Reading Aloud and The Morslow Mystery On Abydus
A narrator to a skeptic partner debates reading aloud at home first with Shakespeare, then a mystery, and later describes a desert village Abydus with its temples of Sethi and Rameses II. The scene shifts from domestic friction to travelogue notes on Egypts oldest town and its ruins as a glimpse of the past and future tourism.
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Green Sea
Sheykl
Abydus
Tiiis
Thinis
Osiris
Mes
Sethi
Rameses 11
Egypt
Sechi
Macaulay
Gentleman’s Magazine
Garfield Sons Shaping To Be Notable Figures
Chicago Record reports on the Garfield children of President Garfield: Harry A. Garfield and James A. Garfield, lawyers in Cleveland, run large business ventures, with James in Ohio Senate. Mary Garfield married Yale graduate Joseph Stanley Brown, secretary of the Alaskan Joint Commission. Irvin Garfield, 25, nears Harvard Law School graduation and may practice in Boston or Cleveland. Abram studies architecture in Boston, plans Europe travel before Cleveland practice. All sons graduate of Williams College. family spends time at Mentor and Washington.
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Garfield
Harry A. Garfield
James A. Garfield
Cleveland
Ohio
Ohio Senate
Harry
Welle Mason
James
Helen Newell
Mary Garfield
Joseph Stanley Brown
Yale College
Stanley Brown
Mentor
Gar-feld
Washington
Irvin Garfield
Harvard Law School
Boston
Abram
Boston School of Technology
Europe
Williams College
Chicago
A Confiding Woman Interprets Husband’s Actions as Affection
A confidant woman reads every behavior of her husband as proof of love for hav, shaping her view of their relationship around his seemingly tender acts.
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Hav
Fragmentary Dialogue Fragments From Philadelphia North American
Readable lines show a conversation where Clara and Mabel discuss a kiss and a try at intimacy. The source presents a dated, fragmentary dialogue with uncertain attribution, reflecting a stagey or personal reminiscence tone from the Philadelphia North American.
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Mabel
Clara
Philadelphia
Chauncey Depew to Wed Wealthy New York Heiress
An American rumor reports Chauncey Depew, renowned American, set to marry a New York heiress from a prominent family who owns £1,600,000 in her own right Bound on Its Travels. A discussion on sound travel and distance follows with speculative notes about how noise moves.
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Chauncey Depew
Amerian
New York
Amed
Atlantic passenger conjurer amuses aboard voyage
An American conjurer on a return Atlantic voyage wowed fellow passengers with card tricks in the smoking room. An Englishman persistently challenged him, shuffling the pack and insisting on revealing the chosen card, ending with laughter as the trick failed to reveal it.
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Nestor
England
Akul
shuMd
Tose
Raleigh and His Pipe in Elizabethan Anecdote
An amusing tale of Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth the first centers on Raleigh’s silver pipe and a wager about the weight of smoke. Elizabeth laughs as Raleigh weighs tobacco, claiming smoke can be measured, while the court audience savors his clever demonstration of wit and gallantry.
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Gentleman's Magazine
Elizabeth
Walter
England
Dave
Virginia
Iffrall
Bill Raleigh
Sir Walter
Elizabbeth
Raleigh
Walters
Birthday Honours and a Curious Club Tale
A clipped dialog reveals Mr Smith seeking congratulations for Sir James Jones amid club chatter about a odd insult lampooning him. The exchange shifts to a bead of nonsensical slang and references to gifts and jokes, hinting at social satire within a birthday honours context.
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Mr. Smith
Mr. Jones
Sir James Jones
James Hes
Utica Woman Escapes Obliging New Rochelle Visit
An Utica woman, stopping in New York for shopping, meets a mother and daughter from her hometown who press to see the sights. She explains she lives in New Rochelle and must leave, but they insist on seeing her off at the depot, forcing her to buy a ticket and board the train.
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Utica
New York
New Rochelle
Morning paper thoughts on charity and comfort
In the opening dialogue a husband and wife discuss reading the annual Board of Charities and Reforms report. They contrast the city’s suffering with their own comfort, noting fuel, a well furnished home, and ample food, and remark that they each own a bicycle.
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Board of Charities and Reforms
Milwaukee
Sen- Gwe
Homicide Statistics Show Rising U S Murders in 1895
The Chicago Tribune reports 1895 U S murders at 10 500, up from 9 600 in 1894, with personal crisis reports at 8 760 vs 4 912 in 1894 and executions totaling 132 legally and 17 illegally. The gap between murder growth and executions highlights rapid violence despite enforcement.
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United States
Chicago Tribune
One-Legged Man Complains Of Three-Legged Bed
In a modest apartment near wealthier districts a one legged man rents a room and initially feels fortunate. After the first night he complains to landlady Mrs Brisque that the bed rocks and is unstable. He discovers the bed has only three legs, prompting a baffled remark about his own missing limb.
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Eliza
T Wyself
Shakapeare
Elina
Uncle Abner Almanac Dialogue on Reading and Remedies
An excerpt from Uncle Abner and Aunt Mandy shows a rural exchange about reading backwards and patent medicines. The characters debate sense, health cures, and superstitions, with Uncle railing against schemes and Aunt probing the practicality of such reading.
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Abner
Mandy
Ene
Ireland’s Shrovetide Chalk Riot Recalled In Carnival Time
A historical account describes Irish villages and towns marking neighbors with chalk during Shrovetide and carnival. Children cover hands and coats in chalk as frolics unfold around churchgoing and evening promenades, with chalked streets resembling Continental carnival powder.
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Ireland
Morgiana
The Patagonians and Laplanders Heights Compared
A quirky note claims Patagonians are the tallest people and Laplanders the shortest. It adds women suffer fewer colds than men due to lighter better ventilated headgear reducing heat and humidity buildup.
Mice Trap Sparks Husband’s Scolding at Dinner Banquet
In a Detroit Free Press tale, Mrs. St. John-Smith installs a humane mouse trap after a vow to avoid cruelty. The husband, away at a Sons of Liberty banquet, returns to find the device full of mice, prompting a furious reaction and lifelong apologies.
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St. John- Smiths
Mrs. St. John-Smith
Clara
Messagn
St. John-Smith
Detroit Pree Press
A Pious Person and a Banished Prince
The Bishop of St Helena notes Dinizulu, banished son of Cetewayo, has become quite pious, though he has not written from exile to urge Christian teaching for his people. The ex-warrior, once in British hands in 1889, faced ten years’ deprivation of liberty. Also recounted in Cap tal Bingham’s Paris recollections is Mrs Hudson misidentifying Marcus Aurelius at a South Kensington museum, prompting her comic exclamation.
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St. Helena
Dinizulu
Cetewayo
Marbles
Paris
Bingham
Landmark Spinning Mill Era Reveals Hidden Valuables
A late-19th century note describes the first spinning mill Erectra with 5436 spindles and total spindles reaching 008,000 across the system. A curious discovery of hidden valuables has been made by a Liverpool association, dating within the last decade.
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Gome
Fiza
Miss Sakers
Cole
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Pipe
Japan
Ite
Lees
Unamareia
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