Bermuda's charm and strong laws shape its peaceful isle
The article recounts Bermuda as a miniature yet expansive colony, its climate and hospitality impressing visitors. It notes Bermudians cherish self lawmaking, the old parliament, and swift justice, while poverty is rare and property rights extend to foreign owners under light taxation.
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Bermuda
England
Bermuda Were Far More Fortunate Than Their Brothers In the South States
United States
Poe Finished The Raven While Walking Up Broadway
A New York Sun writer’s brother, close to Edgar Allan Poe, says Poe completed The Raven on a Broadway stroll. Poe visited Cornelius Mathews, read part of the poem, and with a sudden inspiration penned the final stanza under a street lamp.
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New York Sun
Edgar Allan Poe
Poe
Broadway
Cornelius Mathews
Mathews
Like Home to Him Westerner aboard steamer to America
A dialogue fragment contrasts a Westerner and an Easterner aboard a steamer bound for America. The Westerner asks if the Easterner felt homesick in Europe among strangers, and the Easterner replies with ease saying he thrives on New York life.
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America
Europe
New York
Lace Border Veils In Favor For Weddings
Lace border veils remain fashionable while lace alternatives gain favor. The cap drapery offers varied arrangements from forehead frills to side wraps, often anchored by a circlet of wire and a wreath of orange blossoms. Wedding gowns stay conservative with long sleeves and Princess lines, while cap features dominate current styles. Julia Bottomley.
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Julia Bottomley
Cameos Return as Fashion Adornments For Modern Wear
Cameos are popular again for hat trimmings blouse buckles and brooches. People are using old cameos reset in fine gold or silver mounts lighter than the originals. Tiny cameos on gold chains make pretty earrings suited to daylight outfits in copper or tango red.
Velvet novelty peau de tigre velvet debut
A new silk velvet fabric named peau de tigre or leopard skin velvet is described. It features a mottled surface giving a two tone appearance. Available in plum dark blue golden brown tobacco brown taupe white and sapphire.
Handy skirt hanger from hose support and ribbon
A simple sewing tip folds a discarded hose supporter into a hanger. Sew the upper end to a two inch ribbon, attach a large safety pin at the other end, and fasten the pin through the folded skirt belt. The hanger slides over the closet hook. A supply with blue or pink ribbon makes a pretty gift.
Psyche Knot Coiffure Mix Reflects Modern Hair Trends
A fashion note surveys a modern Psyche knot hairstyle blending classical and twentieth century elements. It describes front fringe, temple rolls, wire pins, and a back coil, noting high hairstyles and colonial influences shaping future headwear fashion.
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Egypt
Noted Courtship Scene Ends With Concern for Family
A man professes spotless habits and deep devotion as a woman questions intentions. He recites virtues and claims to have never drunk, gambled, smoked, or spoken ill, while she, after a pause, urges prudence and asks to fetch her brother to escort him home for worry-free arrival.
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Tom
Traveler's Tact Leads to Unlikely Sales Spur
A Manchester commercial traveler, warned that tact had failed his predecessor, earns unprecedented orders after a bold reply to a rival firm. On returning, he explains he used tact when a key customer asked which company he represented, presenting his card and calling the rivals “blooming idiots.”
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Manchester
Eng
M. B
Rough Justice in Mexico Under Diaz
London Times recounts a harsh episode during Diaz’s presidency. A train robbery led a young officer to search every house in a southern village, execute one in forty villagers, and threaten escalating rounds of mass executions if robberies resumed. No further train thefts followed.
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Mexico
Diaz
London Times
Most Beautiful Thing In The World Prize Tale
Readers shared views on beauty with prize entries. First prize praised the eyes of a mother, second prize offered a dream of the impossible, and a humorous note claimed beauty lies in carrying a mother-in-law safely over a river without dropping her.
Fortunate India Parent Barrister Son Wins Jury’s Favor
A London Tit-Bits tale says the son of the late Lord Robson, a Northern circuit barrister, defended a man charged with a common offense in a district where Robson was active. The jury acquitted the defendant, and a juror told the young lawyer they favored him because they knew and liked his father.
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Lord Robson
Robson
London
Vaccination Against Typhoid In World War Trials
Prof. Vincent reported results from 1912 anti-typhoid inoculations among French troops in Algeria and Morocco. In western Morocco about 16 percent of the nonimmunized contracted typhoid, while only about one in 5 000 of the inoculated did.
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Algeria
Morocco
Prof
Vincent
International Medical Congress
London
Back from New York Si Aboard with Lively City Tales
Judge notes Si’s return from New York and jokes about the busy town. He mentions people walking dogs for exercise as if paid to do so, reflecting local chatter and a humorous take on urban life.
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New York
Deacon Tries to Guide Boys to Heaven at Post Office
A Boston minister to Greece recalls a tale of a deacon who asks local boys for directions to the post office. As they point the way the deacon is shocked to find the boys betting pennies, and he admonishes gambling while offering heavenly guidance. The boys retort that he does not even know the route to the post office.
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George Fred Williams
Boston
Greece
Yeas
Philadelphia Telegraph
No Use to Her Hemmandhaw Dress Article
A humorous dialogue about future fashion features a lecturer predicting dresses fifteen years ahead. Mrs Hemmandhaw scoffs at change, insisting she will keep wearing her blue velvet suit since marriage. The piece lampoons fashion cycles and domestic restraint.
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Hemmandhaw
H H
Anna Patie
Questions of Great Moment
A dialogue notes a society debating scientific questions of moment from psychic impulse in living protoplasm to molecular energy in light transmutation. After a week of sessions the group has not yet decided who is in charge.
Did It In A Polite Dispute Turn Violent
A heated exchange led Mike to try smoothing the trouble but he mangled the other man. He was then restrained by police and resulted in his own injury. The incident underscores the volatile temper involved and the authorities’ intervention.
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Mike
Airship Breach Sparks Ruth and Paul Fear
Ruth expresses fear while aboard an airship as Paul reassures her. The scene focuses on anxiety about their high altitude journey and the perceived danger versus safety.
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Ruth
Paul
Cottage Lot Sale Leads to Surprise Inheritance
A seller recalls hosting visitors with a baby at a cottage and lot sale. The baby unexpectedly claimed the property, altering the event as the infant’s future ownership emerges in a twist of fate.
Misplaced Pity in Society Circles
A brief overheard exchange reveals surprise over Mr. Jones’s situation and a rumor that his son pursued a criminal law career, reflecting social gossip and curiosity in local circles. The dialogue hints at reputations and whispered condemnations without detailing specific actions.
Improvement and shortage challenge builders
A Sage notes there is always room for improvement while a Foel laments a persistent shortage of building materials. The exchange highlights enduring demand and supply constraints impacting construction.
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