Surprising Beach Intrigue Unfolds Between Dallas Kin
At a seaside gathering in Dallas, the Widow Pootle and Colonel Sam Dallas maneuver to foster a pretend romance between widow and Pootle, while Victor and May share a tender sea-side moment. May confides to Sheeba about a possible imagined mother, stirring quiet tension and questions of memory.
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Dallas
Gansett
Dallases
Winston Dallas
Winston
Leroyd
May
Winnie
Lerord
Shevba
Adar
Sheeba
Sheeha
Isis
Amy Darling Sheeba
Sam Dallas
Victor
Siepertson
May Morris paints as schemes unfold at Dallas house
In a sunlit Dallas seaside parlor May Morris finishes a painting while Colonel Dallas and guests plan a trip to Europe. Victor Leroyd, Winston Dallas, and Widow Gertrude Gansett navigate flirtations, plots, and a staged marriage proposal as the household wades through a summer of cards, schemes, and shifting loyalties.
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May Morris
Dallas
Srn
Victor Leroyd
Jonas Pootle
Winston Dallas
Victor
May
Shrewsbury
Mr. Pootle
Winston
Sheeba
Pootle
Winston Dulles
Mr. Footle
Colonel
Ainting
Sheebs
Amelia
Leroyd
Miss Morris
Europe
Atlantic
London
Paris
Mrs. Gansett
Fire Making Through History and West Point Riding
The piece describes pre match fire making methods from flint and steel to sun lenses, and details Theodore Roosevelt era views on West Point equitation training. It covers cadet routines from rigorous medical entry tests to years of bareback practice, saddle discipline, and transitions to various riding styles. It notes born horsemen from the West and Southwest and calls for broader saddle exposure before graduation.
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Homer
Thibet
William Gill
Theodore Roosevelt
Gymnasium
West Point
Cavalry
Academy
Military Academy
Kentucky
Lexington
New England
McClellan
Army
California
Charles Kiya
U. 8
Colonel Dallas and May Morris Betrothal Plot
The Colonel wins a card game and then contemplates a betrothal involving May Morris and Victor in a subplot with Pootle Winston and Mrs. Gannet. Victor and Sheeba arrange a plan to send May on an ocean trip with the betrothed couple while keeping Colonel Dallas unaware.
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Jonas
Victor “O
Liss Morris
Sheeba
Boarborous Surgery and Its Harsh Aftermath
A New York Graphic piece describes a microscopic view of treated skin showing how close shaving removes hair and skin layers. It notes exposed nerves and vessels cause tenderness, making the face susceptible to colds hoarseness and sore throat.
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Boarborous
New York
The Mean Old Hen Delays an Omelette in Mexico
In a Mexican mining town the owner’s wife visits the hen house with despair after each visit. The superintendent asks what’s wrong and learns the hen will not yield the final egg. She frets at the hen’s delay while the egg is eventually laid.
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New York Sun
Berlin to Washington congress of Americanists meeting plans
The Congress of Americanists in Berlin voted to meet in Washington in 1800. Across Germany experiments with India rubber in paving emerge in Berlin and Hamburg with the Goethe bridge cited as successful. The Export Society of Germany funds the Floating Exhibition Palace of Germany and a Kaiser Wilhelm ship project, with costs and potential returns outlined.
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Congress of Americanists
Europe
Berlin
Washington
Germany
Hamburg
India
Goethe Bridge
Hanover
Export Society of
Wiliam
Scientific American
W. A. Croffet
Geological Survey
N. J. Coleman
Agriculture
Croffut
Aroffitt
da. C. Yaroshevski
Ruskaya Mediterna
Russia
Odessa
Kostrome
Yaroshevski
Ambulance
Chronic Pleurisy Cured by Allcock Plasters
In Garfield Pawnee County Kansas ae Callen reports years of left side chest pain worsening each winter. He used two Allcock's Plasters. after a week the pain subsided and he regained health. Two weeks of use solved his issue with minimal recurrences, confirming the product’s advertised effectiveness.
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Ae Callen
Garfield
Pawnee County
Kas
Allcock
Snobbery inside New York society exposed in society pages
A writer reveals two leading New York society figures secretly paid to provide confidential gossip for a newspaper. Ward McAllister’s four hundred are defended as authentic, while adulation of the elite spreads and casts the scene in Washington as a future social buzz.
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New York
Ward McAllister
Panama
Jenkinson
White House
Ken George Jones
New York Times
Jackson
George Jones
Washington
London
Paris
Vienna
Figaro
France
Germany
America
Blakely
Comic misreadings at wedding vows in Ledicrous Miniskes
In Chamber's Journal Timothy Duggan the tall stevedore and his bride stumble through marriage vows with humorous malaprops. The clergyman and guests recall mispronunciations from lovers and grooms, such as to have and to behold and to love cherries, while one bride misrenders receive thee my troth as give thee my throat.
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Timothy Duggan
Timothy
Jee
Ap Sapo
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Oode
Instan Dallas
Keeba
Franklin File
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Nvertheless
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Cleveland
Four Hundred
Colonel Lamont
Congress
Dickinson
Grovee
Tesident
United States
Onco
Ee Isaan
Mr. Cleveland
Chamber's Journal
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