Squire's ruse crowns love in the Cedars tale
Herbert Silex agrees to marry Lucy Saxon after a family ruse reveals true identity. The Cedars mansion sets the stage as cousins Lizzie and Lucy turn out to be the granddaughters, and Aunt Matty’s scheme unites lovers. Squire Silex smiles through tears at a happy ending.
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New York News
Advertising the Circus Advertising The costs of circus promotion
Advertising a circus involves huge sums and complex systems. Barnum and Bailey use six advertising cars, each with sixteen men and a manager plus an advance press agent, costing about 31 000 weekly per car chain total. The scale and efficiency of promotion are unmatched in theater.
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Barnum & Bailey
Bill
Moses Linked to Battery Power From Ark to Temple
A Philadelphia Record inspired essay argues Moses built a gold lined ark as a Leyden jar, using fir wood conductor knowledge and gold poles for electric connections. It suggests Aaron and Solomon expanded the system with copper and temple pipes, while referencing Franklin inspiration and a humorous hat anecdote from a Louisville newspaper.
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Moses
Philadelphia
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Franklin
Remarkable self built suspension bridge by a peon in Colima
An ordinary uneducated Mexican laborer in Colima designed and built a crude suspension bridge using wild vines for cables and joints tied with vines, no nails or metal. Piers are piles with stone filling, towers are forked sticks, central span cantilevered, roadway of rough joists. Similar vine and cowhide bridges exist in Peru and elsewhere.
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Mexico
Colima
Amelia
Harper's Weekly
Peru
Morning Rush Sparks Hat Theft Tale on Main Street
A resident described a chaotic morning as he raced to catch a streetcar, grabbing a broad brim hat from a rack and narrowly reaching the curb before the vehicle sped away. He recalled snatches of self mockery from dry goods clerks and a tense moment with a passerby.
A Damascene Justice Tale of Hassan and Ear Punishment
A cadi in Damascus hears Hassan, a rich merchant, confess to spreading false reports about Vatima, a betrothed woman. Hassan is condemned for slander with ears cut off, then mockingly sewn back on, illustrating a stern, semi barbaric sense of justice.
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Damascus
Hassan
Vatima
Tha Rose
Cadi
How Conger Came to Write by Brander Matthews
Prof Brander Matthews sketches James Fenimore Cooper in St Nicholas noting Cooper’s path to authorship began by accident after reading a cheap British novel He wrote Precaution in 1820 an English style tale of life in England republished in London with no hint of American authorship He later aimed at sea fiction producing the Pilot in 1824 the first true sea story and a high point of early American fiction
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Brander Matthews
James Feaimore Cooper
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Cooper
Enland
London
Scott
Coincidence Ties Captain King Novel to Cavalry Lover
The New York Tribune notes a striking link between Capt. Charles King's Between the Lines and a Confederate cavalryman named Falconer from Farquier County Virginia. A correspondent suggested the character Miss Armistead is echoed by a real beloved, but King says there was no model and he never knew a Falconer in Farquier County.
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Parquier County
Virginia
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Farquier County
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Falconey
New York Tribune
Fragmented note on bullet photographed image invention
A garbled excerpt discusses a magnetic steel bullet with sensitized paper and four tiny holes. It suggests a near view at yards away could produce a precise reproduction of an object, mentioning a “bullet photographer” and attempts to overcome patent hurdles, but the text is incomplete and unclear.
Conjuring Beliefs and Kisses Across Races and Nations
The excerpt surveys belief in conjuring among Black and copper colored people, recounting anecdotes of Becky, Minty, and harming wards. It contrasts African superstition with Shakespearean imagery, then shifts to a portrait of Russians and their pervasive kissing customs in public life and family ritual, including a church wedding scene with a mixed couple observed by others.
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Bays & Weiter
Atlanta
Ano
Brer Vox
Hrer Rabbit
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Luke
Tom Perry
Squire
Minty
Juay
Juno
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Ingland
Forty Years Hence England France Monarchy or Republic
Historical commentary contrasts England and France in the next forty years. It forecasts possible republican or monarchical outcomes, noting France’s growing republicanism and England’s shift from divine right to expediency. The piece cites London Truth on how female rulers influence supreme power.
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France
Iingland
England
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Wnogland
London
Cured His Callie on a Train by Soda Menace
A Detroit Free Press tale recalls a Michigan Central sleeper where a porter roused men to cure colic. A drummer offered a box of soda meats, a traveler later claimed eleven bone collar buttons were swallowed after taking the wrong box, a comic miscue on the train.
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Michigan Central Road
Detroit
S’ree Press
Ani
Scott
Swords of Damascus and Silk Exotics in Damascus Markets
The Damascus bazars lure more than Cairo or Constantinople with bright embroideries, colored China silks, and masterfully crafted swords. Damascus steel, layered iron and steel, was tested for flexibility and edge, famed for its keen blade and polished surface that could serve as a mirror.
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Damascus
Cairo
Constantinople
The Spanish King's Boy Army at San Sebastian Drill
A Rowe paper describes 400 Basque boys aged five to eight drilled at San Sebastian in blue uniforms and red caps for the arrival of the young King of Spain. They carry small guns and include a sapper corps led by a five year old captain, a band of fifty boys aged seven to ten, and units with captains and lieutenants.
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San Sebastign
Spain
Goes Proparett and the Mystery Blood Drifting to Long Island
Dr. David Birney of the University of Pennsylvania received a strange summons from a wealthy New Yorker to treat a case on Long Island. He traveled with a payment of $50 after an unusual dinner at the Waldorf, only to learn the patient’s motive was to have his sister bled to death due to the lack of a physician, a chilling revelation that ended the trip.
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Proparett
David Birney
University of Pennsylvania
New York
Long Island
Waldorf
Trapped in a Daring Burglary Night Scene
A fragmented excerpt shows a startled awakening to a burglar’s intrusion. The voice of a calm woman, Gurl Jans, asks the intruder to sit, masking fear with politeness as danger nears. The text hints at an unintended doom should the intruder react.
Weekly Story Writers and the Pay Scale of Serial Fiction
A survey of weekly story papers reveals most pay to female contributors, with earnings ranging from 250 dollars weekly for a noted writer to as low as 16 dollars. Editors favor women, readers skew female, and stories emphasize heart interest with modest, non explicit content. Prominent authors include Mrs. Paradise Southworth, Laura Jean Libbey, Georgie Sheldon, and Mary E. Ryan among others.
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New York Morning Jourist
Literaure
Weekly
Story Papere
Liher
D. L. Southworth
Paradise Southworth
Orpheus O. Kerr
Sylvanus Cobb
Georgie Sheldon
Mary E.ryan
Julia Edwards
Bertha M. Clay
Agnes Weming
Alexander
McVelzh Miller
Mary Kyle
Dallas
E. Burke Colling
Wenona, Gilman
Elizabeth’ Stiles
Charles Garrien
William Ralston
Charlotte
M. Bracme
Mrs. Bryan
Ibis
Language of failure and discouragement in speech
The text ponders the worn use of the term failure in describing a person’s heart and effort. It argues for careful, discriminating use, noting the subject’s energetic intelligence and praiseworthy powers while acknowledging that complete success has not yet been achieved.
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