Doppelganger Smith and the Counterpart Romance
In a comical tale from New York Weekly a clerk named John Smith is mistaken for his double after a Westbound trip. He and Alice Gordon share a budding romance until the real John Smith appears, then the mistaken arrest turns into a surprising marriage as the two cousins unite.
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Destiny
Papa
Alice
John Smith
Jupiter
Papa Gordon
Mr. Streeter
John
Streeter
Mr. Gordon
Gordon
Fivo
Alice Gordon
Smith
New York ‘Weekly
The Autobiography of a Bank Cashier excerpt
A banker advises a clerk who bungled payroll to stay at work and face consequences. The cashier recounts confessing error but learns discipline over avoiding punishment. The tale emphasizes responsibility and learning from mistakes.
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Everybody’s Magazine
A Scientist Proposes Sea Signal Code and Marriage
Lord Kelvin on the Lalla Rookh devised a signal method and tested it with Miss Crum in West Indian waters. He asked if she could read and reply to a signal, and she agreed. The exchange concluded with a marriage proposal accepted. The note adds that the typewriter is more used in Mexico than in France.
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Hell
Rochester
Junius B. Streeter
Syracuse
Lord Kelvin
Lalla Rookh
West Indian
Mexico
France
Animals With Hands and the Way They Hold Food
A Spectator piece notes kangaroos use their forelimbs to grasp cabbage and feed, with young one sharing leaves from the pouch. It contrasts lizards like chameleons and parrots with hands and feet, and observes rodents such as rats and mice using paws as holders rather than hands.
A Dictionary of Wit and Proverbial Advice
A compilation of pithy sayings from various authors on failure reasoning memory and human nature. It collects quotes from Low ell Channing Hare Emerson Cotton Steele Plutarch Amiel Rice Ben Jonson and others about failure folly usefulness and the quirks of life with a humorous tone.
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Channing
Hare
Emerson
Steele
Plutarch
Ben Jonson
Philpotts
Sir Christopher
Mary A. Mason
E. Thorneycroft Fowler
Geyser Tour Tragedy In New Zealand Claim Four Lives
A party of thirty two excursionists touring the Waimangu geyser basin in northern New Zealand faced disaster when four travelers stepped too close. Despite warnings from a guide and a mother, a woman aboard shouted she would photograph first. An eruption sent rocks mud and boiling water 500 feet high striking and washing away four travelers whose bodies were recovered miles downstream.
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Waimangu Geyser
New Zealand
Yellowstone
Chicago News
What Think Ye of Christ? Parkhurst Preaches Sunday
Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst of Madison Square Presbyterian Church preaches on What Think Ye of Christ from Mark VIII 29. He urges Christians to form living convictions about Christ, not mere an orthodoxy, and warns against stale belief that lacks daily spiritual vitality. He likens faith to a living plant needing ongoing growth and new insight.
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New York City
Charles H. Parkhurst
Madison Square Presbyterian Church
Christ
Parkhurst
Jesus
Rae
God
Calvin
R&l
God the Father
Jesus Christ
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Hebe
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Picayune
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Old Streeter
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