Kidnaping Voters In England A Historical Political Plague
A Pearsons Weekly excerpt recalls a long history of voter abductions in English elections. It describes cases where influential figures vanished and reappeared after gilded imprisonment, with electors uprooted from homes or shipped to distant locales. The piece highlights coercion, bribes, and staged flights to polling places amid campaigns.
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England
Newcastle
London
Ostend
Berwick
Norway
Ipswich
Rotterdam
Pearson's Weekly
Sound Business Maxims and War Sparks
The excerpt promotes hard work and enterprise, warning against idleness and reliance on luck. It contrasts relentless effort with the risk of stagnation, citing Maurice Switzer and a bucket incident in Bologna as illustrations of how small provocations ignite larger conflicts and costly wars.
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Boy reunites with runaway horse Al at station
A relieved man bids farewell to a friend as the horse Al bolts at the station. The boy holds the reins and the boy exclaims that the owner's arrival saved him from losing the horse. The scene unfolds just as the locomotive whistles and the horse dashes away toward the road.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Never Propose by Letter, Warned in London Tit-Bits
Dialogues from London Tit-Bits reveal a flirtatious exchange where a bashful youth and a belle debate parental objection and propriety. The Charmers discuss a letter proposal and humorous reactions, illustrating social caution about public ruin and romantic plans.
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Papa
London
Talking Machines Born Not Made
A playful exchange from the Obelmati Enquirer notes a mother and child discussion about talking machines, concluding they are born rather than manufactured. The piece captions a quirky folk idea in a whimsical tone.
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Willie
Obelmati Enquirer
Theater mixup and a coat caper test Marion Harper
In a late 19th or early 20th century social scene a theater audience disruption centers on Trevis and Stanhope rivals for Marion Harper. A mistaken coat theft accusation triggers public embarrassment, resolving when Marion defends Trevis and chooses him, leaving Stanhope to exit with the coat and pride bruised.
Battleship Masts Bring Range Finders to Skies
Kansas City Star describes the lattice steel masts on U S battleships as perilous perches for range finders. The wireless, searchlight, and signaling use are highlighted along with the danger of topmast sway during firing. Range finders, strapped in canvas belts, must endure vibration as shells pass and ships tilt.
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United States
United States Navy
Kansas City Star
Napoleon's Elba and St Helena as Comic Prison Empire
The New York World contrasts Napoleon's Elba, an eight teen by twelve mile joke, with St Helena, a grim final confinement. It notes Elba as a petty stage for fanfare and decrees while Waterloo and Bona parte’s exile to St Helena render him a feared, caged figure gazing at a solemn sea.
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New York World
A Caustic Critic at the Regence Café
A Paris critic Martin complains about chocolate at the Regence Café Foy desk. The young woman says other court gentlemen find it good, and he retorts that they may also say she is pretty. A note on beauty praises common sense, joking about rouge and a rabbit's foot as a ritual.
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Journal of the American Medical Assoriation
Careless Mistress and Iron Bedstead Banter
A London Sketch dialogue features Mary and a speaker puzzled by a dinner gong while a separate London Tit Bits item quotes a tourist demanding an iron bedstead. Boniface replies that no iron beds exist in the inn and notes the mattresses are hard.
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London
Boniface
Real Trouble Kulcker What is the matter with Jones
A terse miscellany of quips noting mischief and excuses. The lines parody excuses for late hours and early returns, highlighting social wit and irony. It cites a proverb about forgetting what one knows, attributed to Syrus and linked to a Woman's Home Companion remark.
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Rocker
English Half Timber Duplex With Sun Room Feature
An English half timber duplex highlights a sun room sleeping porch as the home’s main draw, featuring Todian picture frieze and glazed red tile flooring. Price to build, exclusive of heathie aid, pamphling, stands at 8400 dollars. Publisher offers Sax tons new 114 bank of plane and 10 designs with Interiors book for 1.50 per copy.
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Bank of Plane
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