Parrot Sparks Old Love in Fleet Way
Carrie Fairfield returns to a poor life with her parrot Zulieka, pursued by George Alberti and spurred by Genevieve Symons. Christine helps reunite Carrie with Alberti, who vows to care for both Carrie and the parrot, ending Miss Symons’ plan for marriage to Alberti.
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Carrie
O Fairfield
Genevieve Symons
Mr. Alberti
Carrie Fairfield
Genevieve
Mrs. Symons
Jenny
Mrs. Alberti
Christine
Zulieka
Caroline Fairfield
Miss Symons
Jericho
Sister Genevieve
Fairfield
George Alberti
Creture
George
Tre
Chrissy
Rulieka
Genny
Aulleka
Zulleka
Miss Fairfield
Genevieve Shan
Zuleka
Mr. Alperti
Carre
Murur
Jle
Lim
Carre Fairfield
Brittle Sister
New York Weekly
Athens Fire Provisions Lacking Warns Of Risk
In Athens Greece officials warn that despite abundant buildings the fire fighting provisions are most inadequate. The statement highlights danger to residents and property amid dense urban growth.
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Athens
Greece
French Soldier Bread And Its Historic Munition
Read of the French soldier’s bran ball loaf, its 1574 origins, weight, and daily share, plus Napoleon’s extra soup bread. Balland traces authentic French bread from Charlemagne to Clovis, warns against Viennese fermentation, and contrasts with Paris’s modern table bread.
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M. Balland
Commissariat
Henry the Third
Louis the
Napoleon
Michelet
France
Charlemagne
Clovis
Albert de Mun Das
Louis the Thirteenth
Navarre
Louis the Ourteenth
Paris
Faculty of Medicine
Galen
la Reynie
Wally
Brance
New York Post
Saving a Comrade: Terns Rescue Wounded Bird
In Thomas Edwards journal as quoted by Smiles, a wounded tern is shot by the naturalist. The flock responses with cries, then two unwounded terns lift the injured bird from water, ferry it toward safety on a rock, others join, and they guard the prize as the observer retreats.
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Mr. Smiles
Thomas Edwards
A FoE to Fussiness Miss Jane Cummings Corrects Shirt Pleats
In Lewiston Journal style a sharp titled vignette recalls Miss Jane Cummings who boisterously critiques her niece Esther and Uncle Caleb's laundry habits. Jane expends effort on ironing vexations while Esther fears a nervous breakdown and a misfitting shirt pleat dispute ends with a schoolyard joke about grammar and folly.
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Jane Cummings
Esther
Uncle Caleb
Lewiston
Wise Words on Duty and Kindness Across Thoughtful Quotes
A collection of meditative maxims on bearing burdens with courage and patience. It contrasts Seneca and Coleridge ideas with Amiel and Emerson, urging action now, skepticism's limits, and the belief that duty resides within the mind.
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Seneca
Henry Coleridge
Amiel
Courtroom farce over a witness age query
A San Francisco Chronicle item recounts a courtroom exchange where a witness’s age of sixty nine is mangled with a Yiddish term umbesehrien and other pronunciations. The judge, attorneys, and doctor commentator Dr. D. D. Lustig all react as the mispronounced answer challenges the line of questioning.
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D. D. Lustig
Iribeschrien
Sanrancisco Chronicle
Sculptor completes large Kruger bust at Saargemund
From Strassburg comes news that a large bust of the late President Kruger, intended to mark his grave in Pretoria, has been completed by a sculptor at Saargemund in Lorraine.
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Strassburg
Kruger
Pretoria
Saargemund
Lorraine
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