A Life for a Leak A Courageous Rescue at Pale's Bar Dam
The Pale's Bar dam on the Black Worrior river nears completion when a leak opens after a diver is fatally endangered. Boss Bollivar and engineers rally as Darius fights through water and danger to reach a safe ledge, then is rescued with premium considerations abandoned to save him.
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Black Warrior
Pale’s Bar
Bill Bevins
John Dakus
Bevins
C. J. Bollivar
J. G. Gould
United States
Bollivar
Stedy
Darius
Sone
Gould
Bolivar
Three Excellent Ideas SMART DRESS Designs
A fashion sketch shows beige silk linen dress with a plaited skirt and fish-wife effect bodice, accessorized by a black crinoline hat with roses and a feather. Describes materials for girl and afternoon dresses in Rouen blue linen and oak-apple brown volle-ninon, with details on trims and construction.
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Rouen
The Wearing of the Sash in Fashion
A fashion piece notes satin sashes worn under lace inserts rather than at the waist. Sashes appear at the knees in some looks, then drape or bow low at the back. Paris sketches show rosette knots at the waist with long pendant ends forming a waistband.
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Paris
Ways to display tiny flowers with screens and wire
A guide explains arranging small flowers for table or decorative displays. It covers using screens in dishes to hold blooms upright, including makeshift brass or silver screens, and crafting a mesh from wire netting. It suggests threading stems through holes or trimming and tingling them in a flat mossy dish to lift each blossom.
Shade Hat For The Smart Set In Florentine Style
The milliner presents a shade hat in an old Florentine shape trimmed with large wheat and oat heads. Natural colors or dyed grains match the gown, with big straw bunches creating a graceful aigrette over the natural straw. Field flowers also trim hats of this kind.
Relining a Jacket Step by Step for Amateurs
The guide describes an easy method for relining a jacket by splitting the old lining as a pattern. It instructs removing half the lining, sewing, basting in sections, and finally finishing the bottom neck and front edges. It advises fitting fullness into armholes and sewing arm seams last and to cut sleeves from the old lining with extra room at the elbow.
Untidy Woman and the Social Expectation of Dress
The text argues women are judged by appearance and that neat clothing reflects well on character. It suggests women should take trouble over their attire, claiming tidiness signals overall orderliness.
Fame and the Hall of Fame Question
The piece argues fame is objective and not to be dissected by critics. It contends Poe’s lasting renown exceeds immediate judgments and that Hall of Fame decisions rest with its governors rather than public vote.
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Poe
Hall of Fame
Anthony Comstocks
Battery Dans
John L. Sullivans
Lippincott
Sordid Smuggling Then and Now
The piece contrasts historic glamorous smuggling with modern dull, sordid cases. It argues smuggling is no longer romantic and notes trends in gender and attitude, saying the male smuggler is the more conscious offender about taxes and public finance.
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Dirck
Saved the Situation Infits of a Perfect Beauty Comment
A woman questions whether beauty can be improved by routine care while a man asserts her looks are perfect and another's cannot be improved by effort. The firelight flickers as she sighs with relief, and the moment lingers on her calm acceptance.
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Violet Cochrane
Unclear student remark underscores doubt about future star
Fragmentary note questions why a boy may differ from peers and be destined for a hit in the world. The text references college studying and a comment about not coming home, with garbled phrasing and possible racial slur.
What the World Owes to Baptists
A sermon by Rev A C Dixon extols Baptist emphasis on believers baptism Lord's Supper and obedience to Christ. It highlights mission work of Carey Judson Bunyan Spurgeon and Maclaren, notes Baptist hymn writers and figures like Havelock, praising Baptist contributions to theology missions and literature.
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William Carey
London
John Ryland
Christ
Adoniram Judson
Dungpenla
Ann Hasseltine Judson
John Bunyan
Pilgrim’s Progress
Moody Church
Felix Mantz
S. F. Smith
Benjamin Beddome
Samuel Stennett
Samuel Medley
John Fawcett
Edward Mote
Oliver Holden
Christmas Evans
Wales
Robert Hall
Charles H. Spurgeon
Alexander Maclaren
Manchester
F. B. Meyer
A. J. Gordon
Boston
Spurgeon
Pounder
Sir Henry
Havelock
Lucknow
James Outram
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D’este
J. B. Lippincott Co
Edgar Allan Poe
A. C. Dixon
D. D
Chicago
Ave
Moody’s Church
John
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