In Love at the Gate Kitty Granger Sparks Danby Romance
Maurice Danby trips to the Granger farm to court Kitty Granger after declaring love. A comical collision with Kitty’s pony cart leads to an accidental meeting that cements his desire to marry her. He plans a longer courtship, while avoiding city duties.
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Maurice Danby
Mr. Danby
Iris
Maurice
Kitty Gransor
Granger
Kitty
Miss Kitty
Danby
Palmer Granger's
An Appreciative Audience and a Western Stage Fracas
The tale recalls Joseph Jefferson in a pioneer troupe touring mining camps. A melodrama scene ends with a missed shot as a miner shouts and panic erupts, prompting a back door dash. After curtain, the crowd urges another performance and pays again for a repeat show.
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Joseph Jefferson
Mr. Jefferson
The Collar as a Key to a Woman's Suit Fit
A woman notes her husband’s habit of inspecting collars on new suits and argues that collar fit determines perceived elegance. She contends that a well shaped collar is essential to a polished look and that attention to collar detail outweighs hip and bust fit.
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iIt
Rector's Peculiar Funeral Journey Across Countryside
The Rev. Paulet Mildmay, longtime Mappleton rector, arranged a plain oak coffin laid on a farmer's wagon drawn by four horses. Roses covered the coffin as villagers followed, a special train awaited at Romsey, and the procession continued to Minsted aboard the wagon for final rites.
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Paulet Mildmay
Compton
Mappleton
Romsey
Southampton
Minsted
Beauty of Budapest and the Danube Bridge
Budapest stands as a grand continental city famed for the blue Danube spanning near 500 yards. An English-built iron bridge connects the fortress city of Buda with Pest, echoing Edinburgh’s old and new towns. The old fortress Ofen faced over twenty sieges, the last in 1686 freeing Hungary from the Turks.
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Budapest
Constantinople
Danube
Buda
Pest
Edinburgh
Hungary
Glass Shattered by Voice Demonstrated in Opera Legend Tale
A curious experiment shows a thin wine glass breaking when sung into at high volume. Shouting the same deep note into the glass as it is held by the stem can shiver it into fragments. The anecdote recalls Lablache the famed singer who reportedly performed this feat with multiple glasses.
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Lablache
What Elephants Cost
What Elephants Cost lists animal prices in pounds. Elephants range from £1200 to £1400 for Africans and about £1060 for an Indian elephant, with giraffes priced similarly due to scarcity and various other animals such as hippos £600, African hon £200 to £300, noness £160 or £190, Bengal tigers £160 to £180, and camels £80 to £100 each.
Monkey's Lightning Moves At Philadelphia Zoo
A white gibbon at the Philadelphia Zoo defies photography since July 1906. Reported attempts reach 1 090 with no success as the ape vanishes before any shot can be taken. The challenge invites amateurs to try for the first-ever photograph of this rapid primate.
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Philadelphia
Zoo
Peninsula
London Zoo
London
Colombian War Atrocities Told In Brutal Incident
A World’s Work account recounts a brutal episode from the Palo Negro battle where 40 young Liberal boy soldiers aged 10 to 14 were sent to expose themselves to enemy fire and were all killed. The incident ends with their bodies buried in a shared pit.
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Palo Negro
Uribe Uribe
Hogota
Triana
Thomas
Alexander
Remarkable Echoes Across World Sites Reported
The New York Herald notes echoes across the Menai Strait in Wales return hammer blows from piers and beams at 576 feet. It cites echoes from Simonetta Castle near Milan, a grotto near Castle Comber in Ireland, the Tuileries garden, Shipley Church in Sussex, Woodstock, and the Pantheon where hand claps are said to match a 12 pound cannon.
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Menai Straits
Wales
Simonetta
Milan
Castle Comber
Ireland
Tuileries
Paris
Shipley Church
Sussex
Woodstock
Pantheon
New York Herald
Mermaids in History Across Cultures and Lore
Across nations, tales of mermaids and mermen appear in folklore and fairy tales. Indigenous myths in America speak of woman fish and man fish while Chinese legends describe sea women. Mermaids often lure humans or live among people, inspiring poets and moral tales.
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St. Nicholas
Heads and raids of Formosan savages A yellowed account recalls Formosa headhunters
The piece describes eight Formosan tribes as bloodthirsty headhunters who raid Japanese and Chinese settlements. A notable incident recalls a tribal raid that stole a score of heads from a Japanese post, and the savages prefer stalking victims during tea picking in jungles.
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Formosa
Borneo
Macmillan
Davidson
Jungie
Sacred mountain sheep of Colorado protected by law
Colorado State Game and Fish Commissioner Jims Woodard compares the mountain sheep to India’s sacred bull and urges no trade or hunting. The species, though scarce, is recovering under protection. a band is seen near Florence to Victor. A man named Klantzky was fined 300 dollars plus 140 dollars costs for killing one, with possible jail time if unpaid.
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Colorado
Florence
Victor
Canon City
Food in the British Navy a hundred years ago
A historian notes ship crews faced stale long stored meat from victualing yards. The meat was hard fibrous and salty and often required a magician more than a cook to be edible. Tales spoke of horseshoes barkings and disappearances near yards, with salt pork usually better than beef and sailors carving items from either.
Black Skin and Sun Protection Theory in Ink
A London News theory claims painting the arm with Indian ink blocks light rays, creating a white line where inflammation appears after sun exposure. The article argues black pigmentation from sunburn protects against chemical rays, suggesting white travelers could use black or red paint in the tropics.
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Tropics
London News
Jewels in the Sultan s Treasury Description
Constantinople correspondent to a Paris journal reports on the sultan s treasury jewels. He notes sultans turbans since Mahomet II with large water gems and two royal thrones, the Persian throne with 20 000 rubies emeralds and pearls, and the Suleiman II throne with a four by six inch emerald hanging over the caliph s head.
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Constantinople
Paris
Mahomet II
Persia
Suleiman II
Warning horn guides travelers on Bainbridge moors
A York shire winter custom sees a horn blown at 9 p.m. each night on the Bainbridge green to warn wayfarers. The practice has saved travelers from fogbound misfortune and endures as a notable local precaution.
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Yorkshire
Bainbridge
A Dance of Diamonds and Dilemmas in Edge Town
Owen Barton contends with a love triangle as Alice Bart accepts a proposal from Guy Pilson while Alice Bart, drawn to him, sparks a fierce debate over fidelity and finance. Barton confronts his wife’s extravagance and the looming ruin of his business as reputations hang by a thread.
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Owen Barton
Alice Bert
Edgetown
Miss Barl
Alice Barthe
Pilson
Alice Bart
Guy Pilson
Garvin
Barton
Mr. Bart
Young Barton
Paul Earl
Alice
Alvin Bart
Gay Pilson
Imillionaire
Turing
Alice Ind
Liee Rort Cowleé
Misplaced Confidence in a Raffles Romance
In a suburban town, Kitty Dalzelle helps a famed thief escape capture, only to collide with the truth when Duke Winwood offers her a ride home. The escapade ends as Raffles remains at large and misadventures unfold around family pride and engagement plans.
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Kitty
Bob
Mr. Raffles
Raffles
Miss Kitty
Haffles
Idrass
Mrs Dalzelle
Kitty Dalzelle
Chevalier Raffles
Duke Winwood
Kitty Dalvelle
Braided Fates and a Gifted Heiress
Bronson, an eccentric philanthropist, buys a pendant for Avis Brayton after hearing her plea for luck. Years later at a dinner, Avis reveals the necklace aided her rise from poverty and hints she will repay Bronson, who now faces an unexpected encounter with love and his own reputation.
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Bronson
Broncon
Avis Brayton
Avis
Pronson
van Wilde
Bronsoght
Jimmy Rogers
Misa Brayton
Mr. Bronson
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Sarah
Kittie Granger
Monkey
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