A Romantic Clerk and His Valentine Plot
Ulius Cesar Podd, a dry goods store clerk, pursues Miss Melinda Smythe amid frugal lodgings and church visits. A comic Valentine mix up with the landlady’s daughter ends in humiliation and comic tragedy in a tale of love, debt, and stagey romance.
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Ulius Cesar Podd
Mr. Podd
Miss Melinda
Melinda
Podd
Melinda Smythe
Flora McFlimsey
Cupid
Valentine
St. Valentine
Valentines
Lenten Fashion Fancies Ring In New Spring Sleeves and Capes
Special New York fashion notes trace evolving sleeve shapes and capes for spring. Skirts shift from severe lines to lighter drape with decorative edges, while black fabrics such as crepon and creponette lead the season. Camel hair outfits, chic waists, and trimmed jackets join capes with lace and jet accents as designers favor two toned weaves, chine patterns, and satin effects.
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New York
Popcorn Cheer Lights A Cozy Winter Home
A wintry night surrounds a cottage where Tealhettle sings and a cat purrs. Father and mother and three children Tom Belle and Mery share a warm hearth as they pop corn, watching kernels burst into white balls of joy and happiness fills the room. Mrs Emily Thornton signs in Golden Days.
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Tully
Tom
Belle
Mery
Mzht
May
Emily Thornton
Man dies saving his dog on Omaha railroad
An elderly, partially deaf man named Patrick Rohan rushed onto the track to pull a dog from danger as a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul line approached North Omaha. He was killed instantly by the locomotive, while the dog survived unscathed.
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Truckee
Cal
Omaha
Chicago
Patrick Rohan
The Leyden jar and electrical experiments explained
Instructions describe making a Leyden jar from a tumbler with layered tin foil, a wooden lid, and a brass wire. It explains charging by a machine, delivering shocks to a range of people, and notes a Harper's Young People feature on Friday superstition and a description of a highway robbery near Mentone.
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Harper’s
Cornice Road
Mentone
Vintimiplia
Simple Experiments for Poys and Girls Tonight
A Victorian era piece explains easy science tricks for children including water adhesion with a paper cover, lifting a glass by atmospheric pressure, heating brown paper to move light bodies, splitting a wooden stick with a table edge, and floating a needle or nibs on water using a magnet.
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Atlanta Constitution
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