Medical crisis and identity confusion in a romantic tale
In a tense scene Miriam Benary undergoes a facial nerve operation to save sight, while her husband confronts revelations of her identity. Delirium, memory, and a deadly mix of love and science unfold as Fairchild and Dr. Benary face a web of relationships, including Louise Massarte, amid a hospital room.
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Miriam
Priedax
Europe
Fairchild
Dr. Benary
Louise Massarte
Miriam Benary
Beery
Beecham
Roger Beecham Beecham
Mr. Fairchild
Potsie
The Theatrophone Fraud Exposed as a hoax invention story
A British paper debunks the Theatrophone a supposed fusion of telephone and delivery box systems praised in Paris. Inventors Seuss and Mal Marineviot are named in the hoax while real figures lashed for copying their names. The piece ends with a cautionary tale about racing and pool rooms.
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Imaine
Got
Sanes
Seuss
Paris
MM Movich
Searvady
Ceca Coed
Mal Marineviot
Rearanke
Undefined dialogue fragment
A cryptic dialogue fragment between speakers named Collins and Judge notes intent to confront Selim with aggressive language and a plan to wait for another opportunity, lacking clear context or outcome.
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Collins
Hamler
Selim
Versailles Grand Fete Honors President Carnot Visitors
Paris correspondent recalls Versailles celebration for President Carnot with 150000 attendees from Paris and foreign visitors. The piece notes grand processions, historic mansions, royal carriages, the Trianon interiors, the Neptune fountain restoration, and a spectacular Place d Armes firework showing that impressed Americans visiting via mail coaches.
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Paris
Versailles
M. H. DeYoung
Dean
San Francisco
Libbys
Chicago
Cecile Wentworth
Seymour
New York
Mr. Gorman
New Bank
Champs Elysees
Bois de Boulogne
St. Cloud
Princes of
University
Carnot
Hotel de Reservoir
Place d' Armes
Grand Trianon
Queen Victoria
Neptune Basin
Super Basin
Grand Central Basin
Louis XIV
Goa
Place d’Armes
Pacific Coast
Henry HayNiz
Blundering on the Truth From the Lips of Canning Prattlers
A Scottish American piece recounts a knight of the burning lamp entertaining children with misstatements about complexion and a curious misunderstanding. A surly visitor earns a child’s wary respect after the youngster calls him “next door to a bear” in a frank aside.
Woman bitten by rattlesnake while plowing field near Burton
A Kansas City area woman was bitten by a rattlesnake while ploughing in a field near Burton. The item comments on gender roles, noting suggestions that women should defer certain tasks to men, while humorously implying snakes acknowledge the division.
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Kansas City
Burton
Kansas
Dignity of French Domestics and House Conscience
A powdery social essay argues lodging for servants shapes dignity and fidelity. It compares top floor servant rooms in Vanderbilt and Marquand houses with cramped basements in English basements, praising French hotels for personal freedom and orderly service while noting risks of privacy loss in shared spaces. It links servant conditions to marital prospects and societal mobility, urging humane, roomy, and respectful housing as training for future wives and mothers.
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Eleven Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Eleventh Avenue
Fifth
Villard
Mr. Marquand
Central Park
Graphic
Newa
Roosevelt Hospital
France
W. KE
Vanderbilt House
Mary Gay
Sam Jones Recalls Humorous Georgia Revival Tale
A New York Evening Sun profile recalls Sam Jones describing a Georgia village episode where he tried to lure listeners to heaven with a harvest question. A weathered Cracker in the crowd teased that only he and the preacher were bound for hell, bursting the meeting into laughter.
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New York Evening Sun
Reg
Sam Jones
Georgia
Hell
Gabriel
White Bonnets and Lace Fashions Spark New York Spring
The piece surveys May in New York with bright street scenes, flower sellers and fashion notes. It highlights roof top viewing at Fifth Avenue, lace gowns, mantles, crochet details, white bonnets, parasols, and stylish millinery. It also covers spring coffee party etiquette and remedies for a reddened face.
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New York
Paris
Nice
Fifth Avenue
Central Park
Arcus
Mazzini
Beatrice
Pyrenees
Edwin Booth and Joe Jefferson in Early Minstrel Era Tale
An 1850 account recalls Edwin Booth and young John Clarke performing in Bellair Maryland with blackened faces, singing negro melodies and verse from stage favorites, while similar recollections describe Joseph Jefferson’s first rough stage entrance under a Jim Crow persona and the era’s theatrical theater practices.
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Harper's Magazine
Edwin Booth
Tressel
Boston Museum
John 8. Clarke
Court House
Bellair
Biebelieu
Julius Cer
Asin Booth Clarke
William Winter
Jeffersons
Thomas D. Rice
Washington Theater
Joe
John Drew
Tell Tale Tunes Maine Carpenter Hires Men by Music
A Maine boss carpenter hires journeymen after testing their character with favorite tunes. Applicants answer about whistling or singing while work and list tunes like Old Hundred or Auld Lang Syne. If their choices include Yankee Doodle or Money Musk, the carpenter accepts them to work.
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Maine
Cove
Harper's Magname Bratus Reflection on Antony Funeral Oration
A fragment discusses Bratus reading Mark Antony's funeral oration and the act of remasking the body. It hints at interpretation of rhetoric and disguise in the funeral scene.
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Harper
Bratus
Mark Antony
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