The Garden Party Mystery Beauty Mrs Phillips
A narrator recalls meeting Mrs Phillips at a garden party hosted by Mrs Alton Alston. He believes her familiar face hints at a prior meeting or even a past life, recalling a prior encounter in a Russian bath where he found her unattractively plain, contrasting with her present stunning appearance. The piece blends memory, recognition, and social flirtation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alton Alston
Nell
Mrs. Phillips
Alston
Sarah
Chrysalis
Butterfly
Sunny South
Word Choice Sparks Editorial Dispute In London Post
A London Post item recounts a debate over avoiding the word which in writing. An editor pressures contributors to say that instead, prompting a heated exchange before settling on a new argument. The anecdote ends with a question about using "which" even in a famous line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
London Post
Stock Dealing by Cable Shows Astonishing Speed Across Oceans
The London stock exchange can be bypassed by cable with trades completing within minutes. Cablists transmit orders between London New York and beyond, enabling large sums to move fast. Cable firms report hundreds of messages per hour and tens of thousands weekly in the recent American boom.
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Wrest Street
London Stock Exchange
Wall Street
New York
Illinois Central
Shorter’s Court
London
Ireland
Canada
Atlantic
Ancient Americas Stature Outranks Early English Settlements
The Boston Transcript notes that while the three hundredth anniversary of English settlement approaches, older sites like Santa Fe and St Augustine surpass Jamestown Plymouth and Boston in antiquity. It recalls Santa Fe founded after 1542 and serving as regional capital by 1640, and St Augustine dating from 1563, highlighting colonization history across civilizations.
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America
Jamestown
Plymouth
United States
Boston
Santa Fe
St. Augustine
Santa Fe de San Francesco de As
Mosquitoes Believed Cause Smallpox Epidemic
Physicians in upper New York City’s sparse district warn that a smallpox outbreak is mosquito driven. The affected area is high and dry with modern homes near Brother Island pesthouse west of Oak Point. A west wind carries mosquitoes, and several outbreaks followed the insect visit.
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New York City
Brother Island
Oak Point
Answer of Faith meets freethinker in church tale
The freethinker Collins questions a countryman en route to church about God. The man answers that God is both too great to fit heaven and small enough to dwell in his heart. Collins says the countryman’s plain reply impressed him more than doctors’ volumes.
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Collins
A Frontier Tale of Glass in Wheat from Northwest
In The Ladies' Home Journal W.8 Harwood recounts a frontier family’s winter ordeal after a harsh season and grain theft by locals. Indians broke into the granary, scattering glass in wheat, forcing the family to painstakingly pick kernels to avoid starvation until relief arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest
Ladies’ Home Journal
Harwood
Arabs and the Telephone in a Century-Old Office Visit
A narrator recalls guiding a party of Arabs through a newspaper office and witnessing their astonishment at telegraphs telephones and printing. A dervish friend reacts with fear and curiosity, imagining devils behind the device amid a comic mix of wonder and skepticism.
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Satan
Planing Mill Work and General Store Fixtures Ad
W. S. Daugherty's planing mill is the headquarters for all building materials. He receives yellow pine ceilings by the car load and offers porch and veranda materials including columns spindles and ornaments. Special attention to quick orders and intricate work promises savings. For sale stock and fixtures of a well known store in Johnstown Pa due to sickness and dissolution of partnership. D. A. J. Indiana Pa 384b.
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W. S. Daugherty
Johnstown
CaRnu Progress
Indiana
Building Materials and Household Goods offered in Indiana PA
Advertisement listing porch materials such as columns spin dies brackets rails and yellow pine ceiling at pre rise prices from Porch Bros agents for Chickering and Lester pianos with catalogue and prices by 242 Franklin Street Johnstown Pa. Also revolvers and ammunition at Hetrick Bros opposite Court House Indiana Pa. Old newspapers for sale at Proartiss office. Wall papers at cost to closeout. Wet mean business. J T Boucher.
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Chickering & Bons
Lester
Indiana County
Franklin Street
Johnatown
Hetrick Bros
Court House
Indiana
Proartiss
J.T. Boucher
Cataract Surgery Claims Skilled Eye Treatment
An advertisement extols cataract removal as the only cure for blindness, noting a delicate operation done with eye drops to prevent pain and inflammation. It cites Dr. Sadler of Pittsburgh with a 116 of 120 success rate and offers pamphlets and references, including works on optics and hearing, at the Capital Hotel in Johnstown, Pa.
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Sadler
Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh
Capital Hotel
Johnstown
Public Sales At Several Indiana County Homes In October 1901
Public sale notices describe auctions at the residences of John Bowers John Elwood and John Michael in Indiana County Pennsylvania during October 1901. Items include horses cows sheep farming utensils wagons household goods grain and other farm contents with credit terms and removal deadlines. An accompanying testimonial mentions Anderson Indian Herb Cure with a correspondent letter dated 1898.
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John 8. Bowers
Possum Glory
Pine Township
Indiana County
Pennsylvania
Jonny 8. Bowers
S. Gipson
Grigemore
John Elwood
Pine Flats
John Exmwoon
Greson
John Michael
Buffington Township
Strongatown
Gimson
Anderson
Mirnwoop
Miz
Janes Anderson
Inpranna
Frances Camparli
District Court of the United States
Isaac Beck
Indiana
Act of Congress
Pittsburg
William T. Lindsey
Storeroom Enlarged for Fall and Winter Stock
Our storeroom has been enlarged to handle our immense Fall and Winter Stock. All goods marked in plain figures. We put no fake prices on our goods and are content with a small profit for the very best Clothing. You can save money by dealing here.
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Elizabeth Fey
Supreme Courts
Daugherty
Porch Bros
Public
National
Gettyshure
P. BR. RK
Union Veteran Legion
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Boyd
Rowe College
Johnstown, Penna
I. Rowe
Maz
John W. Bell
Orphans' Court of
Washington
John Rankin
John Muller
Emma Marshall
W. W. By
Clark Bell
Wm. Baird
William Baird
J. C. Myers
James N. Stewart
W. F. Elkin
Christian Good
Smickaburg
County of Indians
State of Pennsylvania
A.C. Good
D. Good
Mckinley
Col
A. K. McClure
Lincoln
Men of War Times
Outfit
Keeler-Raleigh Co
Sixth and
Arch Streets
Philadelphia
Cash Clothing Co
Shield
Clothing Room
Telford & Stewart
HE. S. Thompson
Aame
Deposit Bank
Philadelphia Street
M. M. Thompson
Duff & Sons
M. H. Wilson, Mang’r
Commonwealth
General Assembly OF
Commonwealth OF Pennsylvania
Secretary OF the Commonwealth
Senate
House of Representatives
General Assembly
General Assem
W. W. Griest
The
Generals Assembly
the Commonwealth
W. Tuck
W. A. Guthrie
M. H. Guthrie
Lafayette Tuck
C. G. Guthrie
Act of Assembly
Guthrie-Tuck Manufacturing Company
Cunningham & Fisher
Solicitora
Keo. W. Gilbert
Wissell
Postoffice
John G. Cameron
Life, Fire & Accident Insurance
Farmers’ Bank
Edward P. Grove
Phila
St. Opp
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