GREELEY AND STANTON RIVALRY IN SUFFRAGE TALE
The piece recounts Horace Greeley and Elizabeth Cady Stanton clashing over woman suffrage highlights. It notes personal respect despite political combat and cites a Tribune nickname shift for Stanton. It ends with a Patagonian anecdote about a French adventurer and a chief using a piano bedstead.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Horace Greeley
Horace
Mrs. Stanton
Mr. Greeley
New York
the Tribune
Enry B. Stanton
The
Tribune
A Use For Old Pianos
A Labrador tribe reportedly fashioned barrels stolen from a wrecked ship into practical uses. The fragment hints at a remote coastal tale describing repurposed pirate loot by indigenous people.
Generous Scotsman Treats Kin in London
A Scotsman and his seven family members visited a London relative who hosted two weeks of theater meals cab rides and country outings. On departure the host reached for his wallet but was stopped by Sandy who proposed a final toast with the last nip via a toss, praising their generosity.
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London
McPherson
Sandy
Success Magazine
Stranger praises sketch by young magazine illustrator in New York
An automobilist visits a cottage, sees a penciled drawing by a child, and learns the boy has been a magazine illustrator in New York for ten years. The woman explains the boy is her son, currently living and working in New York.
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Romise
New York
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Typhoon Structure and Speed From Manila Times
The Manila Times explains that a well formed typhoon has a calm center ring of light winds, a main destructive core 200 to 1000 miles wide, and a warm path from east origins. It notes south to north intensity differences and cites the Cantabria cyclone of 1905 with gusts up to 103 mph and a moving scourge at 12 mph.
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China Coast
Vga
eTys Bodas
West Indies
Cantabria
Manila
Famous Kisses Ended Wars and Shaped History
The New York Press recounts famed kisses that altered events and cost lives. Examples include Duchess of Devonshire funding votes with a kiss in 1784, Duchess of Gordon aiding recruits, and Ingeborg kissing a poet for aid, among others that sparked small crises and broader conflicts.
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Wheuave
Westminster
Duchess of
Devonshire
Gordon Cie Iment
Duchess of Gordon
Louis XL
Ingeborg
Valdelbo
Seeera
Ferdinand
Bavaria
Thyra
Rons
New York Presa
Smart Boy and the Waistcoat Ransom
A London Answers column recalls a ten year old boy George who avoids revealing his family's cash to a mugger by claiming it is hidden in an old waistcoat in the back kitchen. The tramp leaves noting the boy’s smart silence. A second item notes Robert Lowe later Lord Sherbrooke being nearly blind while reading, his nose touching the page.
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George
London
Robert Lowe
Lord Sherbrooke
Oxford
Lowe
Tolstoy learns mercy after horse beating tale
Tolstoy recounts a boyhood moment when he beat a slow horse Timofevitch owned by peasants. A servant urged mercy, comparing the horse’s age to human years. Tolstoy dismounted, apologized, and since then has shown pity to horses and remembers Timofevitch when he sees a horse treated.
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Tolstoy
Timofevitch
Johnny's Triumph
A public school teacher explains income to students then assigns a sentence about the word. Johnny heads to the board with effort and delivers a misheard line about a cat, reflecting a humorous classroom moment as students react to his garbled reading.
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Johnny
Mack
Lemon Tart Recipe Question Sparks Page Banter
In a playful exchange on the women’s page, the editor teases a reader’s query about making a lemon tart, noting the fruit’s supposed lack of tartness while holding up the submitted communication for amusement.
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Hed
Better Than Good Looks
The piece extols plain faced men whose quiet humanity wins enduring friendship over more gifted companions. It praises those who avoid wit yet offer steady, genuine character as the true measure of value in companionship.
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de Tonnant
Patagonia
Chas. K. Spaulding Log. Co
C. B. Cummings
C.B. Cummings
Newberg, Or
Yamhill Electric CO
M. J. Nash Co
E. W. Hudson
Newberg Manufacturing and Construction Co
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