Ruth Heron ends in tragedy and a tangled family ruin
Ruth Heron dies in a prison related saga that exposes the Stoke family scandal. Harry Hendricksen Stoke’s secret marriage to Ruth is revealed by a librarian, ruining reputations, threatening titles, and leaving Beatrice shocked as Naomi marries the librarian and the tale closes with questions of lineage and legitimacy.
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Ruth
Naomi
Ever
Anow
Harry
Middlemist
Henry Hendricksen
Cain
Beatrice
Ruth Heron
Lord Perivale
Harry Stoke
Joe
Engaged Before He Knew It Around the Hotel
A group of five or six agents at a hotel exchange quick marriage tales. A solicitor boasts of a two month engagement before marriage, a sister wed after three weeks, and others share speedy or telegraphic engagements. The blonde agent adds a Denver to Boston engagement via telegraph.
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New York
Austin
Texas
Denver
Boston
Family of 742 Housers Shaping Houston County Politics
A resident notes Houston county Georgia has 742 Housers all in one family. Election strategy hinges on mobilizing relatives across generations, with the grandfather still alive. The humor ends by remarking Mercury had wings on his heels and sour feet.
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Houston County
Houston
Mercury
Wonderful St Petersburg as Seen by Frank G Carpenter
American correspondent Frank G Carpenter praises St Petersburg as a vast, canal cut metropolis with grand palaces and churches. He recalls Peter the Great’s founding, the Neva riverfront, and vast public buildings while noting towering cathedrals, flat living, and the city’s bustling market district.
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St. Petersburg
Frank G. Carpenter
Gulf of Finland
Mississippi
St. Louis
Venice
Peter the Great
Russia
Peter
Europe
Empire
Baltic
New York
Neva
Washington
St. Isaac’s Cathedral
Hotel de Europe
Scientists Measure Blood Circulation Time in Humans
Medical researchers led by Professors Dalton Hering Poissenille Mattuci and Blake demonstrated a rapid blood circulation time using potassium ferrocyanide as a tracer. Blood drawn from the jugular vein showed how quickly the foreign salt appeared in the opposite side, indicating the duration of a complete systemic transit.
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Dalton
Hering
Poissenille
Mattuci
Blake
Three Barbers In One Stop Before Train Time
A Philadelphia Inquirer tale describes a Baltimore and Ohio depot shave sprint. Robinsons barber shop brings barber Mr. Robinson and assistant Mr. Smith to work in tandem on a patron. In eleven minutes hair cuts and six minutes shaving finish just in time for the train.
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Baltimore & Ohio
Robinson
Mr. Robinson
Mr. Smith
Philadelphia Inquirer
Trial in Scotland Ends With Witty Witness Exchange
In a recent Scottish trial a female witness faced probing questions about her age and marriage prospects. She replies with playful deflection stating she is fifty, then sixty, and refuses to marry the lawyer, adding she is tired of his palaver.
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Ruth
Mr. Stoke
Lord Perivale
St. James
Pall Mall
Observer
Henry Hendrickson Stoke
Chester Square
Threadneedle Street
Nathaniel Heron
J. P
Barchester
Scotland
Jane
Jane— Weel
Miss Jane
Sugar and Paper Weighing Case at Wolverhampton
Three grocers and assistants were summoned under the weights and measures act for including paper in the weight of sugar sold. The stipendiary magistrate convicted them calling the practice a deliberate fraud, though customs had allowed it. A separate note discusses cholera superstition under Russian rule and fatalism hindering quarantine efforts. The final item notes a photography reproduction process for the 1623 first folio of Shakespeare.
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Wolverhampton
Asia
Europe
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Walter Besant
Ed Hall
Makbrarian
Naomi Anye
Are
Omi
Tor
Ord Persvale
Thordisa
Perivale
John Stoke
Henry Stoke
Tam
Sam
Iecan
Hendricksen
The
Authors’ Alliance
SITE
Paris
France
Isaac's Cathedral
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