Love and Money Entangle a Silk Shop Lover
A rich man seeks love for herself and infiltrates a silk counter to win Miss Grahame. He bluffs a discount to gain her favor, earns her trust, and attends Lady Brancepeth’s ball where she confesses she would marry for love if she had the choice. He offers a future shop and wealth, then asks if she can love him despite poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hook
Crook
Flowers and Feathers
Miss Grahame
Bee
Lily Grahame
Asburnham Grange
Lady Brancepeth
Messrs. Price and Hunter’s
Guy Brancepeth
Henry Dews
Mr. Clews
Chestnut Street
Fairmount Park
Popular Medical Delusions Tit Bits Tradition and superstition die hard
A historical notice discusses enduring medical myths for children. It cites measles and chickenpox as common fears, debunks saffron and brandy as remedies, urges water instead of milk for fever, warns against alcohol, and explains who pays doctors. It notes rising medical-fee differences for foreigners in German institutions.
Young Doctor Arrested Over Weary Willie Skeleton
A Sioux City medical student faced arrest after attempting to turn a dead man’s bones into a private skeleton for a laboratory. Neighbors reported the eerie coffin-like boiler and the dismembered remains, prompting a police pursuit and eventual release. The incident was later vouched for by a local physician, who secured the student’s acquittal and kept the skeleton for display in his office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City Medical College
Anamosa
Nebraska
Willie
Weary Willie
Riverside
Sioux City
Anecdotes from Everywhere on Theatre Arts and Wit
A compendium of brief anecdotes featuring David Belasco on manuscript readings, Katharine Kidder’s stage cat mishap in Mme. Sans Gene, a child’s cup and saucer secret, a Louisiana negro trial joke, Moro camp humor with a zonophone, John Kendrick Bangs family banter, New Yorkers’ thrift versus Philadelphians’, and a Major whist misdeal anecdote reflecting social and cultural sketches of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kkathbryn Kidder
Mme. Sans Gene
Puss
A Black Providence
Frances Jerome recounts a tale told by the marquis of Bahama about his drunken enslaved servant Benito and a Greek embassy plot. The narrative blends satire and scandal as the marquis explains his decision to keep Benito intoxicated to ensure loyalty while recalling Eva the widow in Athens and a brigand ransom that ends in tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquis of
Bahama
Althugh
Benito
United States
Athens
Eva
Hva
Marquis
Spain
French Politeness in Saint-Germain Hotel Life
In a pam summer among French people at Saint-Germain a writer notes daily losses of time to pleasantries. He recounts greeting twenty five encounters per day with smiles greetings handshakes or kisses and formal farewells to people and even to dogs and service workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harpers Bazar
Saint-Germain
Monsieur
Au Revoir
Woes of a Father
A Chicago Post item quotes a father explaining a term to his child. The dialogue references a gallant ship, hinting at themes of travel, courtly speech, and parental guidance in a domestic vignette.
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Chicago Post
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Maghts
Gaeynia Hur
Germany
Young Mietie
David Belasco
Ned
J. H. Stoddart
Louisiana
Darkey
the Darkey
Darky
Collins
Y. M
South Philippines
International Committee
Major Bullard
Mindanao
Mr. Collins
John Kendrick Bangs
Yonkers
Mr. Bangs
John Kendrick Junior
Frances Jerome
W. R. Hearst
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