Bonnet Fire Drenches Speaker at Society Meeting
At a Society for Political Study gathering in New York a drop light sparked Mrs Belle Gray Taylors bonnet causing flames that were quickly smothered by Mrs Almon Hensley. The incident interrupted her talk on Woman's intuition as attendees shouted and a lone man froze. The speaker quipped that her firey headgear made a sensation and resumed her remarks once flames were out.
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New York Sun
Society For Political Study
Belle Gray Taylor
Almon Hensley
Clever Little Stories of Witty Courts and Cold Climates
A brief column recounts multiple wit moments involving Judge Wheaton A Gray and ambassador Joseph Choate. It sketches a jurist’s wake up appeal to a jury, Choate’s humorous remark about being his wife’s second husband, Senator Caffery and Spooner exchange over a constitutional passage, and a Modjeska winter tour anecdote with Count Bosenta lamenting the cold and Madame’s reply that the south is dead and “one is such a beautiful corpse.”
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Wheaton A. Gray
Supreme Court Commission
Presno
Joseph Choate
England
Mrs. Choate
Senator Caffery
Mr. Spooner
Wisconsin
Mr. Caffery
Louisiana
United States
Mme. Modjeska
Count Bosenta
The Age of Wind in a Mythic Exchange
Pluto laments Earthly affairs and warns of waning vigor as wars rage. Mars contrasts fate with a sudden shift, revealing he has sold his war business to Aeolus in a grand afterlife dialogue.
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Mars
Earth
Pluto
Europe
God of War
Aeolus
Why the Job Sultec Merchant Qualifica tions for this business
The dialogue shows Puck saying he cannot get anything else to do while a merchant asks for qualifications for the business. It reflects a brief, humorous exchange about employment fit and practical skills in a staging or theater context.
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Sultec
Puck
A Lie Costs a Clerk His Bright Prospects
Sidney Stanton, a promising young clerk, builds trust at Mr. P's elegant metropolitan grocery. A lie about injuring his shoulder and visits to a doctor unravels his credibility, leading to dismissal and public shaming. Mr. P reflects on integrity and the ruin a falsehood can cause. The tale ends with a moral from Eph. 4:25 about speaking truth.
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Sidney Stanton
F. L. Chapman
Withal
Atlantic
Mr. P
Stanton
Tor
Ram
Miner Fights Yukon Bear to Death in Alaska Trail
F H Browning, returning from Dawson, reports Carl Joel of New York killed by a Yukon bear on the Indian River banks. Joel fired repeatedly as the bear charged, wounding it twice but failing to stop the animal. In the end the bear killed Joel after gripping him in its death grip. miners found the body soon after.
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Seattle
Wash
Cor
St. Louis
Globe- Democrat
F. H. Browning
Dawson
Carl Joel
New York
Joel
Lower Dominion Creek
Who Pays It Interviewer Do you Feel War Tax Effects
An exchange from Tit-Bits shows an interviewer asking a druggist if customers feel the war tax impact. The druggist replies that his customers do. The brief reflects wartime pricing pressures and public sentiment.
Mrs Cooper Diagnosed With Peruna Cure Praise
Mrs M C Cooper of the Royal Academy of Arts London a famed sculptor now in Washington creating busts of notable Americans says Peruna cured her catarrh and grippe after months of illness in a letter dated January 26 She praises Peruna and notes Corcoran Art Gallery Ruskin recognizes her as a leading sculptor and painter of this century A free book on health titled Health and Beauty is offered by Dr Hartman Columbus Ohio
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Peruna
M. C. Cooper
Royal Academy of Arts
London
England
Washington
Cooper
Belva Lockwood
Corcoran Art Gallery
Ruskin
Hartman
Columbus, O
Washing and ironing money. a curious tale from New Orleans
A wealthy woman launders and irons currency through her maid. Bills are washed in hot soapy water, dried, dampened, and pressed with a hot iron to restore brightness. The writer notes how dirty money becomes and suggests the sight would deter tellers from handling it.
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Treasury
Teller
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Not all the heroes were at Santiago in Topeka
In Topeka, Dean Waters of the Santa Fe freight division resigned to save a co worker with a wife and six children facing layoffs. Waters, moved by the man’s looming termination, offered his resignation to urge intervention by department leadership, a self sacrificing act reported by the Topeka Capital.
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Santiago
Topeka
Santa Fe — Rail
Sattertogs
Dean Waters
Blank
Keer
Waters
Toeka Capital
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