Love Matches of Royalty
Henry Archduke of Austria falls for a theater actress and marries her, forfeiting his army life. The Emperor Francis Joseph forgives and elevates the actress to nobility, showing how royal blood and titles shift under love and mercy.
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Hapsburg
Austria
Heinrich
Judas
Nttle
Henry
Archduke of
Hehbry
Francis Joseph
Elizabeth
Hungary
Archduke
Buddé-Pesth
Littie
Emperor
Baroness Weideck
Presto
New England Home Magazine
Morganatic marriages loom in theater and history
The text explores stage careers and gender roles, noting an actress rising from ingenue to principal while weaving in discussions of notable marriages within the Hapsburg line. It reflects on how morganatic unions are portrayed as causes of tragedy and social restriction across eras.
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Tien
Avery Peri
Henry
Austria
House of Hapsburg
German Progress Berlin Leads Population Rise in Europe
Berlin has grown faster in population than New York over the last thirty years, with Hamburg tripling its size in a century’s final quarter and Cologne doubling between 1880 and 1890. Eastern farmers move west as wages rise and hours shorten, while emigration slows. Municipal improvements accompany rapid urban expansion.
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Germany
America
Berlin
New York
Hamburg
Cologne
Leipzig
San Francisco
London Telegraph
Hog Reappears After Three Months Without Water
August Rougeaux, a farmer near Saltsbury, lost a prized hog last September. Three months later, while near a haystack, he found the hog alive under the pile, having lived on scraps and bit of fodder, reduced to a skeleton.
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August Rougeaux
Saltsbury
Rougeaux
Greenaburg
Preacher Charles Harvey Dies After Prophesying End
Indianapolis minister Rev. Charles Harvey told his congregation in Eaton he would not preach again. He felt well yet warned of imminent death and fell ill with a malignant fever that carried him to his grave the following Saturday.
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Charles Harvey
Eaton, Indy
The Editor Meets His Match in a Rejected Heiress
In a Tombatloid Magazine tale, a young editor pleads to wed heiress Bromo Moreyton who coldly rejects him. She reveals her alias Roxine Raditor, the poetess, whose verses he has long refused, ending with her dramatic exit.
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E Tombatoeid
Bromo Moreyton
Bromo
Lombstone
Roxine Raditor
Kate Masterson
Why We Sit on Tabieca
A satirical essay from The Criterion mocks men who sit on tables and blames table sitting for social friction. It humorously argues womenPolite quips about furniture use and table magnetism, ending with a mock observation on chair morality and temper control.
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Tabieca
Problem of Coal Supply and Naval Logistics
This excerpt from Engineering Magazine discusses the strategic implications if the American Flying Squadron cannot coal at sea. It weighs risks of seizing a base for colliers against potential ship losses and convoy defense, and envisions a design where each collier can coal underway under way.
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Spain
Mentally Deficient Children and School Needs
E R Johnstone vice principal of the Training School for Feeble Minded Children told the New Jersey Association for the Study of Children and Youth that fifteen percent of all school children are partially deaf and that every public school houses at least one mentally deficient child. He urged the need for suitable teachers who understand their responsibilities and asserted such teachers are born, not made.
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E. R. Johnstone
New Jersey Association For the Study of Children
Mr. Johnstone
How Soldiers Fight: Harsh Tactics and Duty in Battle
An excerpt discusses cold battlefield tactics for infantry. It encourages killing when weapon effectiveness is limited and stresses focus on destroying opponents over protecting oneself, citing a grim “How Soldiers Fight” as the source.
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Oie
The Woman He Loved and the Vanderbilt Marriage
New York social note recounts Grace Wilson, later Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., whose high profile romances and marriages among elite families captivated New York. It traces her roots, engagements to Cecil Baring and the Marquis of Ava, and her eventual union with Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., highlighting public interest and restrained choices.
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New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Vanderbilt
Grace Wilson
Richard T. Wilson
Napoleon
Col
John Jacob Astor
Cecil Baring
London
Miers
Marquis of Ava
Polly Deserved His Cracker Parrot Helps Foil Home Burglary
A Philadelphia writer recounts how a parrot named Polly thwarted three burglars who entered through a front parlor window. The bird’s alerting cry prompted Mr. Fister to arms as lights came on and the intruders fled after a gunfight on the stairs. Polly remained in her cage as the stand‑off ended.
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Philadelphia
Polly
Frank
Mr. Fister
Vanderbilt Heiress and Son Die Hard Family War in Paris
The tale recounts Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr and Miss Wilson defying his father to marry in Paris. The elder Vanderbilt disinherits him, and the child’s birth fails to soften the grandfather. Alfred Vanderbilt helps secure a portion of the estate while Mrs. Cornelius Jr. remains neutral. The narrator ends with a domestic animal image and a question from a bird.
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of Dufferin
France
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Yale
New York
Wilson
Cornelius
Paris
Continent
Mr. Vanderbilt, Sr
Miss Wilson
Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Interests
Alfred
Cornelius, Jr
Side Lights on Rhodes Fondness for Old Things and Dutch Arts
Rhodes loves old Dutch objects and antique furnishings at Grootschur in South Africa. He is half Boer yet admires Dutch arts, reads typewritten translations of classics, and cherishes Gibbon, Carlyle, and Reynolds, owning a Sir Joshua Reynolds painting.
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Rhodes
South Africa
Grootschur
Froude
Carlyle
Gibbon
Vanity Fair
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua
Victor Smith
New York Press
Pinching Bodies Trap Insects on Brazilian Flower
A Brazilian climbing plant uses flat horny plates above nectar cups called pinching bodies. When a insect probes the nectar, the plates pinch it, forcing it to carry pollen or lose its proboscis. Insects may also have legs or noses caught. Only bumblebees usually escape amputation.
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Brazil
Famine Threatens U S Paper Mills Over Wood Pulp Shortage
A Chicago Inter Ocean summary notes a national crisis as wood pulp supplies run low. Industry leaders meet at the Great Northern hotel to discuss substitutes and prevent mill shutdowns while labor and Canada supplies tighten, with March to May flagged as riskiest.
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Chicago
Inter-Ocean
United States
Great Northern
A. D. Schaeffer
Hartford City Paper Company
Sault Ste. Marie
Canada
Wisconsin
Michigan
Pineries
Quebec
Middle West
J. C. Brockelbank
Manufacturers’ Paper Company of
New York
Rookery Building
William Schaeffer
Remy
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Archduke Henry
Moxtie Radimetor
The
Grace Wilson Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt JR
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