The Boy Next Door Verse Nostalgia
A reader recalls envying the boy next door for his lively play and noisy mischief. The speaker contrasts the neighbor’s chaos with calm, cleaned windows, while longing for the boy’s sounds and adventures that once filled the home with life. The piece ends with quiet reflection on lost playful energy.
Luncheon Daze Create A Web Of Double Identities
Mme Marnier scrambles to fill a lunch for thirteen when the Cortots cancel. Maxime Richard disguises Pierre Deslandes to invite a guest, and a mix up leads to letters, duels, and a surprise romance as the real Deslandes discovers his admirer Lucile Hardouin and a future marriage with her sister.
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Mme, Marnier
Maxime Richard
Cortots
Mme. Second
Maxime
Mme. Marnier
Pierre Deslandes
Richard
Mme, Mathier
Deslandes
Monsieur
Osten
M. Pierre Deslandes
Lacroix
M. Hardouin
Lucile
Mme. Hardouin
The Millionaire Palace Worth of Servants and Rules
Ainslees Magazine profile of lavish housekeeping in top estate life. It details weekly costs from two thousand to four thousand dollars, sumptuary roles for a housekeeper cook butler and coachman, and strict discipline over servants in New York Newport and Philadelphia households.
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Georgia
Newport
New York
Hermann Oelrichs
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
John R. Drexel
Clarence Mackay
Long Island
Philadelphia
Boston
Gotham
Newport House
Buckingham Palace
North Sea
Engaged Baltimore Man Tries Belt Gift Cleverly
A Baltimore man recounts his friend’s engagement and a humorous shopping moment. In a stylish shop the man asks for belts and, unable to know his fiancee’s size, borrows a yard stick to measure his arm and declares "Twenty inches" as the belt length.
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Baltimore
Westerner complains of bath charge at Coates House
A guest from the far west stayed three weeks in a room with a private bath at the Coates House. After paying his bill he told John M. Egan he believed he was overcharged, noting he was billed for daily bath use though he used the tub only once.
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Coates House
Far West
John M. Egan
Mr. Egan
Kansas City Times
Club meeting rebuke for silent members causes tears
The chairwoman sternly reminds members that only one may be silent at a time under rules and common courtesy. The rebuke unsettles the ladies, with many blanching and several bursting into tears.
Chinese court astronomer predicts 33 year war and British involvement
Russian papers quote a Chinese court astronomer as predicting the ongoing war will endure thirty three years and that Great Britain will become involved four years from now.
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Great Britain
Drug Decadent in Medicine and the Value of Fresh Air
Analysis from World's Work argues drugs and hypodermic injections can enable abuse yet have legitimate roles in disease care. It emphasizes that proper causes of disease, including environment and fresh air, are key to healing, with quinine in malaria cited as an exception where a plant-derived drug is effective.
Obstruction on Crosstown Tracks Ends Quietly
Alice Brown a 37 year old seamstress caused a traffic tie up on the Crosstown line at Bedford avenue near South Fourth street by lying on the downtown tracks shortly after 1 am. Policeman Smith and four volunteers freed the tracks and Magistrate Higginbotham ordered a suspended sentence after she apologized and claimed amnesia. Today Japan has 1500 daily newspapers and periodicals.
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Alice Brown
Bedford Avenue
South Fourth Street
Smith
Alice
Higginbotham
Lee Avenue
Brooklyn Eagle
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M. Deslandes
Alfred
Mlle. Lucile
Ainslee
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