Hypnotic Egypt Mystic Entertains New York Guests
Miss Anne Morgan attends Nordica’s Sher ry t party where Ascander Khaldah the Egypt mystic reads questions from sealed notes and correctly predicts answers including Morgan’s summer plans and a five digit number. The performance blends illusion and psychic demonstration before a 30-guest dinner crowd.
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New York
Anne Morgan
Pierpont Morgan
Sherryt
Miss ‘Morgan
Ascander Khaldah
Morthean
S. ‘Ordica
George W. Young
Khaldah
Land of Mystery
Det
Countess Anne Leary
Broderick
J. J. Gilroy
Eliotore
Russell Soley
Chauncey
Elsie Deans
Elisabeth Marbury
John R. McArthur
Hans Winterfelt
N. Newlin
Lily Hamilton
Lilla Ormond
Will Salomon
C. H. God
Charles D. Wetmore
Miss Morgan
Khaidah
Europe
Mors
Kaldah
Khasidah
Morgan
Bachelor’s Button Returns Love on Cliffs
Ellice Dare longs for carefree days with Geoffrey, but learns pride and tempers threaten marriage. After she runs away, Geoffrey defends a waitress in court and, recognizing true love, redeems herself with a bachelor’s button. They reunite, vow happiness, and plant crimson daisies named after the motif.
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Malcolm Furze
Ellice
Little
Ellice Dare
Geoffrey
Reian
Perceve
Geoff
Byke Dave
Geoffrey Dare
Millman Smith
Lyne
Dave
Shoe
Billie! Hoe
Milman Smith
Dare
Millie
Bho
The Aristocracy of Clothes and Character
The piece argues against an aristocracy of clothes dominating American women. It cites social leaders who must wear expensive gowns to maintain status, warning of envy, swindling, and hollow leadership. It urges an aristocracy of character over attire.
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Paris
Dance, Dirge or Life March in a Morning Song
A reflective piece compares daily life to a burst of music. It urges choosing a life march over constant dancing or a dreary dirge, urging cheerfulness, responsibility, and a triumphant, meaningful day aligned with Carlyle’s idea of life as a symphony.
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Carlyle
Wayside Blessings Reminder to notice everyday beauty
The essay argues similar to blossoms along country roads that simple, common sights and daily gifts, from sunlight to fresh air, health, appetite, and loved ones, brighten life if we notice them. It urges gratitude for ordinary blessings and urges listeners to value simple joys present in daily life.
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Bressaing
Something beyond and the weary heart’s longing
Fragmentary verse laments a restless heart unable to find peace in earthly joys. It imagines friendship and affection failing to curb the ache, urging a search beyond earthly comforts toward a higher, heavenly fulfillment.
Among the Militants. From Bill
A fragment notes a plan to disrupt a casragette meeting referenced by Bill with another man Jake. The snippet implies a discussion of militant actions but provides no clear outcome or full names.
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Bill
Jake
Fair but Stormy on New Zealand Free Lance
Unclear dialogue shows a man recalling a voyage in rough weather aboard a carriage or boat. A friend on a seat pens a pleasant line about weather, mentioning a person named Rack and another called Rervibie in a fragmented exchange.
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New Zealand
Free Lance
Entleman
Olburne Avenue
Mae
Exercises Good for It from Puck
Fragmentary OCR notes show a humor piece about a progressive woman and suffrage, a question about women exercising rights, and a failed angling trip with a referenced “job that got away.” The readable elements mention suffrage dialogue and a nautical mishap with implied editorial humor.
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Puck
Stagecoach Scrape Spurs Future Kansas Politician
The tale recalls Justice Brewer in frontier Kansas who clashed with a red headed infant in a stagecoach, later meeting the now grown Tate Representative Victor Murdock and jokingly threatening spanking. It also notes George Norris as a Nebraska figure drifting between insurgency and politics, with talk of a Senate run.
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Justice Brewer
Supreme Court
Frontier
Kansas
White House
Judge Brewer
Tate
Victor Murdock
Wichita
George Norris
Nebraska
Norris
Washington
Cannon
Sinece
Leonard Wood Fame Dissected in AM Sketch
Ray Stannard Baker writes a revealing American Magazine sketch on General Leonard Wood. The piece credits his rise from surgeon to chief of staff as a testament to being “prepared for his age,” citing his leadership with Geronimo, Rough Riders, Cuba governance, and Philippine service, while noting criticism over rapid promotions.
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Ray Stannard Baker
Leonard Wood
American Magazine
Leonard God
Army of the United States
Emerson
General Wood
Geronimo
Old Mexico
Congress
Theodore Roosevelt
Las Guasimas
Washington
Santiago
Cuba
Philippines
West Point
Wood
Tor
Oldest Living Cockatoo Captivates Australians and Visitors
The lemon crested cockatoo at Tom Ugly’s Point near Sydney is famed as possibly the oldest tracing age for over a century. Known as Cocky, he survived long with Captain George Ellis and later Mrs. Bennett, living near George’s River. He chats with guests, performs tricks, and even demands potato during levees attended by Lord and Lady Northcote, Sir Henry Hanson, and Miss Rawson.
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Wide World Magazine
Tom Ugly’s Point
Sydney
New South Wales
George Ellis
Burney
Solomon Islands
Cocky
Bennett
Bydney
Cook
Troy
Mra. Bennett
Lord
Sir Henry Hanson
Miss Rawson
Rapid Motion of the Comet from the Century
The article explains periodic comets with orbital periods under a century. It notes 45 known such comets, only three are retrograde including Halley’s, which will move rapidly. Earth and the comet will cross orbits with high relative speed, about eight times a cannon ball. It adds a note on bad habits not contracting as often as expanding.
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House
Foss
Congress
Washington
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Bartholdt
Sherwood
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