The Mysterious Theatre Woman Wins Over a Manager
In New York a theater manager grapples with a failing new play and a mysterious middle aged woman. She offers to back the production for a thousand dollars and delivers a dramatic performance that revives the show and stuns him. Later a suburban notice reports the disappearance of Miss Hannah Alford and the missing life insurance for her uncle Caleb Wilson.
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New York
Milo
Marie
Mile
St. Bernard
Madam Barcelona
Mme
Barcelona
Hannah Alford
Caleb Wilson
Caleb
Hannah
Spring's Jecund Beauty Poem Fragment
A fragmentary poem extols the fecund beauty of spring with birds, daffodils, green hills, frogs, and chanticleer. It repeats lines about spring’s vitality, light, and love, celebrating nature’s renewal and the soul within.
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Chanticleer
Hite
Machinery Club Opens Roof Garden In New York
The Machinery club of New York plans to open rooms on upper floors of a Fulton terminal building at No 50 Church street. The club has about 1000 members from 127 cities and will feature a roof garden with views of the Hudson river and New Jersey hills. Celebrity honorary members include the President, New York Governor, New York City Mayor, the head of the Department of the East, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard commandant.
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New York
United States
New York City
Department of the East
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Machinery Club
Fulton Terminal
Church Street
Hudson River
New Jersey
Misidentified man jailed for forgery sentenced to five years
J. C. White of New York, 56, was wrongfully convicted in Greensburg for a deed forgery and sent to the Western penitentiary for five years. Investigations by Detective Ira L. Barry proved the real offender was James Riley, a known criminal, leading to White’s pardon and release.
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Pittsburg
New York City
Western Penitentiary
J. C. White
White
Greensburg
James Riley
Stuart
Ira L. Barry
Michigan
New York
Riley
Westmoreland County
Inlaw
William Blank
Lincoln
Blank
Hat of a Woman's Wide Brim Rouses Bard’s Praise
A playful verse celebrates a woman's enormous hat described as a mountain like flat brim that towers above city streets. The speaker marvels at its size and whimsy, asking who made such a marvel and calling the wearer the Merry Widow. A closing joke shifts to a newspaper cartoon caption about taking Fido to the dry cleaners.
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New York Herald
Girl Plays First Base Like A Man In Pittsburg
The Antler base ball team of Parnassus signs Myrtle Rowe a 16 year old girl as first baseman. She bats left handed though is right handed and explains the advantage. Charles Phillips of Pittshore club plans to coach her in pitching as she aims to become a pitcher.
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Pittsburg
Antler
Parnassus
Allegheny River
Myrtle Rowe
Myrtle
Charles Phillips
Pittshore Club
Miss Rowe
A Poetic Portrait of a Polymath Woman
A playful verse extols a Boston girl gifted in Latin verse Greek roots and math solving the simple and quadratic. She reads hieroglyphs and stores scientific knowledge with ease yet a birthday cake mishap leaves friends unwell after tasting it.
Franklin founds Library Company of Philadelphia in 1731
Benjamin Franklin established the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1731, calling it the mother of all North American subscription libraries. The item notes its pivotal role as a pioneer in colonial library networks.
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Benjamin Franklin
The
Library Company of
Philadelphia
OLLIVER-MORE A Youthful Trader’s Bold Cotton Bets
J L Livermore of Worcester and Boston fame, 30, credited with a 600000 July cotton coup, talks of 15 years in speculation and bucket shop clashes. He notes a 60 percent failure rate but says the 40 percent that pay yields large profits, with rapid testing of movements and quick exits after losses.
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New York
J. L. Livermore
Cotton Exchange
New England
Worcester
Mass
Boston
The Heroism of General Grant
A Century story details General Grant’s sickroom ordeal and steadfast fortitude. It notes his self control and quiet resignation as he faced impending death and prepared to complete his memoirs amid gloom and changing moods.
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Grant
Workmen and the Case for Industrial Education
The piece cites Bavarian trade schools and American prison stats to argue for expanded industrial education. It urges manufacturers and educators to unite against indifference and union opposition to train skilled labor and secure America's future prosperity.
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Bavaria
New York City
Amerca
United States
Republic
Manufacturers of America
National Association of Manufacturers
Brave Captain Gridley tribute on the battle day
The piece recalls Captain Gridley frail with illness on the battle morning yet refuses to skip duty. He sails to the Zafiro in a ceremonial cutter manned by Olympia officers, the crew giving him a rousing sendoff as he bows his head.
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Captain Gridley
St. Nicholas
Gridley
Commodore Dewey
Olympia
Heese
Heroic paradoxes and stock feeding in Saxony
The excerpt contrasts glory in victory with honor earned through effort despite failure, praising persistent struggle as nobler than triumph. It then shifts to a note that in Saxony live stock is stall-fed most of the year, with a large portion fed for 865 days.
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Saxony
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