Not the Man Poorin de pas week in debate at Libe Club
The scene centers on a contentious debate led by President Penstock who defends his language and cites incidents of names as the crowd debates propriety. A barrage of inaudible remarks and festive mispronunciations follows with Penstock growing thinner in spirit after twenty-one chapters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vient
de Gardner
Libe 3
de Passon
Fueron
Pstock
Ebery
Ebery Street
Atlantic monthly features first Breen chapters and literary notes
The August Atlantic includes the start of Dr Breen's Plac e serial by Mr Howell and continues through several numbers. It showcases Mrs Mary Hallock Foote, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Shakespeare studies by Mr ite, and notes on Voltaire. Also early chapters of Henry James and pieces by Corda Concordia, Ipple, and Freeman Clarke with poems and reviews.
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Atlantic
Dr. Breen
Howellshich
Howell
Aroostock
Mary Hallockate
Anist
Ena
Longfellow
Hawthorne
Stedman
Phiphy
Concord
Eipple
James Fields
Fields
Mr. Ipple
John Durand
Richard Grantite
Iago
Ite
Octave ‘Net
Wrauper
Ues Freeman Clarke
ParsLife
Voltaire
Henry
Edgar Fawcett
August Wide and Boys Literature Highlight News
A reader’s note reviews juvenile titles and illustrations in the August Wide issue. Descriptions praise Those Boys Did Not Run Away by Miss Plympton and A Night by Paul Boyton by Frank H. Taylor, adding lively notes on serials and art in the periodical.
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Miss Plympton
Paul Boyton
Frank H. Taylor
Grant Chesus
Dot
Ity Dayre
James Bushall
Lungien
Ard
Everett Tate
James W. Y
Verse and illustrations in new Lothrop issue
The page highlights poems by Helen Hunt and Celia Thaxter with Lungren artwork and by Mrs. Clara Doty Bates. Charlotte Packard's The Young Enquirer and Miss Humphrey hammock picture accompany other verses, with McDermott pen and ink pieces. Subscription details show 20 cents per issue or $2 a year, with Ella Farman as editor.
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Used- To-Be
Helen Hunt
Celia Thaxter
Black Forest
Sangster
Edith
Lungren
Charlotte Packard
The
Young Enquirer
Miller
Hayden
Humphrey
Clara Doty Bates
Midsummer Holiday Scrisver a Summer Magazine Preview
The issue features six seasonAdapted articles and several pieces of current interest. It includes fiction by the author of An Earnest Trifler and a new three part story by Mr Boyesen with Queen Titania. The Village Convict by C H White and Uncle Remus fables accompany Illustrated pieces on The Isle of Peace by Susan Coolidge and By the Sea in Normandy by Mary G Loring. Ice Yachting on the Hudson by Farnham is noted as seasonable with Burns et al illustrating. Peter the Great, essays on Poetry in America, and The People’s Problem appear alongside poems by Holland Gilder Riordan and others.
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Henry Sage Rittenhouse
Newport
Bishop Berkeley
George Innegs, Jr
Henry Sandham
Robert Blum
F.H. Lungren
Normandy
Etretat
Mary G. Loring
Douglas Volk
W. P. W. Dana
Ulysse Butin
A. Feyen-Perrin
Bastien Lepage
Eugene Feyen
Butin
Closson
Lepage
Cole
Lucus
Schuyler
Peter the Great
E.c.stedman
America
Albert Stickney
Ericsson
Scribner
Robert Fulton
H. H
Comfort of Big Eared Folks and Their Trade Taste
The piece contrasts large and small ear personalities. Large eared individuals favor broad facts and general principles, avoid minute detail, and handle large enterprises with generous margins. Small eared individuals seek particulars, value exact measurements, and prefer retail over wholesale business.
Reverend praises Hop Bitters in New York Baptist Weekly
A clergyman from Washington DC argues against public testimonials for medicines yet praises Hop Bitters as a meritorious remedy trusted by physicians. He states it should be freely commended and used in families, claiming no equal for daily use.
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Washington, D. C
New York Baptist Weekly
Copper Composition in Lake Superior Ore Analysis
Analysis reports Lake Superior copper ore composition with copper at 99.961 percent and trace amounts of sulphur 0.002 silver 0.028 iron 0.007 oxygen 0.002.
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Lake Superior
Lost Pins and a Tiny Riddle Told in Verse
A playful verse from Agnes Carr in August Wide Awake contemplates where lost pins go. A bright girl wonders about half-pins and shawl pins, while her brother jokes they become turtles through a ground crack as a whimsical answer.
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Agnes Carr
Chestnut Heist Foiled by Generous Farmer Charm
Three boys in Bout Montgomery County question a kindly farmer about chestnuts. The old man warns against stealing then helps them gather burrs after the owners are away. The boys fill bags with chestnuts as the dog Tige is coaxed to stay. The Hartford Courant reports the scene.
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Boutgomery County
Tige
Hartford Courant
The Deceitful Kangaroo Described in Aerial Anecdotes
A London Globe appraisal contrasts the kangaroo's gentle eyes with its fierce nature in hunting lore. It notes thirty kangaroo species across Australia and New Guinea, from the tiny hare kangaroo to giants up to six feet tall, with varied colors and habitats.
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London Globe
Australia
New Guinea
South Australia
Burdock Blood Bitters Ad
Love Your Neighbor. When your friend or neighbor is laboring under bodily affliction indigestion biliousness constipation caused by impurity of blood or disorders of the kidneys or liver recommend Burdock Blood Bitters a sure and safe remedy. Price 1.00 trial size 10 cents.
Connecticut Peddler License Sparks Broadside
A New Haven report recalls a young non resident seeking a town peddler license and being told it would cost twenty five dollars for this town and twenty five more for every other state town he would try. He stormed out calling Connecticut the land of peddlers and a haven for tramp, vowing no chance here.
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New Haven
Ofce
Onnecticut
West
Edinburgh Presbytery Case Sparks Mass Church Split
About 300 members of the Leith church sever their connection with the church while Rev. Mr. Duncan remains minister, following the Edinburgh U. P. Presbytery decision on plagiarism accusations.
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Edinburgh
U. P. Presbytery
Duncan
Leith
Badly Bitten by Horse in Buffalo Heals Fast
Peter Wieffer of Clifton and Bennett Streets Buffalo was badly bitten by a horse and used Thomas Eclectric Oil which promptly relieved the pain and the wound healed in four days.
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Peter Wieffer
Clifton and
Bennett Streets
Buffalo
Thomas
Clerical Oratory and the Preacher’s Art
Examination of why many preachers fail to move audiences. The author argues preachers must learn oratorical delivery to convert Christian truth into effect, noting misfits between vocation and preaching skill and the harm of dull reading from the pulpit. August Atlantic authoritatively critiques method and aims for real impact.
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Atlantic
Census of London church congregations reveals low May attendance
The St James's Gazette reports on a May 1 census of London city churches and chapels. Of 63 churches with 32,455 seats, only 6,721 attended, while 16 chapels seating 15,290 worshippers had 4,399 present.
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London
St. James’s
City of London
St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Dunstan-in-the-East
St. Nichola’s
Cole Abbey
St. Andrew's
Mary Axe
Bedford
St. Botolph’s Bishopsgate
W. Rogers
W. H. Dickinson
Burdock Blood Bitters Promoted as Health Restorer
Advertisement touts Burdock Blood Bitters as a laxative alterative and diuretic that may restore health and prolong life. It lists price one dollar and a trial size of ten cents, appealing to cautious use and personal care.
St Nicholas for August Features Poems and Short Tales
The August issue presents Mary Mapes Dodge poems with Jessie McDermott frontis and The Elf and the Spider with Mary Richardson art. It includes seven tales such as From Sandy Hook to the Light-ship and How Miss Jenkins Got Out of It, plus Eva L Ogden poetry and Beard flat boating guidance.
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St. Nicholas
Mary Mapes Dodge
Jessie McDermott
Mary Richardson
Sandy Hook
Granville Perkins
Ondera
V. Nehlig
Miss Jenkins
Mark
Cathie
Lizzie W. Champney
James Wells Champney
Eva L. Ogden
Alfred Brennan
Miss Ogden
Dee
Daniel C. Beard
Phaeton Rogers
Lassiter Johnson
Phaeton
Saltillo Boys
William O. Stoddard
Dr. Oswald
Travels and Adventures in Brazil and Amazon Region
A vivid illustrated page highlights adventures through the virgin woods of Brazil and along the Amazon River. The feature promotes The Treasure Box of English Literature with songs by Charles Kingsley and Barry Cornwall, plus lively pieces, poems, and jests. It notes the Agassiz Association belt of life with over a thousand members and varied content throughout.
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Virgin Woods
Brazil
Amazon River
Charles Kingsley
Barry Cornwall
Agassiz Association
What Never Stetson Spelled Right In Blang Tales
A humorous reminiscence about John Stetson and slang phrases. The piece recalls misread jokes from the stage era, Stetson’s running gags with phrases like What, never, and a tale of a Metroplitan Elevated misread. It also notes Stetson’s attempt to bring Sarah Bernhardt to America and a wry reply from an interpreter.
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Traveller
Billy Patterson
John Stetson
Stetson
M. E. BR
Methodist Episcopal Railroad
John
Sarah Bernhardt
America
Madamoiselle
Sciatica
Sinners Seen Through a Child's Gaze at Sunday School
A Boston Sunday school superintendent recalls a class of new street arrivals with no teacher present. He asks the children to name a sinner and a bright boy points to an older pupil at the end of the seat. The tale links street life to inherited sin and Christian teaching.
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Boston
Thomas' Eclectric Oil Gains Broad Popularity
The medicine earns widespread praise for curing hoarseness throat irritations and chest diseases. marketed as an incomparable remedy.
Death in Soda Water Pipes Mentioned in Exchange
An exchange notes a fatality linked to soda water pipes as a supposed health improvement turns deadly. The piece frames the cooling coil as a mortal danger that shuffles people toward death.
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