A Turbulent Morning at the Westmacotts
The Doctor finds peace at home unsettled as Clara and Ida clash with their mother over new freedoms. Mrs Westmacott defends reform while Clara dresses in divided skirts and plans a late supper with Harold and Charles to win support for familiar change amid mounting friction.
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Clara
Oba
Tda
Papi
Adam
Fda
Chira
Desson
Phae
Harold
Charles
Admiral
Hay Denverge
Hares
Jane
Oecack
Steete Kray
Jratie
Papad
Wochock
Jamie
Quiet Home Scene Ends With Parental Woe
A stern doctor returns home to find his daughters entertaining two men with tobacco and champagne. The hall of revelry shows smoke filled rooms and littered oyster shells. He withdraws, hurt, as the girls finish the evening and announce the guests’ departure.
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Harold
Ida
Charlies
Clara
Charles Westmancott
Tara
Harghd
Phe
Jie
Squirrel in a Car Stirs Boston Commuters
A Boston Herald tale recalls a girl who climbed into an open electric car with a rescued chipmunk tucked under her cape. Passengers gawked as the tiny creature perched on shoulders and laps, provoking jokes and gasps until the car stopped and the chipmunk found a breezy end seat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Boston Herald
Chipmunk
Tricks of ancient sieges and naval ruses told
A garbled account recalls wartime ruses used against British and French forces. It cites an American warning to a British commander about a combustible device that misfired, causing a fleet to retreat. It mentions French deception with cloaked women and a daring scout who crossed enemy lines to seek aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Japan
Wales
Head of a Big Trust and Its Railroading President
Borge B Roberts, president of the Pennsylvania rail road, led the formation of the Joint Traffic association and will steer its management. He oversees over 100 feeder and trunk lines and runs all departments from traffic to law, a workload he says is nearly unfathomable. The article notes Alaska fur wealth and Sir Edward Malet’s shift to writing opera librettos, detailing disputes over a Covent Garden libretto.
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Borge B. Roberts
Pennsylvania Railroad
Joint Traffic Association
Mr. Roberts
Roberts
Aitout
Law
Sir Edward Malet
Covent Garden
Sir Edward
Much-Talked-Of Woman to Wed Ex President Harrison
Mrs Dimmick, reputed by social circles to wed ex president Benjamin Harrison, resides in New York. She was the niece of the late Mrs Harrison and greatly enhanced the White House social life during the last administration. Her popularity matched Mrs Harrison’s esteem among White House visitors.
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Dimmick
Benjamin Harrison
White House
Harrison
New York
Portrait of a Railroad President and His Gracious Spouse
The article profiles the Pennsylvan ia Railroad president, a 62 year old man who rose from rodman to chief executive over forty years, overseeing a $130 million system and traveling twice yearly in a private car while managing vast correspondence. It notes the company’s English ownership, the president’s conservative yet progressive leadership, and his late wife Mrs Harrison’s death on October 25, 1892, with support from Mrs Dimmick during her long illness.
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Board of
Roberts
Pennsylvania Railroad
Engineer Corps
England
Alaska's Furs Bring High Value This Year
Alaska Indians delivered about fifteen hundred sea otter skins to traders this year, as estimated by a trader just back in Seattle. Bear and fox furs added to the total value, running into many thousands of dollars.
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Seattle
Bells curb coyote losses for Glen Rock rancher
A Glen Rock Washington rancher belts cattle to deter coyotes. In two months since belting, none of his cattle were lost, a striking contrast to prior losses averaging one steer per day. Coyotes plague Washington and Oregon farms despite efforts to exterminate them. Poison, shooting, and roundups have limited success. wolves also trouble some regions. Coyote raids include stealing chickens and harming farmyards.
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Glen Rock
Wash
Washington
Oregon
Pope Delights In England Boy's Defiance Of Feet Kissing
An English Protestant woman and her two children gained an audience with the pope through Cardinal Rampolla. The 11 year old boy refused to kiss the pope's slipper, saying he would kiss his hand if asked. The pope praised the boy and complimented him in Italian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardinal Rampolla
England
Whitman’s plan to colonize Guatemala with quadroons and octoroons
Albert A Whitman described as the octoroon poet and evangelist proposes a scheme to colonize Guatemala with quadroons and octoroons and to establish an independent government. He dreams of a nation made up solely of what he terms the law race from the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert A. Whitman
Guatemala
Whitman
United States
Remarkable Portrait of Mme Searcon in Her Youth
The passage recalls Mme Searcon later known as mantainon style wife Veilis X1,7. It describes her as notably beautiful in girlhood with dark features and piercing eyes. Her gravity in middle life contrasted with the era's gaiety, marking an extraordinary deportment.
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Mme. Searron
de Maintenon
Veilis X1
Why They Were Drowned In The Red Sea's Ice Myth
In a Midlands Sunday school an Irish teacher, eager and zealous, claimed the Red Sea divided into icy walls to save Israelites while Egyptians drowned beneath melting ice. A pupil challenged the ice claim, prompting a humorous exchange about the equator and the presence of ice and an “oice” that allegedly melted.
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Midlands
Aera
Red Sea
Bhoys
Johnny
The Plea for Simple Romance in Modern Marriage
A nostalgic essay argues that modern life chokes romance with bustle and money focus. It urges men to value small tokens like flowers over expensive gifts, emphasizing memory and sentiment in anniversaries and daily life. It contends better understanding by husbands would improve domestic happiness more than public campaigns.
Military progress could shorten wars says Captain James
In an address to the Royal United Service Institution in London Captain James argued that modern military development would shorten war durations. He added that at battle, destruction would rise but overall combat losses would fall due to improved methods of treating the wounded.
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James
Royal United Service Institution
London
Humorous Exchanges Jump Through Time and Tongue
A collage of clipped humor from old papers shows brisk banter about debts checks identity and detective flair. Characters like Phillips Wilbur Binks and Sol Slungshot poke fun at age money and fame through pinched dialect and sly wit.
The Hungarian Telephone Newspaper News Wire
In Pesth Hungary a telephonic news system broadcasts the day’s events via eloquence talkers attached to main lines. Twenty eight editions are released daily with concerts in intervals. Wires connect to opera houses music halls churches and receivers can listen from bed or any place.
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Pesth
Hungary
No-To-Bac Helps Top Tobacco Official Quit
St Louis special report says Col William A Kirchhoff western general manager of American Tobacco Co has quit tobacco after using No To Bac medical remedy. Once smoking twenty cigars daily his craving vanished and he feels healthier, with claims of widespread cures and significant losses to tobacco makers.
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St. Louis, Mo
Col
Wm. A. Kirchhoff
American Tobacco Co
Col. Kirchhoff
Two Hundred Trains a Day at Moorgate Station
London news notes that Moorgate Street station handles about two hundred trains per hour in both directions throughout the day, illustrating heavy commuter and goods traffic across the railway hub.
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Moorgate Street Station
London
Seed prize offer promises riches for oats and corn
An advertisement proclaims $6400 in prizes on oats and corn with $200 more on oats, $100 on Silver King Barley, and $100 on Golden Triumph Yellow Dent Corn. It promotes Teosinte and other forage plants, invites readers to mail 10 cents for a free grasses and grains catalogue from John A. Salter Seed Co. in La Crosse Wisconsin.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
W.n
Ram's Horn praise and medical advertisement excerpt
A fragment describes Ram's Horn weekly praising its wide reach and nonsectarian stance, noting its office in Chicago and quotable status. It shifts to a medical ad for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills, claiming no mercury and urging buyers, followed by a religious quip about daily bread.
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Ram's Horn
Maine
Mexico
Canada
Frank Beard
Association Building
Chicago
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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Min
Sue
Hfe
Abra
Westmacott
Scott
Phiot di Pola
Des Clare Dt
Therry
Chiara
Dda
Peru
Yen Seth
International Press Association
Boston
President Roberts
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Alaska
Cook Inlet
Yukon
Mrs. Dimmick
Alaska’s
Pope
Mme. Searcon
Phillips
Wilbur
Harper’s Bazar
Indianapolis Journal
Clarence
Mr. Callipers
Little Clarence
Puck
Baptiste
Monsieur
Petiit Parisien
Sol Slungshot
Sam Sandbag
Detective Bureau
Binks
Deeff
Vin
Wawkins
Mercury
Flood
Hood’s Pills
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. We
W. L. Boudas
W. L Douglas
R. W.L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
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