Finding Frances at the Jersey Ferry Station
Chris Brooks and Frances Pollard reunite after a tense search across Jersey City and Manhattan ferries. A misdirected meeting leaves Frances momentarily separated, but a tense chase ends with a warm embrace aboard a boat and a promise to stay together. Frances had warned of misunderstandings while Chris, anxious yet determined, proves he will not lose her again.
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Jersey
Chris
Ife
Corland Street
Twenty-third Street
Cortlandt Street
Frances
Panny
The Shawl as Attire and Utility Across Cultures
The shawl, once common in Scotland and northern Italy, is praised as both practical and picturesque compared to tight coats. It offers emergency use for two people or a child and can serve as a bed covering, passing through generations. Now mainly seen on ocean voyages or travel, traveling rugs remain a distinctly English aid for travelers aboard steamers, trains, or carriages.
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Italy
Europe
Doan's Kidney Pills End Backaches in Freeport
August Herold of 253 Spring Street Freeport Illinois testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved his wife's kidney trouble backaches and headaches and normalizes kidney secretions. He urges other sufferers to try the remedy. Sold by all dealers priced 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for the United States Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
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Dean
Freeport
August Herold
Spring Street
Ill
Emmett
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan’e
Sires and Sons and Notable Young Figures
A parlor of items noting aging twins at St. Louis and a Salem league of relatives. Mundji Hey, Turkish chargé d affaires, omits learning beet salads. Ogden Mins Reid of the New York Tribune begins reporting, Yale and law studies cited. Laston, English memory champion at 23, claims 40 NN dates memorized. Marshall Field Jr., grandson of the Chicago merchant, attends Eton with future Harvard plans and Washington stay.
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Robinson Crusoe
Federal
Boston
Mundji Hey
Vaffaires
John
Henry Tabenicht
St. Louis
Fritz Miller
Magistrate House of
New York
Archbishop of Canterbury
Ogden Mins Reid
Whitelaw Reid
New York Tribune
Mr. Reid
Yale
Yale Law Scoo
KB O C. Laston
Young Marshall Field
Chicago
Eton College
Singland
Eton
Harvard University
Washington
Church and Clergy Notes Across Nations
The article surveys church matters and clergy news. It notes no single Australasia church exceeds 300 members. It reports the sultan denying real estate rights to Christian churches. It records Pope Pius II gaining weight from 171 to 210 pounds. It mentions Bishop Paret of Maryland turning eighty two and his long New York origin. It also notes Rev Gertrude von Petzold becoming the first woman preacher appointed to a church in England, now to Streator Illinois, aged 32, born in Prussia.
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Turkey
Pius II
Bishop Paret
Episcopal Diocese
Maryland
New York City
Gertrude von Petzold
Free Christian Church of
Leicester
England
Unitarian Church of
Memorial vow for 82 Rue Faubourg Saint Frenore flats
An apartment block at 82 Rue du Faubourge St Frenore Paris is to be preserved as a poet Sully Prudhonne memorial. Rudyard Kipling early struggles led to breakthrough sketches. Dumonnet statue Triboulet d’Enfant bought by France for Luxembourg museum. Only two women sculptors represented here. Charles Ayer Whipple paints Roosevelt portrait for the New York Republican Club in Manhattan. Portrait to be a three quarter length of the president in the club’s West Fortieth Street home.
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Rue du Faubourge St. Frenore
Paris
Sully Prudhonne
Rudyard Wipling
Gabriche Dumonnet
Luxembourg
Charles Ayer Whipple
New York City
New York Republican Club
Mr. Roosevelt
Republican Club
West Fortieth Street
Train and Track Signals Across Railways
Ceylon has over 500 miles of railway while Philadelphia operates 650 miles of electric tramways including elevated surface and subway lines. Paris railways weigh plans to electrify lines into the suburbs. Great Western Railway of England to test audible signaling where danger and all clear are spoken by mechanical means with a steam whistle and electric bell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ceylon
Philadelphia
Paris
Lnes
Great Wester Railway Company
England
Household Hints From Daily Life
Practical tips on keeping cake in place with a hatpin and peeling onions from the root end to reduce eye irritation. Advice on sewing on tape, renewing frayed petticoats, and using a wringer for ironing tasks. A local mishap notes John Smith slipping in a cellar, sustaining multiple injuries without complaint until his wife asks if he is better.
Bees Laxative Cough Syrup Offers Quick Relief
Bees Laxative Cough Syrup promises swift relief from coughs colds hoarseness whooping cough and bronchial throat troubles. Mothers especially recommend it for children. Pleasant to take and gently laxative. Sold by H. J. Moogh and C. P. Guenther.
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H. J. Moogh
C. P. Guenther
Education Over Rivalry At College Games
A speaker notes the drama of college athletics, values education over gridiron glory, and contrasts team crowds with his son's quieter role. He praises the sport but stresses the importance of learning, while admiring the cheering yet acknowledging his son’s lack of on field fame.
Humorous Harpers Cartoon Quote About Stammering
A quip attributed to Demosthenes in Harper's Weekly notes his method of curing a stammer by pebbles in the mouth. He accidentally swallows one and jokes that if it had been buttered it would have mistaken it for his wife’s biscuits.
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Demosthenes
Harper's Weekly
Life, Sport and Love in Brooklyn Life
The poem-like prose describes a merry midge, a swift wheeling bird, a wandering swallow, and a troutlet in a limpid brook as parts of life’s playful Yet amid these scenes a lover dallies and questions drift around Sallie’s movements in Brooklyn Life.
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Brooklyn
Cobweb Ceiling Artist Quip Echoed by Puck Mocking Housemaid
A wry exchange recalls Bronson painting cobwebs on the ceiling so the maid sweeps them down, with Johnson retorting that such an artist might exist but not the housemaid, a line attributed to Puck.
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Bronson
Johnson
Puck
Boyhood Trials and a Wakeful Morning
A short prose fragment from a 1920s style Woman's Home Companion piece contrasts a child waking with a new puppy. The narrator muses about staying in bed or playing with the playful pup, capturing early morning domestic whimsy.
A Contrary Father
Sultor asks Edith if her father will accept him as a son in law and she predicts Papa will go contrary to her wishes in a brief Brooklyn Life vignette.
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Sultor
Edith
Papa
Brooklyn
Frisky Man in Butte Plays The Merry Widow Waltz
A young man in Butte played The Merry Widow waltz on a lutte day and night. Neighbors warned in the Detroit Tribune to stop or they would shoot the lutte.
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Butte
A Well Trained Wife
A humorous dialogue vignette shows a husband returning home with chestnuts and a wife listening without looking up. Judee delivers the line confirming she is listening as the couple interacts over the modest domestic moment.
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Judee
Secret of Her Age Revealed in Chicago News
A wry quote from Chicago News notes that a woman can keep a secret while many pages spread the idea that secrets fail. the line highlights a paradox about age and discretion attributed to her.
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Chicago News
Agile Dodging and a Bail Jumpers Tale
In a Balti More American snippet a gsTreat athlete is described as adept at dodging and quickly fleeing. The remark implies quickness and resourcefulness behind a bail jumping implication, framed as a wry cultural aside.
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Balti
Hindsight in a whirl of years and choices
A reflective brief from New York Telegram on love and regret, noting how years of fear and doubt lead to missed chances and marriages to others. The piece contemplates paths not taken and the cost of hesitation.
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New York Telegram
Tyro Bridge Player Pridworth Quick On Declines
The column notes Pridworth as a novice bridge player who avoids decision making, responding “Go ahead” when his partner asks to play, illustrating a cautious, deferential style in partnership play.
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Bsmart
The Very Worst Roomers Are Those Who Refuse Payment
In a Philadelphia Ledger note hotel keepers warn about costly rumors and troublesome guests who fail to pay their bills, labeling such nonpaying roomers as the most annoying problem.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Gilded Profanity Sparks Debate in Town and Coun
A fragment from Town and Coun features a tense exchange where a mother objects to a man’s swearing while another character defends him, citing wealth as a mitigating factor. The snippet hints at social tensions surrounding class and propriety.
The Shouter Expresses Silent Voice in Debate
A reader from Washington Star declares loud support for their own opinion over the speaker's, preferring their voice to that of others as a matter of principle.
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Washington Star
Harsh Banter Sparks Barbs in Chicago Tribune
Comic exchange between Milkins and Bilkins echoes a heated moment in Chicago. Bilkins notes no hurt feelings at being called a Har as pressure and knuckles implied in the quick taunt.
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Milkins
Bilkins
Chicago Tribune
Autocratic Landlord Nixes Pets and Babies in Flat Life
A terse note from Minneapolis Journal titled No Choice contrasts a landlady denying cats and babies with a boarder’s wry tea or coffee exchange. A New York nun is referenced, underscoring a satirical take on rigid living rules.
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Minneapolis Journal
Mother May I Go Out To Fly Be Shipshape
A New York Times quoted exchange between a mother and daughter about going out, urging caution and orderliness in behavior, framed as a playful moral admonition.
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New York Times
Next Time She'll Care. We-Will You have some oysters?
A fragment from a satirical exchange in a cheap restaurant story shows a sour patron complaining of cold coffee while a polite attendant defends the quick service. The dialogue mocks hurried meals and dismissive attitudes in a local cafe.
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Standard
Vines
Pile Remedy Promises Quick Relief at 50 Cents
Advertises Man Zan Pile Remedy for piles with immediate relief after first application. Guarantied price is 50 cents. Sold by H. J. Moogk and C. P. Guenther.
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H. J. Moogk
C. P. Guenther
Terrified Passenger and a Fog Bound Shipboard Quip
A humorous string of notes and a foiled phone plan shows Mrs Chat ter directing her husband to reach Sister Sue in the city to arrange rides and meals while fog shrouds an ocean liner. The tale closes with a joke about fog and balloons from the Chicago Tribune.
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Chicago Tribune
Gritty George and Lady Exchange Tests of Truth
A dialogue from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch features Gritty George claiming prosperity as a dentist and a polite Lady questioning his credibility. He asserts trust by noting even the dog shows teeth when TE is around, underscoring his boastful persona.
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George
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Washerwoman sues for divorce in alimony fear
Griefed by separation, the washerwoman named John Patterson as she faces a divorce suit. She fears the judge may order her to pay alimony to her husband, as recounted in Lippincott's Magazine.
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Mr. Patterson
Flattery Thwarted in Witty Exchange
A quoted exchange from the Catholic Standard and Times presents a playful volley on flattery. One speaker boasts resilience to flattery, while the other teases that such pride may itself be a form of self-flattery.
Pride in ancestry stretches to the reign of terrier
A Browning's Magazine quip notes a pride in long lineage, joking that ancestry traces back to the reign of terrier, reflecting playful literary humor about ancestry and dogs.
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Browning’s
Leaving the School After Early Years
Tomy bids farewell to the school where he spent his first years, telling his teacher he is sorry to leave and recalling the good times at recess. The remark captures a fond, small moment from a learner’s early school days.
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Tomy
Goodby
Lippincott’s Magazine
A Useful Institution in a Quick Witted Exchange
Miss Cayenne and a speaker discuss luck in a concise moral vignette. The Washington Star quotes a line on luck explaining success of undesired people, reflecting a sharp cultural aside.
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Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Miss Green and Mr Miushie Tension in Cleveland Plain Dealer
A brief exchange shows Miss Green telling Mr Miushie she dislikes him, asserting there are several reasons for her stance. The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes the dialogue as a stark personal exchange.
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Miss Green
Mr. Miushie
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mrs Lapsting Reports Husband Improves But Threatened by Lung Disease
Mrs Lapsting notes her husband is much better now, though a day or two ago he faced a threatened lung illness likely tuberculosis. The Chicago Tribune quote captures the concern and medical anxiety of the time.
Atch ison Clube pledge to attend or send notice
A brief reminder urges members of Atch ison Clube to be present at the designated venue and time or to send a note explaining any inability to attend. The note should arrive promptly to avoid confusion.
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Atchison Clube
Ring’s Little Liver Pills for Biliousness Cure
Local advertisement promotes Ring’s Little Liver Pills as a cure for biliousness and sick headaches. The ad claims the pills keep you well and are sold for 38 cents by H. J. Moogk and C. P. Guenther.
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Ring
H. J. Moogk
C. P. Guenther
To be cleaned protnee iritat oe to the BB Dye Works
The note mentions a cleaning service for a BB Dye Works item with a pressing guarantee. Language is garbled but indicates a request for exact workmanship and guaranteed pressing. No clear event date, person, or organization beyond BB Dye Works.
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Associated Literary Press
Vny
Jersey City
Pressle
Ess
Manhattan
Wee
Eld
Sires and Sons
Australasia
John Smith
Hing
Dreve
Ita
Detroit Tribune
Tyro
Pridworth
Boarder
Advice
Reaé
Mira
Chatter
Henry
Mrs. Chatter
Sister Sue
Sue
Brayton
Sue Po
Ridgeley's
Ridgeley
Prynivs
Catholic Standard and Times
Tommy
Taylor & Frick
Ilinois
Freeport Gas Light & Coke Co
Santa Claus
Santa Clara
Rumford
F. A. Schulz
Big Store Arena
C. G. Schoeffel
Galena St
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