Marooning Tales and a Connecticut Mutineer Rescue
A fragment recounts Alexander Selkirk’s Juan Fernandez marooning inspiring Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. It notes a Queen Charlotte voyage near Marquesas spotting an uninhabited island and a mutineer from Connecticut marooned for three years surviving on fish and breadfruit. Neighborly luck frames the strange travel lore amid scattered dialogue and stray animal references.
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Alexander Selkirk
Juan Fernandes
Defoe
Marquesas
South Seas
Bete
United States
Caprin
Connecticut
Not What They Looked For Audience Like Novel Readers
Yale professor Dr. William Lyon Phelps notes readers and popular novelists share tastes. A Philadelphia dinner recounts a music hall artist who returns to a town to find the crowd unmoved by updated jokes. The story illustrates a mismatch between expectations and audience reaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lyon Phelps
Yale
Philadelphia
Bohemia Slovakia Industry and Culture Rise in New Nation
The article surveys Czechoslovakia after the wartime ban on American cotton, noting Bohemia as industrial heart with Skoda works and glass centers at Karlovy Vary, Pilsen, and Bratislava. It highlights textile demand, sugar, beer, mineral waters, coal shortages offset by water power, and Slovakia’s rural economy. It also contrasts traditional Slovak peasant dress with evolving modern fashions and urban migration.
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Soth
America
Bohemia
Broadway
Golden Horn
Czechoslovakia
Hapsburg Monarchy
Bratislava
Danube
Europe
Skoda
Pilsen
Krupp
Essen
Germany
Czech
Slovakia
Carlsbad
Karlovy Vary
Republic
Pizentelle
New Republic
Bentwood
Chain Delny Thade
Tutre
Hungary
Breeding Wild Ducks and Old Game Birds in Europe
Breeding wild ducks for sport and profit is a modern trend, with England and Europe already housing thousands of breeders. The text contrasts traditional game birds with new methods, noting confidence that well cared for ducks stay put rather than flying away, and mentions varied regional practices and materials used in different cultures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Europe
American Forestry Associatien
Amelia
Gray Dominates Fashion as The Season Opens
A New York correspondent notes gray is the prevailing color, seen everywhere from restaurants to street wear. Hats, shoes, and gloves in gray pair with capes and dresses in silk, serge, and tulle, with evening gowns in dyed laces, tulle, and chiffon layered over contrasting foundations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Fusion
Fatt Avenue
Jenny
Paris
Season for One Piece Dress in Serge Arrives
Fashion notes describe the season for the one piece dress of serge with or without cape or outer wrap. Street gowns and suits feature plain lines and long waists, with delicate trims to follow the figure.
Fashion Note on Coats and Bustles in Fall Attire
A fashion note discusses shifting attitudes toward outerwear and the return of coats and shirtwaists. Skepticism fades as suits reappear, with emphasis on minimal buttons, visible collars, and the tension between straight silhouettes and curved beauty.
Swamp Root Kidney Liver Bladder Remedy Ad Ad
An advertising passage extols Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a pure safe non stimulant medicine for kidney liver and bladder relief. It promises consistent quality every bottle, notes vegetable herbs and teaspoonful doses and offers sample by mail from Binghamton New York. The copy urges readers to obtain the product at stores and mentions a paper advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kilmer
More Than He Could Stand Garden Advice and a Resignation
A column mocks stubborn gardeners choosing to quit planting for life. It contrasts a man who resigns to focus on business with a note on John C. Calhoun resigning the vice presidency to become a senator. A quip warns against winking at law, especially when personified in a lady judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pye
John C. Calhoun
United States
Cuticura Toilet Trio Ad Promotes Talcum Powder
Advertising copy touts Cuticura Talcum Powder as an antiseptic fragrant skin and baby dusting powder. It claims the talcum Freshens heavy skin and renders other perfumes superfluous as part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio set with soap and ointment.
Two Things Not Looked For Autobiography Exchange
Andrew Carnegie recalls a humorous episode about two things no man prepa red for in life. Josh Billings explains to an English critic how to balance humor and earnestness while entertaining an American audience. The anecdote ends with a quip about wealth and taxes.
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Andrew Carnegie
Matthew Armeld
United States
Josh Billings
Josh
Thenun
Mr. Arnold
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Creston
Lowa
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Businana
Pt i Weekly
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Trun
Bos Aerh Tea
Porto Wico
San Juan
Porto Rive
Beethoven
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Costa
McCarty
Intianapolie
Mgrrite CO
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Parker
Jasper County Farms Company
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Newland
Indiana
Marsillo
Kremola Sf
Auelson
Anas
Street
Chicago
W.N. Y
Fort Wayne
Mot Matta
Uinwawiny Veu Oup As
Grace
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Plessie
Louisville Court
Chile
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United Cement Products CO
Vermont St
Indianapolis
Ind
Bayer
Droggista
Red Cross
Postum Cereal Co.Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
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