Old Ladies Enjoy Surprise Vaudeville Aid
Miss Vancouver and Misses Radford Lockwood bring music to Vancouver Home for the Aged. The afternoon concert features Hiawatha and rag time numbers and ends with a jubilant crowd, many moved to tears and laughter by the revived joy.
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Miss Lockwood
Vancouver
Radford
Lockwood
Misa Alicia Radford
Jerusalem
Trovatore
Anna Fanning
Miss Radford
Old Anna Fanning
Hiawatha
Rufus Rastus
Jim Mewlett
Alicia Radford
Miles Radford
Returning Son Daunts Mother With Haircut Wish
A famed pianist, abroad on a four year art pursuit and concert tours, comes home to Plattsville. His mother rushes to greet him but sobs when she learns the truth is that his hair has not been trimmed, revealing her concerns about his hardship.
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Hig
Plattsville
Henry
Illustrated Sunday Magazine
Twain’s 1877 Atlantic Monthly Dinner Speech Recalls Frosty Boston Reception
Mark Twain describes a December 17, 1877 Atlantic Monthly dinner in Boston where his talk drew the frostiest reception yet. He mocked Boston’s literary idols Emerson Holmes and Longfellow while three western men posed as them, leaving him miserable for years before resurfacing the stenographer’s report.
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North American Review
Mark Twain
Atlantic Monthly
Whittier
Boston
Emerson
Holmes
Longfellow
Wagner a True Prophet Novel Claim Sparks Anniversary Debate
A Vienna newspaper retells a Wagner centennial tale claiming Jean Paul wrote an introduction for Hoffmann and prophesied a future in which music and poetry unite. The piece dates the introduction to Bayreuth November 24 1813 the year Wagner was born and notes the coincidence.
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Bayreuth
Wagner
Animals in British Courts Show Unlikely Courtroom Moments
Westminster Gazette recalls animals disrupting trials in Britain from an Irish terrier in Westminster police courts to a ba boon in Manchester and a porcupine at a county court, noting cats donkeys and a baby lion among prior unusual appearances.
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Westminster
Manchester
London
Westminster Gazette
Calendars Through The Years A Thrifty Note
A Kansas City Times quips about scarce free calendars this year and suggests using older calendars such as 1812 1840 1868 or 1894 for conge as a 1908 calendar, with a hint that calendars reused in 1936 and 1964 can save money. It adds a playful riddle about keeping a calendar for 28 years for later fun.
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Kansas City Times
Earache in a House with Ratty Keyholes
Delia complains of a terrible earache to Mrs Wise in a domestic scene. Mrs Wise warns that all the keyholes in the house are very ratty.
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Delia
Mrs. Wise
Keen Eye Saves Life of Trapper in Ontario Ravine
Peter Lovejoy discovers Eugene Hardy near Woonga Ontario after a three week starvation. Hardy, bedridden with rheumatism, is rescued with aid from volunteers and brought out on a litter after coarse venison broth and pelts sustain him.
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Peter Lovejoy
Woonga
Jake
Eugene Hardy
Hardy
Lovejoy
Doomed cow attempts church entry spurred by crowds in Cleveland
A distracted cow in Cleveland tried to enter a church, climbing a long set of stairs to closed doors, drawing a large crowd, and fleeing toward an insane asylum before being corralled by a mounted herder. The herd dispersed as children gathered and the cow headed toward Bedford Avenue.
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Upton Sinclair
Harvard Street
Newbury Insane Asylum
Bedford Avenue
First American Pencil Created in Concord 1811
The article notes that lead pencils were first made in the United States in 1811 by William Monroe in Concord Massachusetts, marking an early American origin of a common writing instrument.
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Tha
United States
William Monroe
Concord
Maas
Castaways Shelter on Disappointment Island in the Auckland Group
Surviving crew of the Dundonald, wrecked off Disappointment Island in 1907, endured eight months on the Auckland Islands. They built grass huts, hunted molly mawks and seals, made needles from bird bones, and fashioned clothing from seal skins. A depot and welcoming jetty were later established on Auckland Island.
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New Zealand
Canterbury Philosophical Institute of England
Bluff
Port Ross
Auckland Islands
Sydney
Disappointment Island
Auckland
Little Island
Auckeland Island
Seek New Building for Philadelphia Federal Offices
The United States treasury department plans a larger, more convenient building in Philadelphia to replace the current custom house and sub treasury. The city’s federal facilities are deemed inadequate for present needs, and a new structure is being considered to better serve government functions.
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United States Treasury Department
Philadelphia
Custom House
Sub Treasury
Early American Custom Houses and Philadelphia’s Port Era
A historical overview traces Philadelphia’s colonial custom houses from Evans residence in 1733 to the 1810 purchase on Second Street, noting the shift from crown to state control during the Revolution and the 1845 conversion of the United States Bank building for customs use. It highlights the Strickland designed first custom house, its marble first story, brick upper, and a mercantile emblem by Rush.
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Chestnut Street
Fifth
Bank of the
United States
Philadelphia
Custom House
Peter Evans
Grosvenor Bedford
Evans
John Nelson
William Alexander
John Swift
Front Street
Arch
Lexington
Pennsylvan
Congress
Dock
Philadea
United States Bank
Fourth
Wiliam Strickland
Merce
Rush
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Frost
Keen Eye
Trapper
Woodman
Cleveland
Bloomington
Ind
May Knight
John Knight
Grearly
Ross Harbor
Bank of the United States
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