Jennie Dwyer Ventures Amid Flower Garden Theft
A young woman on vacation in the countryside enters a gardener’s plot to admire and steal hardy flowers. Tom Maryweather, owner’s son, confronts her with a pistol and a grim remark. The scene escalates to a near tragedy as Jennie collapses and is saved, leading to an awkward courtship that ends with a winter engagement.
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Jenole Dwyer
Jennile
Jennie
Tom Maryweather
Cnai
Toni
Jeanie
Tom
The Royal Box and Imperial University News
The German empress restricts her collecting to pearls of a specific size and flawless color. Crown Prince Frederick William is again named rector magnificen tissimus of Koenigsberg University. The elderly emperor of Austria hosted about 200 visitors in one morning.
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Frederick William
University of
Quotes and quips from era newspapers on politics and art
A compilation of witty lines from Philadelphia Inquirer Duluth News Tribune Colorado Springs Gazette and Chicago Record-Herald. It jokes about graft in public office isolated germs poets and a dishwasher service for city flats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Inquirer
Duluth News-Tribune
New York
Colorado Springs Gazette
Indiana
Chicago Record-Herald
Tales of Cities in the Plain and Progress in Tarsus
Indianapolis sits near Indiana's center as wages rise in New York and house servants earn around $2 more per year. Tarsus, birthplace of the Apostle Paul, advances with electricity lighting 450 street lamps and 600 private incandescent lights powered by the Cydnus river.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
New York
Tarsus
Asia Minor
Apostle Paul
Cydnus
Train and Track Economies From Underground Rails
The St Clair tunnel under the Detroit river shows electrical train operation saving costs versus steam. Prussian state railways unveil a car cleaning and disinfection apparatus cutting cost to about one tenth of prior levels from 85 dollars to 8.50 per car. English railways build freight cars tailored for aeroplanes.
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St. Clair
Detroit River
Ends of a Car Care Tale Leave Readers Wary
A fragmented OCR note describes an incident involving a car and its aftermath. The readable parts hint at a vehicle event with lingering questions about responsibility and the scene. No clear dates or names are confirmed in the surviving text.
Hobbie skirt debate sparks absurd duty tale
The Detroit Free Press reports a woman visiting Paris faced a 40 percent duty on a hobbie pew skirt, a cruel twist the New York Tribune mocks as a scene where a woman might flee a mouse or merely laugh, highlighting comic attitudes toward fashion and taxes.
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Paris
Detroit Free Press
New York Tribune
English Etchings on Epsom Races and Royal Ships
The article notes races at Epsom dating to 1646 and mentions the London County Council maintaining 400 cricket pitches with 10,000 players every Saturday. It states refitting the battleship Irresistible costs £80,000 and will take eight to nine months. It also highlights the shipment of fancy horses by special railway care, with a groom room and padded stalls.
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Epsom
London County Council
England
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