Merriwid and Megilp Debate Art at a Tea Party
Mrs Merriwid defends painter Maidgood while Aunt Jane mocks their taste at a social tea. The clash over art, criticism, and genius plays out against fashion and flirtation as Melissa plans a masquerade Easter lily gown.
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Aunt Jane
Mrs Merriwid
Giip
Chicago
Tenn
Maidgood
Melissa
Dearie
Mrs. Merriwid
Crysallers’ Association
W. G. Chapman
Howells praises feminist movement on birthday
William Dean Howells, on his birthday, lauds the feminist movement as a vital and hopeful development of the era. He notes men have failed, and women advancing toward the ballot and related rights offer the rescue and future guidance. The Chicago Tribune highlights his respected view.
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William Dean Howells
Dean of American Letters
Chicago
De Tocqueville on Faith and Human Capacity
The author reflects on belief in a divine design beyond human understanding. He admits ignorance of God’s plans but chooses faith over doubting divine justice, preferring to misjudge his own abilities rather than question the Creator.
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de Tocqueville
Debt and Dueling Woes Echo in Town Talk
A father tells his son he may be in debt based on town gossip. The son retorts that his creditors are the ones running him, revealing a tongue in cheek exchange about financial troubles. The dialogue showcases a wry moment of local propriety and economic worry.
Pope as Broadminded Friend of Theater and Faults
The noted English poet Alexander Pope enjoyed intimate theater circles and supported struggling dramatists. Although judged harshly in some personal acts, he defended imperfect works with the line that no piece can be flawless and perfect.
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Pope
Alexander Pope
England
Mary Wortley Montagu
Charminade among Legion of Honor recipients in Paris
Mme. Cecile Chaminade the composer and pianist, born in Paris, is named among Legion of Honor recipients. She studied piano with Le Coupy and composition with Augustin Savard, taught by Saint Saens and Massenet, and produced many works across songs piano pieces duets trios and organ solos. She married ten years ago to Mr. Carbonel of Marseille, a leading music publisher in the south of France.
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Mme
Cecile Charminade
Paris
le Coupy
Augustin Savard
Saint- Saens
Massenet
Mme. Chaminade
M. Carbonel
Marseilles
France
Modern American Style Sawmill Erected in Osaka Japan
A United States trading company builds a modern sawmill for Gomei Kaisha Fujita Gumi at Osaka. The facility will use the latest American machinery to saw logs into various lumber sizes and to transfer work between saws and planes automatically. This first of its kind in Japan aims to cut costs and boost daily output, signaling future modernization of local mills.
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Japan
Gomei Kaisha Fujita Gumi
Osaka
Memorial lighthouse rises at Vineyard Haven
A unique stone tower memorializing dead seamen of the merchant marine is being built at Vineyard Haven Martha’s Vineyard by the Boston Seamen’s Friend society. The nearly finished tower includes two bronze tablets and a granite trim, with a one ton cap set by derrick and colored glass panes beneath, topped by a weather vane.
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Boston
Vineyard Haven
Martha’s Vineyard
Boston Seamen’s Friend Society
Boston Seamen's Friend Society
Madison Edwards
Edwards
Austin Tower
U. S. Lighthouse Board
Helen
Naushon
Stranger Waits For Trains In St Louis Hotels
A six foot three rural visitor from near Jefferson City wandered into a Forest Park area hotel lobby and rested in a rocker while awaiting a train. Police redirected him to Union Station after he claimed to be waiting for a train there. He later slept at another hotel, shoes off, before again being guided to the station. He commented on St Louis stations as a “fine lot of stations.”
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Merriwidh
Maidgood
Mr Megilp
Mr. Megilp
Philistine
Mezilo
Burne-Jones
George Elmer Cobb
Blinky Rogers
Loafer
Jim Tousey
Golden Gulch
Blinky
Cyrus Pennypacker
Jim
Elsie Pennypacker
Prospect
Amar
Elsie
Dorseyville
Dale
Hope Forever
Splinky Rogers
Mint
Rogers
Rustler
Christendom
W. G. Chapman
St. Louis
Jefferson City
Forest Park
Union Station
Painter Koko chaska breaks engagement to Mahler widow
Vienna reports painter Koko chaska ends engagement with Mrs. Gustav Mahler widow of the composer after learning her private income of $10,000 a year. He says combined incomes would be too much and he plans to marry a poor girl.
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Vienna
Gustav Mahler
Kokochaska
Wife Forces Man to Cook in Separation Suit
Goodwin Rosenblum of New York City filed a countersuit against his wife, answering her separation suit by claiming she compelled him to cook his meals wash dishes and scrub floors.
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New York
Goodwin Rosenblum
Divorce, Inheritance, and Old-Time Remedies in a Harsh Line
A Kansas shoemaker's third wife, twice divorced, inherits $50,000 amid tales of duty and punishment. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething is advertised at 25 cents a bottle, claiming gum softening and wind colic relief.
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Ip Kansas
Oklahoma Inventor Unveils Handheld Corn Planter
An Oklahoma inventor introduces a light handheld corn planter that sows grains evenly and covers each with soil, promising easier planting. The device aims to improve efficiency for small farms and home gardeners.
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Oklahoma
Coffee Party Query From ailing Patient
A witty exchange from Fliegende Blaetter shows a sick person asking to attend a coffee party this afternoon and the doctor assuring the tongue is fine. The humorous vignette relies on the contrast between illness and social request.
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Fliegende Blaetter
In the Stilly Night Fight Clears The Inn
In a late night exchange a country innkeeper asks about a front street quarrel at about one in the morning. A weary New Yorker replies the noise put him to sleep in a scene from the humorous exchange reported by Puck magazine.
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Puck
Many Ways to Sit: A 12 Person Dinner Paradox
A professor notes 12 people dining daily would take about 13 million years to exhaust all seating permutations, eating roughly 474 million dinners. Uncle Pepys quips the comparison to a boy's restless moves during a sermon.
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Uncle Pepys
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Ile
Maidgond
Mr. Megup
Mr Blivvy
Jims and the Robbers
Merchant Marine
Menchant Marine
Dean
Missouri
J.p.pemberton
Natarots
Ty Marshall
Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
Idaho
Oregon Short Line
Richfield
Dietrich
Rroshone
Gooding
Lincoln
Idaho Irrigation Co., Ltd
Richfield Idaho
Fargo
Post
Iiss
Pdstum Cereal Company, Limited
Battle Creek, Michigan
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