Lady Caraven Sticks to Pride in Rent Dispute
In a Ravensmere estate tale, Lady Caraven pleads with Lord Caraven to spare a widow four shillings and sixpence weekly rent. He refuses, citing precedent and tenants’ rights, while she defends to him the widow’s hardship and the estate’s duties, ending in a tense clash of wills.
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Caraven
Cawnry Busine
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Ravensmere
Raoul
Lord Caraven
Arein
Caraten
Woma
Mavid
Hildred
Blantyre
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Santyre
Suserdi
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Prophecy Comes True as Cottonmouth Strikes Twice
A Galveston News account tells of a gentleman riding a path who whips a cottonmouth, which lifts and hisses. The negro companion warns of the mate, then the next day Mans Joe is bitten by two large cottonmouths along the same trail, killing him soon after. Locals fear the snake’s mate and its lethal intelligence.
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Galveston
Joe
Pemp
Tomn
Prakash
Engagement Ends After Store Visit Cash Claim
In a brief dialogue Jack questions a canceled engagement with Miss DeRibbons. Tom admits the breakup occurred after being in the same store where she works and overhearing her call for "cash."
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Jack
Trans Mississippian Exposition and wartime women topics noted
Literary notes survey journals and articles about the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha, wartime women topics in Harper's Bazar and Ladies Home Journal, and fiction in The Atlantic Monthly Harper's Round Table and Delineator. It also mentions sunstroke care guidance and demands on women nurses from Demorest's Magazine.
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Mary Roberts Smith
Appleton
Popular Science Monthly
Harper’s Bazar
Itome
Julia Magruder
Rialte
Venice
Times
Winston Chuchill
B West Clinedinsf
Lewis Coleman
Ainslee
United States Naval
Miltix
Charles Morean Harger
Middle West
Prosperi
Cuban
Spain
Jnuiy McClure
Stephen Bonsal
Bonsal
Steary C. Lea
Atlantic Monthly
Harper's Round Table
Francis Lynde
Omaha
Harper's Weekly
National Capital
Washington
Nurses In the Red Cross Hospital Rules
Women who enlist as nurses for the Red Cross hospital serve without pay unless they are absolutely without money. The conditions specify selfless service and no financial compensation for their duties.
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Demorest
Red Cross Hospital
Adirondack Mountains Booklets For Travelers
The Passenger Department of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad has issued a book titled In the Adirondack Mountains detailing resorts and a large color map with hotels, camps, and lakes. A folder with map, The Adirondack Mountains and How to Reach Them, provides complete transit and hotel information. Copies available by mail for two 2-cent stamps for the book or one 2-cent stamp for the folder, from George H. Daniels, General Passenger Agent, Grand Central Station, New York.
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Adirondack Mountains
New York Central
Hudson River Railroad
George H. Daniels
Grand Central Station
New York
Standard Dictionary praised by major papers and readers
The Standard Dictionary receives high praise from The Journal of Education and The New York Herald for completeness accuracy and typography. An advertisement promotes obtaining the dictionary via small upfront payment and installments. Coastal and inland freight lines for 1597 remain in place with Lake Superior and Lake Michigan routes handled by major steamship and car ferry services.
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the Journal of Education
Boston
New York Herald
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Lake Superior
Northern Steamship Company
Owen Line
Lake Michigan
Trans-Lake Erie
Detroit Steam Navigation Company
Cleveland
Detroit
Ashley & Dustin Line
Michigan & Ohio Car Ferry Company
Sandusky
New Patents Highlight Domestic and Industrial Innovations
A French device uses acetylene in a deck mounted generator with a mast pipe to the barrier. A Chicago woman patents an electric bathing brush with a rear battery, bristles as conductors, and a handle plate. A German garbage cart employs a metal lid and inward side gates for dump cycles. A milk can frame stands nearly horizontal with the mouth upward for pouring. Portieres on a new rod design swing from brackets with a supporting frame and curtain covering. Elevator doors use a small well lever to electrically trigger door operation as cars reach floors.
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Chicago
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