Dinamited by Cubans gun details raise alarms
The article describes a portable dynamite gun alleged to be used in Cuba, noting its rapid assembly, lack of smoke, and mobility. It explains the technical design with three tubes, rotating vanes, and a fuze mechanism, and cites reports from the New York Herald via a skilled observer. Conflicting efficiency claims persist as wartime reporting remains unsettled.
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Cuba
Vance
New York Herald
Chicago
Earthquake signs and home recipes from a bygone page
A fragmentary column lists homemade remedies and culinary tips. It includes lemon cheese, batter puddings, pineapple syrup, camper washing methods, marmalade, and a long technical note on explosive shells and earthquake warning signals observed in Japan. The text mixes domestic hacks with military‑machinery details and ends with a note on February as best for marmalade.
Home Circle Recipes and Health Notes From Old Column
The page offers strawberry sauce and apple pudding recipes with butter sugar crackers and nutmeg, plus kitchen tips. It critiques children’s shoe heels, notes spring heel trends, and stresses proper clothing, cleanliness, and weekly bathing for health. It also describes a method to prepare charcoal medicinally and urges correct clothing warmth and light versus dark colors by season.
Paragon of Legal Lorp and the capias tale
A country justice elected recently is visited by a young lawyer seeking a capias. The judge, uncertain, delays advising patience for 24 hours. The next day the lawyer returns with thanks and the $2 fee, explaining no capias is needed, praising the judge as a paragon of good sense and legal love.
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Capias
Peat
Nawyar
Tom Hasty
Leader Now and Then In Washington Scar Dialogue
A brief dialogue introduces Senator Sorghum and an unnamed man discussing a party leader. They mention rumors of leadership and a moment where the leader urged the party to step out for refreshments, set against Washington Scar.
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Fencemender
Sorghum
Thava
Rhosa
Washington Scar
Wishin and a Switch The Creekside Boy
An old Chicago Timer-Herald snippet recalls a boy who sneaks to swim with friends despite his mother’s fear. He forgets himself, returns home with a shirt misbehaving, then faces a switch as punishment for disobedience and a misguided wish.
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Chicago Timer-Herald
Love and Venture Return in London Romance
Lord Ronald d Esterre returns from Africa to find family fortune tangled and love blooming with Violet Elsrey. He battles old resentments, wins favor at a party, and shares a budding, earnest confession in a conservatory as their bond deepens amid social expectations.
The Lordly Plot and Love in a Moonlit Reunion
Ronald and Violet navigate a secret engagement amid overheard plots by Lady Mary and Violet’s mother to secure a match with a lord. Violet confesses love for Ronald, who admits his own, and after a period apart Ronald returns with wealth. They confront their past, and Violet’s final admission confirms Ronald as her true love.
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Ronald
Lady Mary
Violet
Papa
Jita
Mary
Ate
Harvey
Walts
Lodsers
Worthing
Ray
Lawyer confronts engineer over speed in railway accident
In a courtroom exchange the lawyer presses the locomotive engineer about his exact speed at the time of the accident. The engineer confirms six miles per hour, despite earlier testimony stating a different rate. The judge and jury conclude with a verdict against the railway company.
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Chicago
Watts' Hymns Recalled In Watts Studio Gallery
A fragment from a late 19th century notice recalls Watts' studio with the massive painting “Theodora and Honoria” on the wall and a remark to Lord Houghton about Watts' hymns, reflecting the Cosmopolitan era's artistic dialogue.
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Watts
Hirs
Theodora and
Honoria
Lord Houghton
Aryonant
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Creech Techanis
Lomi Ronald d’Esterre
d’Esterre
Africa
Dove
London
Ronald d’Esterre
Tong
Violet Elsryey
Lord Ronald
Brig. Harvey
Agabe
Waverrley Magazine
Néli
Bell
Neil
Egge
Philadelphia
Record
Yonkers Statesman
Ira
Fox
Mr. F
Philadelphia Inquirer
Iiko
Muaingly
Indianapolis Journal
Plain Dealer
Hopkins
Bolton
Cleveland
Mr. Wiigus
Indianapolls Journal
Teddle
Slater Laura
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