Frixiv's for Stoves and the Nation of Repairers
A Chicago Tribune sourced piece on stove repairs details the variety of stoves from 70,000 to 50,600 parts and the vast stock held by a leading shop. It recounts anecdotes of ignorant customers, seven-figure spare part inventories, and a humorously persistent Irish buyer who fails to identify a stove. It notes 60 stove makers and 9,000 new units per year and a large operation with four stories of supplies and patterns. The article explains customer misconceptions, fixed by catalogues, and warns about misidentification in repairs. It closes with a Vienna police note on censorship and a Toronto dealer claiming a weighty oven lock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dar O
Wyast Hormid
Ian
Srebrick
Chicago Tribune
Angel Unawares and the Baby on the Streetcar
A New York Recorder feature imagines an angelic beauty helping a baby by swapping seats with a distressed mother aboard a Sixth Avenue streetcar. The scene contrasts kindness with cruelty, ending in reverent wonder as a plain mother offers help to her neighbor.
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New York Recorder
Bulow and the World Literature Conversation
The narrator recalls Yor Bulow's wide taste in world literature and music. He mentions showing Bulow pieces by Gress Ivic and Warmonth, and Bulow’s reaction at a party as he altered a piece in his head, noting his ability to compute large numbers without a pencil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulow
Peter
Bjormstjexne
Bjorsson
Character Counts in Eight Classic Novels
A reader notes a study of named characters across eight novels by Besant Trollope Lytton Scott G Eliot Disraeli Thackeray Dickens. Names added vary from 28 in All Sorts and Conditions of Men to 101 in David Copperfield, with counts 33 42 49 89 59 66. The method excludes mere mentions and counts only those who join in action.
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Werth
Besant
Trollope
Barchester Towers
Lytton
Scott
Heart of Midlothian
G. Eliot
Middlemarch
Disraeli
Tancred
Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Dickens
David Copperfield
Notes
Gossin
Highway Holdups Stir Local Nerves
A stout man, lean companion, and reporter discuss rising highway crime. A daughter was threatened on the road, yelled for help, and escaped. a separate streetcar incident involved a mother and child and a 10 cent fare with bystanders silent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bis Fees
Ucker
St Louis Post-Dispatch
The Comic Roof Saved the Day in Cyclone Chaos
A Kansas cyclone tale recalls a low comedian in a dilapidated theater whose line about talking the roof off sparked a roar. The roof did blow away but the laughter kept panic at bay and a potential tragedy averted. Also notes Cleopatra’s Pearl tale and the myth of pearl dissolving in wine debunked by science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Madan
Jase
Eveerbodr
Rest and Work in a Humorous Muddle of Quotes
A satirical clipping jokes about a single day’s rest in a week, contrasting the editor’s sigh with a character Sandsy’s simple chores. It parodies a benevolent figure Jerrold, likening him to an umbrella held over a showering rain, skewering philanthropy.
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Jerrold
Fire Island beacon watch recounts steamer Paris rescue tale
In a dramatic night on Fire Island the lone observer at the beacon tracks a seignal from a southeast ocean craft. A green flash signals answer, the Paris steamer is in danger, and rescue crews prepare with Coston lights and lifeboats amid rising storms and crashing surf. The narrative later blends scenes of yacht regattas and a lighted signaling system guiding aid to mariners.
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Browed
Fire Island
Sse
Epark
Western Union Telegraph Office
Paris
Big Bace
Lst O
Dre
Coston
Wanderer
Eastern Yacht Club
Boston
Corinthian
American Steam Yacht Club
New York Tribune
Pearl Harbor and Pearl City panorama from Kalihi to Barthers point
A travelogue style tour describes Pearl Harbor as a grand future mid Pacific base with views from Kalihi and Barthers Point. It portrays turtles sharks and birds in surf, rice fields, cattle ranches, and Waianae hills. The piece notes Pearl City’s layout, waterworks, court house, and pineapple ranches, calling the location admirable for a future metropolis.
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Ntarks
Kalihi
Pearl Harbor
mid-Pacific
United States
Ewa
Pearl River
Kainland
Osho Railway and Land Company
Remond Grove
Pearl City
Maukin
Waianae
Barber’s Point
Waikiki
Honolulu
Diamond Head
Pear City
Explorer Reports Return From Hadramaut Tour
An expeditionary party recounts travel from Aden to Makalla and into Hadramout. They describe the region, its arid plateaus, ancient ruins, and the sultanate of Shahah, noting wartime tribal conflicts and the sultan’s enlightened leadership.
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Tarvest
Arabia
Aden
Makalla
Hadramout Yakes
Sbig
Boas Isis
Placias
S -Nole
Hadramant
Sfy
Saktan
Shite
Wwe
Lved
India
Arabias
Hadramaur
Hadremaur
Shahah
Mskalla
Westminster Gazette
Couldn't Fool Him and the Case of the Oyster Pistol Laughs
A garbled tale recounts a robbery job with a toy pistol, a boastful thief, and sarcasm from a captain and lieutenant. The piece blends street talk with comic prison bravado and ends with a moral quip about fools and law.
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Arles Johnson
Charley
Dak Auway
Darky
Kansas City Times
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Frixiv
Bayiz
Vienna
A Andrews
Toronto
Sixth Avenue
Twenty-eighth Street
E. R. Harper
Denver
The
Urs
Glononus
St Louis Giobe-Democrat
Pitebarg Dispatch
Cleopatra
Cleopsits
Sandsy
Atlants Consumnon
Firesland
Staten Sland
St Louis Amablic
Mx. Meurshi
Menygirle
St Louis Globe Democratic
de. Gansanias
New England
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Bent
Amulcanlt
Boncicauls
Chrischin
Christyen
Ehud
Polis Force
Hamlet
Covention
C. C. Wells
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Chung Say
Clar Street
Earl
Somers
Cireraron
China
Tankang Staon
San Francisco Examiner
Elkhart
Ind
Corporation
New York
Blackfish
Dogwood
Cape Cod
Sandy Hook
Beason
New York Sun
Newport
W. T. Delaplaine
Frederick, MD
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