Recital by Miss Lee and Miss Eisner at Methodist church
Tuesday evening a recital under the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society featured Miss Eisner in two part readings and Miss Lee in piano and singing. Miss Eisner recited Enoch Arden and Miss Lee accompanied with Hazel Lathrop. Paul Williams performed a violin solo with an encore. Both artists are connected with the University and praised by the audience.
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Miss Lee
Miss Eisner
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Methodist Church
Opera House
Enoch Arden
Miss Elsner
Saint Saens
Hazel Lathrop
Paul Williams
Short stories and scattered civic notes across America
A survey cites 95 000 regular physicians and 10 000 homeopaths in the United States. A Chicago bank conducts a fire drill to safeguard valuables. The post office retires the two cent Washington stamp once a substitute is ready. Ward McAllister’s Newport farm is rented to Margar Barry. Flax straw in Minnesota and the Dakotas shifts from burning to twine and pulp. Boston brown bread gains rye meal. unbolted rye flour spreads from Boston to New York. The Motley house on Boylston Place, once home to the Boston Library Society, is slated for demolition to make way for an office building.
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United States
Chicago
Post Office Department
Washington
Ward McAllister
Newport
R. L
McAllister
Margar Barry
Minnesota
Dakotas
Boston
New England
New York
Boylston Place
Motley
Boston Library Society
German Gleanings: Tributes, Trade, and Taboos
A roundup of late 19th century notes: Krupp flats in Essen rent under $1 per room monthly. poets set minimum poem price at 12 cents per line. Berlin forms a cremation association with 214 cents weekly dues. Germany enacts origin declarations for imports. Alsace Lorraine conscripts outlaws. a dying social custom faces abolition. Berlin dislikes houses numbered 13. Astrakhan caviar trade bankrupt. Russians abandon Volga fishing stands. Meteoric dust may carry gold. Kitasto proves lockjaw microbe lives in earth. Ossman’s ink pen writes red on lamp black paper in high altitudes. German directors’ salaries capped at 4 percent yield, max $6000 yearly. law limits managers’ pay.
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Herr Krupp
Essen
Germany
Berlin
Alsace-Lorraine
South Germany
Royal Society of New South Wales
Kitasto
Ossman
The Delicate Theft That Tempted a Pickpocket
A jailed thief recalls two bold steals in New York described to McClure's. He insists he is not a natural thief, but he enjoys the challenge and finesse of a well executed robbery. He admits the thrill and precision of the craft.
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Raphael
New York
Frederick the Great’s Quick Promotion Prank
Frederick the Great chased a captain with his stick after a mistake, but the officer later received a promotion for his calm. In another incident an officer’s slander against a comrade backfired, proving the drunkard’s fitness in battle while the accuser faltered.
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Frederick the Great
Prussia
Early English Circus Origins at Astley Amphitheatre
The article traces the birth of modern circuses in England with Astley’s 1770 first performance on Halfpenny Hatch in Waterloo road London. A sixpence paid for front seats while no building existed, using a rope ring and simple stakes. Astley soon expanded shows to include conjuring, visuals, vaulting, and fireworks.
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Rome
Antioch
England
Halfpenny Hatch
Waterloo Road
London
Astley
Sexuis
A Swiss guard’s appetite charms Marechal de Villars anecdote
A short anecdote from a gastronomy book recounts a Swiss guard serving Marechal de Villars. When asked how many items he can eat he modestly lists five to six beefs, seven to eight legs of mutton, a dozen pullets, forty to fifty pigeons, and larks always.
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Marechal de Villars
Monseigneur
Twins reveal a clever family riddle from Minneapolis Tribune
A witty exchange about a man who is called a brother-in-law though he is the speaker’s twin brother. The joke hinges on the line I have three brothers one in law one in medicine and one in the army, highlighting a playful family misunderstanding.
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Minneapolis Tribune
Brimken Admired for Hidden Prosperity
Washington Star quotes praise for Brimken noting he may lack brains yet shows great and mysterious superiority as he achieves notable prosperity.
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Brimken
Washington Star
The Only One Claims He Is The Relic Of Burns
A visitor to Jean Armour widow of Robert Burns asked for relics of the poet. Armour answered with emphasis that she herself is the only relic of Robert Burns, asserting her lifelong connection to the poet.
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Robert Burns
Jean Armour
The Miserly Traveler and the Porter Exchange Wisecrack
A brief London Express gag depicts a traveler warned by a porter about guarding a trunk for 10 shillings. The porter quips a shilling saved may save nine, underscoring thrift and wit in transit.
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London Express
Alexandria Methodists Dedicate New Church for Worship
Alexandria Methodists completed a new church costing about 5000 dollars with 800 dollars still needed to meet building demands. Dedication led by Rev. A D Traveller and Rev A C Shepherd with local ministers and Presiding Elder Hager. Traveller raised 1185 dollars pledging to cover all debts, the church seats 400 and a new bell was donated by a city resident.
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Alexandria
Sanday
A. D. Traveller
Chicago
A. C. Shepherd
Canton
Chappell
Hager
Traveller
Keep Your Mouth Shut Says Toronto Star Advice
A Toronto Star column argues that staying silent and drinking less leads to success. The piece mocks talkativeness and drinking, urging restraint to avoid trouble and police attention while praising those who keep their mouths shut.
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Toronto Star
The Cipher and The Artist and The Woman in Brief
The Cipher notes the uncertain use of zero before 400 A D with Hindoo notation spreading through India and later Arabs and Europe. The Artist and the Woman discusses the actress’s reception. Enthusiastic applause can ruin illusion when a favorite performer is overwhelmed by public bowing and smiling.
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India
Europe
G. A. Miller
Science
Miss Jones
Miss Morris
McClure
Animals Are Sensitive Say University Of Pennsylvania Student
A Penn biology student notes animals react to ridicule. A horse eating from a nosebag stops and blushes at laughter and will not resume feeding while mocked. Dogs similarly object to mockery unless they are provoked to fight. Two Berlin youths aged 14 and 15 died by their own hands using the same revolver.
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Biological Department
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Post
Berlin
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