Granger’s Ambition Ends in Tragic Death and Legacy
The tale follows Mrs DeWolf Hopper style dieting and Edna Wallace boxing, then centers on Walter Granger a devoted Peru historian who dies suddenly. His plans for a vast Peru history die with him though his library and planned Granger collection on South America promise a lasting scholarly legacy. The rumor mill notes a forthcoming sale of his books as bibliophiles seek remnants of his work.
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Granger
Hle
Arizona
Mr. Granger
Historian of
Peru
Walter Granger
Border
South America
When a Baby Laughs and Angels Hear
A San Francisco Examiner verse reflects on a baby's laugh as a heavenly whisper. The speaker imagines an angel listening to the child and carrying the laughter beyond the heavens while elders miss the moment. The piece blends tenderness with a sense of longing and cosmic listening.
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Amy Bell
San Francisco Examiner
A Rose-Sweet June Night of Hidden Love
The poem recalls a long companionship that turns secretive when a first shared night reveals a sacred, transformative kiss. A languid June moon and herald clouds accompany a sudden, shared tremor as two lovers yield to a holy, restrained passion, marking a pivotal emotional shift.
Life of a Bookworm In a Rooms Full of Volumes
A storeroom of books dominates a scholar named Mr Granger as a young girl enters the cluttered study. The scene conveys a long friendship with the room and its texts, an air of melancholy, and memories from the girl’s childhood tied to her father’s storytelling.
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Mr. Granger
Eure
Talen
The Inca History Dream in Father and Daughter
A weary scholar Walter Granger plans to begin the great work on the Incas tomorrow after years of study and private library wealth. His daughter Amina fears the delay as she hints she met Mr Border, a young railway engineer, stirring tension in their Peru obsessed household.
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Amina
Walter Granger
Peru
South America
Mr. Granger
Granger
Mr. Border
Polite Society Jests and Caddie Records
A brief collage of quips: Cousin John mocks refined talk as a best dressed guest nears undressed. Medora questions, while a Boston Transcript jab notes a Boer English sympathy split. Town Topics recalls Kniblick claiming a course record and a blunt caddie remark.
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Cousin John
Medora
Boston Transcript
Four Soldiers Ward Adopted Girls Sent to Newport Kentucky
Amelia Majena, daughter of a Guanajay reconcentrado, adopted by Ohio soldier Colum bus Boyd, now in Guanajay, sent to his brother in Newport Kentucky. She is a dark-haired, brown-eyed girl about 13 who cried when separated from her sister Felipa. Boyd telegraphed to adopt the other girl and send her to Newport as well.
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Amelia Majena
Guanajay
Columbus Boyd
Ohio
Newport
Felipa
Boyd
Clever Foles Sayings on Love and Duty
A collection of witticisms on beauty money marriage pride and duty. Observations compare vanity wealth and self care with home life and honesty. The light verse mixed with social commentary reflects a playful time period tone.
String Bean Salad Recipe Fragment
A fragment notes a salad using freshly cooked or canned string beans with finely cut celery and a tart peeled apple. It mentions draining beans and grating orange peel, but the text is garbled and incomplete. The likely intent is a simple mixed bean salad with crisping celery and citrus zest.
Cleveland girl who invented pepsin gum marries Boston man
Miss Nellia Horton of Cleveland Ohio who created pepsin chewing gum becomes Mrs G A Manning of Boston. Once a stenographer ten years ago she is now said to be worth about 30000 dollars.
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Nellia Horton
Cleveland, O
G. A. Manning
Boston
Fly
Hats and accessories on sale with low prices
A catalog of hats for children and misses quotes prices from 65 cents to 5 dollars. Descriptions include Panama crowned hats, dark straw brims, Liberty satin mourning roses, and decorative elements like water lilies velvet ribbons and Louis Seize bows. Ready to wear hats priced around 2.25 dollars, with fashion remarks on variety and adornment.
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Louis Seize
Miss Lizzie V. Smith Dies in Detroit
Miss Lizzie V. Smith known as the friend of the unfortunate in Detroit is dead. She served for years as matron of the children's department at the Woman's hospital and foundling home, helping many who later prosper. She gave away much of her own clothing to friends, yet never revealed to whom her gifts went.
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Lizzie V. Smith
Detroit
Woman's Hospital and
Foundling Home
Fortune
Miss Smith
Belt Notes on Grecian and Buckle Pulley Belts
The belt article explains the Grecian belt adds fringe to its ends and is otherwise an ordinary pulley with back stiffening. The buckle pulley belt shows ornament across the back, costs 1.50, and is girdle styled. Colors span many shades, with about 500 more than every color of the rainbow. Pulley rings sell for 25 and 60 cents a pair for DIY belts, available in metallic effects, though fine metals are costly.
Madame's Collars and Linen Cuffs Fashion Notes
The piece highlights new linen collars and cuffs for women in white or tinted pinks and blues. Regulation turn-overs cost 12% and licents with shallow curves. Distinguished linen collars and cuffs feature embroidery and cord, priced 50 to 60 cents, some with heavy embroidery resembling applique, identified as Berlin linens.
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Berlin
Eliza's Prize Poem Sparks Stage Impression
A fragment describes seeing Cyrano close to the stage and noting a face that grows on the viewer, with a playful remark about growing on the speaker. The lines convey a theatre observation and personal reaction.
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Cyrano
Judge
Women study forestry courses from major universities
The report notes women increasingly study forestry. At the University of Washington Seattle sixty women have taken forestry lectures in four years, eleven at the University of Nebraska. Cornell’s College of Forestry offers strictly professional training for managers, with no women admitted to that department, while a separate general information course is open to them.
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University of Washington
Seattle
University of Nebraska
College of Forestry
Cornell
Vogue of White in Fashion Brings White to All
The article notes a shift in fashion toward wearing white for all ages from babies to grandmothers. White is declared proper and modish, making ensembles across society look uniform with women in white and men in black.
Brazilian Balm Cures Coughs and Colds
A brief ad notes Brazilian Balm claimed to cure coughs colds and croup with twenty doses. It mentions neckbands or neckcloths offered free with shirts and a line about Progress Laundry Tei 1121 and Best, Meal isi with pits fer 150.
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Progress Waundry
Tei
VrorManis New Yorks Prettiest Girl
Emily Hoffman is crowned the most beautiful woman in New York society for the season. The brunette shines in feature and form with bright eyes and animated carriage. Her top achievement is dancing, as she recently designed and privately performed a Spanish dance, which a manager offered $100 weekly to perform, an offer she refused.
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New York
Emily Hoffman
Miss Hoffman
Wanamaker Daughter Engaged to Philadelphia Lieutenant
The engagement of Miss Elizabeth Wanamaker, only unmarried daughter of John Wanamaker, to Lieut. Norman Mae Leod of Philadelphia has been announced.
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Elizabeth Wanamaker
John Wanamaker
Norman MaeLeod
Philadelphia
The Vogue of the Tuck in Evening and Daywear
A fashion sketch detailing widespread tucking in hats, shirt waists, bodices, and even entire dresses from the hat to the slipper. It highlights tucked yokes, guimpes, and lingerie foundations, noting decorative tucks in lattice and ruffle forms and the trend toward maximum tucks.
Why Americans Fail as Singers Says Marcella Sembrich
Marcella Sembrich criticizes American female singers for lacking temperament and rushing their training. She urges systematic study, patience, and long preparation, sharing her own path from a peasant family to a debut at nineteen and explaining her stage name Sembrich.
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Marcella Sembrich
Ginger
Marguerite
Dinorah
Learm
Sembrich
Kockanski
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Department of Dentistry
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