones
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Sir Galahad in Harlem Romance Amid Wartime Peril
Sergeant Teddy Wilkins falls for a Spanish girl in Harlem during a bitter conflict. He promises aid and protection, but the looming danger tests their bond. After days of fighting, the sergeant learns the girl has been reunited with her husband and four children under the Red Cross.
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Senotita
Galahad
Los Amercanos
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Teddy” Wilkins
Sir Galahad
Nes
New York Herald
Cats and Monkeys Domestication Tale in Cassell’s Magazine
The author argues that humans shape animal domestication through treatment, citing Egyptian cats and Indian monkeys as examples. Egyptian cats thrived unfed in droves and remained less domestic, while worshiped monkeys in India become nuisances and retain savagery. The piece warns against overindulgent care and suggests humane, balanced domestication.
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Egypt
India
Cassell
The Loving Cup in Anglo-Saxon Dining Customs
The article explains the loving cup ritual at guild dinners and corporation banquets. A two handled Ha cup passes around the table with lid holders and drinkers alternating roles. Originating in Anglo-Saxon times the guard of the lid prevented dagger, a playful after dinner custom then.
When Mother Tucked Me In a Child's Comfort Poem
Betty Garland presents a nostalgic poetic reflection on a mother tucking in a child. The speaker recalls a warm bed, protective motherly presence, and yearning for maternal closeness. The verse contrasts fear with safety, ending with a wish to see the mother again at death.
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Betty Garland
Silent Scout On The Lone Prairie War Path
A lone scout rides at dusk through a desolate landscape near a ragged shanty marked Delmonico’s. He bivouacs alone, cooks, sleeps under stars, and moves with wary calm as a distant war looms. He returns to base with orders, revealing seven Indians on the warpath and a guarded, silent resolve to face danger.
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Delmonico’s
Wood
Morde
Scout Guides Wounded Lieutenant’s Wife Through Hostile Territory
A scout at a frontier post defies danger to escort Lieutenant Jasper’s wife to safety. He leads her through pursuing hostiles, enduring night marches and hostile patrols until they reach the camp where the captain and wounded officer welcome them. The act elicits praise from all.
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Heutenfint
Jasper
Philadelphia Times
Diamond Bill the Lugger and His Sparkling Hoard
A New Orleans lawyer recalls a trip along the East Florida coast where a local mulatto lugger man known as Diamond Bill shares how he amassed a valuable jewelry collection. He saved a child, received a diamond ring, and now owns rings studs a collar button and a cluster pin worth at least 2500. He plans to keep gems on his person for safety while fearing loss if drowned, joking his wife Liza is too pretty to remain a widow long.
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Automaton to Run Cars Promised as Auto Advance
A playful quip attributes to a mechanical Pare next a witty claim that Wreckberges has devised a major auto improvement. The joke imagines an automaton designed to drive automobiles, reflecting early fascination with self moving machines and comic speculation about future technology.
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Puck
Deacons clash over Moses sun stance and market wagon tale
A church service interruption leads to a heated exchange in the amen corner as a deacon ejects a brother over an offhand correction. A farmer and dragon wagon tale follows, then a segue to women’s strain and patent remedies including Dr. Pierce’s Welden Medical Discovery. An outfitting store opening in New York hosted by Mrs. Southtate Croxy and Mrs. J Rushmore Woodies.
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Ies
Grain-O new grain beverage marketed as coffee substitute
Try Grain-O written appeal promotes a grain based drink as a coffee substitute suitable for children and adults. It touts a rich mocha like color but made from pure grains and gentle on delicate stomachs. Package price listed at 25 cents per pound? per package. Sold by grocers.
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Winter in the South Gulf Coast Holiday Spots
The Gulf coast along the Louisville and Nashville line between Mobile and New Orleans offers a mild climate, pure air, and abundant hunting and fishing. First class accommodations are available at moderate prices. Through cars from northern cities are available via L and N R R and to Florida destinations. Write for folders to J. K. Ridge ly, N W P A, Chicago.
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Gulf Coast
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Mobile
New Orleans
Florida
J. K. Ridgely
Chicago
Special Reduced Rates to Western Points by C M and St P Rail
The C M and St P Ry Co offers second class tickets to western points on Great Northern and Northern Pacific lines via connections at greatly reduced rates. Details available at local ticket office. Do not miss our figures if planning a trip west. J B Swart agent.
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Northern Pacific Railways
J. B. Swart
Midland Route Tourist Car service resumed Chicago to San Francisco
The C M and St P Ry resumes the Midland Route Tourist Car with a weekly eastbound and westbound schedule. It details connections Omaha to Colorado Springs Salt Lake City and San Francisco, including times, stops, and a Salt Lake City layover opportunity.
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Hearrorn
Cheap Rates to Southern Territory Promoted by Railroad
On the first and third Tuesdays of each month through October the Southern Railway offers cheap one way and round trip tickets to most points in Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Virginia and Florida for homeseekers and settlers. Tickets cost one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip and are valid twenty one days from sale. Rates aim to encourage prospector settlement with promotional material available from A H Taylor Louisville KY J Beam Jn NW P A 80.
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Beam
Tribune Prospectus: Semi-Weekly and Weekly Tribune Offer
The New York Tribune offers a representative Republican weekly and semi weekly paper with rich market reports features and an illustrated Friday supplement. Sample copies will be sent free. readers can form clubs and subscribe to gain access to weather reviews letters from London and Paris science and mechanics pages and stories from the war with Spain.
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Spain
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Paris
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Tribune
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