Rival Lovers Wind Up On Ferris Wheel
In Traverse City Henry Hawkins and R. Ogden Winterbury vie for Miss Kate Barstow while Burt Rayl watches. At a county fair a Ferris wheel scheme collapses into chaos as mispaired riders meet an old maid and a fat woman. A storm foils the finale and the rivals depart, heartbroken and unseen by Kate.
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Traverse City
Henry Harrington Hawkins
R. Ogden Winterbury
Kate Barstow
Burt Rayl
Mr. Hawkins
Winterbury
a @rm
Burt Ray
Kate
Barstow
Miss Barstow
Mr. Winterbury
Hawkins
Gazetteer
Miss Kate
Diesel
Samuel
Coke
Blackstone
Messrs
Miss and a Find in Spurgeon Tale of Oak Path
A sermonized anecdote recounts Rev. James Spurgeon praying beneath an Honeywood park oak. Satan threatens him if he uses the usual path, yet he resists the safer route and reaches the tree in safety. On return he finds a ring sized like a curtain ring and later uses it to craft his wedding ring from his own earnings.
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James Spurgeon
Honeywood Park
Satan
Spurgeon
Fashion's Realm Portrays Ladylike Winter Fashions
Dress reporting notes old time portrait inspired sleeves and shoulder lines with plaited skirts and new millinery. It highlights jacqueminot broadcloth gowns, three shade color schemes, epaulet bodices, and a Spain’s queen influence hat with ostrich plumes.
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Jostume
Bordeaux
Platts Oh Exci
Spain
AMY Varnum
Men and medals on buttons in 1786 Paris fashion
In Secret Memoirs dated November 18 1786 Bachaumont notes the craze for oversized buttons adorned with medals statues and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Isabey recalls earning 6 to 8 francs for snuffbox lid copies and 12 per cameo button while Paris fashion favored buttons as large as five francs with cupids flowers and landscapes.
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Bachaumont
Ovid
Isabey
Paris
Vanloos
Paris Figaro
Why Some Countries Are Uninhabited
Cyrus C. Adams notes in Harper's that vast unknown lands persist in dry deserts like the Sahara and Arabia, wet forests in the Amazon and Congo basins, and cold northern regions of America and Asia. He argues Liberia shows the widest unexplored interior as locals dwell along the coast amid rich resources.
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Sahara
Arabia
Mongolia
Almazon
Kongo
America
Asia
Liberia
Cyrus C. Adams
Harper's
What Red Coral Is
A St Nicholas description explains red coral as a horny axis supporting soft bodied polyps that form a shrub like colony. Fishermen surface the colony clean away the animal matter and keep the red axis sold for jewelry. The material polishes like horn and darkens with heat.
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St. Nicholas
Welsh Rabbit Finsee
A bachelor recalls buying a lavish chafing dish and tableware for a Welsh rabbit party that never arrived, noting the dish would have cost about one dollar at a restaurant but cost him roughly 85 dollars for the setup.
Opposites attract in a witty matchmaking scene
A jocular exchange reveals a man seeking a mate who is his complete opposite. Miss Pert guides him toward a bright, intelligent, well educated young woman on the opposite side of the room, promising a perfect contrast.
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Jenkins
Pert
Divorce Petition Sparks Elocution Confusion
A humorous exchange centers on a man seeking a divorce claiming his wife concealed an elocutionary trait before marriage. The misheard ground of action leads to a playfully legal misunderstanding about annulling their union.
Feeding For Lise Breeder Advice On Raising Chick Size
An old breeder discusses feeding for size in poultry. He advocates exercise and a varied diet including milk meat grain and green food. Skimmed milk and sour milk are used, corn kept from young stock until six months, bran and middlings fed daily, soaked cats used as growth aid after six weeks, plus charcoal grit and ample water.
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Lise
Agrahan's Title Deed and Hittite Land Sales
Sir William Ramsay plans an Asia Minor expedition funded by Lord Strathcona to uncover tablets that may prove Aryan origins and identify the Hittites of the Bible. He believes a clay land sale document recorded in a temple would prove Abraham’s purchase, with Asia Minor cities and an empire spanning from the Aegean to Egypt identified as the Hittite realm.
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Sir William Ramsay
Asia Minor
Abraham
Lord Strathcona
Sir William
Heth
William
Aegean Sea
Egypt
Syria
Baghiazkens
Greater Scotland and Burns in Sioux City
J Herbert Quick describes Greater Scotland as a state of mind linked to Robert Burns. He maps its symbols to poems, songs, places, and sentiments, celebrating Ayr, Kilmarnock, Mauchline, and the influence of Burns across the world.
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Scotland
Afton
Ayr
Greater
Robert Burns
J. Herbert Quick
Caledonian Society
Sioux City
Sunday In England Urges Proper Sunday Observance
A historic message to the nation signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and the President of the National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches calls for adequate and reasonable Sunday observance. The Times editorial notes Lord Avebury and others expanding rest to seven hours and cites France’s rest laws as progress, asserting rest is not a problem but a social priority for mental well being.
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England
Canterbury
Westminster
National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches
the Times
Lord Avebury
France
Paddle On Story From Life Sir Stephen and Maitland
An oblique account references Life Sir Stephen and Fr Maitland in a discussion about past lecture rooms and a curious aquatic committee figure who exclaims in a quirky, fragmentary scene. The text hints at nautical or sporting imagery with a paddling motif.
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Stephen
K.C.B
W Maitland
Haé Her Doubts
Dialogue between a mother and daughter Margie about manners and sharing candy with papa. Margie expresses doubt a polite papa would accept sharing, revealing family dynamics and child reasoning.
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Mamma
Papa
Margie
Hair Loss Query Sparks Witty Exchange in Shop Window
A humorous exchange unfolds as a customer asks for a remedy for falling hair and a facetious clerk suggests a wastebasket. The remark points to a playful take on obeying laws before changing them attributed to Ruskin.
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Jacqueminot
Agraham
Burns
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