Miserable Aunt Sees All Through Blue Spectacles
In a Chicago Inter Ocean item a lugubrious aunt consoles ill friends with foreboding tales of untimely deaths. Her sister, aging yet healthy, marks a birthday and receives a somber birthday message noting grim observations and cautious wishes for many happy returns.
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An amusing exchange features a famous actress quizzed by a burglar who claims to steal jewels. She dismisses the interruption, noting a press agent arranged a visit until 2 o clock, while the intruder is an hour ahead of her.
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Bailing it Down
A one year married couple quarrels over a goodbye kiss as the husband hurries to catch a train. The wife pleads for a longer farewell, recalling happier early days and the time it took him to say goodbye. Tears mark their moment as the clock ticks.
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Good Eye Water Mix Promoted by Apothecary Claim
An old ad text touts a homemade eye wash called Good Eye Water for sorc eyes or Hds. It prescribes mixing boracic acid, tannic acid, cimphor water, and white wine to form a coracele solution, with ingredients cheap and purchasable at the apothecary.
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Detregt Frege Press
A Romance of the Long Ago in English Civil War Hideaway
John Gaunt, a young cavalier in disguise as a peasant maid to escape Puritan pursuers, hides with Lady Esther Sisil. He is betrayed, suffocated by a failed ventilator door, revived, and eventually escapes to France. Gaunt later returns with Charles II and regains his title and estates.
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Native Inns in Japan Shoe Removal and Vestibule Customs
A Kansai City Times excerpt describes native inns in Japan with a roofed vestibule, earthen door, raised platform, shoe lines, umbrella cupboard, and a clock. Guests remove shoes on arrival, with attendants guiding entry and bowing greetings. Some regulars bring over-shoes to protect interiors.
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Kansag City Times
The Secret of Coffee Strength Across Regions
The text argues coffee strength lies in using more coffee rather than boiling. It contrasts European tastes with German, Austrian, American, and South American methods, noting English cooks expect a tablespoon of ground coffee per cup. It also critiques French cafe au lait and mentions bitterness from chicory.
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Austria
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Full Many a Flower
Aunt Lindy brings her three grandchildren to show your mistress. The children wear catty co smocks and are named after flowers Gladiola Helil otrape and Arthofeini by Lindy. The New York Post 기록
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Puzzle of Mrs Alden's children stumps classroom
A New York Post snippet shows a teacher asking Anna and Ange to solve a math riddle about Mrs Alden and her five children. The line compares seven more children and asks how many she would have, prompting a simple arithmetic answer.
Physician Faces Dental Procedure With Calmed Demeanor
A famed surgeon visited a dentist for a tooth extraction and related work. He expressed concern over pain, but the dentist reassured it would be as painless as any surgical operation. He hurried to the door, recalling an appointment with a patient.
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Indianapotla News
Two Husbands and Humorous Views of Business Couples
A humorous excerpt from The American Magazine by James Montgomery Flagg contrasts the American business husband with the English one. The American husband is praised for affection and moneyFocus while described as limited in intelligence and easily distracted by scraps and valuables. The English husband is depicted as steady, hunting minded, and uninjured by small domestic strains, with light satire on patriotism and social manners.
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James Montgomery Flagg
Hove
Fragmentary dialogue hints at romantic entanglement
A garbled dialogue snippet shows characters Miss De Kor and Rostum discussing known relations with Miss De Kor, while Van Swain and Yao Swain exchange terse lines about engagement and truth. The text is incomplete and lacks clear context.
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Fragmentary Proverb Fragments From The Faydr Archive
Disjointed OCR text quotes a proverb about great men and leadership, with mangled punctuation and stray phrases. The readable bits reference phrases on relying on great men and the world’s raise or rise, but the surrounding context is missing.
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