The Talent and Genius of Lucile
Lucile, a gifted seventeen year old with a delicate touch, delights friends with her playing while dreaming of Beethoven for kings and queens. Her mother, a widow who sacrificed her own career, guides her talent as Herr von Meister, a German pianist, offers to mentor Lucile in Germany. Lucile declines, choosing to care for her mother, and the two share a quiet, hopeful future while the pianist praises Lucile’s enduring genius for love.
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Lucile
Rod
Tucile
Beth Burns
Beth
Jim
Little Me
Gretchen
von Meister
Pelther
Fraulein
Kings and Queens
Merr von Meister
Beethoven
Tlerr von Meister
Mit
Germany
America
Miss
Stuay
Herr von Meister
Tuucile
Err von Meister
Lucclle
Tuelle
Herr von Melster
Luelle Lad
Buasuto Sayings Reflect Metaphoric Wisdom Across Life
Chambers's Journal presents Buasuto proverbs on life and social duty. Sayings compare meetings and mountains, patience and beasts, communal care, and indirect wisdom. A mother as drought sustainer, and shared labor with two-hand care illustrate cultural values.
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Chambers
Webster Lake May Try Simpler Name in Massachusetts
Webster residents discuss renaming Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggmanchaugbungagungamaug to Chanbunagungamaug due to pronunciation difficulties harming lakefront business. Town meeting potential to vote on an easier label for the water body and its islands.
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Webster
Mass
Chanbunagungamaug
The Wife's Allowance for College Girls and Home Life
Elizabeth Reed argues that a wife should have a personal allowance shared with her husband to sustain family welfare. She urges pre-marital money planning, notes many self supporting college girls earn funds through domestic work, and warns against heavy debt while stressing practical self-support methods and mutual financial trust.
How Some Girls Get Through College
A professor at a large Midwestern college discusses the conditions under which women work to finance their education. He notes that a girl of ordinary ability can and often does earn her way through college, though a considerable portion of work and sacrifice is involved.
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Middle West
Health and Beauty Tips for Humidity Season
The article urges embracing massage and beauty methods during humid heat. Beauty aids shrink to pocket size, while tiny rouge boxes mock expectations of full coverage. It warns worry worsens wrinkles and urges calm routines to maintain appearance throughout the season.
Preventing Flesh Through Neck Exercises
The article advises women to combat neck and chin flesh with neck stretching and head rotation exercises, noting the muscles are rarely used and benefit from daily practice. It suggests side-to-side motions, regular massage as an alternative if general exercise isn’t possible, and hints at prioritizing health and appearance by sacrificing other pleasures. The piece ends with a trivia line: the brother's favorite instrument is the trumpet.
Advice to an Ambitious Poet from Puck verse sample
Roy Farrell Greene in Puck advises poets to craft two styles. For newspaper verse select a bucolic farm scene with calm romance and bright imagery. For magazine verse embrace dreary themes, eerie ghosts, and muddled meaning to evoke a stark mood.
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Silas
Bing
Roy Farrell Greene
Puck
Quips and Quips: A Parade of Witty Bits
A collage of joke snippets from various papers captures quick quips on weather, theatre, ships, gossip, and money. Snappy one liners feature a new electric fan, sea weather prophets, a journalist not a regretter, moonshine chases, and a wealthy man fretting over buying golf balls for an expanding brood.
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Washington Star
Philadelphia
Puck
Nobb
Ohio State Journal
Brooklyn
Peru
Leutenant
Leslie
Bunker
Sugar Beet Colony Planned for Arkansas Valley
Santa Fe passenger agent Mr L Seagraves reports Colorado sugar beet district plans to settle 200 families from northern Europe near Holly by October 20 with first fifty families. Leader is expert agriculturist who praises Arkansas valley climate soil and irrigation, predicting rapid growth, high cultivation standards and eventual wealth. Beets yield 20 to 35 tons per acre, net profits vary, land values rise, with cantaloupes alfalfa and vegetables listed as profitable crops and a strong market in Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
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L. Seagraves
Santa Fe
Colorado
Europe
Holly
New Mexico
Rocky Ford
Arkansas
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Dunkards
Topeka State Journal
A School For Detectives In France
In France a graded school teaches the detective craft with eye and hand training. Pupils sketch a lit room from memory after a brief view, then describe faces and hair colors. They later identify a photographed face among hundreds and recall textures from touch in darkened rooms, even by touching jewels to name them.
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France
Broad Scottish wedding route through Glasgow fair week
In Scotland many opt for simple civil unions during Glasgow fair week as shipyard closures free time for marriage. Seventy irregular marriages occurred with couples wed before witnesses and then registered by warrants. Participants included workers, professionals, and various tradesmen, reflecting frugal, informal nuptial practice.
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Scotland
England
Glasgow
Giaggow
London Chronicle
Self-Made Man Claims Humble Beginnings
In a brisk reminiscence the speaker calls himself a self-made man noting he began life barefoot and grew into success. He insists his rise started from modest origins, stating he was not born with shoes.
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Buasuto
Lake
Elizabeth T Reed
Health and Beauty
Philadelphia Bulletin
Colon
Pittsburg
Railroad News
MR. Seagraves
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