Intrigue and Fashion at Mrs Jeffries Musicale
Alicia Jeffries hosts a glamorous Manhattan musicale at her Riverside Drive home while plotting to end a dangerous affair with Robert Underwood. Underwood schemes with art dealers and financiers, exploiting Alicia’s social power as she fears scandal that could ruin her husband and standing.
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Underwood
Peter
Paul
Ted
Mrs. Jeffries
Alicia
Mrs. JeMrles
Yarmina
Tnderwood
Mr. Jeffries
Firma
Gao
Dis
DANGER IN LICKING STAMPS AND HEALTH RISKS
A curious medical warning warns that licking stamps can cause acute tongue inflammation and other ailments. Doctors note germs on envelopes and stamps may trigger throat, skin, and even lung problems, urging moistening stamps with a damp sponge instead.
Hanging on the Wall
A interior decorator notes pictures lose impact if hung too high or too low. He says level variety and alternating shapes like square, round, and oval enhances a room’s beauty. A passerby comments on a notable portrait, while a bystander jokes about a lady’s rough appearance.
The Long Journey Home of an Old Steam Engineer
An aging locomotive engineer returns to his yard after a freight run in a tale of fatigue, duty, and faith. Through dim signals and night fields, he watches lights drift by and imagines the end at the roundhouse gate.
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Wsnal
God's Great Roundhouse
Old locomotive nostalgia clashes with electric motors
A reader laments losing the charm of steam locomotives at major stations. He recalls how the old engine’s visible machinery and breathing wheels gave romance to rail travel, contrasting it with the streamlined but less dramatic electric motors. A Fort Pitt hotel anecdote about speed and travel quotes a Knoxville policeman’s humorous observation. The piece blends traveler recollection with light travel humor.
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Grand Central
Pennsylvania Station
Traveler
Enginger
New New York Sun
Jack Sorlin
Fort Pitt
Knoxville
Locomotive Exhibited in Brussels Noted for Power
A German-made locomotive shown at the Brussels International Exhibition is among Europe's largest. It combines high tractive power with speed, hauling 700 tons at 71.5 miles per hour on level track and 3.74 miles per hour on a steep gradient, according to Popular Mechanics.
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Brussels
Europe
Tynes
Fas
Deer Reaches High Speed Rail Line Standoff
A Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis passenger train collided with a deer during a ten mile stretch between Paris Tenny and MacKenzie. Passengers crowded the rails and heard the animal until it bolted into heavy timber and vanished.
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Paris
Tenny and MacKenzie
Nashville, Chattanoozi
St. Louis
Slow Time of Russian Trains
The cost of travelling by rail in Russia is much less than in the United States. The danger of accidents is reduced to a minimum by the fact that trains do not run at great speed, averaging about 25 miles an hour for the main ones and 20 miles on the branches.
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Alicia
Brewster
Tom
Russia
United Sates
Great Epéed
Train crew hunts rabbits in Central Branch country
Kansas City Star reports unusually numerous rabbits in Central Branch territory this season. Train crews pause engine repairs to chase rabbits in the fields, then return to service when repairs finish, with one Parnell crew reportedly having a rabbit supper last week.
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Parnell
Kansas City Star
Famous English Parish and Its Alien Population
The London Chronicle notes Stepney’s vast alien population and a policy linking all children born at sea to the parish. It explains many sailors lived there, and paupers born at sea were sent from across the country, with law courts occasionally ruling on their claims.
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Stepney
Anotien
London Chronicle
Milwaukee Adopts Thumb Print System for Employee Pay
Milwaukee adopts thumb print system to protect against fraud and forgery in payroll. Applicants for wages will be required to provide a thumb print for identity verification, compared with existing prints where available.
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Milwaukee
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Metropolitan Lotte
AY Charles
Howe Duffrley
Robert Unuerwood
Yale
Princes
Howard
Robert Underwood
Annie
Tita College
Ting
Agtraria
Traward
Hho
Howard Jetries
Beaker
Riverside Drive
Queupy
Broad Hudson
New Jersey
Jeffries
S Mart
Tier
Haly
Enlei
New York
Dr. Bernstein
Mr. Jerries
Agale
Ase
Alloia
Tanust
Robert Us
Honor
Rook
Bersstein
Ey CY Warman
Electric
Finanthy
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