The Burgess Family and a Veiled Visitor
In a strained tenement, Mrs Burgess and her daughter Claire face poverty and a hidden past. A charitable visitor Sylphide Courtlandt arrives, exposing social tensions as Dr Gresham schemes and Philip Burgess clashes over bleak prospects and a potential engagement with Lucian Courtlandt.
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Mrs. Burgess
Martha
Claire
Amase
Mra. Burgess
Mr. Burgess
Dremes
Dr. Gresh
Philip Burgess
Claire Murgess
Sylphide Courtlandt
Sylphide Couramont
Dr. Gresham
Littl
Sylphide
Jaire
Lucian
Lst
Gresham
Russell Courtlandt
The Longest Way Around The May Storms And Telegraph Wires
The May West storms crippled telegraph lines from Omaha to Council Bluffs. News still reached daily via a 2000 mile detour: Chicago to St Louis to Kansas City to Denver to Omaha then to El Paso and Los Angeles to San Francisco, with dispatches arriving each morning.
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News of the World
Omaha
Council Bluffs
Chicago
St. Louia
Kansans City
Kansas City
Denver
Missouri River
Kansas
San Francico
Wellas
St. Louis
el S’nso
San Francisco
Los Angeles
New All-Metal Subway Cars Ordered for New York
The Interborough Rapid Transit Company announced an order for 200 pressed steel cars from American Car Foundry. Officials claim the all-metal design will boost safety in tunnels and atop surface routes. Experts acknowledge challenges but see all-steel cars as the future of rail travel.
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Subway
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
American Car Foundry Company
Interborough Company
Paris
Star-shaped Texas edifice at St Louis World’s Fair
A Texas star edifice dominates the Louisiana Purchase Exposition plan. The twin-pointed structure sits on a raised terrace with a central dome and five wings ending in Grecian columns. The piece highlights Lone Star symbolism reflecting Texas’s independence and U.S. statehood. The article also contains satirical notes on Japanese and Chinese customs and a brief reference to a piece on Japan.
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St. Louia
Texas
Lone Star State
Mexico
Republic of Texas
Queer customs in Japan and manners of dress
A fragment discusses Japanese fashion and etiquette, noting stockings avoidance to preserve harmony with French gowns, a seller supplying only some items, braces worn, and claims about kissing and a Japanese girl’s knowledge of etiquette influenced by a foreign instructor.
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Japan
Noted Southern Imagery in Kemble's Sketches
An excerpt from Lealie's Monthly describes artist Kemble drawing a Georgia subject labeled a Cracker and a Southern darkey. He recalls paying the model a nickel after the posing session, reflecting on compensation and the artist’s work.
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Mr. Kemble
Georgia
Ponttlona
Lealie's
Luxury and extravagance in Greenland legend
A Greenland tale recounts Kor-ko-ya’s reckless wealth with a wooden house, a lamp, and a liver oil feast for workers, illustrating opulent displays unseen before. The piece contrasts wealth with public service exams noting women outpacing men, and ends with a proverb about borrowed brilliance.
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Greenland
Kor-ko-ya
Life and utopian notes in distant lands
A colonial era travelogue sketches idealized societies and curious customs. It praises Denmark for literacy, describes Kutaha on New Guinea with coral walls, lauds Canton Vaud Switzerland for peace, Finland’s integrity, and Holland's Agneta Park model where workers rent homes from a company and receive dividends.
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Denmark
New Guinea
Kutaha
Europe
Vaud
Switzerland
Finland
Agneta Park
Delft
Holland
Thought Ham Haunted and the Moat Tale
A New Orleans Times-Democrat writer recounts a racist anecdote about superstition among Black people. A hog’s meat on a platform appears haunted, but a cat beneath the platform is the real culprit, yet the observer remains skeptical, insisting he has not seen the cat.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Darky
Scrapbook on Mary Queen of Scots Inspires Young Collector
A young girl creates an illustrated scrapbook devoted to Mary Queen of Scots, gathering articles verses building pictures and portraits from magazines to compile a personal volume. The piece encourages focused topics and warns against overly broad subjects while noting the educational value of collecting and copying material. It ends with advice on prudent courtship timing and furniture purchase.
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Lucian Courtlaindt
Burgess
Lucian
Philip Burgees
Mary Queen of Scots
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Plaiter
Alice P. Carriston
Winnefred
Father
Dame Fortune
Daugh
Sam Claire Burgess
Hastings
Mr. Hastings
Allence
Alue 7
Bylphide
Anld
TEEAS
BT. Louia
Kemble and
the Cracker
Ham
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