Needle and Thread Change Life in an October Evening
Honora Maywood, a poor music teacher, threads a way to survival through needlework in a crowded boarding house. She mends a stranger’s stockings, earns respect, and forms bonds with landlady Mrs Pennypacker and the kindly bachelor Mr Broderick. A proposal follows, as Honora realizes love may bloom from quiet acts of skill.
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Mrs. Pennypacker
Misa Maywood
Aiano
Miss Maywood
Honory Maywool
Honora
Ionora
Sally
Mr. Broderick
Sis
T¢an
Honora Maywood
A Terrible Example Deaths From Drinking Joke Dialogue
In a terse exchange the characters Dobson and Bings discuss a death attributed to hard drink. The joke hinges on the sudden cause being a cake of ice falling on Brigga, the testotaler, highlighting a macabre quip about alcoholism.
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Dobson
Brigga
Elephants Replace Horses in Sri Lanka Plowing Effort
Travelers along the seaside railway observe elephants used for farming in Ceylon turning up soil between cocoanut trees to prepare ground for cotton. An elephant plow, driven by a driver and coolie, can plow an acre a day at half the cost of traditional Dutch hoe methods, though the Swedish plow drawn by elephants is noted as more thorough than native devices drawing by buffaloes.
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Ceylon
Cayton
London Daily Graphic
Ziems Studio in Martigues Reveals Live Artist
In Martigues on the Etang de Caroute a visitor finds M. Ziem alive and painting, his studio window open to the road. The garden shows oriental pots and a toy mosque, while workers erect a larger mosque frame near the house. Venice, Cairo, and Constantinople flow past his doors as he imagines them.
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Martizgues
Mediterranean
Etang de Caroute
M. Ziem
Martigues
Venices
Constantinoples
Cairos
Nile
Adriatic
Venice
Connone
Woman and father charged in lead ear murder plot
An extraordinary crime in which a wife and her father are accused of attempting to murder cab driver Lombard by pouring melted lead into his ears. Lombard, married two years, suffered a painful burn in the ear and later learned of the pair's intent to seize his property. Special dispatch from Louis Star Sayings.
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Lombard
Louis Btar
Death of Gilmore Bandmaster Shocks St Louis Exposition
The death of famed bandmaster Gilmore rouses St Louis mourners. his 101‑man ensemble will continue with the exposition under Sergeant Charles W. Freud, likely guiding next year’s music as contracted. Illumination week draws crowds. Prophet tableaux and parades set city abuzz as Oct opens.
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Ulimere
St. Louis
Gilmore
Charles W. Freudenvoll
Col. Gilmore
Bost
St Louis
Quarantine Denied for Trains from United States
In Mezios Mexico on Sept 20 officials deny cholera exists in Mexico and reject the claim that a quarantine would be issued against trains arriving from the United States.
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Mezios
City of Mexico
Mexico
United States
The Wrong Side of Fifty Health Tonic Ad
Readers facing age related stiffness and decay are urged to try Hesteller's Stomach Diners. The ad promises improved digestion sleep and relief from aches as a tonic with medical endorsement and strong persuasive claims for promoting convalescence and general vitality.
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Hesteller
Various Advertisements and Notices from a 19th Century Paper
A collage of ads and notes including travel excursion details by the Big Four Route, cures and remedies such as Hall's Catarrh Cure and Beecham's Pills, Johnson family and social quips, and promotion for California Root Tea. Also references to Judd Electric Belts, syrup tonics, and a sales pitch for a whiskey brand naming, with scattered lines about church life, cuff buttons, and a teething syrup.
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Miss Seay
Ziem
Woman's Crime
Paris
Cuienco
Olbere
New York
Big Four
Northwest
Uth
Nalf Raise
Om Bop
Thiele
Smallex
Ste
Mts
Chim
Clark Street
D. SB. Martin
Tou
Coo Remedy Co
Omaha
Nob
Jansen
H. P. Carson
Scotland
Hall
God
Beecham
W. J. Grifeln
Jackson
Michigan
The
Nancy Hants
F < Syrup Co
Corbett
Kemp
Winslow
Jerusalem
G B. Judd
Judd Electric Co
Neb
Medical Hall Drug Store
North Fourth Arrest
California
Afriews
Kola Pinni
Mia Seevers
Congo
Lo Nature
Anshena
Care Guaranteed oFport
Kola Bote Eting CO
Vine Bt
Cinetmnan
Euterbreok
Erbreek & Co
Juba
Educatioinal
Mound City Commercial College
Lwhesley
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