Lynch Reflects On Old Timers In Baseball Past
New York letter recalls a 20 year old Giants vs Anson era game on the West Side. Ad Gumbert's homer, Buck Ewing and Ward in hot form, while umpires and players like Burkett and Tim Hurst shaped rougher baseball days. Lynch notes Cleveland and Baltimore clubs, and contrasts fast base stealing with steady singles while predicting modern shifts.
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New York
Lynch
National League
West Side
Anson
Giants
Ewing
Ward
Cleveland
Tebeau
Orioles
T' Plate
Bostons
Duffy
McCarthy
The Unwritten Law of Divorce Explored in Public Portraits
A New York American piece discusses mutual consent divorces in show business, noting how a famed theatrical manager and his actress wife confront legal and social norms. It highlights the unwritten code guiding divorces, custody, alimony, and the poetic tragedy of a marriage ended by choice and pride.
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Pauli Thieman
New York American
Roosevelt's Pigskin Library for Africa Trip
Theodore Roosevelt’s African expedition included a compact 60 pound “pigskin library” in an aluminum oilcloth case. The list features classic works from Bible and Homer to Scott and Dickens, reflecting Kermit and Roosevelt’s tastes and the need for portable reading during travel.
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Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Scribner's
Gregorovius
Kermit
Spain
Zingali
Ayereros
Wales
Spenser
Marlowe
Mahan
Macaulay
Homer
Siad
Carlyle
Frederick the Great
Shelley
Bacon
Crothers
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer
Bunyan
Pilgrim Progress
Euripides
Murray
Hippolytus
Bacchae
Rome
Scott
Montrose
Guy Mannering
Waverley
Rob Roy
Cooper
Froissart
Percy
Thackeray
Vanity Fair
The Popular Music Bonanza Explains Song Hits
A Van Norden Magazine analysis explains how popular songs spread nationwide and generate huge profits for publishers. It notes top hits like Bedelia and The Merry Widow earning tens of thousands per title with up to a million copies sold.
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van Norden Magazine
New York
Boston
Bedelia
Mr. Dooley
Parrot Hums Ruffled Dialogue in Harper's Bazaar
In a brief comic exchange from Harper's Bazar, a caller asks if his wife will arrive soon. Bridget identifies the noise as a parrot squawking, clarifying the misunderstanding with a straight answer.
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Harper's Bazar
Howard
Bridget
Witchcraft and Superstitions in Old Spells
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch piece discusses meaningless syllables in ancient spells used by witches and Indian medicine men. It cites Felix Grendon’s Anglo-Saxon spell collection, notes modern English renderings, and humorously questions the efficacy of such charms for curing boils or toothaches.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Felix Grendon
Journal of American Folk Lore
An Observant Child
An anecdotal sketch from Success Magazine recounts Adelaide asking her father why he fears nothing except her mother. The father, amused, explains fear with examples of cows dogs thunder and insists he fears nothing. Adelaide then asks if the only fear is of mamma, highlighting a playful child’s view of fear and family dynamics.
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Success Magazine
Adelaide
Adalaide
Spelling Bees Return to Indiana Schools
State Superintendent plans revival of old time spelling bees across Indiana at schools this year. R J Aley distributes a new course of study to about 18 000 teachers after August 20. He says these contests could boost spelling prowess and strengthen community ties between parents and schools.
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Indianapolis Star
Indiana
R. J. Aley
Dr. Aley
Fertilizer of the Future from Air Saltpeter Method
London correspondent reports at the international chemists congress Professor Bernthsen demonstrates Otto Schonherr’s process to produce air saltpeter or calcium nitrate. The method uses a high voltage arc to synthesize nitrogen oxides from air, then with limestone yields calcium nitrate potential as new crop manure.
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London
New York Sun
International Congress of Chemists
Bernthsen
Otto Schonherr
Chile
William Crookes
As He Ground. Tennyson vs Finnegan in Chicago theater crowd
The poem sketch notes Tennyson starting the Charge of the Light Brigade then pausing to joke it sounds like Off agin on agin gone agin Finnegan. He proceeds with the verse and it becomes a hit while audience faces stay fresh at the theater.
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Jake Stenzel
Tim
Hurst
Jake
Tebeau
Baltimore
Cleveland
Joe Kelley
Joe
Pat
Sheridan
Chicago Tribune
Tennyson
Light Brigade
Finnegan
Mr. Frog
Katie Fly Lived In A New York Restaurant Tale
Ethel's father narrates Katie Fly the girl who lived in a big restaurant picture frame in New York. Katie explores the restaurant scene tasting sugar from a bowl and a banana plus mustard as a spicy trial, meeting Dinah the cook and Sonny before bedtime stories.
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Katie Fly
Ethel
Big Resturant
New York
Katie
Her Mild Complaint in Harper's Magazine
A humorous dialogue between Patient Parent and Georgie describing a bed sighting of a railroad train and a fire engine. The exchange frames the hard knocks of life as corrective to a college education, in a playful domestic tone.
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Harper's Magazine
Georgie
Mamma
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Addison Gumbert
Jack Stivetts
Gumbert
Pittsburg
Buck Ewing
Chicago
McKean
McAleer
Zimmer
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Burkett
Clevelands
Charlie Zimmer
Unclever
Tim Hurst
Baltimores
Jack Sheridan
St. Louis
Missouri
Clevelfand
Pullman
Jack
Brown
Jones
Henry Peck
Henry
Mr. Henry Peck
Grace
Mr. Champliegh
Roosevelt’s
Farmer Smith
Sonny
Lucy
Benny
John
Miss Lucy
Dinah
DR. Beetle
Little Ethel
Lady Bug
Mrs. Frog
the Frogs
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