The Cuckoo Clock Writer and the Clock Puzzle
A narrator injured on arrival becomes obsessed with a cuckoo clock. He deciphers its shifting rates and fractions, fears a calendar chaos, then dreams and falls ill. The clock is stolen, the lodger ends up in a hospital, and the tale closes with his recovery and renewed study.
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No Woman's Prisons and Convent Detention
The piece asserts Austria as uniquely using convents for female offenders, describing open courtyards and a portress as bars to escape. It notes British dairy farming with 4,000,000 cows and annual dairy output worth $160,000,000. It also comments on women and ideals of a husband versus a woman's work.
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Briton's Beautiful Peeress Named Europe’s Handsomest Woman
The Countess of Londonderry is hailed as England’s, perhaps Europe’s, most beautiful woman and a bright social figure in London. Her charity work, notably for Irish women, has drawn wide public attention beyond her social achievements. The piece notes her prominence before her marriage in
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Marriage of Theresa Susey Helen Chetwynd Elucidates Title Lineage
In 1875 Miss Theresa Susey Helen Chetwynd eldest daughter of the ninth Earl of Shrewsbury marries Viscount Castlereagh who becomes the sixth Marquis of London Derry in 1884. Her brother is the present Earl of Shrewsbury and her sisters wed Col Edward Lincoln M P and Viscount Helmsley. The Countess bears two sons Viscount Castlereagh and Lord Tempest.
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Lord Tempest
Havana cigarmakers union forms in New York
A union of Havana cigarmakers organized in New York includes Cubans and Spaniards working on hand made Havana cigars. The piece also notes fines in the Frisco Musicians' Union for funerals absence and city absences, plus broad labor figures from the U S Department of Labor and insights on cooperatives and wage changes from industry and press commentary.
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New York World
The Thread of a Spider's Web Explained
A science note states each spider web thread comprises about 5 000 fibers and a pound of thread would need nearly 28 000 spiders working a year. It adds a playful remark on how people notice bugs only when seen on a woman's dress at church.
Waltz Challenge Upsets Vienna Church Choir Tradition
Joseph Dreshler, choirmaster at St. Steven's in Vienna, urged a switch from Gregorian chant to anthems and chorals for Johann Straves Jr. The organist impressed some by playing a waltz on Sunday, while churchgoers reacted with mixed feelings, sparking tension between tradition and taste.
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Joseph Dreshler
St. Steven's Church
Vienna
Johann Straves, Jr
Modjeskas Balances Stage Fame With Ranch Life
Mme Modjeskas, famed for Ophelia and Juliet, leads a farmer’s routine between tours. She rises at dawn, tends cattle and bees after coffee, naps mid day, sews or reads, then rides in the mountains surrounding her vine-draped bungalow.
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Modjeskas
Ophelia and Juliet
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