Tiny East Indies Couple Become Berlin Sensation
Fatma and Smaun, the world’s smallest married pair, stand about 18 inches and 20 inches tall. At over 20 years old, Smaun is a gymnast on Roman rings while Fatma shares dancing duties. Born in the East Indies, they traveled with a vaudeville promoter to Germany where they became a Berlin music hall hit.
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Fatma
Smaun
Berlin
East Indies
Orient
Europe
Germany
Widow Louise and the Laughing Vows in Paris Garden
In a Paris hotel garden Louise, a young widow and countess, teases M. de Beauchamp with flirtatious playfulness as their engagement nears. He demands a drastic proof of love proposing the removal of a tooth, a barbed jest that tests devotion amid playful canine and floral spectacle.
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Rue Monceau
Louise
Viry
Bella
M. Jacques de Beauchamp
Jacques
M. de Beauchamp
Lenuise
Twin brides marry business partners in Camden wedding
In Camden a double wedding joined two men and their twin sisters as wives. The brothers in law, once roommates and partners in a plumbing business, wed the twins in a cosy brick house next to Mr Mediately’s home. The ceremonies united two families and formed a closely tied business and home partnership.
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Derrick
Ewil
The Little Countess and the Lost Tooth Relic
A French tale recounts M. de Beauchamp and Louise in a passion tested by a baby tooth kept in a locket. Louise mourns, Jacques patients, and the tooth becomes a symbol of lost affection amid jealousy and remorse.
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M. de Beauchamp
Mr. James
Bella
Louise
Jacques
Mrs. Grundy
Mme. de Viry
Leon'se
Aurelian Scholl
About Women in Various American and European Roles
Norway women petition parliament for equal suffrage. American women hold jobs from blacksmith shop owner to planing mill engine operator and cab driver. Royal family rejects feather adornments for silk imitations amid cruelty concerns. Daughters of the Confederacy fund aid for Mrs Stonewall Jackson in Charlotte. New York outfitting store opening features tea. A Bridgehampton woman wills a farm with yearly egg, butter, pork, milk, and vegetable gifts to her son for his sister. Arria Huntington is nominated school commissioner for Syracuse. Italian countess of Ravaschiere donates wealth to an Italian hygienic society, keeping a basic life for herself.
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Norway
George Gregory
Shiekshinny
N. Y
J. H. Rowland
Lawrence
Mich
the Daughters of the Confederacy
Hannah Halsey
Bridgehampton
Arria Huntington
Bishop Huntington
Syracuse
Ravaschiere
Nina Van Zandt Dying in Chicago After Proxy Marriage
Nina Van Zandt widow of Stephen Malato and former proxy wife of August Spies is reported near death in Chicago. Once a courthouse visitor and admirer, she now recalls the episode as a foolish youth while living quietly with her husband, an Italian politician.
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Nina van Zandt
August Spies
Chicago
Stephen Malato
Spies
Huronst
Haymarket
Miss van Zandt
Chris Spies
Huron St
Great Sale on Draperies and Linens in Nottingham Lace Styles
Reader notice details a bulk sale of draperies, blankets, and domestics including Nottingham lace curtains in multiple sizes and prices 75c to 1.50 per pair. Also listed are tapestry cushion tops, Comet flannels, full size hemmed spreads, and various curtain Swisses with several special values and colors.
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Congress
Kabaker
Beretta Rants Taretete Eter
Secvaeeserrece Seecese Cansuiewens
Nottingham
Fat little feller with mammy's eyes
A compact fragment highlights a child described as a fat little fellow with his mammy's eyes who evokes affection through playful behavior in the sun and clover and a protective gaze as day ends. The piece shifts to editorial notes on social exclusiveness and a light anecdote about a Potomac excursion.
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Frank L. Stanton
I Leave with God Tomorrow and the Next Step
A reflective prose fragment speaks of living in the present while future outcomes stay unseen. The speaker vows to do only the next right action today, hoping to remove blindness to the future and eventually find guidance from a radiant Friend who promises rest at journey's end.
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Bila Wheeler Wilcox
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Democrat
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PIC
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Cbedietnen
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Bree
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Botuia
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Bissell
Grand Rapids
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Indiana
W. Washington Street
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Lyl’ Feller
Dr. Wood
Philadelphia
Ella Morris Kretschmar
Potomac River
Washington Post
Alexandria
Margaret
Burdock
Hutton, Berville, Mich
Shute, Talbot
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