A Writer Finds Audience in a Quiet Garden Encounter
Elinor Grahame, a writer known as a minor poet, laments fame’s edge as she meets a neighbor in the garden. Dora jokingly defends her sister’s art while the two discuss lectures, sewing, and a shared wish for simple human regard. The scene ends with a warm exchange and a recipe request.
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Elinor Grahame
Eisie Furley
Mother Nature
Dora
Misa Grahame
Midna His
Ladies’ Society
Mise Grahame
Ichtheyal a Kind of Asphalt From Austria
United States geological survey notes describe ichthyal as an asphaltic material from a fossiliferous deposit near Seefeld Tyrol Austria. After mining and dry disruption the distillate is sulphonated and neutralized with ammonia to yield the commercial ichthyal used as a medicament for skin conditions. The exact chemical composition remains undetermined.
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United States Geological Survey
Austria
United States
Seefeld
Austrian
Tyrol
French wedding customs influence American bridal roles
A recent fashionable wedding at the Madeleine in Paris impressed an American guest with the duties of the maids of honor. The article notes many French customs linked to weddings that American brides might imitate, highlighting ceremonial traditions and etiquette.
Silent Wedding Alms Ceremony With Lavish Gifts
A small ceremony unfolds as maids pass an assembly of guests making a silent appeal for alms for the poor. The wedding features lavish spending and an ornate aumoriere filled with Himy lace ribbon and flowers, displayed on an aristocratic bouquet stand.
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Guesta
Bad Book and Bad Children
A terse stub argues parents must stress reading to shape children’s morals. It cites childhood as a plastic period where habits form and warns impure or corrupt literature can corrupt character, steering youths toward crime or ruin.
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Eimarson
Liberty Bride Gets Work In Conformity With Prenup
In Los Angeles Mrs. Charles Wastburne and Mise Heluiz Chandler obtained illustration work for their husband’s employer, the firm publishing a magazine, under a prenuptial contract emphasizing independent livelihoods and shared home costs. The contract sparked nationwide comment.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Charles Wastburne
Mise Heluiz Chandler
Recent Inventions Headline a String of Novel Devices
A roll of inventions features a half horsepower electric car capable of four miles per hour, voice range devices by German women, an England cart for military use, a Welsh valveless pump, Swedish aerial torpedoes, a Tennessee chair for invalids with visibility, California swimming motion teaching pulley, New York wire trap for flies, Swiss piano powered air springs, New Jersey submarine escape device, San Francisco phonograph car alarm, and Idaho metal plant pot for transplanting roots.
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England
Eng Mahman I
Thaa
California
New York
Switzerland
New Jersey
Nas
San Francisco
Tan Baw
Idaho
Widow's Joke A Boomerang In New Jersey
Mary Hyatt of East Orange, a widow, faced a grand jury after admitting she sent a risqué postcard to neighbor Malcolm B. Shackelford. The card showed a woman in a man’s lap with date related text. Police say she admitted the joke.
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New York
Mary Hyatt
East Orange
N. J
United States
Jones
Grand Jury
Malcolm B. Shackleford
Florence
Sheddleford
Riches for the poor woman from Kentucky legacy
The article reports Mrs Morton, a 24 year old wife, receiving an $80 legacy from a deceased Kentucky donor via an itinerant piano tuner. The sum, claimed to total around 000, is left entirely to her. her 60-year-old husband and they have lived in a boarding house for two weeks. Banks doubted the draft but verification proved it genuine.
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Webster City
Mra
Oa Morton
Kentucky
Tule
Avho
Witile
Morida
Biographies While Alive Spark Modern Publishing Trend
An article discusses Lop 1's plan to publish a four volume biography of Lord George this autumn, illustrating a trend toward living individuals receiving life stories. It contrasts past posthumous honors with today’s impatience and cites Chesterton and Lloyd George as examples of commissioned living biographies.
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Lord George
Amin
G. K. Chesterton
Lloyd George
Lord Morley
W.E. Gladstone
Parfection and the One Thing We Can Do
The excerpt reflects on a quest for perfection with a nod to an old friend and a quote about doing one’s assigned task well. It contrasts a belief in universal gifts with the idea that greatness lies in humble, disciplined effort amid a crowd of supposedly foolish people.
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Phidias
Moses ur-Ddnte
New ‘York
Dishpan shrinkage and constancy in ironies
A fragmented narration notes dishpans shrinking as family sizes fall and consumer habits change. A clerk says smaller families use fewer dishes, and the era of large lifelong sets has passed. John D. Archbold mocks a politician by irony on a Cunard pier in New York.
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John D. Archbold
Archbold
Cunard
New York
Jte 8
Ewan
Golden Text Sermon Goes Humble as Child Misreads Line
A Sunday school service in a St. Louis church featured six year old Johnnie reciting the morning’s golden text I am the bread of life. Approaching the rostrum he froze and, in a shaky voice, proclaimed I am a loaf of bread causing laughter from the audience and endearing the moment.
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St. Louis
Johnnie
Johne
Aggurance Auddenly
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