Fortune and marriage under a string in a will
A young man, age twenty two, inherits only if married before twenty five, and faces a race to wed Jennie Tisdale. After Jennie’s delay and a wedding near the deadline, his cousin Kate counsels a fallback plan. He marries Kate the same evening, revealing why Jennie’s absence hid the true motive. The piece ends noting Jennie’s later quarrel and separation from her husband over the fortune.
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Tom
Lved
Jennie Tisdale
Kate Chambless
Kate
Jennie
Abe
Begville
Scoville
Freavens
Mra. Scoville
Jonnie
Scovilles
London Public Record Office Holds Twenty Five Miles of Shelves
The London Public Record Office stores about twenty five miles of parchment and paper records, dating back centuries to the Domesday Book. It costs over £26,000 yearly to maintain, with records from the Tower of London Whitehall and other sites. Fifty to sixty staff work daily, hoping for a notable discovery in legal genealogical or statistical materials.
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London
Jane
Chaipter Blonse
Westminster
Stalla Chapel
Star Chamber
Atate
Whitehall
Fulton Submarine's Feats in French Waters Chronicle Nautilus
Farnam Bishop recounts Robert Fulton's submarine feats in Paris and aboard the Nautilus. Trials on the Seine in May 1801 showed limited air, a conning-tower window solved by light, and six hours underwater with a compressed air tank. The vessel demonstrated dives, sally furling, and a 70 mile run down the Channel.
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Robert Fulton
Farnam Bishop
Paris
Napoleon
Seine
Yaris
Mr. Bishop
Shest
Conductor Nilisch Wins Ovation After Early Rebuff
In Leipzig, young conductor Arthur Ni lisch faced an orchestra refusing to play under him for Tannhaeuser. A director urged them to stay if they felt united after the overture. The performance ended in triumph, with the orchestra offering apologies and congratulations to Nilisch.
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Oerr
Arthur Ni ‘Kisch
Nilisch
London
The Tenreoc and Madagascar Fauna Oddities
The tenrec is a strange insect eating mammal found only in Madagascar. It represents an ancient animal type now nearly extinct as Madagascar split from the African continent long ago, allowing a unique island fauna to develop. A dialogue asks what a dilemma is and explains a haircut dilemma with a family reference.
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Madagancar
Poor Start Poni Aunt Tell Me William At Invvard
Fragmentary line asks William if he started well at Invvard and answers Auntie stating a slight cold hindered him. Appears from Harvard Lampoon style with playful wordplay and incomplete names.
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William
Invvard
Harvard Lampoon
Framing Pictures in Sixteenth Century Italian Art
A study of how Italian artisans elevated picture framing to a fine art in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Frames were scientifically chosen to enhance paintings, with Italian works showing a disciplined approach to surrounding the image, contrasting with later French influence that softened this sobriety.
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Italy
Beribner’s
Measuring Your Pace From Height To Mile Pace
The London Chronicle notes pace varies by height and nationality. It estimates the average pace between thirty and thirty-two inches, requiring about 2,000 to 2,100 paces per mile for an individual, with military examples from British Russians French Italian Austrian and German soldiers.
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London Chronicle
Ancient Barber’s Forfaita in London Standards
In old barber shops customers risked paying a forfeit besides their fee for swearing or bad conduct. Rules hung in shops fined miscreants with the price of a pint of ale. The practice dates back centuries, echoed in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, and noted by the London Standard.
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Mark
London
A Grievous Burden Revealed in Prison Dialogue
A Birmingham Herald excerpt presents a dialogue on prison life with a humanitarian noting that inmates lose identity to numbers. The man with motor tags questions whether confinement and labor truly differ from his own hardships, suggesting a shared sense of burden despite different circumstances.
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Birmingham Herald
A Statesman's Queer Ambition and Time’s Gait
An aging statesman of Grey’s stature longs to dance as a performer would. The piece contrasts political ambition with a desire for artistic grace, noting public envy and a sharp, witty life philosophy. It reflects period commentary on power, gender, and time’s relentless advance.
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Lord Grey
Tayllon
Grey
London Saturday Review
Fragmentary dialogue references engagement and a bank
A damaged OCR fragment shows a bantering exchange about an engagement to Ming Bages and a remark about a bank. It also contains a stray line about a person named Samo in virtue and a Shakespearean quotation, with unclear context.
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Ming Bages
Boston Transcript
Lost Island social news and war era reflections
Local notices recount dinners and visits among Thorson, Roseland, Sandvik, Matsen, and Bondhus families, plus a funeral trip to Story City. A long feature on German efficiency details horrific Belgian reprisals in 1914 Feder and Liege, urging support for Allies and opposition to German militarism.
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Lost Island News
Ole Thorson
Lewis Thorsen
Theodore Thorson
Gerald Thorson
Sam Roseland
Fred Baedke
Pomeroy Own
Elizabeth Bondhus
Lewis Sandvig
Sam Bondhus
Andrew Johnson
Lewis Thorson
Albert Thorson
Ole Thoreson
Theo Thoreson
Clarissa Berdin
Ole Petersen
Andrew Roseland
St. James
H. H
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J. Paulsen
Burniture
Maettinger
Th. T. Naaee
First National Bank
Graeettsinger
Avidson & Burt Attorneys-At-Law ‘Cmion
TOWA
Grodland
California
Rocksland Lines
Golden State
Dow Altitudes
Sscenic
Colorado
Salt Lake
el Paso
Golden State Limited
Californian
Mee
Ray
Des Moines
Safety and Service First
John ‘Larson
Gerace On
Oracle
Emma Shaver
Recorder
Ie Yoo Ae
Secen
Morth
Frank Madigan
C Clerk
E Tbhaver
Knights of
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Peter Fell
A “Green
J. C.molteon
V.C
Auagh
Ay i
R. Young
Roger
Crate
A. Fortune
British Record “Office
Fulton
USA
America
Abraham Mitrie Sihhany
Atlantic Monthly
nAlex, Smith
Atlanta Constitution
Samo
Virtue
raulie-Shakespeare
Charley Jensen
Belgium
Feder
Liege
John Bondhus
Jorgen Andersen
V. L. O'Connor
Farmers’ Grain Co
Graettinger
V. L. O’connor
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