Widow Appledore Chooses Deacon Over Professor Romance
Widow Rosetta Appledore rejects Deacon Bliss and Prof. St Clair Smith in Dixville. The professor pursues a marriage while she endures gossip and a public flirtation with danger. After threats and a brief jail stay, Bliss offers a plain, steady life, and they plan a quiet wedding, ending the town’s sensational romance chatter.
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Bama
Jane
Deacon Bliss
Rosetta
Caleb Appledore
Mrs. Appledore
Ling Bradshaw
Harmoniemn
Dixvilla Musical Association
Jackson Jones
Dixville
Ollapod
Bemilla
Clair Smith
Boston
Harmonicum Committee
Mrs. Phlox
Washington
Deacon
Theas
St. Clair Smith
Misa St. Clair Smith
Mrs. Phiox
Mr. Smith
Appledore
Phiox
Rs. Appledore
Tam
Tia
Caleb
Miss Appledore
Lucy
Ebon
Kansas
Tony Allerton
Mile Strip
Dr. Olwood
Iast
Elizabeth Cumings
Continent
Rights of Others and the Ideal Family Owner
A discussion on respect for personal rights within the family, urging each member to keep own possessions sacred while parents ensure fair exchanges. It moves to critique on ministers and preaching style, noting learned clergymen may overemphasize knowledge, dull delivery, or excessive length. It cites examples of monotone sermons and the balance between learning and oratory, concluding that education can pair with engaging, concise public speaking.
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Philadelphia Times
Predatory Meat Eaters and Their Oxygen Demands
A study notes that meat eaters, described as predatory animals, remain alert yet often fail to meet their oxygen needs. The text argues that excessive meat consumption among civilized classes leads to health ills due to insufficient oxygen uptake to support their lifestyle.
Unhealthy Ice Warns of Disease Risk From Improper Ice
Dr. A N Bell editor of the Sanitarian warns that ice from ponds near cattle or cesspools can carry disease germs and contaminate food. He cites Newport and Buffalo experiments showing germ transfer through water and soil, and notes superheated steam as an effective disinfection method.
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New York World
A. N. Bell
The
Sanitarian
Rochester
Buffalo
Cesspool
Hudson
Troy
Pumpelly
Newport
Napother
Dublin
National Board of Health
Sanitary Protective Association of
United States Navy
Hospital Island
Dinners of the German Emperor A Glimpse of Court Meals
The article details Emperor William's daily dining routine from morning coffee with milk to a five course dinner at five o clock. For small gatherings meals are simple in lower rooms with four to five courses approved by the Emperor. Large dinners move to the upper apartments with seating arranged by the Court Marshal. The Emperor hosts guests in a side wagon before entering the table and favors light claret or Moselle with soda and coffee after large meals. Tea ends the frugal daily regaste after theater. When the Empress attends the moonlit mood shifts and the inner circle meals occur in the Empress' apartments.
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Emperor’s Palace
William
Duck Primer and the Town Man at Duck Pass
A humorous scene shows a town man in a white shirt dark coat and black hat waiting to shoot ducks from a high point at Duck Pass. A boy retrieves a duck lost in mud, while the man’s rusted old gun yields no birds. The boy ends up with cash, the man with the ducks, prompting a question about the moral rightness of the man’s actions.
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Che
Mev
Odd Facts From Antiquity And Nature Lore
A string of scattered observations and curiosities covering frogs with upper jaw teeth, an ant laying 80 000 eggs in three days, Scipio Africanus linked to sardonyx fashion in Rome, Pacific islands planted with coconuts, ceaseless ocean current studies, birds at night 1 to 4 miles high, a tongue in cheek count of a million in four days, petrified denoss found near Denver, Japan relying on town sewage for fertilizer, Cornish diamonds named for locations, brighter snakes in Australia during hot season, fox anatomy as reason for longevity, Rome’s eleven aqueducts, diamonds becoming phosphorescent, timbered English buildings before the Norman Conquest, peach trees grafted on plum ripening earlier, and mangrove seed behavior remaining attached to the capsule.
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Scipio Africanus the Elder
Rome
Pacific Ocean
Denver
Col
Australis
France
Hyer and Sullivan Prize Fight Famed Rematch Tale
A Chicago Tribune recounts the 33 year old Hyer versus Sullivan bout. Hyer, calm and refined, knocked Sullivan from a saloon bar, then washed his hands and resumed drinking. Friends funded a $10,000 side bet. The Rock Point Maryland match lasted sixteen rounds, Hyer winning in eighteen miles and seventeen seconds, Sullivan hospitalized afterward.
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Chicago ‘Tribune
Tom Hyer
Yankee Sullivan
Hyer
Broadway
New York
Sullivan
Tom
Yankees
Yankee
Yankee, Who Finally Picked Limaelf
Pugiliata
Rock Point
Suilliv
Baltimore
A Dog tone Pot in a Train Carriage? Odd Tale
In a railway carriage a lady and gentleman share space with her lapdog. The man quietly lights a cigar after cautioning about musk odor. The dog ends up thrown from a window and the lady awakes to questions about her pet’s fate. The gentleman explains the dog retrieved the cigar, not the other way around.
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Jie
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