Mystery Bride Brings Northport Stranger Home
Mrs Wrest, a quiet, elegant resident of Northport, captures attention with a striking look and devotion to charity. Peter Meredith seeks her hand but is refused, prompting speculation until a late church visit reveals her marriage to Gordon Wrest, heir to a fortune, and rekindled vows.
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Mrs
Cilia I Bangs
Mrs. Wrest
Northport
Peter Meredith
Peter
Baling Gratefel
Wrest
Eber
Mrs. Howland
Sen Te
Gordon
Editha
Gordon Wrest
Washington Man's Polling Story Reflects Racial Stereotypes
An elderly colored man visits a polling station asks the clerk for his name. He replies George Washington, sparking doubt and the clerk repeats the cherry tree question. The man denies any recent work for many years, revealing a caricature of Black voters.
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George Washin
Washington
George
The Way to Know Dogs
The article argues a single true method to understand dogs, asserting that sharing a home with both people and animals reveals personality. It claims owning a dog allows seeing faults and virtues, protecting the animal, noting wanderings, and sharing mutual affection as the test of character.
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Richard Burton
Dried Foods in China A Cook’s Skill Precedes Era
An Asian writer notes Chinese cooks possess advanced food mastery long before modern times. They prepare meals adaptable to climates, judge stock quality, and convert cheap pork into refined cuts. They also trade in perishable goods, preserving supplies to cover seasonal price drops.
Old Time Court Opening in Early Circuit Sessions
A historical vignette recalls 19th century Peoria county court scenes with shouts of oyez and a makeshift bench in taverns where judges deferred to juries. It notes spectators, jurors, and attorneys standing as judges took the bench and a judge refused to issue legal instructions, trusting jurors to do justice.
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Circuit Court
Peoria County
John Reynolds
Washington County
John
Morning Joy and Inner Hope for a Brighter Day
A hopeful note urges starting each day with joy and kindness. It celebrates inner happiness over external luck and urges forgiveness, lightening others' days with cheerful greetings, handshakes, and a positive outlook for all.
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Leslie’s
Definition of High Seas in Constitution Article One
The term high seas means open water outside any country's civil jurisdiction. The limit is one marine league or three geographical miles from shore. Even the Great Lakes beyond this limit are considered high seas.
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High Seas
United States
Great Lakes
Love Proofs in London Stray Stories
Dialogue snippet from a London stray story where a woman questions love, a man defends it by saying he cannot sleep at night thinking of her, the conversation contrasts with a father's similar sleeplessness. The exchange hints at affection and doubt in a domestic scene from the period.
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London
Cruikshank’s Long Artistic Life Examined
In 1889 the committee displaying Cruikshank’s Worship of Bacchus asked to show early drawings to prove he was not his own grandfather Chemon’s Cruikshank.
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Cruikshank
Bacchus
Chemon
Parrot Sale Prompted by Husbands Fear of Talkative Bird
A humorous court quip notes Mrs. Blinks selling a parrot that allegedly talked too much. The judge comments the bird could have encouraged her husband, highlighting the domestic comic edge of the case.
Crocodile Trials and Myths Among Dyaks of Borneo
Dyaks restrain crocodiles by revenge killings after a truce is broken by a man-eating animal. Brass ornaments are used to test the target crocodile for guilt. The article also notes myths about misfortune if food is refused and that crocodiles sometimes attack those in boats or bathing, causing cycles of retaliation.
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Borneo
Los Angeles Times
A Cumulative Test Dinner Joke at Clap ham's
The thin man praises Clapham's near his office offering dinners for 25 cents. The stout man admits to eating four of them in one day, highlighting a humorous exchange about the meals and appetite.
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Clapham’s
Fine Old Words Die In Modern Dictionaries
The piece laments the disappearance of Saxon terms like sike a brook or rill in dictionaries while noting a revival of natural language. It argues modern abstraction eclipsed simple natural words, and only recently readers seek and describe such natural terms again despite entries like sike being hard to define.
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Peter
Monument to Jack Cade at Heathfield Bogland site
Report notes a monument near Heathfield in Bogland marking the supposed escape or death of Jack Cade in 1450. It recounts the legend of Cade being slain nearby and his body sent to London with his head on London Bridge. The piece includes a railroad motto and a quip about paying in advance.
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Jack Cade
Heathfield
Cade
Wa’ Cade bySemiadue Iden
Ino
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