The Saintese and the village girl in Italy
A narrator recalls a spring afternoon with a village girl named Lilla. He contrasts her natural grace with city beauty, notes Vincenzo's quiet affection, and describes her lively household duties, coffee making, and hopes for a future visit to the Punto dAngelo with legends of a moonlight blessing on gentian rock.
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Vincenzo
Vigwis
Mig
Shu
Signor
Dierer
Hagve
Ocellanza
Lilla
Pam
Gnu
A Twisting Naples Love Web Delivers Sealed Secrets
The narrator returns to Monte Vergine and uncovers a suffocating tangle of love, deceit, and marriage intrigue. Nina's letters reveal betrayals to Guido while Ferrari's will shifts power to Countess Romani, prompting the narrator to guard evidence as he eyes a dangerous path to victory.
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Ferrari
Romani
Paredon
Trop de Xele
Gervira
Naples
Conte
Philippe D'Avencourt
Nina
Guido
Rome
Ic Ran Tims
Guido Mio
Fabio
Hore
Beloval
Cesare
Cotoe
D'Avencourt
Punta Dw
Angelo
Crooked convict Big Hawley’s long criminal tour ends
William C Woodward alias Big Hawley, a notorious con man, was convicted of attempted blackmail in New York City while on the witness stand. He confessed to a string of arrests across multiple cities and claimed ongoing schemes. The jury verdict confirmed his foretold fate.
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Willam C. Woodward
Big Hawley
Mimbcjor
Card Shag
New York City
Bem
Roe
London
Ilon
Lionel Musgrove
Cayton
van Dieman's Land
New York
Boston
Duiles
St. Louis
Jtil
Washington
Colorado
Philadelphia
Woodward
Bridgeham
Sending Presents in Christmas Gift Wrapping Style
A guide on festive gift presentation describes wrapping with white French tissue, silver or scarlet ribbon, and a holly accent. It notes dainty boxes for children, snowy paper with white satin ribbon, and arranging flowers to match the color scheme of the gift.
Christmas Investments in Happiness Promised by Savannah News
The Savannah News argues Christmas spending yields higher returns than money, describing investments in love and joy as rapid, unalloyed happiness, with all returns proving valuable beyond monetary value.
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Savannah News
Italian cabinet rebuilt by Marquis di Rudini
Marquis di Rudini has reconstructed the Italian cabinet shaping a new government lineup. The move indicates a strategic reshaping of leadership roles within Italy's executive branch and signals potential policy direction shifts.
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Marquis di Rudini
Sania’s Workshop in Thuringen Germeny Looms Large
The article describes Clauz or father’s workshop at Thuringen in central Germeny as the main source for Mimsy Christmas ornaments. Families in a mountain cottage run a small factory producing many whistling baubles with blowers and young assistants shaping and finishing delicate decorations.
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Clauz
Tbhuringen-Wald
Thusingen
Germeny
Iice
Colored Christmas ornaments produced by family crafts
A detailed description of how glass ornaments are colored and finished in a family workshop. Dipping bulbs in coloring fluids, shading with fluoric acid, applying metallic oxides, and silvering with quicksilver are described. Workers pass pieces for dyeing and drying, with sun drying and polishing to achieve brilliant results before inspection and packing for shipment.
Yuletide Games And Christmas Hide And Seek Fun
The article describes Yuletide games in Aone families where gifts are hidden and discovered through playful chasing. It details a party game with judges and questions, a spoonful of apples race, and a table scene where children attempt to steal corn from a cinder with bare hands.
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Aone
Tole
Cindy
Perty
Gine
Nas Fa
Mistletoe Kiss Rite Traced From Druids to Modern Rite
The New York Herald notes mistletoe's ancient sacred status among Druids and its later use as a festive symbol of marriage authority. It says maidens once held the right to a kiss beneath the mistletoe, a custom that has endured as a light holiday ritual.
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New York Herald
Pundihxals On Ice In German Winter Burials Scene
The article describes winter burials in a German border region near Berlin in the Spreewald. Funerals involve rope-bearing coffins carried on a sledge with participants skating behind. Distinctive attire includes black goats and hats for men, women in white hats scarves and aprons. Similar customs note Venice and Kamchatka burial transports by boats or on sledges.
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Berlin
Spreewalde
Bohemia
Sibing
Terland
Venice
Adriats
Kamchatka
Ertyes
Dors
London
Wanted Royal Autographs From an Ambassador
Andrew Li White, former German minister and now the U.S. ambassador at Bellin, recalls receiving odd letters from Americans seeking influence in court circles. One regional caller, an elderly Western woman, sent four six inch square pieces of white linen for an autograph quilt and asked him to obtain autographs of the emperor empress crown prince and Bismarck, with caution to avoid ink near the quilt edges for sewing.
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Andrew Li. White
United States
Bellin
Germany
West
Enmeror
Crown Prince
Bimarck
Reading Bible Chapter in a Washington Street Scene
A Boston Herald item recalls a Sunday morning in Washington where a man requests his shoes polished and a professor reads aloud from the Bible. The exchange is framed by humor and dialect, capturing a vivid, if clipped, street vignette.
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Washington
Darky
Boston’ Herald
Mother and Willy Moral Tale Fragment
A dialogue between a mother and Willy warns against telling falsehoods. The mother describes a punitive figure with a single eye on its forehead who punishes liars by forcing them to pick sticks for balance, delivering a stern moral lesson.
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Willy
Beya
Puck
Local Zanesville Jest Over Snow Poem Mischief
In a Klondike era gag, Jones jokes a man was hanged for reciting "Beautiful Snow." Bones asks what he did, prompting the quip about bold verse challenging local decorum. The exchange captures quirky frontier humor and sharp wit among companions.
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Jones
Klondike
Bones
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du Barrys
Nohans
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Lila
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Tosa
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Perrari
Uifcu
DaAvencoure
Mernari
Cirbatti
Atys
Cybele Osre
Calura
Tiga
Amd
Signor 'Munti
Tobs
Sania
Yuletide Games
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