Change Partners and a Twofold Wedding Tale
A tale unfolds from a family ball to a country estate as debt and class lift a couple into wealth while a brother’s return unsettles love. Debby discovers Rudolph’s flaring merit while Lilian and John Ler ing align, ending with two weddings and a mutual pledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Loring
Lilian
Rudolph
Lillian
John
Debby
California
Charlotte
Tudulph
Momma
Papa
Wylde Glen
Judulph
Ate
Thaye
Tay
Tia
Tony
Theo
Titian
The Jewetts' agophone proves remarkable in tests
An Indiana inventor family demonstrates a non electric sound receiver called the agophone. It transmits voices music and even explosions across a drug store to a residence a quarter mile away and back, showing clear room to street diffusion without electricity. The device uses a wooden box receiver with a pine soundboard and a copper funnel. The test room includes singing, violin notes and crackling firecrackers, heard distinctly at distance. The journal notes the experiment may extend to St Pauls and notes longer lines improve transmission quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Edison
Israel D. Jewett
Saint Omer
Decatur County
Ind
Jewett
Messrs. Jewels
St. Pauls
Adam's Lonely Boyhood Sketches Start Series
A humorous balance of myth and mischief imagines Adam as a boy, noting he had no companions for pranks. The piece playfully speculates on solitary misadventures from doorbells to haymow euchre, and the loneliness of a lone youngster in the primeval tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam
Tie
Eve
Iris
Zon Cain
Bun
Abel
Post-Cilies
Ral Shaw
Adams
Tim
Darwin
Transposition A Literary Curiosity From Gray's Line Readings
A note on transposing Gray lines shows twenty six readings of one line with no change in sense. The piece contrasts expressions like the weary plowman plods his homeward way and variations until the sense remains. A separate line mentions a bed of lithographic stone found at Oran, Algeria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gray
Ward
Oran
Algeria
Various Odds and Ends From 1870s News Clippings
A miscellany of brief items including a Casco Maine lamp fire loss valued at forty thousand dollars, odd European trade notes, American immigration and population trends, British banking growth, castor bean oil production in Illinois, a Harper's Ferry era relic carbine found in Potomac, and assorted reflections on wealth, education, and morals. The snippets mix economic, demographic, historic, and cultural curiosities with scattered dates and named places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
St. Clair County
St. Louis
Wm. W. Lehman
John Brown
Potomac
Chambersburg
Penna
Kansas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tom
Anil
Leus
Ani
Hull
Goa
Change Partners
Litvia
Dubby
Joan
Hudol
Lin Tsnal
Julbo
Europe
Munich
England
France
Spain
Jaly
Germany
Hudolph
Vos
Dubhy
Jilian
Thail
Juan
Evangelical Messenger
Ditiz Record
Casco
Boston
Great Britain
Pennsylvania Railroad
Augusta
Empress of
Austria
Maximilian
Bavaria
Ludovica
Tegernesee
Washington
Liu
Immigrator
Ireland
Bank of
Murat
Lalstead
Missouri
Albert Victor
Prince of Wales
Duke
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