Ashleys Triumph The Happy American Peasant Love
New England artist Jack Ashley wins a 5000 interstate prize with The Happy American Peasant a scene of a Negro banjo player and a quiet North Carolina town. He falls in love with Alice Holley daughter of rich Holley plans a portrait to win her hand and marries in Philadelphia while Moorland the roommate schemes and teases, dream of a cottage on the hill.
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Jack Ashley
New England
Alice
Olley
Ned Moorland
Moorland
Jack
Miss Holley
Ley
Ned
Mise Holley
Besdes
Ash
Ashley
Washley
Boston
Alice Holley
Holley
Robin
Common Court
North
Philadelphia
Mr. Ashley
Ike
Grand Duke Charles Objects To Dueling After Dinner
The Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, uncle to the Kaiser, voiced strong disapproval of dueling. At a banquet with the Prussian cavalry regiment bearing his name, he questioned a scarred officer who boasted of sixteen duels and derided him with the remark What a fool.
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Ductin
Charles
Saxe Weimar
William
Kaiser
Psian
Ironic quip about telephone operators’ roles
A man laments idle curiosity about why most telephone operators are women. The misanthrope suggests the job fits women because it lets them have the last word, a remark attributed to the Washington Star.
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Washington Star
Centenary Idea Marks Stovepipe Hat’s Paris Arrival
Next year will mark 100 years since the stovepipe hat entered fashion in Paris. The tall crown silhouette spread through stylish circles, shaping headwear trends across Europe and beyond.
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Commis Vee
Paris
Frank J James Joins Express Service to Guard Bullion
Frank James, brother of Jesse James, accepts a guard role for express cars in the southwest. He agrees to meet train robbers and fights to protect a $20,000 death benefit for his family. The former outlaw says he will die protecting the money and his life if needed, awaiting the express company’s decision.
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Frank James
Jesse
Expres
Jesse James
Ford
Ign
Expressmen
Kansas City Times
1¢ Girl and Her Vocation
Advice from Mrs A D T Whitney on choosing a vocation for girls urges self assessment of capacity opportunity and need. It cautions against pursuing a path for status or pleasure and warns against crowding others out of work by entering crowded fields. The piece urges patience study and aligning work with real need rather than personal vanity.
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A. D. T. Whitney
Pen Points on Labor, Love, and Social Gaps
A compact column urges care in choosing materials and minds the gap between law and behavior. It quips that dualities like "if" and "but" reflect hesitation, warns of moral distance between pulpit and pew, notes the world owes a living yet the laborer bears the bill, and asserts there is work for every man though some outsource it.
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Ede
Uncanny Spot in Arizona's Superstition Mountains
The San Francisco Call recounts legends of the Superstition Mountains in Arizona as a haunted realm. Indians tell of swinging stones, entangling ghost trees, witches caverns, and ghost processions along canyons. Tales describe panthers guarding a castle peak, moonlit gulches, and giants in a valley, all framed as natural yet terrifying phenomena.
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Arizona
San Francisco
Red Man
Husted Thermometers Report Deep Earth Heat Probe
Prof. A Agassiz conducts observations in the Calumet and Hecla nine near Lake Superior to determine how temperature rises toward the earth’s center. Thermometers placed in deep holes reveal advancing heat as depth increases.
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A. Agassiz
Calumet
Heclanine
Lake Superior
St. Gothard Tunnel
Lord Kelvin
St. Gothard
Agassiz
Calumet and
Hecla
Popular Science Monthly
Italian Antiquities Smuggled to Paris Spark Italian Law Action
The Louvre missed a €20 000 offer for an Italian Greek silver collection found by Sig di Prisco a Hoaco Reale. The Italian education minister has invoked the Pacca law to prosecute the landowner and any officials aiding illicit export of antiquities.
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Louvre Museum
Paris
Italy
London News
Sighi Prisco
Hoaco Reale
Sig. di Prisco
Louvre
Nion
Singing Battalion Brings Multinational Grace to Salvation Army
The Salvation Army unveils its Singing Battalion, an all women officer choir from the Western division based in Chicago. Members wear native country costumes and sing in their languages to reach foreign workers in Indiana Michigan and Wisconsin. The international crowd gathers, with Swedes Poles and others engaging in dialogue and song at concerts.
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Salvation Army
New York
Singing Battalion
Chicago
Japan
Russia
Roumania
Sweden
France
Scotland
Holland
Turkey
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ings
Fone
Mylassie
New York Journal
Superstition mountains pry night visions and eerie echoes
Expeditioners are warned of peril and wonder in the Superstition mountains where the night reveals eerie shrieks from canyons and shifting rock, a moonlit journey offering infernal ambiences, strange lights and a castle-like rock formation, with danger from falls and serpents.
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