Masquerade Proposal Ends With Cameo Confusion
In a bustling masquerade, Jack Demoine seeks a rich wife to pay his debts, choosing Jenny Valkenburgh. He instead proposes to Margaret Sears by mistake, masked, realizing her true identity when she removes the blue covering and scorns his scheme. Margaret reveals Jenny is actually her cousin, who later dons the cameo bracelet.
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Marion Demoine
Jenny Valkenburgh
Demoine
Marion
Jack Demoine
Margaret Sears
Misa Valkenburgh
Margaret
Garrett
Miss Valkenburgh
Rogim
Jenny Vankenburgh
Lim
Jack
Vidal
Louis XV
Jenny
Howitzer details from Household Words
Howitzers are steel breech loading weapons weighing twenty five hundredweight with a length of six feet ten inches. In firing the muzzle is aimed high to give a long curved shell trajectory. Four projectile kinds exist including lyddite and shrapnel with defined weights and measurements. The firing cartridge uses two pounds one ounce of cordite.
Average youth ignores obstacles while chasing poetic opportunity
A concise reflection on youth preoccupied with idealized opportunity, risking neglect of real challenges in his path. The line suggests a critique of idealism over practical action, highlighting the tension between aspiration and present duties.
Diverse Topics From Science To Crime In Old Times
A collage of notes covers tire wear from heavy vehicles and fiber loss, seed testing aims at curbing dealer fraud, wartime projectile efficiency, brain sleep studies, Wyoming fossil beds, Woodworth's pen writing method, and a New Orleans tale of staged injury and embezzlement linked to a shipbound fugitive.
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Agricultural Department
Washington
Germany
Saltpetriere
M. Wasehide
Wyoming
Woothworth
Woodworth
Oddest Case Revealed by Surgeon At Convention
A surgeon recalls a bizarre incident from his career, describing a 25 year old man found at a cheap boarding house with a bloody contusion after a fight. He insists on keeping names and dates private while recounting the facts for a reporter.
Cameo Carving Techniques and Tools Explained
The New York Evening Post describes cameo carving as a meticulous craft using dental-like drills, oil and diamond dust, and a pedal wheel. Carvers work slowly, needing steady nerves and precision to sculpt onyx and other stones, with onyx portraits costing about $200 and shell pieces priced lower. shell is less durable and riskier to work.
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Shell
New York Evening Post
What Money Would Do
A note from the Philadelphia Press on the idea of money shaping a profession. The excerpt likens wealth to power and asks how the world would view their field if money were abundant, reflecting a satirical take on economic influence.
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Perry Patetick
Harvard
Philadelphia Press
All Met With Misfortune: Thirteen Superstition Verified
A New Orleans Times Democrat essay notes how a bachelor party of thirteen led to a cascade of misfortune. The broker recalls 1896 events where two guests died, followed by multiple calamities among others, reinforcing superstition about the number thirteen.
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New Orleans Timese Democrat
Movable breastworks on bicycles proposed for Boer war
English artist Walter Severn patents a movable breastwork system for assaulting Boer kopjes in South Africa. Steel plates mounted on bicycles deflect bullets by angling upward, aiming to reduce attacker casualties as fortifications are breached. Maxim gunmaker reportedly backs the invention.
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South Africa
Walter Severn
Maxim
Bullet Proof Bicycle Shield From Civil War Era Plan
Describes steel plate armor for bicycles weighing five to six pounds per square foot. Movable shields are pushed ahead by strong men to protect attackers, guard the wounded, form squares, and shield wire cutters. Shields detach from wheels and can arm a wagon to become an armored car.
Solidified Alcohol Composition Reported by Berlin Firm
A Berlin firm’s tin vessel pocket lamp and stove product is described as a solidified alcohol mix consisting mainly of 62 percent alcohol, 20 percent soap, and 18 percent water. A similar product can be made by dissolving tallow soap in warm alcohol.
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Berlin
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Argentine Republic
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Bicycle Shield
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