Lady Carmichael's Niece Visits Frayne Hall
Sir Thomas Carmichael opposes his wife inviting her niece Eileen Leslie to stay, but she arrives disguised as a cousin. On a London to Lichfield journey Eileen charms him with wit and stories, revealing a clash of class, propriety, and romance in a late 19th or early 20th style domestic drama.
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Prayne Wall
Lichield
Frayne
Caimichaels
Sir Thomas
Carmichearl
Thomas
Lady Carmichael
Toot
Eileen Leslie
Ealing
Elfen
Hileen
Epsom
Manchester Express
Euston
Bounder
Atasa
Eli Thomas
Times
Sporting Life
Sir Thoms
Bir
Rugby
Tugby
the Bowan
Cours
Lichfield
Rimen
Alreay
Ami
Hie Motor
Leatle
Gold
Leslie
Armen
Carmichael
Frayne Hall
Lam Eilem Leslie
Nipco
Miss Lacalle
Uncle Tom
Eileen
New York University Strike Shrugs Off Authorities
About 600 New York University students strike after a parade of contempt toward officials and a loud freshman incident. The chancellor suspends the pond guards as armed detectives arrive with the freshman and his father.
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New York
Ptudenta
New York University
Slas
Photographing the human voice by new apparatus
The French Academy of Sciences has shown a device by which Dr Marage photographs vocal vibrations. The process records the motions on a moving band of sensitised paper using a thin rubber film and a tiny mirror. It promises to aid singing teachers and pathologists in analyzing speech and comparing accents.
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French Academy of Sciences
Westminster Gazette
Marage
M Jean Richepin's Colorful Career and Scandal Touches Theater
The Westminster Gazette notes the vacant fusteall of Andre Theurtet being filled by M Jean Richepin a Franco German war veteran turned actor and playwright. He coauthored a Tour d Auvergne Theatre piece with Andre Gill faced a 60 francs fine and a month in prison for outrages on public morality and later worked as a sailor and dock laborer while pursuing writing.
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Jean Richepin
Andre Theurtet
Westminster Ganette
Bourtaki
Andre Gill
Mercentile Marine
Maslin
Britain Should Build A National Theatre To Honor Shakespeare
The piece argues London’s taste for modern and Eastern stage forms signals readiness for a national theatre. It cites Oscar Wilde Salome and Maud Allan dancing as evidence of demand for serious drama, proposing state support to unify art, training, and public culture around Shakespeare’s legacy.
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Austin Harrison Owersee
Granville Barker
Arnse
Shafterbury
Tiastenn
Dion Jose
Tierra Maja
Mimi Aguglin
Grasso
Mr. Barker
London
Faris
Strapgler
Theresa Hajuin
National Theatre
Salome
Maud Allan
Balome
Germany
Oscar Wilde
John the Reptiat
Oscar Wikis
Head of the Baptist
Belome
Amding Hitle
Stravues
Baptist
Allan
Miss Allan
Spain
Africa
Palace
St. John
Wilde
Straus
Maud Allen
Waste
Comyns Carr
Bernard Shaw
Mra Warren
William Archer
Fingland
England
Portland
Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill and 19th century politics
Mrs George Cornwallis Weest discusses Lady Randolph Churchill in the April Century Magazine. The text recounts a Jubilee cruise with Chamberlain Hartington and others, Chamberlain’s National Party scheme, a tense deck conversation with Lord Hartington, and social sketches of Hartington, Wolff, and Chatsworth.
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George Cornwallis-Weest
Century Magazine
Randolph Churchill
Duke of Devonshire
Lady Randolph
Mr Chamberlain
Lord Hartington
Mr Gladstone
Home Rule Party
Lord Salisbury
Lord Randolph
National Party
de Pourvy
Lord Harrington
Maine
Sir Henry Wolff
Buxton
Chatsworth
Chinese Officer Tramples Elderly Woman in Hong Kong Incident
The Hong Kong Weekly reports on a Chinese military officer surnamed Tal who, while riding to Tin Tong on the 19th, spurred his horse after a passerby drew an umbrella. The officer and a wounded woman were taken to the station for questioning. He paid 25 dollars in compensation to the injured woman.
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China
Hong Kong
Tal
Tin Tong
Tal Ho
Upkeep of gentility as social folly in England
The Westminster Gazette argues gentility is a costly social habit driven by public schools and liberal education. It warns the shabby-genteel coat of decency traps the working class in expensive clubs, dress, and appearances, risking old age dependance while stifling true independence.
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Amos Barton
George Eliot
Lincoln
Bennett
Haymarket
Piccadily
Schoduly
England
Carringe
Hes
Westminster Gazette
End the Slumb Save the Suburbs in England Housing Bill
Mr John Burns unveils a Housing Bill aimed at stamping out slums and saving suburbs through town planning. It empowers local authorities to map undeveloped areas, protect open spaces, and prevent high rents while avoiding strict German-style impacts on tenants.
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John Burns
England
George Haw
Daily News
Lord Macaulay
House of Commons
Ptatemman
Sid Macaulay
Macaulay
Shaftesbury
Haw
Burns
Walter Crotch
Tottenham
Canning Town
Burne
Germany
Weetminster
Housing Acta
Blind hymnographer Fanny Crosby celebrated in New York
The deafblind lyricist known for Safe in the Arms of Jesus and thousands of hymns, identified as Miss Fanny Crosby, celebrated her eighty eighth birthday in New York amid tributes. Known privately as Mrs Francis James Van Alstyne, she has long worked in New York slums and appeared on lecture platforms across the United States. A global Fanny Crosby Day was held three years ago on her eightieth birthday.
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Tam
Fanny Crosby
New York
Jesus
Saya
Daily News
Lise
Francis James van Alsyne
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English National Theatre
Cences
Devonshire
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