The Manicure Girl in a Bowery Wedding Plot
A Belveigh manicure girl narrates a clever con involving a young man, a rich older suitor, and a theatrical ruse. She orchestrates a staged scene at Charley’s to reveal Grace’s romance with Mr Hardy, while outwitting Grace’s mother and securing a wedding invitation through a high-spirited evening of deception.
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Hotel Belveigh
Cassie Chadwick
Hippodrome
Billy
Mr. Neverdie
Bessie
Heaven
Passay
Vandercashes
Grace
Hardy
Belasco
Grandpa
Sheba
East Side
Bessie Bright
Charley’s
Mr. Passay
Mr. Hardy
Mother
Frank
Young Hardy
Belveigh
Wiliams
Williams
Narragansett
Park Row
New York
Bowery Way
Paris Hoax Delights as Politicians Fall for Fake Centenary
A French paper duped 15 senators and 9 deputies into praising a fictitious author Hegesippe Simon claiming centenary honors. The hoax exposed gullible politicians who accepted tributes and blind invitations, prompting France to laugh at their error and advise greater scrutiny of aides.
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Paris
John Regan
Hegesippe Simon
France
Indian Ghost Story in a Navajo Portrait Mystery
In Albuquerque an artist recalls Navajo visitors who believed a deceased medicine man's soul lingered in a framed portrait. They urged its destruction to release the spirit. the artist tore the print, and the six men expressed silent approval before departing.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Karl Moore
Leslie
New York Writer Jewett Hosts Luncheon at Players Club
Rutger Jewett, the New York literary figure, held a luncheon at the Players' Club in Germany Park. A guest was playfully teased when a long ominous envelope was produced, later revealed as an elegy rejected by Scribbler's editor. Jewett commented that poetry is on the decline.
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Rutger Jewett
New York
Scribbler’s
All Prefer Man as Boss In Chicago Opinions
A Chicago survey finds unanimity that workers prefer male bosses. A middle aged advertising man says men are solid and businesslike, while a woman is temperamental. A young woman artist and a student also favor male bosses for efficiency and respect.
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Chicago
Water Has Peculiar Action Lakes Petrify Items in Ireland
An Irish lake allegedly petrifies objects by coating them with a stone layer dissolved in the water. A cutlery firm tested wood sinking it with weights and buoys. after two weeks the wood hardened, then became as hard as flint. They later produced razor bone from wood at a certain petrifaction stage.
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Ireland
Paper as Greatest Invention and the Paper Making Revolution
The author credits paper making with fueling the spread of literature and enlightenment, arguing movable type did not drive printing. While Gutenberg and others are noted for printing history, the piece emphasizes paper’s central role, noting Romans used types but required paper for widespread print. Wood pulp paper innovation expanded literature beyond rag paper.
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Gutenberg
Not Work of One Inventor in Moving Pictures History
The text traces evolving development of moving pictures from Plateau’s 1833 phenakistoscope to the 1893 kinetoscope. It notes many contributors including Plateau, Muybridge, Peynaud, Friese Greene and Evans, and the 1888 ribbon film, 1890 ten-exposure cameras, culminating in Edison’s kinetoscope.
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Plateau
Ghent
Muybridge
Peynaud
France
Friese, Greene and Evans
Edison
Forty Five Minutes Under Water
The article explains that the whale is a mammal not a fish and must surface for air. It describes how whales can stay submerged about 45 minutes, and how heated air released at the surface appears as vapor or a spout.
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Methuselah
Tiffany's
Maxine Elliott
Jack
Jardian
Una
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Singer
Indiana
Antique
Irish Lake
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