The Way to Smoke Simple Rules for a Pipe
A New York Sun piece offers practical pipe smoking tips from a tobacconist. It covers selecting blends, humidity via fruit in a humidor, and detailed care like proper charring, cleaning with a pipe cleaner, and avoiding knives to prevent pipe damage. The tale includes customer anecdotes on pipe prices, the myth of costly pipes, and the joys of experimenting with briar shapes and grain patterns.
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New York Sun
England
Billkin
Hester Street
Briarwood
Born for Business From a Philadelphia Ledger
A Philadelphia woman runs a tiny downtown magazine and engages a visiting boy who roles as editor, office boy, and business manager. He urges ads, offers to write, and explains the clash of duties, showing he was born for business and sacrificed personal taste for profits.
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The
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Market Street
Captain’s Arctic Iceberg Tale Ends In Silence
An Explorer attests to Captain Bushick’s polar yarns about an Arctic voyage. The old captain recounts a whaler survivor found on an iceberg, nearly two years adrift with frozen rations. A missionary declares he was the iceberg survivor, prompting the captain’s startled exit and absence for the rest of the night.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Bushick
New York
Porte
Leaberg
Testing Fish Memory in Chicago Tribune Excerpt
A report describes experiments with gray perch to test memory. Perch distinguish sardines by color, then eat all three types when hungry. Blue sardines avoided after exposure to stinging nettle, showing memory traces from prior contact.
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The
Chicago Tribune
Ns Wea
Joking letter taunts husband in India divorce case
London. In a divorce petition by Captain Herbert Knapp of the Indian medical service, the court heard a remarkable letter from Robert Prideaux taunting Knapp and detailing a troubled marriage with Dora Knapp. Prideaux’s humorous breach led to costs awarded against Prideaux. no custody sought for the children.
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London
Bayford
Herbert Henry George Knapp
Indian Medical Service
Dora
India
England
Bertie
Knapp
Mr. Prideaux
Italy
Coste
Cashmere
Prideaux
O Henry Taxicab Tale Reveals Porter’s No Forethought
A New York World reminiscence recounts O Henry’s financial slips and a late night taxi escapade. He ends with a plan to borrow $38, then flee to Europe with the cab if the loan failed.
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O. Henry
New York World
Sidney Porter
Henry
Willy
New York
Esso
Porter
Europe
Not Cornered Yet. Harmon Praises Farman Biplane in New York
Clifford P. Harmon, the millionaire merchant, lauded Fairman’s biplane at a New York dinner saying he bought it from Paulhan and that it set height records in Los Angeles. He claimed the Farman design, with a rotary Gnome engine, balances like a gyroscope and holds all records. He also argued aviation isn’t limited to the Wrights.
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Washington Star
Clifford P. Harmon
New York
Fairman
Paulhan
Los Angeles
Farman
Mr. Harmon
Ambiguous vows and divorce themes in fragmented text
The fragment discusses marriage and divorce notions with repeated lines about brides and wives. It hints at a woman seeking divorce as evidence that one partner does not wish to stay married, but the context is unclear and many words are garbled.
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Algher
Tales of unlucky ships from Bangor and beyond
A New York Herald feature recounts ship superstitions as Bangor sailors share eerie tales. Names like City of Bangor Katahdin and Starlight recur, with marks of fate tied to dreams, rats, cats, and specter sightings. The narrator warns that signs affect crews, noting Rainbow and Harvest Home vanishings and a captain who heeds omens rather than sail.
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New York Herald
Bangor
Boston
Cape Cod
James A. Garfield
Daniel Webster
Faith
Hope
Charity
Rata
Starlight
Gillogly
Port Spain
Jimmy
The Hell Ship Tale of a Brutal Pacific Sailor Nightmare
A long account recalls a notorious New York built steamship called a hell ship that terrorized crews in the Pacific. The brutal mate ruled by force, crew deserts were common, fines drained wages, and many sailors died or fled. A Swed ish seaman gouged by the mate, a cabin boy sickened then keelhauled, and an Englishman died of gangrene after injuries. The voyage ended with the mate arrested in San Francisco after a collegian lost an eye.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
New York
Pacific
San Francisco
Folsom
Narrows
Golden Gate
Only Human Nature
In a light scene from a social group, Mamie is teased about bleaching hair and a dress, while friends remark on her new hat and optics. They discuss giving Mamie a pattern from a dark blue silk dress and note her bold styling as she approaches.
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The
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Jen
Katie
Mamie
Jennie
Jonnie
Kutie
Moodys
Kylie
The Good Wife at the Cafe Des Beaux Arts
Nat Goodwin recalls a California friend’s wife boasting of her smooth running home at the Paris cafe night before Reno departure. She hired a nurse for a larger family invoking questions on cooking sewing late hours and loyalty, sparking a rare domestic jolt amid social chatter.
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New York
California
Nat Goodwin
Cafe Des Beaux Arts
Reno
Mia
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