The Bedouin in Harper's Magazine excerpt
In an A L Wheeler piece from Harper's Magazine the Bedouin of Golden Era travels is described as a child of the desert. The narrative contrasts his dreamlike life with modern affairs while noting his deep, ancient perspectives and disdain for bustling enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Desert
Fioca
Heaven
Mecca
Suez Canal
Constantinople
Idumma
Arabia
Petra
Beirut
Moses
Menephtah
Jerusalem
A. ©. Wheeler
Harper's Magazine
Gas Meter Slot Machine Scams Brooklyn Woman
A Brooklyn woman installed a quarter gas slot machine in her flat to monitor bills. She deposited a quarter and expected gas, but the device failed to register and cut the light. An inspector later opened the unit and found three nickels and a dime inside.
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Brooklyn
New York Mail and Express
The Legless Man's Doorstep Plea Ends in Quick Rebuff
A weathered veteran with a wooden leg, seeking charity in a Lanarkshire village, knocks on a house and asks for aid. The housewife snaps back that he did not lose his leg there, and slams the door. The incident appears in the Liverpool Mercury.
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Lanarkshire
Aweel
Liverpool Mercury
Minards Liniment For Bird Leg Fractures
Advice on treating leg fractures in young chickens and other birds using cleating washing antiseptic cotton elder wood splints and linen bandages. Fractures heal in three to four weeks for hens and four weeks for wing fractures with elder splints or birdboard substitutes.
New York Demands Bridges and Transit Expansion
Town Topics notes New York City pushes for more bridges and underground rapid transit and softer coal smoke while moonlight is not on the list. Lost Angeles Ex press cites $20 million in salaries prompting state scrutiny of consolidation. Annapolis seeks $100000 for a government building, Baltimore misses funding, sparking calls for action by congress.
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New York City
Angeles Express
New York
Costa
New York World
Annapolis
Baltimore
Congress
Baltimore American
Fitzsimmons Sharkey Tibrogue Progress Report
Reports from Chicago and Pittsburgh note progress in the Fitzsimmons Sharkey saga. The papers speculate on the peace scheme delaying action until key questions between Sharkey and Fitzsimmons are settled.
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Fitzsimmons-Sharkey
Chicago Democrat
Universit
Sharkey
Fitzsimmons
Pittsburg News
Yom O'Rourke
Pug Impresario
Anya
Pittaburg ‘Press
Sunny Hearted Girls and Cheerful Nature Value
A Housewife essay extols cheerful disposition in young women. It praises a sunny cheerful girl who brightens family life regardless of appearance or health. The piece argues optimism is cultivated and desirable for those seeking to please.
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Minny
Notable Figures Highlight Late Nineteenth Century Elite
A survey lists physicians, financiers, politicians, and nobility. Notables include Russell Sage with many children funded generously, Joseph Choate with a courtly smile, Adrian Iselin Jr. avoiding overcoats, Senator N B Scott of West Virginia as a former glassmaker, the quiet 52 year old Duke of Northumberland, and Countess Boni de Castellane leasing Chateau du Marins. Jacob Gould Schurman rose from grocery clerk to Philippine Commission chair, R P Flower's strict schedule, and Sir James Reid succeeding Jenner as Queen Victoria’s physician.
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Secretary Long
Washington
Russell Sage
Joseph Choate
Adrian Iselin, Jr
N. B. Scott
West Virginia
Duke of Northumberland
Duke of Argyll
Mark Hanna
Cleveland
Boni de Castellane
Chateau du Marins
Duc de Noailles
Jacob Gould Schurman
Cornell
Philippine Commission
R. P. Flower
New York
Wall Street
Dowse
Massachusetts Press Association
Malden
Horse Show Plans and Harness News From The Era
The piece notes an April horse show in New Orleans and lists multiple horses with times and owners, including Dare Devil and Peter the Great, plus training moves at Readville and Denver. It mentions harness racing activity, new owners, and bids for the coming season, ending with a quip from the Washington Star.
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New Orleans
Dare Devil
Geers
John Payne
Readville
Mass
Wallace
Lottie Smart
Denver
Peter the Great
J. Malcolm Forbes
W. A. Boggs
Redinda
Knapsack McCarthy
Dan Cupid
Cleveland
Des Moines
Planet
Borough Park
Charles M. Reed
Erie
Ed de Cernea
Artful Paris Swindle Quietly Netted 10,000 Francs
Paris police expose a new deception where a "somebody and company" buys Dr Beaumont's elixir wholesale and employs fashionably dressed women to pose as buyers. The harmless elixir is found to be water colored with coffee, yet the scam yields about 10 000 francs before the culprits vanish.
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Paris
Egypt
Rameses the Great
Seine
London Telegraph
Trusts and Education Seeps From City Debates
Chicago News notes how lamp and dairy trust influence may hinder future presidents education in the log cabin era. St Louis Republic reports New York clashes with dairy trusts over pricing and water licenses, highlighting monopolistic competition.
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Lamp Trust
of Trust
Chicago News
New York
Dairy Trust
St. Louis Republic
Royal Crown Soap Co. sewing machine draw winners listed
The Royal Crown Soap Co reveals the April 20 drawing winners for three sewing machines, names include Winnipeg Mra J A Stutter 600 Ross Street Manitoba. Thomas H Slack Baldur N W l., Mra John I Mowat Prince Albert. The company will continue weekly three machines each Monday until further notice.
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Royal Crown Soap Co
Winnipeg
Mra
J. A. Stutter
Ross Street
Manitoba
Thomas H. Slack
Baldur
N. W
A Sufficient Income Question Tangles Club Talk
A clubwoman asks what counts as a sufficient income and a companion replies with a witty line about earning always a little more than you have. The exchange reflects practical finance views in social club chatter.
Minards Liniment Endorsed By Mrs Josiah Hart
A dated note from Port Mulgrave June 5 1897 by C C Richards and Co shows Mrs Josiah Hart endorsing Minard s Liniment as a remedy for colds and related conditions calling it the best liniment she has used.
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Port Mulgrave
C. C. Richard's & CO
Opulent Father-in-Law Teases Son-in-Law George
In a Harlem Life snippet a father-in-law mocks George for losing ambition after marrying his daughter. George replies his peak was becoming the man’s son-in-law, highlighting a humorous social exchange.
Wings Taxed by Hungry Higgins in Squelched Poem
A fragment from the Indianapolis Journal references Poetica Squelched and Watkins as a weary speaker. Higgins uses a bird metaphor noting wings offer little meat.
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Watkins
Higgins
Indianapolis Journal
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Ills
A. H. Merrill
New England
Macbeth
Philadelphia
Sorghum
Washington Star
W. W. Abbott
Myron Mason Medical
Sherbourne
Eas UC
Phalle
Lal Agency Canadi
Geom Sickle
Tijak
China
Ance GO Wheel & M
Lendes
Randolph Atrest
Chicago
Ill
Reid Bros
King West
Toronto
Cook Shutt Plow CO
E. Gartly Parker
Adelaide ST. E
THE
Standard Mining Exchange
British Columbia
Ontario
Republic
Hedford McNeill’s
Clough
Neals
Winnipeg Optical Specialists CO
Main Street
Ash
Stephens
IG. F. Stephens & CO
Bull
G. W. Donald
Sec
Winnnipeg
Dyson-Gibson CO
W. WN
Canada
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Moial
Brigg
Briggs’ Seeds
Steele, Briggs
Steele
Briggs
Steele, Briggs Seed Co
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