Bill Doyle's Night of Wealth and Illusion in New York
A sailor named Bill Doyle mingles with Wall Street dreamers at a wealthy dinner, a theater outing, and a late supper. He longs to borrow to hospitalize his sister’s child, learns Tom Grady is dead, and ends with a sobering view of wealth, champagne, and vanity.
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Bai Dorte
J. Botton Mveiner
Nassau Treet
Wall
Tou Grady
Tom Gundg Oro
Bill
Ted
Stribus
Reaves
Gunter
Dolo
Raleigh
S.c7
Doyle
Melnor
Allen
Stratton
Reeves
Dosie
Lie
Meiner
Bill Dole
Dever
Meiger
Grady
Doyte
Meiser
Tom Grady
SAXD
New York
Httle
Wall Street
Jipp
Waller
Walter
Heras
Melaor
Doria
Moelbor
Perespthoua
Metnor
Bill Doyle
Byuor
Theatres
Ike
Arlen
Bil
New Yorker
Chicago
Bull
Miss Maynart
Millie Leavin
Highife
Mike
Abe
Belut
Gardy
England
Loti
Tori Gundy
Mitch Femoves
Jearner
Parket
Front Line Views on Boer War Siege and Bayonet Use
A collection of letters and excerpts from American and British writers describe the Ladysmith siege, Boer and British battlefield actions, bayonet use by Irish and British troops, and civilian reporting. Accounts cover Modder River, Magersfontein, Belmont, and Duneide, with vivid soldier testimonies of endurance, fear, and leadership under fire.
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Nate
Suffolk
Megiaeut
Qother Hilh
Rmn
Kruger
Modder River
Sayva
Dundee
Seaforth Highlanders
Magersfontein
Black Watch
Denys Reitz
Lacrsmith
Reits
Eng- Kiahman
Dinner Quip Deflates Holmes Amid Cannibal Talk
Oliver Wendell Holmes lectured on cannibalism at a dinner with Thomas Bailey Aldrich present. Aldrich replied he would stop to pick at acquaintance with him. The remark tainted Holmes’s mood and the rest of the evening in San Francisco Argo pant.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Mr. Aldrich
Dr. Holmes
San Francisco
Saluting the Deck and Narrow Chinese Streets
The St Louis Post-Dispatch notes the shipboard saluting custom once marked by all hands upon entering a ship’s deck area while steamers reduced the practice. It also mentions that Chinese streets are reportedly among the world’s narrowest, with some passages only about three feet wide.
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St Louis Post-Dispatch
Snow Ficus and the strange snow sea-no mimic flea
The Boston Transcript recounts sightings of a peculiar snow creature described as a dying yet lively midget that swarms across snow in patches, sometimes black as ink or dark gray. William Hamilton Gibson recalls a two foot diameter dark shadow moving over thawing meadows, with a field of acres peppered by its mows.
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William Hamilton Gibson
Boston Transcript
Sermon on the Beatitudes and Christlike Life
This piece surveys the Beatitudes from Matthew, linking them to the Sermon on the Mount and the Christian life. It explains the poor in spirit, meek, hungry for righteousness, merciful, pure in heart, peacemakers, and the persecuted, with scriptural cross-references and a note on bearing suffering for Christ.
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D. Mearset
Matthew
Jesus
David
Shreben
Serac
Heaven
Christ
God
Pan
Phili ii
Memory of Hawthorne Recital at Brook Farm Fireside
Fragmented reminiscence in a Brook Farm setting recounts Hawthorne’s witty response to a playful pillow fight during an evening class recital. The scene centers on a sofa, a broom, and the vivid memory of Hawthorne’s gentle smile and grave demeanor amid laughter.
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Philow
Hawthorne
Ora Gasuert
Anaries A. Dans
Dawt
West
Ile
Rugmaiste
Eller
Mr. Hawthorne
Spreaus
Alr
Little James not Baby Stuart the popular painting myth
The article argues the portrait long called Baby Stuart is actually James, second son of Charles I, painted by Anthony van Dyck. It notes widespread misbeliefs about origin, depicts how Canevari copied the face for Rome, and urges renaming to reveal the child's sex and identity. It mentions James’s brief 1636–1701 life and notes his reputed vices and era, in a Boston Trans script style.
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Vandyke
Stuart
Gilbert Stuart
A. T. Stewart
Charles I
James
Charles
Turin
Raffaello Canevari
Academy of St. Luke
Rome
Canevari
England
St Germain
Boston Transcript
Removing a Ring and a Jeweler Explain the Method
A jeweler explains a painless method to remove a tight baby ring. Thread a strong needle with soap, pass it under the ring, then wrap the thread around the finger toward the nail and unwind. The thread presses the ring outward, freeing it without surgery. Also included is a note on Danish hospitality from a Dundee Advertiser correspondent.
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Pittsburg
Dundee Advertiser
Denmark
Scotland
Dare
Bel
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Lowell
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Tugela
St Hole
Forti
Grapan
Modder Rosx
Magersfoniein
Grorce L
Rinuer
Lesso V I
Bex
M. Stearns
Eady
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Sacok Farm
Baby Stuart
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