Chafing Dish Debacle at Birthday Dinner
A London Housewife plans a chic birthday supper for Reggie with a chafing dish as the centerpiece. The evening spirals into culinary chaos as guests complain, flames flare, and the table mishaps erupt, ending in a prank gift to a cousin with the failed dish.
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Reggie
Barkers
Mrs. Barker
Bird of Very Long Descent and the Crested Screamer
A New York Sun feature recalls the crested screamer once kept at the U S Zoological Park now silent. It discusses its rarity, debated classification, South American origin, and famed voice as a defining trait with dramatic single roars from vast flocks heard in the plains.
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New York Sun
United States Zoological Park
National Park
Frank Baker
Hudson
Naturalis
Regent's Park
London
Zoological Park
New York
Parker and
Huxley
Garrod
la Plata
Pampas
South America
Rancho
Yale Heroes Honored Statue To Commemorate Their Fight
The New Haven defense by Yale College students against a British attack is celebrated with a sculptural group in Jamies Edward Kelly's studio, to be unveiled July 6 1907. The statue shows colonial era students manning field artillery as the town resisted a 1779 British raid and bombardment.
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New York Tribune
New Haven
Yale College
Jamies Edward Kelly
Washington
Weat Point
Stiles
West Haven
Lighthouse Point
George Collier
Surface Tension in a Strike: Lippincott’s Magazing Excerpt
An excerpt from Lippincott's Magazine shows a reporter questioning a strike-breaker about why no injuries occurred. The answer hints at fear and caution as the striker averts blame while the breakdown of union solidarity is implied.
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Union
Diamond Necklace Heist Plot Unfolds At Hedgewood Manor
A con man uses disguise to infiltrate a society wedding plotting diamond theft. Enid Hoptoddle shows resolve as her mother’s schemes and a web of deception collide, leaving a single daring gamble in the archway to determine the fate of the necklace.
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Craigz
Badger
Lnw
Amsterdam
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Enid
Allan Addison
Paoli
Moptoddle
Old Harmon
Hoptoddle
Manton Leigh
Leigh
Stanhope
Washington
Warned
Mr. Leigh
Mr. Haptoddle
Hedgewood
Hlands
Wipe Your Eyeglasses, Hiurper's bager
A well known Olle int commented on eyewear care urging women students to treat glasses properly. He warned clouded neglected lenses harm eyesight and advised nightly cleaning with cap and water followed by drying on a soft cloth.
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Hiurper
Olle
Macterlick's View of Shakespeare in Harper's Weekly
Mannie Macterdinck comments on Shakespeare in Harper's Weekly. He surveys periods and courts to discuss the tragedy of Othello and Miltonic influence, praising the synthetic play and its idealized portrayal.
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Macterlick
Harper's Weekly
Mannie Macterdinck
Muacterlinek
Ben
Anor Cu
Echo of Early Colonial Days at Rebecca Nourse House
The Danvers Massachusetts Rebecca Nourse house built about 1635 is linked to the witch trials era. Rebecca Nourse later faced trial in Salem and was hanged at Gallows Hill amid mob violence. The old home, near Witch Hill, inspired a 1885 monument and plans by the Danvers Historical Society to acquire the property.
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New England
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Danvers
Mass
Boston
Massachusetts
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Nourse
Bishop
Francis Nourse
Salem
Abner Gooddell
Gallows Hill
Nourse House
Nourse Monument Association
Odd Tales and Misadventures in Rural Life
A dinner in Wilmington features Mrs T Rover recounting a housekeeper’s mishap with a leg of lamb, and D H Morris brags about chicken farming while joking about his past ignorance of city ways. A New York visit ends with a lamp light mishap and a farmer’s tale of a blown light kept burning all night.
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T. Rover
Wilmington
Slater
Laura
D. H. Morris
Automobile Lib of America
New York
Morriin
A Jacobs Story and a Tale of Wit in Court
A magazine editor discusses W W Jacobs and his light humor. He recalls a lawyer defending a client accused of home breaking by claiming the client did not break in but opened a parlor window and moved items. The judge comments on the humor, and the defendant smiles as the scene ends with the cork arm in prospect.
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Rosale
Mra. Barker
Marker
Jacobs
W. W. Jacobs
Mer. Jacobs
Geuthonien
Ain Boone
New neighbors lack common supplies sparking a laugh
A cartoon caption shows a wife noting the new neighbors are poor because when she asks to borrow milk they never have it. The husband questions how she knows, highlighting the running joke.
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