Margery Chase Orchestrates A Fancy Dress Charity Event
In Elwood, Margery Chase plans a stylish lighted greenery charity party at St. Chrysostom's with booths and fortune telling to aid the church guild. Miss Gerard backs the scheme, aiming to lure men and their money, while Ned Gerard arrives as a potential match, stirring town gossip and party tension.
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Margery
Elwood
St. Chrysostom’s
Miss Gerard
Miram
Ned
Rich Withal
Gerard
Margery and Ned Confront a Love Triangle at Firstanes
In a garden at Belmore Ned Gerard defies a scheming rival for Margery’s hand. A half fortune, a shattered lantern, and a dramatic blow threaten to ruin love as Miss Gerard and Edward resolve to protect the Gerard name. Three years pass before Ned earns Margery’s consent and the couple keep their private happiness.
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Belmore
Margery
Ned
Virstanes
Ned Gerard
Gerard
Miss Gerard
Personal Risks of War and Rifle Precision
The piece notes rifles with greater precision reduce hits and casualties. It compares mortality rates across conflicts from 1870 to modern Boer and Franco-German wars, citing Allied losses at Waterloo and eighteenth century battles as much higher. London Sketch comments on shifting battle tactics and lower total losses.
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Waterloo
London
French chemist quarrels over artificial diamonds
French chemist Combes challenges Henri Moissan's claim that fusing iron rich carbon yields true diamonds. He argues the crystals differ in refractive properties and notes that nature forms diamonds at low temperatures, citing Goeppert and Friedel's finding of plant remains in diamonds as supporting evidence.
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Henri Moissan
M. Combes
Moissan
Messrs. Goeppert
Friedel
Tillman Remarks On Queen Liliuokalani Race Debate
Washington lawmakers discuss a bill to grant former Queen Liliuokalani 150000 as Tillman regrets the black race prejudice and asks for a white blood strain. Lodge corrects him referencing Captain Cook as the senate roars and Tillman hints at reconsidering his vote.
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Washington
Liliuokalani
Senate
Tillman
Kansas City Journal
Senator Lodge
Captain Cook
Indians prefer costly garb over cheap clothes at trade
A tradesman learned that Indians desire the sportiest, loudest, and most costly attire rather than inexpensive garments. Christmas purchases surprised him as Indians chose the cheapest candies, arguing they ate them unseen, while clothing was visible in public. Emporia Gazette notes the contrast between hidden food and conspicuous dress.
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Emporia
Kan.) Gazette
Man struck by tree branch regains youthful mind
A Pennsylvania man struck on the head by a falling branch was left unconscious but soon regained his senses to find his mind reverted to his boyhood. Though the head wound heals, he now wishes to play and perform chores as a child again, while remaining in good overall health.
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Elizabeth Akers Allen
Pennsylvania
Boston Globe
Lost Lion Found on Cherso Island in Mernero
A public subscription funded an excavation in Triest and Irredenta regions, uncovering a finely sculptured white Istrean marble lion buried on Cherso in the Mernero islands, long believed by locals to lie there as part of St. Mark's legend.
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Cherso
Mernero Islands
St. Mark’s
Triest
Irredenta
London Globe
Ghostly Marines Haunt Japanese Coast Islands
In the context of ongoing naval conflicts in the far east it is noted that certain islands off the Japanese coast are traditionally haunted by ghosts of Japanese sailors killed in historic naval battles. The Chosen farmer believes he sees ghostly armies rising from the sea with bottomless paddles condemned to cleanse the ocean of centuries of slain.
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Far East
The Best Physic Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
Stubenrauch offers Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets praised as easy to take and pleasant in effect, marketed as the best physic for digestion and liver relief.
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Chamberlain
Stubenrauch
Dr Miles Restorative Nervine Promoted For Nervous Fatigue
A historical advertisement touts Dr Miles Restorative Nervine as a brain and nerve food. It claims the tonic rebuilds worn nerve tissue, boosts energy, and aids sleep. Endorsing letter from L Dalby cites relief from banking stress after five bottles.
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Miles
Norvine
L. Dalby
Asst
Ashler
State Bank
Toxarcana
Ark
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Dr. van Schoten
Geo. J. Thomasson
Attorney At Law
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Iowa
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Jowa
W. G. Vander Ploeg
Lippincott’s Monthly
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THE
Chicago Morning Examiner
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That City
Old Chronicle
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Ayer CO
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Chronicle
C. E. Martin
Wormhoudt’s
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H. C. Ver Ploeg
Dri Miles
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