Old Lelaire as Othello in a Garden Comedy Scene
In a crowded reception setting Burney confides to Lefaire as Maude Hughes’s letters arrive daily, while a blonde rival looms. Lefaire, beset by jealousy, confronts Burney upon a dramatic doorstep reveal, with loyalties and trust in flux amid witty taunts and romantic misdirection.
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Old Lelaire
Ada May Krecker
Daily Story Pub Co
Burney
Beehind
Lefaire
Mins Lazenby
Third Floor
Maude Hughes
Mira Lazenby
Mina Lazenby
Lelaire
Portieres
Peter
Barney
Simon
Miss Lazenby
Pater
Carter
Apollo
Mr. Merrill
Mr. Lefaire
Maude
Othello
A Blustery Prayer Incident At A Chapel
An elderly man, recently wed to a much younger wife, interrupted a morning prayer to declare his desire for prayer. The minister had asked to remember “our aged brother” privately, but the man loudly asserted his own blessing and need for prayer, sparking a vivid scene in the chapel.
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Burney
Lefatre
Miss Lazenby
Iri
Contention Over Cologne Spelling In German City
The Cologne dispute centers on whether the German city should be Koeln or Coeln or Coeth in German usage. Authorities favor Koeln as correct, while Imperial decree leans to Coeth, provoking debate among historians and philologists about pronunciation and linguistic history.
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Cologne
William
Colonia
Claudia Agrippinensis Ubiorums
Claudius A. D
Lightning Dangers Revealed By Weather Bureau Report
The Weather Bureau study shows 713 lightning deaths in a year, with 219 outdoors and 214 in buildings. It stresses prompt medical care, lasting at least an hour, and keeping the body warm with hot bottles, flannels, or warm salt bags.
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Monnt
United States Weather Bureau
Canvassing for Votes in Astoria Race
A seeker's tale from Astoria Illinois describes two candidates courting a family with candy. Smith kisses the baby, Jones returns with candy and kisses but fails to kiss the mother. The baby’s father returns home, ending the scene.
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Smith
Jones
Mamma
Astoria
Searchlight
Children define parliament in playful exam answer
A Beeb exercise prompts schoolchildren to define a member of parliament. One child says he must meet every year, another says he signs notes, adds up bills, and keeps laws, while a third suggests the member tries to make sense of political matters.
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Parila
How Light Affects The Eye In Various Lighting
A fragmented science note reports eye closures per minute under candle gua sunlight and electric light. It claims electricity is least injurious among artificial illuminants while noting unreadable details about water grinding or past conditions.
Pictorial Dumor and Quick Quirky Chats
A jumble of humor and cartoon captions from Puck style gags. Dialogues touch on cowardly hotel plans and fashion faults with wise cracks about neckties and looks. The monkey gag riffs on a giraffe joke and a wireless telegraph job offer, all in light satirical tone.
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Marcon
Animal Land
Puck
Reparte Expert Showdown in Quick Witty Exchange
In a brisk exchange a man boasts of rapid repartee while another compares Limburger cheese to microbes under a microscope. The editor answers questions about health and vigor of the cheese organisms, underscoring a lively debate on taste and science.
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Querien
Good Advice and Swell Lady in An Odd Want Ad
A humorous exchange shows Swell Lady seeking a governess position by asking for a “wish” column in a paper and the clerk explaining no such column exists. The tale is paired with a man giving blunt parenting counsel about saving clever ideas in a book then destroying it later.
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Swell L
George
Notable Delays Spark Bitter News and Enmity
Dialogue on marriage timing reveals tensions between friends. A suggestion to marry at the earliest possible date leads to broader frictions and rumors, illustrating how private choices can inflame public sentiment and discord.
Impulsive Prophet of Woe Sparks Dry River Jest
A voluble prophet of woe asks what if all rivers dry up soon. The patient man replies with a sharp retort, Go thou and do likewise. The exchange appears in the Christian Register as a brief quip on unlikely doomsayers.
Prospective Father In Law Tale and Tongue Tied Courtship
A humorous exchange features a man recounting asking his future father in law for his daughter. The elder narrator tells a long life story and a tiresome suitor, Delia dismisses, and a Boston girl blushes at being kissed for the first time. The practical young man jokes about breaking the ice.
Recollection of a Kansas Hamlet Wiped Out
A man recalls a Kansas hamlet nearly erased by a cyclone, while another notes a similar but non cyclone disaster years earlier. The brief exchange centers on memories of destruction and tragedy in small towns.
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Dad
Kansas
A Poet’s Word In Question and a Humble Hero
The fragment presents a pessimist dismissing poets as impractical and a critic noting a hero who seeks glamour but faces the downfall after popularity fades. It recalls a Mi Kind aside about a man who visits a hotel with stiff employee rules and attempts a tip to the bellboy despite the policy.
And They Are Rare. Quotations and light humor notes
A collection of brief humorous exchanges and quips from a late issue. Dialogues touch on egotism, ministerial trials, golf, lending, Briggs vacation plans, parental remarks, and romantic misunderstandings with concise, period tone. Names and contexts appear as small vignettes.
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