Miss Mivart Outsmarts Suitors In Carbine Feud
In a garrison tale set around a target-practice contest Georgia Mivart stirs romance and rivalry. She learns to shoot a carbine with both Burton and Greville guiding her. A hop and a clever finale reveal her choice and the rivals’ astonished confrontation.
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Miss Mivart
Flobert
Burton
Andy
Georgia Mivart
Kreutzer
Mivart
Greville
Zuleika
Bourton
Expressing His Disgust at a Serial Story Letter
A writer recalls an indignant reader letter about Simeon Stacy in Blank Magazine. The reader denounces the hero as detestable and even changes his own name to avoid association with the character. The note illustrates reader engagement and the pushback authors received.
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Simeon Stacy
Andrew Jacobson
Ungallant in Paris Telephone Exchange Reform
A telephonic reform in Paris introduces an automatic system to replace the female operators blamed for delays and chatter during busy calls. The move targets alleged ungallantry in the central exchange once managed by women and aims to speed important interviews with firms.
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Paris
Exchange
France
Heating in Uruguay Finds Few Homes with Stoves
In Uruguay heating is scarce with most houses lacking stoves or chimneys. One recently built home cost about $14,000 and has only a stovepipe from the kitchen. A remark notes a woman’s complaint about chores and a lack of heat.
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Uruguay
Confederate memorial plan advances in Richmond project stakes
The Louisville Confederate veterans convention accepted a $100,000 pledge from Charles Broadway Rouse of New York for a Richmond memorial to Confederate dead. The Memorial Association reports $124,437.35 in pledges plus hoped totals aiming at $300,000 to $500,000 with plans for a rotunda, mausoleum, state rooms, relics, a portrait gallery, and bronze statues of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and other Confederate leaders. General J. C. Underwood presents designs and asserts funding targets and site considerations.
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Richmond
Louisville
Charles Broadway Rouse
New York
Virginia
Rouse
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Confederacy
J. B. B. Stuart
N. B. Forrest
How She Got It
A girl who was told not to ask for food at a neighbor returned home hungry. When questioned, she explained she did not ask for food but simply looked at Mrs. G and said she was hungry, conveying the message without words. The report appears in the New York Truth.
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Miss Mivart
Greville
Georgia
Burton
Miss Mivat
Mise Mivart
Express
Mia
Mivart
Misa Mivart
Mr. Greville
San Francisco Argonaut
Mrs. G
New York
Nothing as stale as an old story in the paper
A reflective note on aging stories, noting many items begin with a common opener. The piece observes some men celebrate daily events over nothing, suggesting a weary view of perpetual repetition in journalism.
Travels of the jigger circumnavigates the globe by flea
A New York Sun piece notes the industrious flea known as the jigger set out in 1872 to circle the world and has half completed its journey. It has reached India, Madagascar, and Africa, and is predicted to strike French Indochina and the Pacific islands as it travels across tropical regions.
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America
New York Sun
India
Madagascar
Africa
Brazil
Aimbriz
Congo
Stanley Pool
Upper Congo
Victoria Nyanza
Zanzibar
East Indies
Oceanica
Bombay
le Tour du Monde
Asia
Nossi Be
Pacific Islands
Tropics
Rail crew abandonments on fast trains shock Chicago observer
A Chicago business man recounts a railroad practice where rear brakemen drop off the last car to flag following trains when trains stop between stations. He notes men are left behind when time is pressed, sometimes walking to the next station or being found by later trains, risking frost or assault by tramps.
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Chicago
Limited
New York Mall
Stole the Bridegroom on a Broad Street Prank
A Philadelphia Record account recalls a bachelor party prank where friends abducted the groom after the wedding, drove him miles away, locked him in a barn for three days, while the bride stayed in Ashbury Park hotel awaiting his arrival. The groom accepted the joke as good natured.
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Broad Street
Ashbury Park
Philadelphia
Mild Climates Best for Centenarians
The report notes that milder climates host more people aged 100 or more than higher latitude regions. A separate fragment mentions a husband awaiting his wife at SpEooote discussing the cheapest item.
Government Telegraphy in Great Britain a Century In Review
W. S. Harwood’s Century study praises Britain's government telegraph since 1870, noting reduced tolls for inland telegrams, public safeguarding against fee hikes, and rapid growth. By 1899 nearly ninety million messages were sent, rates dropped from about fifty cents to fifteen cents, staff rose from under three hundred to over three thousand, and the system posted substantial profits despite a deficit for daily papers.
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Great Britain
Harwood
United States
Post Office Department
London
Stage Thunder and Lighting in Theatrics Explained
Franklin Fyles in the Ladies' Home Journal explains why stage noises are hidden from audiences to preserve illusion. Methods include using a basket with broken china, silk cloth, cranked wind, carbon and fire for lightning, ten pins for thunder, and a miniature wagon wheel for carriage rumble.
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Franklin Fyles
Ladies’ Home Journal
Spiders in Venezuela and a woman-led Russian state
Unprofitable silk from Madagascar and Venezuela spiders is noted as noncommercial. The Russia state of Beljukovschtschina is run entirely by women with Baschka as president, all offices held by women, and men absent from places of importance.
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Benjukovechtachina
Beljukovschtschina
Russia
Baschka
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Government Telegraphy
Venezuela
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