A Crushed Heart and a Moonlit Choice of Love
Sir Aubrey Trevelyan helps Violet Harland after a fall and falls in love. He courts her while torn between a country romance and society marriage, ultimately choosing a risky social match after Maud Brereton's engagement alters his plans, ending with Violet's funeral shadowing his decision.
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Sir Aubrey
London
Sir Aubrey Trevelyan
Saxenham
Violet
Maud Brereton
Amberleigh
Llove
Violet Harland
The Argument Against the Blind Bridle
A historical critique argues against blind bridles on draught horses. It explains horse eye anatomy makes binocular vision impossible with side-placed eyes and claims blinders force oblique vision harming sight. The author notes riders fail to justify use and cites widespread cruelty and resulting eye disease. Indiana Harmer.
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Indiana Harmer
Gilded youth finds fall in a Parisian downscale eatery
A gilded youth, fallen on misfortune, enters a fourth class restaurant like a Parisian What Cheer House. He meets a waiter he once saw in his luxurious haunts. The waiter remarks on dining there, and the youth laments his fate while the waiter answers with pride that he does not cut here.
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eWell
Whistler's Peacock Room described in London letter
A London letter recounts Whistler decorating a Belgravia mansion in black velvet attire while painting the ceiling from a long fish-pole. He uses binoculars to survey his work, claiming it avoids scaffolding and space is conquered remotely. The room features vast peacock feather motifs, earning fame as the celebrated Peacock Room.
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Whistler
Belgravia
Christendom
London
No title readable in fragment about Indigenous imagery
Fragmentary verse lines describe desire to be with Injuns, a blanket, rifle, and sharing rations while others work. Ambiguous source context limits full interpretation.
Portrait of Randolph Rogers Compared to Bacchus in Rome
The description portrays sculptor Randolph Rogers with height five feet eight and a half inches, gray eyes signaling quickness, a broad forehead, straight nose, and a large head crowned by a Da Vinci style beard. He weighs 230 pounds, has a vigorous gray lair, broad shoulders, an immense chest, and a dismissive attitude toward criticism. He recalls arriving in Rome over thirty years ago as an Apollo and now calls himself a Bacchus.
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Aubrey Trevelyan
Saxenham Towers
Maud Brereton
Violet Harland
Sir Aubrey
Violet
Sir Aubrey Trevelyan
Dr. Brandon
the Towers
Lim
Randolph Rogers
Mr. Rogers
Rome
Apollo
Bacchus
Woman shouldered into river near Detroit depot
A woman about 80, waiting with her husband at the Detroit Grand Haven and Milwaukee depot, fell into the river while viewing the water. Spectators speculated it was suicide and mocked her. She recovered, wrung out her clothes, and dismissed the crowd amid threats from a man claiming a depotside ally could defend her.
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Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee
Prodigal Son Told In Pidgin Chinese Style Tale
A retold parable follows a son who squanders a father’s money in New York and pleads to return. The father welcomes him with a coat ring and shoes as a feast begins, while the elder son resents the celebration and the prodigal’s return. The father explains the reunion as joy for life found and loss restored.
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China
New York
Women’s Tears and Negro Aristocrats in Old Southern Towns
A Douglas-style venting piece argues men should spare wives from grief and tears, urging self restraint and empathy. It contrasts male cruelty with tenderness and mocks aesthetic standards of sorrow. It then shifts to a satirical note on old Southern racial hierarchies, depicting enslaved or freed Black individuals who cling to “old master” status and manners, including a humorous exchange about Virginian origins.
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American Association For the Advancement of Shore
Boston
J. R. Proctor
United States
Kentucky
Tennessee
Georgia
North
South Carolina
Virginia
Great Britain
Piedmont
Cumberland
Bluegrass
Alabama
France
Rugby
Land of the Sky
Edward Atkinson
Harper
Buill Nye
Laranie
Atlantic
Maser
Mars
James
Mars’ Thomas
de State
Five Cent Cigar Ad Misleads With Wordplay
A tobacconist window ad proclaims Our five cent cigars cant be beat. The line is challenged by a reader noting if they cant be beat they can be cabbage, hinting at wordplay and a possible quip about lower quality.
Witchcraft in England and the fear that swayed minds
A historical reflection on witchcraft beliefs in England, detailing the water ordeal, the crowd's terror, and the bold thinkers who challenged superstition. It cites Lord Bacon Selden Browne Hale Hobbes More Boyle and others as proponents of witchcraft as a tangible evil meriting harsh punishment, while noting the era's reluctance to disbelieve.
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England
Crone
Satan
Hell
Rodin
Erastus
Reginald Scot
John Wagstaffe
Dr. Webster
Lord Bacon
Walter Raleigh
Selden
Thomas Browne
Si Matthew Hale
Hobbest
Dr. More
Cambridge
Boyle
Dress of Campbell Badges at the Drawing Room
Lady Archibald Campbell wore a blue and black Lyons velvet dress cut princesse with a silver-gray side slash. The corsage featured black Chantilly lace and a band of Gaelic knotwork in gold. Heraldic badges of Argyll Campbell and Ardkinglas/Craigthorn adorned the bodice, with silver fish motifs and a related satchel. The train bore the Campbell arms in subdued colors.
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Campbell
Archibald Campbell
Lyons
Ardkinglas
Craigforth
Campbells of Argyll
Compacts with Satan and Witchcraft Executions
The article recalls Englands last witchcraft execution in 1716 and mentions later drownings during water tests. It notes New England settlers executed about twenty five persons, with none after 1592, while transatlantic views sometimes pity these colonial actions.
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Satan
England
Huntingdon
New England
A Pen Sketch of Robertson Smith in Aber deen
A London World profile portrays William Robertson Smith, Free Church Professor, as a slight, beardless youth walking Union Street Aberdeenshire. The piece notes his studious nature, cheerful demeanor, and the swift attention he attracts from peers as he moves toward his Crown Street home, highlighting his role as a keen debater and scholar who has challenged church authorities.
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Robertson Smith
Union Street
Aberdeen
Granite City
Crown Street
William Robertson Smith
Free Church
Fathers
General Assembly
Scotland
London
The Boudoir to the Library Switzer Land Message
Girardin and his wife Emile de Girardin lived apart on bad terms. She wrote a brief note: The Boudoir to the Library Would like to go to Switzerland. He replied The Library to the Boudoir Go. The exchange shows their terse, formal communication and separation.
Haircut and suit fitting in one day, Troy resident boasts
A Troy citizen recounts a remarkable single day in which he had his hair cut, his photograph taken, was measured for a suit, and had a tooth extracted all without mentioning Milldam. The tale reflects local humor and the era’s portraiture of daily labor.
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Troy
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