Neurotic overwork cured by noise and love in Freeburg
In a dim office a physician helps Crosby escape overwork with the simple life plan that becomes a noisy, cheerful summer in Freeburg. Crosby bonds with a local woman, saves a child, and finds purpose by staying with the family as the town’s lively youngsters brighten his days. The cure proves to be noise, community, and a budding romance, ending with a wedding voyage to Sorrento and Sicily.
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Sidney Hodges Cole
Crosby
Littl
Ashville Junction
Freeburg
Ditech
Marthy
Mr. Dean
Sorrento
Sicily
Fortune of the sixteenth century furthers Jacob Fugger saga
Paul Van Dyke’s Harpers piece recounts Jacob Fugger and family wealth built through mining loans and European trade. By mid sixteenth century they ranked Europe’s richest bankers, financing Habsburgs and expanding profit, but fortune waned as Spain faded and Charles V’s line declined. Churches and charities linked to their wealth endured.
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Jacob Fugger
Harpers
Paul van Dyke
Europe
New World
Fugger
Jacob
Charles V
How Old Glory Was Named in Harper's Weekly
M Moore Morgan recounts how the American flag earned the name Old Glory. Captain William Driver shouted it when his ship Charles Doggett received a new flag in Salem in 1831. The flag was hidden in a camphor chest and later sewn into a quilt during the Civil War. The Essex Institute in Salem holds a flag claimed as the original, and Mrs. Roland may donate Old Glory to the Tennessee Historical Association.
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Harper's Weekly
M. Moore Morgan
William Driver
Charles Doggett
Salem
Driver
Nashville
Tennessee
City
Capitol Dome
Essex Institute
Massachusetts
Roland
Historical Association of Tennessee
Wealthy Pittsburg mill superintendent seeks divorce
George Ward, fifty, superint endent of a Lawrenceville steel mill, claims his wife has extracted 16 dollars nightly for years. He ranks among Pittsburg's ten wealthiest men in appearance while alleging she stays out late and spends the household cash. Ward, a widower with children from a first marriage, says the divorce arises after she forgot to leave breakfast money one morning. Pittsboro Dispatch to the New York Telegraph.
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George Ward
Lawrenceville
Pittsburg
Ward
Pittsboro Dispatch
New York Telegraph
Baseball Championship Proposes All Star World Series Reform
Washington Post contends an all star exhibition benefits players financially and proposes ending the regular season in August and staging cross league matchups, then a best of seven between top all stars. The piece contrasts cold grandstands with sweaters and calls for regular melees to test skill over luck. Harper's Weekly quote about girls in a fellow's eye appears as a humorous aside.
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Cobb
Wagner
Walter Johnson
Snodgrass
Mathewson
Lajoie
Gladiators
Washington Post
Harper's Weekly
Hair's Breadth Escape in Revolutionary Anecdote
Marion Harland recounts a vivid reminiscence of a Virginia foraging party near Yorktown. A captain fleeing British troopers opens a plantation gate in the saddle, shoots the latch into its socket, and delays pursuers, allowing the escape.
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Marion Harland
Virginia
T Serling
Yorktown
Ancestral Talk Sparks Wry Remark About Family
A terse remark notes that the subject has no children while hinting at respect due to ancestors and urging readers, including young listeners, to pay attention. The line suggests humor about lineage and accountability without further context.
No Chance with Campaign Voices the swagger set
The Washington Herald notes voters ignore campaigners and candidates, as swaggering bidders fail to persuade the unengaged. No speaker appeals with charm, no candidate seeks favor from the indifferent, and the public shows little appetite for political effort.
Confederate Strategy Tale From Richmond to Washington
Rev Michael Clune of Harper s Weekly recounts a dramatic confession from the late Jefferson Davis secretary. A beautiful lady supposedly assented to Davis to aid the South s first victory by ingratiating herself with McDowell s chief of staff. She allegedly relayed McDowell s planned move to Richmond, triggering a nationwide telegraph summons for troops and shaping the Bull Run battle as Carolina troops emerged en route.
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Harper's Weekly
Michael Clune
Jefferson Davis
South
Confederacy
Richmond
Washington
Davi
McDowell
Bull Run
North Carolina
Murine Eye Remedy Ad Promises Eye Relief
An old ad touts Murine eye remedy promising relief for eye trouble. It claims Murine strengthens weak eyes, soothes eye pain, and sells for 50 cents. The copy urges readers to try the product and applies to general eye discomfort.
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Murine
Reader Told How Kidney Pills Helped Back Pain
Mrs Mollie Moore of Vinton Street Tazewell Virginia describes fifteen years of backache dizziness and urinary issues misattributed to sex trouble. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring heart rhythm strengthening her back and improving overall health. Available 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Mollie Moore
Vinton St
Tazewell
Dean
Tough and Callous No Black Hand Letter Frightens Him
A defiant statement mocks fear of a Black Hand letter as a figure known for dunning and intimidation bristles at threats. The quote signals stubborn resilience against extortion attempts.
Little Miss Fales novel review by Harpers press
Emilia Benson Knipe and Alden Ar thur Knipe present Little Miss Fales a wholesome quaint tale published by Harpers. John is really a girl who inherits a grandfathers home in Germantown and battles legal plots to keep it. She befriends a cousin and even secures railroad plans against a scheming lawyer.
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Miss Fales
Emilia Benson Knipe
Alden Arthur Knipe
The
Harpers
Fales
John
Germantown
Sho
Little Miss Fales Adventures Delight Young Readers
Glimpses of foreign travel and many small accidents endear plucky Little Miss Fales to readers. The tale dwells on its charming aspects for children, including a secret panel in the old house in German town. Frances Rogers provides a color frontispiece.
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Miss Fales
Germantown
Miss Falee
Frances Rogers
Correct Figures and a Florodora Sextette in Washington Office
In a National Magazine piece, a stern G. G. boss insists on absolute correctness in figures. Two appealing young women charm him, claiming their figures are correct from Florodora. One worker, keeping to the “touch nothing” rule, slips stamps to the eroded desk by plastering them on the boss’s bald pate.
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Washington
G. G
Ogre
Joe Mitchell Chapple
National Magazine
Woman's Department Meals for Sunday Menu
A fragmented Harper's Bazar schedule lists Sunday meals with breakfast including fruit cereal bacon English muffins and coffee dinner featuring cream of spinach soup roast chicken green beans corn and chocolate ice cream supper of creamed sweetbreads potato salad and cheese souffle sliced peaches. It notes additional menu items and stray text about wolves and a tar incident.
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Harper’s Bazar
Harper's Bazar
Elaborate Hats Highlight Linen Fashion This Year
Harper's Bazaar notes women pair simple tailored linen with extravagant hats. Floral turbans nabob turbans and wide crowned hats feature masses of foulard tulle and birds as focal ornaments. The trend extends to linen weaves in high end cost garments.
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Harper's Bazar
Novel Recipe And Dishes From A Victorian Menu
Brown onion and curry in butter then brown flour. Add mint chopped lamb and stock to thicken, season, and serve over rice. Mix thick cream sugar almond and cherry juice, chill, whip, mold and freeze. A daughter’s improvised grace anecdote closes the excerpt.
Summer Neckwear in Dutch Collars and Rich Bows
Harper's Bazar describes elaborately finished summer neckwear featuring Dutch collars with embroidered linen and Irish lace borders, clusters of loops and flowers, and bold bows in red green black or blue surah edged with Persian material. Velvet or taffeta neck rims and flat end clusters echo the banded loop designs.
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Harper's Bazar
Semmer Millicery in Parte Opens With Wide Selection
A May article extols a large and varied hat collection as the best June openings yet. It praises Faris milliners for offering abundant variety and elastic fashions while noting some excess in attention seeking, and urges personal taste and ingenuity in styling.
Death Trap Predates Adam at Rancho La Brea
John C. Merriam reports in Harpers Weekly that a tar swamp near Los Angeles preserves bones from Quaternary prey. He notes numerous carnivores in the Rancho La Brea fauna, suggesting live prey lured predators into asphalt, with wolves, lions, saber-tooth cats, camels, elephants among finds.
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Los Angeles
John C. Merriam
Harpers Weekly
Rancho la Brea
Tts
Canning Huckleberries With Rhubarb Taste Tips
A note on canning huckleberries advises adding two stalks of rhubarb per quart for color and flavor. It suggests combining rhubarb with oranges figs or other fruits, and mentions pineapple with citrus, melon with tomatoes, and apples with rhubarb or quinces as tasty pairings.
The Little Things at Your Open Grave
A fragment from Harper's Bazar recalls small acts of care that comfort despite distance and loss. The speaker cherishes tiny memories like sunlit dawns and affectionate words, framing love as a delicate, gold thread spanning sorrow.
Breach of promise tales fuel Washington Herald satire
In Full Blast and Throughout our country fair since June took flight ten couples wed at sight. The smart set enjoys sports on horseback and playful monkeyshines. A breach of promise case appears daily filling space with gay details. The season remains a huge success as Washington Herald reports.
An Emergency Outfit for a Candlepower Claim
An Inquisitive caller asks about a candlestick on a desk. The emb ribald jest smith replies that electric light is sixteen candlepower, but sometimes he needs seventeen for light on a subject. Chicago Daily News.
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Chicago Daily News
Canned Goods in the South Report Market Firmness
Advices from Baltimore note continued firmness in canned tomatoes and corn with less activity. Canners show little desire to push sales at current spot and future quotations. Spot tomatoes closed a shade firmer while futures buying remained limited but strong. Corn pack size viewed as unlikely to weaken. futures and spots firm. Beans, peas, sweet potatoes, spinach, and beets show varied but steady or improving trends as canning season nears.
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Laltimore
Thomas J. Mehun & Co
Journal of Commerce
Cat Billy the Brazeria mascot clings to ship salvage
Atlantic City Aug 31 A large black and white cat named Billy, mascot of the freighter Brazeria, stranded on shoals after the crew vanished. Salvage men found him aboard near death, the cat inching along the deck as they tried to rescue him, claws bared and too weak to flee.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Lawrence
Billy
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