Late to Bed and Rise Claim Brains Grow with Night Work
John A. Scott of Northwestern University argues night workers are the brainiest, as work after sunset yields the best results. He credits artificial light advancing human progress, noting candle oil gas and especially electric light sparked the most productivity in the past fifty years, per Worcester Telegram.
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John A. Scott
Northwestern University
Worcester Telegram
Eyes of a Fair Texan? A Lyrical Note from Chicago
A playful verse from the Chicago Tribune muses on a woman’s eyes lips and charm. The speaker compares eye color hair shade and the kiss while confessing longing and the thrill of near-recognition before arrival of the beloved.
Guests Reluctant To Go At Lenox And Harvard
May guests at Lenox and Harvard Hotel linger through May as sunshine and scenery draw crowds. The piece lists numerous visitors from Philadelphia Pittsburgh New York Boston and Massachusetts towns. A Boston Herald anecdote about a department store crowd illustrates morbid curiosity and misperception.
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New York
Albert D. Winfield
Patterson
N.J
D. Kursner
Germantown
E. N. Raynor
Champaign
Lewis Hunt
M. D. Hunt
A. S. Hunt
Lexington
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Conan
Constance Vancelain
Rosemont
E. H. Mahoney
Boston
Geo. $. Hurlburt
Geo. R. Howe
East Orange
N. J
James Phelan
P. Lenox
Lenox
Lyon
Mags
C. W. Burkett
Raleigh
Louis Sturcke
Kier Mitchell
Pittsburg
J. le Roy Beech
Alice B. Beech
New Milford
F. D. Knowles
S. O. Amidon
Worcester
Charles F. Barnes
Medford
Ida Merrill
Newton
A. M. Cushing
Springfield
Boston Herald
An Unintentional Offense
A comic page stenographer pricks a gum misunderstanding when a London landscape architect asks for a little of her gum. the miscue prompts a polite exchange about mucilage in an American context. The scene unfolds beside a publisher's office, highlighting cultural wordplay and social etiquette.
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New York Evening Post
Rip Van Winkle Tale Stirs Western Reader
A Joseph Jefferson held Rip Van Winkle in a Western town, where an Irish hotel porter, acting as clerk and helper, roused him at six in the morning. Jefferson demanded an explanation, and the Irish porter whispered that the actor slept twenty years and must be evicted to free the sleeping guest.
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Joseph Jefferson
Rip van Winkle
Jefferson
Mike
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