Ballade of a Coquette in a Century Magnastac
A fragmentary verse recalls a stylish flirt, a woman with gold curls and fashionable dress. It mentions her hat, slang filled conversations, singing, dancing, and smoking a cigarette with a chosen companion. The narrator notes he has seen her picture by Sarony and Savory, referencing photographer credits.
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Ans
Patience
Gene
Nes
Love
Peng
Sarony
Ivo Soon
Arony
Frank D. Sherman
Century Magnastac
Nancy Deans Trial of Charity in Boston Home
Nancy Dean feels led by the Spirit to adopt a sickly boy from an urban charity asylum. She debates parental readiness, travels with Maria to Maine, and secures Willie after a moral resolve to ease his suffering. Her small venture becomes a focused effort to provide care and burial provisions for her own modest livelihood and beliefs.
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Nancy Dean
Nancy
Satan
Boston
Maine
Maria
New England
Dean
Fresh Air Fund
Miss Dean
Heavenly Father
Willie
Miss Dean and the Boston Summer Home for Children
In a voyage scene on the August eventizZ, Miss Dean comforts a young boy and befriends a girl named Nancy. The tale leads to Nancy and Maria planning to found a summer home for children at the old Locomta homestead, funded by Maria Locomta, transforming the family estate into a city charity.
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Dean
Miss Dean
Miss Déan
Ren
Rockland
Maria
Sissy
Miss Nancy
Sandine
Sniss
Nancy
Willie
Marin
Nancy Meskly
Boston
Medder
New England
Locomta
Nancy Dean
Christian Union
Far Aground News Bits In A Mixed British Dispatch
Foreign notes discuss a non clergyman eligible for the British seat, Paris rail plans costing 30 million dollars, and a London dinner for the Wales party at 133800 dollars. Refugees saved at Alexandria by a clever Arab doorkeeper. Japan slated for constitutional form after eight years, modeled on the Prussian system. Baroness Burdett Coutts garden party showcased smallest pony, Lady Jumbo, at 13 inches. A Duke of Argyll daughter wed Mr. Glyn, Vicar of Kensington. Sir William Gomm journals note a fiery Holland battle at age fourteen, he lived past ninety. UK mine deaths exceed thousand yearly. safety gains from timber supports noted. Elephant Jumbo replaced by young Jingo at London Zoo, a four-foot, 700-pound African elephant.
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House of Commons
Paris
London
Francs “of Wales
Alexandria
Kensington
Percy
Duke of Northumberland
William Gomm
Holland
Gomm
United Kingdom
Great Britain
Ireland
Jingo
Zoological Society
Letters of Introduction Teach Caution in Social Graces
A merchant misuses a letter of introduction by delivering it personally to a capitalist, provoking a sharp rebuff and costly refreshments. A young man, armed with a clergyman’s letter, seeks favor with a parsonage daughter but is dismissed by the reverend without explanation, fueling mortification and delayed reply from the uncle.
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Hoe
York
Toran
Japanese Diet and Strength Highlight Vegetarians in laboring Class
A San Francisco Chronicle excerpt notes Japanese endurance and muscular build, arguing a vegetable and fish diet sustains great strength. It praises low food intake by laborers, comparing coolies to oxen and horses in heavy work, and claims resilience against extreme conditions and heat.
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Japan
San Francisco Chronicle
Mammoth and Man Footprints Reported in Nevada Quarry
A Chicago Times report notes discovery of sandal marks and a mammoth track in sandstone at Nevada State Prison area. The find suggests man and mammoth may have shared age and even day, with footprints found fifteen feet deep in a quarry believed once near a lake border where fishing and mammoth drinking occurred.
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Nevada State
Chicago Times
Disputed Riot Ends With Beehive Brigade’s Tactics
A farmer in Brried Town faced a chaotic scene as a disruptive party charged with horns and fiddles. The crowd caused turmoil by overturning about six beehives, provoking a swift response from local residents. The bees proved more effective than shotguns or hot water in restoring order, according to the Chicago Journal.
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Chicago
Misread Letter Sparks The Old Gentleman’s Mirth
In a Detroit Post and Tribune item a clergyman receives a letter meant for a nephew calling him a tramp and asking to treat him as such. The daughter reads the note aloud and corrects the misinterpretation, prompting laughter from the elder. The piece notes the plainness of the writing and the humorous misreading.
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Detroit Post and Tribune
Age of Wich Pressure and its Social Toll
The piece argues modern life is dominated by high pressure as science enables greater output from resources and speed. It links faster trains and telegrams to mental strain, noting workers exhaust their energy, lose quiet time, and struggle to maintain social virtue. It laments scarce original thinkers and the drift toward specialists over versatile minds.
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Londor Globe
A Potato Bug Story From Mount Desert Island
Somesville on Mount Desert Island is described as a fashionable island resort with cottages and costly homes, while its permanent residents work as farmers or fishermen. Fresh cod sells for about two and a quarter cents per pound, and potato bugs threaten crops, prompting calls for protective laws to curb their spread.
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Somesville
Somes
Abraham Somes
Mount Desart
Newport
New York
Boston
City Company
Mec
Cor N. Y. Post
Crashing weight injures churchgoers during Sunday Mass
In St Peter's Catholic Church about 900 worshippers faced panic when an 80 pound cluck-weight plummeted through the ceiling into the vestibule during services on eight recent Sundays. Many women and children fled toward doors and windows before Father Ludden calmed the crowd, avoiding serious injuries.
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St. Peter's Catholic Church
Father Ludden
Farming notes and stock data from Illinois to Kentucky
A compilation of agriculture notes from various papers. It discusses thinning fruit trees, renting land in Illinois, Georgia fish farming with 2500 ponds stocked with German corn, and a high farming percentage. It covers milking cow health, clover failure, land drainage lessons, cleaning baked dishes, tile drain depth, and Kentucky stock sales totaling about 458,044 with private sales bringing the total to around 525,000.
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N. Y
Minnesota
N. Y. Herald
Beatty
Illinois
Journal of Commerce
N.Y
Indiana
Kentucky
Courter
Journal
Neglected Lands In Use for Pasturage
An 1880s rural advice article warns that overused homestead pastures become thin, weedy, and unproductive. It urges reclaiming neglected timbered lands, breaking up soil, seeding diverse grasses, and using nitrate of soda as a fertilizer to improve growth and stock quality.
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Pastora
Jean
South America
Vicissi
National Live Stock Journal
Grasse Perfume Trade Reveals Its Fragrant Secrets
In Grasse the perfume industry thrives from violet and rose picking to distillation. Flower fields yield vast quantities of petals for attar of roses and neroli, with ninety perfumeries in the region. Factories and small workshops alike employ workers of varied means, from grand chateaus to hands-on artisans, supplying markets in London and Paris.
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Grasse
Cologne
Paris
Rabbita
London
Peris
Herald Building Staircase Shootout Narrated by Detroit Fred Press
A reporter describes a tense ascent to a printing office on four stairs in South Carolina with editors fearing an armed intruder. Guards, editors, and a staged exchange end with an offer to send messengers instead, as the narrator narrowly escapes a lethal confrontation.
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South Carolina
the Herald
Asemon Yeagan
Detroit
Fred Press
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