Winton hall theatricals and a whiskered Fortescue
A narrator describes a house party at Winton hall where Ada Dart and Paddy O Bri an plan private theatricals. The narrator alternative Fortescue to avoid shaving his whiskers, endures social jests, and witnesses O Bri an announce his engagement while the troupe prepares a staged romance.
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Thomas Winston
Winton Hall
Capt
Seymour
Winton
Paddy” O'Brian
Crichton
Ada Dart
Capt. Seymour
Miss Winton
Ada
Paddy O'Brian
Paddy
O’brian
Miss Dart
Sir Thomas
Solomon
Julia Winton
Sir Lucius O’trigger
Lady Lock’s
O'Brian
Fortescue
Cheevers
Rivers
Facial Characteristics and Physiognomy in Palmistry
The article links palmistry and physiognomy, detailing eye and nose traits to personality. It describes eye colors and meanings, facial features like dimples and lips, and signs of temperament such as tympan placement and posture, concluding with Belle C. Green.
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Belle C. Green
The Young Man Was Cold
A Scranton pastor greets a young man on the first warm day of the season asking about his father’s death. The young man shows a clouded brow and offers no reply as the pastor realizes the father died only a week earlier.
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John
Scranton
Penn
Ammonia Fire Suppression and Left Handedness Claim
Ammonia in petroleum barrels could extinguish fires by creating an ammoniacal atmosphere, Dr. Pietra Santa suggests applying the method to coal mines prone to fire damp. Worms aid soil fertility by burrowing to reach subsoil moisture and spreading decomposed matter through soil layers. The aurora borealis flair in Arctic winters is described as a diffused yellowish white light. Dr Gaetan Delaunay argues left handedness is native to superior races, with more left handed individuals among savages and in certain conditions.
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M. Schlumberger
Pietra Santa
Herr Hensen
Arctic
Prof
Lemstrom
Lapland
Gaetan Delaunay
French Anthropological Society
Prince and Princess of Wales Seen at the Opera
London a New York Commercial correspondent reports the Prince of Wales studying his libretto with noted diligence and the Princess of Wales appearing composed yet melancholy. The eldest son sits beside her as she wears pale blue silk and diamond ornaments, described as England’s most distinguished and lovely woman.
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London
New York
Prince of Wales
Princess of Wales
England
Prairie Dog Park Denizens Drenched in Water Effort
A group used an engine and buckets to flood a prairie dog den on a riverbed claim. The old pioneer vanished as water filled the hole, and the plan relied on water passage from the creek to reach the burrow.
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Prairie Dog Park
Why Cochineal and Carmine Are 80 Costly
The Ironmonger of London explains why the red carmine dye, derived from the female cochineal insect living on cactus, is expensive. It outlines the insect’s life cycle, collection by brushing cactus branches, and a French method for preparing carmine involving boiling, cream of tartar, alum, and age of the pigment.
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London
Color hearing and odd observations in popular science notes
A long excerpt of quirky science and humor items discusses color hearing where sounds evoke colors, cites Dr Nussbaumer of Vienna and others, then adds a string of witty anecdotes about everyday life and observations from a 19th or early 20th century magazine's miscellany.
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Nussbaumer
Vienna
Zurich
M. Pedrone
Nantes
Popular Science Monthly
Man with One Eye Charged Double for Show Admission
A man with one eye asked for half-price admission but the manager said it would take him twice as long to see the show and charged him double. The incident highlights a comic misunderstanding over pricing based on ability.
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Ada Dart
O'Brien
Cheevers
Fortescue
Fortescue. You Must Change With Mr. O'Brian
Maria
Toto
Miss Winton
Captain Seymour
Sir Thomas
Young Winton
Ada
O'Brian
O’brian
Winton
States with no beer brewing listed in context
The article notes five states with no beer brewed Arkansas Florida Maine Mississippi and Vermont. It also mentions Alabama produced eight barrels and North Carolina thirty one barrels last year.
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Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
Valley
Nile
Arkansas
Florida
Maine
Mississippi
Vermont
Alabama
North Carolina
Stranger at Abraham's Tent Aethereal Legend
Wallace Bruce recounts the biblical test of hospitality in a tale from Harper's Magazine. An aged stranger seeks shelter at Abraham's tent, refuses to worship God, and is sent away. Later a divine presence questions Abraham on mercy, urging him to offer shelter despite the stranger's denial of prayer.
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Abraham
Wallace Bruce
Harper's Magazine
Power of Habit Shown in Church Telephone Prank
A Bloomington Eye item describes a church visit where a telephone operator from the local exchange, famed for shouting Hello, Hello, becomes part of a mild moral tale. The operator, absorbed in duty, is startled by bells and accidentally shouts into the service, creating unintended amusement. The incident underscores how routines become almost a second nature.
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Homer
Central Office
Bloomington Eye
Two Women Medical Schools Planned in Ontario
The Toronto Globe reports a pair of women’s medical schools to open in Ontario, one in Toronto and another in Kingston. It says this will improve women’s access to higher education in the province.
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Province
Ontario
Toronto
Kingston
The
Toronto Globe
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