A Mock Bride of Windham's Minister Unmasks a Village
The Windham village watches a young pastor seek to build a new church while women scheme for a minister's wife. After a staged marriage the truth emerges when Mrs Bancroft is revealed to be a life-sized wire figure used to raise funds and show the farce.
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Kimbal
Bancroft
Saxton
Deacon Saxton
Mr. Bancroft
Mrs. Bancroft
Gilbert Bancroft
Windham
North Walpole
Milly Saxton
Ezra
Milly
Pearls of Thought Musings from a Cynic in The Times
A compilation of aphorisms on virtue honesty pride and human foibles from Musings of the Gentle Cynic in the New York Times. It muses on appearances generosity restraint relationships and the oddities of behavior and motive.
Wanted One Mourner Will Clause Takes Shape
A judge sized up a peculiar will draft in which En Peck bequeaths all to his wife but with the condition she marries within a year. He explains he wants somebody to be sorry that he died, a motive voiced in a humorous Argonaut item.
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Enpeck
New York Park Bowl ing Green Charted as 260 Year Old
Bowl ing Green in New York City is identified as a 260 year old public park and the historic playground of the first Dutch settlers.
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New York City
Bowling Green
Old Crooks and the Bertillon Camera Tactics
George Koestle of Cleveland's Bertillon bureau explains crooks on camera. He notes first timers resist photos while old offenders accept it. women trigger more resistance and require a gentler approach. He describes a system of pictures, measurements, and fingerprints matching evolving crime methods.
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George Koestle
Cleveland
Ohio
Bertillon
Keestle
Wolves Driven From New York in 1828 Drive
In 1828 wolves in Tioga County New York were so pestsilent that Richford Berkshire Candor Union and Lisle formed a committee to drive them beyond the Susquehanna River. Anthony M. Tyler and Horace Gates led the effort with volunteers, dogs guns and cow bells marching in a half moon pattern from Hartford Mills toward Hunt's Corners and Slaterville.
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Gates
Tioga County
New York
Richford
Berkshire
Candor
Union
Lisle
Susquehanna River
Anthony M. Tyler
Horace Gates
Maine
Hartford Mills
Hunt's Corners
Slaterville
North Richford
Pennsylvania
Newark Valley Herald
Sir John Millais and the Tay Photo Challenge
In a Scots encounter near the River Tay Millais, painting “Chill October,” is invited to try photography by a watcher. Millais declines, then concedes photography may speed the work, while the critic quips that photos could beautify the scene too.
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Sir John Millais
The
Tay
Miklais
Everybody's Magazine
German Restaurant Spelling Delights Diners
A New York Press note highlights a German owned restaurant where the proprietor writes menus phonetically by ear. Daily specials include bied smells keedney stew and backed shade and even Brander Matthews and President Roosevelt would enjoy the unintended devotion to spelling.
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Reformed Spelling Board
Brander Matthews
Roosevelt
New York Press
London Church Bells Muffled on Weekdays to Ease Noise
Reports say church bells in parts of London are muffled during weekdays to curb nuisance and reduce disturbance in busy quarters. The change affects routine ringings and aims to lessen street noise affecting residents and traffic.
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London
Meriden Man John Billard Like His Father in Quiet Demeanor
An anecdote from Meriden about John L. Billard and his father, noted for keeping secrets. The elder Billard’s keen knowledge of others finances leads to a famous quip: when asked how much someone left, he replies they “left it all,” underscoring his understated humor.
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Billards
John L. Billard
Meriden
John
Boston & Maine
John Billard
Joel
Boston Transcript
American Beauty, Intelligence Weigh In From Gustave Eberlein
The Washington Star quotes Gustave Eberlein in New York praising American women's beauty and intelligence while noting a tendency toward over-positivity and overconfidence. He recounts a shipboard encounter and a luncheon moment, ending with a child’s innocent question about maternal opinion.
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Gustave Eberlein
New York
Glass in Knee Eleven Years Later
E M Bevins Milford Mass telephone exchange manager had a small diamond shaped glass piece removed from his right knee. He previously injured his knee when pushing through a glass cookie can at a grocery, a cut that was sewn and healed soon. A lump developed under the skin prompting F K Sally to lance the knee and extract a piece of window glass about half the size of a cent.
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E. M. Bevins
Milford
Mass
Mr. Bevins
F. K
Sally
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Ladies’ Society
Fnally
New York Times
Wolves
Washington Star
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