Parting Roses and a Yearly Farewell in Jealous Hearts
Jane and Wilton confront love and friendship as she plans a year abroad. He proclaims lifelong love, she resists marriage, and a final rose message signals a hopeful but uncertain farewell. The social circle notes widow Oagle and a ceremonial parting in Chicago.
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Jane
Wilton
Twentieth Century Limited
New York
Wilton Ellis
Oagle
Philippines
Jack Gwinn
Cupid
Chicago
Mrs
Dan Shelley
Mrs. Dan
Mrs. Oagle
East
Barrooms in the Big Hotels Are Being Driven From the Field
A New York newspaper piece laments the decline of grand hotel barrooms once famed for ornate settings and celebrity barkeeps. It notes the shift to boudoir bars and table service, with waiters delivering drinks at table and taking large tips, while many storied rooms fade from prominence.
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Broadway
St. Nicholas
New York
Metropolitan
Morton House
Union Square
Coleman
Hoffman House
Edward 8. Stokes
Continents
Deaths Lullaby in the Chicago Chronicle
A fragmentary poem closes with a cradle of earth imagery urging rest and peace. The piece, titled Deaths Lullaby, uses repetitive lullaby lines to soothe or mourn, ending by invoking the earth as final refuge in a Chicago Chronicle context.
British Princess Named as Crown Princess of Roumania
The crown princess of Roumania, staying with her children on the Isle of Wight, is described as a British princess and eldest daughter of the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg and the Duke of Edinburgh. Noted as musical and artistic, she was affectionately called Missy in girlhood and is among King Edward's notable nieces.
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Roumania
Isle of Wight
Duke of
Saxe-Coburg
Duke of Edinburgh
Edward
Missy
The World's Hero Poem Fragment
A damaged lyric notes a brave man trudging through hardship with a broken heart. It contrasts the speaker’s sympathy with the hero’s silent pain and steadfast forward march despite vain hopes. The fragment hints at public sorrow and quiet resilience.
Lawn Billiards Game With Ring Target Mechanism
A description outlines a lawn billiards variant for two to ten players. It uses a metal ring ring through which balls pass, mounted on a peg fixed in the ground. Players use wooden cues to propel colored balls toward the revolving ring to score or complete turns.
Ring game and cue play instruction in a vintage diagram
The article explains scoring rules for a ring and cue sport, including how points are awarded and how to avoid moving balls far from the ring. It notes legal strokes, prevention of ball loss with a wooden border, and mentions figure references for the setup. It also includes a hidden proverb puzzle using sentences about money, sisters, dogs, and books.
Pottery Story of a Squaw and Clay Dishes
A tribal mother leaves her papoose with two boys who wander to the riverbank and press their feet into wet clay. The holes and footprints dry into stone as the family laughs. The chief orders squaws to mimic the clay dishes, which break easily when used to hold water. One squaw uses an abandoned dish to guard fire.
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Papoose
A Zoological Game Of Curious Alphabetical List
A playful list of animals and birds arranged alphabetically by their first word for a parlor novelty. The piece notes readers can memorize and recite them as natural history study, mixing familiar and obscure names for amusement.
Noahs Ark Costume Party Invitations
The Woman's Home Companion suggests handmade water color Noahs Ark invitations with a pasted envelope on the back and a large outer mailing envelope. Guests are invited to dress in simple animal costumes using easy materials and characteristic features.
How Fishes Defend Themselves
Fishes employ varied defenses against predators. Leather jackets bite lines, pollack dash into rocks, blue sharks feint, and bottom dwellers ignore gulls and divers. Ground dwellers may choke birds if exposed, while many coastal species rely on swift, sharp motions to deter attackers.
Lizard Collectors and a Luminescent Tale from Cincinnati
A Cincinnati man harbors a curious lizard collection and trades with naturalists worldwide for odd species and tales. A Northern Africa specimen shines like fireflies though dead, a gecko family member, while a late night barricade tale in India hints at trained tame lizards used by thieves to climb walls.
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Cincinnati
Naturaliste
Africa
India
Nine Sand Hillocks For Golf Ball Toss Game
The setup includes nine small sand knolls with flat tops to hold a golf ball and spaced at least two yards apart. Each hillock bears a numbered paper. Players throw small hoops to topple balls from pedestals, using a wrist twist. Each player has three turns unless their hoop tips over a base without moving a ball. The winner knocks off the most balls.
Origin of the curfew bell in old houses
A historical note explains how early homes lacked chimneys and used a central roof opening covered at night. Families woke to a bell called the curfew to warn residents to extinguish fires and lights and retire for safety.
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Cincinnat! Enquirer
The Game of Snip Requires Quick Tongue and Swift Wit
A simple party game, no fixed rules, assigns a leader who points at a player. That child must utter four words in rapid succession whose initials spell SNIP. For example soap nose ice peas fits. If a player cannot respond fast enough, the call Snip is issued and the player becomes the new leader.
Two Clever New Match Tricks
A puzzle description presents ten matches laid out as figure 1. It asks how they can be arranged into pairs, taking into account constraints or steps to form five pairs. The text emphasizes a clever arrangement solution to the matchstick pairing challenge.
N¢ UY RY Form Triangles And Squares From Eight
The text describes matching away eight items to form four right angled triangles and two squares. The smaller square should be formed by pairing elements to create equal sides and right angles, yielding a geometric configuration from the eight units.
Riddle of Two Tricks Leaves Puzzled Reader Guessing
The fragment describes a reader performing a sequence of matchings across two tricks. It outlines mapping numbers 4 1, 6 to 9, 8 to 3, 10 to 7, and 2 to 5 and then begins a second trick. The text is incomplete but implies a two trick puzzle with numbered elements.
Pretty Flower Clock Teaches Kids Through Garden Timetable
A Washington Star tale describes a grandfather building a clock in a garden from twelve flower divisions. Flowers open in sequence with times from 2 to 2 in the morning, including chicory, morning glory, poppy, marigold, tulips, daisies, and night blossoms, marking each hour.
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Washington Star
Stars of
Bethlehem
Mock railroad survey fools Stockton Springs farmer
Last spring youths in Stockton Springs Waldo county pretended a railroad survey from La Grange to Searsport. They used a camera tripod and telescope to imply a route through a farmer's land. The farmer mocked them noting only one door in the barn and joked about manning a door to shut it after trains.
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Northern Seaport
la Grange
Searsport
Stockton Springs
Waldo County
Sheriff Holt and the By the Way Greeting
A Keene New Hampshire sheriff Ralph T Holt known for saying By the way before conversations once began a court session in the sixties The opening remark Hear ye Hear ye All who have anything to do with the court of common pleas come forward and you shall be heard according to law was followed by a dramatic By the way God save the state exclamation after a long pause.
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Teela
Jane
Wilton
Europe
Holt
Ralph T. Holt
Keene
N. H
Court of Common Pleas
State
Miss Morgan Enjoys Outdoor Sports and Social Ties
Miss Anna Morgan daughter of J Pierpont Morgan is a healthy young American woman active in riding driving golf and tennis. Her close companion is Miss Florence Rhett whom her father pays to look after his charitable interests and manage much of Mrs Morgan’s household affairs.
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Miss Morgan
Anna Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan
Florence Rhett
Rhett
D Annunzio Declines Talk At Chieti Art Exhibition
Gabrielle D Annunzio was barred from speaking at the Chieti art exhibition after the archbishop objected to his address as the Abruzzi literary light. Managers faced withdrawal of objects from local churches, threatening a sparse display.
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Gabrielle D’annunzio
Abruzzi
Chieti
D’annunzio
Her Farewell Ball for Curzons in Simla
Lord and Lady Curzon plan a farewell ball in Simla next December before leaving India. Guests will wear fancy and historic costumes and Kipling characters such as Mulvaney Ortheris and Learoyd are expected to be represented.
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Lord
Lady Curzon
Simla
India
Kipling
Mulvaney
Ortheris
Learoyd
An Occupation Gone
A brief Washington Star verse laments gossips who avoid honest talk and exercise, suggesting truth and vigor would vanquish idle chatter in a concise civic aside.
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Washington Star
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