Parted on their wedding day ends in reunion
Hattie Furman flirts with many suitors while Dr. Hartley studies. He leaves for a three year Northwest expedition after their hurried marriage. She endures lonely years and romantic temptations at home. A telegram reunites the couple after a long separation, sealing their bond at last.
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Hattie Furman
Dr. Hartley
So-and-So
Such-a-one
Hattie
Fred Fox
Frank
Haitie
Huttle
Hila
Sea
Slse
Frank Hartley
Philadelphia
Intoxicating Bees and a Brooklyn Plunger Blast
A scattered 19th century column discusses bees and their immunity to narcotics from flowers. It recounts a Brooklyn steamplant accident where two men were mangled by a brass plunger, believed to fail due to moisture turning to steam after heating. It also notes thorium use in bright gas mantles and rising thoria prices, plus Peruvian river restoration arrivals.
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Brooklyn
New York
More Pie for the Money in a French Art Sale
A French woman and her maid visit a gallery to buy a still life painting for her dining room. The canvas shows flowers a pie and a roll, priced at 800 francs, but the maid warns the bargain is poor, noting a similar painting recently sold for 400 francs and was superior.
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France
Arrival of the water procession and desert valley notes
The article describes a ceremonial shows pageant guiding a stream to the dry river bed with music and fireworks as thousands greet the arrival near the city. Major Sears notes Piura valley yields good cotton but irrigation is underdeveloped. It explains episodic coastal rain transforms the plain for five to seven years before drought returns.
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Peru
A. F. Sears
Cordilleras
Piura
Sears
Private car travel to Europe and a cook’s rise
A lively society anecdote from the New York Tribune recalls Miss B recounting meeting a red haired beauty in a Western city who cooked desserts for the rich. The professional cook rose from a poor family to own a top kitchen with staff and wholesale ingredients while remaining close to her former wealthier friends.
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New York Tribune
Miss B
Europe
Brooklyn
Betty
When Sovereigns Confer Theater of Pageantry and Change
A critical essay condemns royal banquets as wasted rituals and mocks modern ceremony as a grotesque caricature. It contrasts elegant past pageantry with current railway station parades and fashionable folly, noting a loss of dignity and symbolism in public display. It also reports the London General Omnibus Company contracting with an American firm to supply 4,000 horses for bus work in the metropolis amid rising motor car fears.
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Diethey
Quida
England
London General Omnibus Company
Metropolia
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Jnayye
Nature and Science
Denler
Berzelius
Norway
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