Night at the Expo with Wax Figure Romance and Cranky Spectators
The Dispatch recounts an Expo night filled with quirky crowds and comic incidents. A pale youth obsesses over a wax lady in a glass case while Dorothy roams exhibits, and connoisseurs gaze on glass works, pictures, and stalls. PMID: A wandering writer and Dorothy share a moonlit walk home after misadventures.
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Dorothy
Peer Paige
Anak
Indy
Goodby
Brreway
Gaxing
The Grand Army Chief Veazey at Gettysburg
Detroit Free Press recounts Colonel Veazey’s quiet courage at Gettysburg. He and General Stannard planned a risky charge, leading Veazey’s regiment to spearhead the assault and earn Stannard the rank of Major General while Veazey offered to bear the blame.
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Gettyaborg
Wheelock G. Veazey
Alger
Grand Army of the Republic
Detroit Free Press
Gettysburg
Pickett
Stannard
Stanosrd
Veazey
Veozey
Grand Army
Electrical Cranes and the Electric Light Craze
In Washington a man collects discarded electric light carbons hoping for health benefits, a practice derided as foolish by a knowledgeable observer. The piece mocks the belief that lingering electricity improves health and questions magnetism and iron in the blood.
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Washington Post
Washington
Seasonal hunting dates for Pennsylvania game species
Dates authorize sportmen to hunt various birds and mammals across Pennsylvania. Birds like ducks geese and plover have ranges from September or July through January. Other birds and mammals such as pheasants quail deer elk squirrels rabbits have specific start and end dates throughout autumn winter and early spring.
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Pennsylvania
Photos in the Dark and Underground Photography Advances
The article traces magnesium flash photography's rise for night, indoor, and underground shoots. It covers historical figures like Wilson and Piazzi, methods using burning magnesium wire, safety risks, and devices such as the geolograph for oil wells, sea photography, and cave imaging. It notes dramatic underground photos from mines, quarries, and caves, and envisions future submarine illumination breakthroughs.
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Whitten
Edward L. Wilson
Pyramid
Salvator Rosa
Dante
Piazzi
Cheops
Mariat
Alepee
Silesia
Germany
Nadar
France
Snd
E. P. Cobham
Pennsylvania
Cobham
Doctor Rombouts
Amsterdam
S&s
RB. Stoddard
Adirondack
Pacagreves
Howe's
Adirondacks
Baby King Alphonso Delights In Toys And Court Etiquette
Alphonso the baby King of Spain enjoys expensive toys, especially a Andalusian horse hide rocking horse with matching saddle and trappings. He amuses nobles at his throne steps and calms to sleep in a nurse's arms during ceremonies. He greets people in the street and claps when military music plays.
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Alphonso
Spain
Twelve in a flock the famed Queens birds known as the Twelve Apostles
The article describes a Queens flock of twelve birds called the Twelve Apostles that always appear in units of twelve. It notes uncertainty about gender balance and explains they nest in the same tree and feed nestlings communally during nesting season. The text ends with an unclear remark about a supposed bird feature and a garbled phrase.
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France
Queensland
Quiet Montreal Impresses Worldly Visitor With Noiseless City
A traveler describes Montreal as a silent, cathedral-like city where bells are soft, buses arrive quietly, and horse traffic is near mute. He notes milk shakes widespread and prices low, with Americans facing nickel exclusion and polite, restrained conduct in public spaces.
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Montreal
States
New York
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
Chicago
St. Louis
Egypt
Queen's Bench
Hold the Fort Shown By Humbling Sunday School Parade
A Southside Sunday school, led by its proud superintendent, joined a union service with a nearby church. The procession lined up and sang the superintendent’s favorite hymn as they marched, but during the second verse the crowd saw the leader fall back to speak with the tutor of the infant class.
Bethune and Harris Plot Over Scottish Poem Project
In Piccadilly George Bethune and granddaughter Maishe pursue Lord Musselburgh for aid as Vin Harris contemplates a political future and a marriage based on money. Maishe earns Vin’s attention with violin and piano, while Mrs Ellison suspects the Bethunes of courting Vin for wealth. The arc moves toward an engagement between Lord Musselburgh and Mrs Ellison as tension over a proposed American poetry volume grows.
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Piccadilly
George Bethune
Maishe
Lord Musselburgh
Lord Musselbore
Vin
Mia Ellison
Henley Recatta
Ellison
Bethunes
Lord Muselburgh
Scotland
Harris
Mr. Bethune
Old Georgee Bethune
November street scene with Bethune and granddaughter
In a bright November afternoon on Regent Street, George Bethune and his granddaughter stroll past shopfronts as he muses about a Scotland related book project. Carmichael hints at an unseen benefactor and past forestalling, with plans to support the work's publication.
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Serted
Luray Caverns
Mammoth Cave
New York City
Captain Kidd
Orange Mountains
George Bethune
Regent Street
Leith
Bonnie Mary
Maisrie
Carmichael
America
Tom
Mr. Carmichael
Maishe
Maisie Bethune and the Balnoray Debt Negotiations
The scene follows Maisie Bethune and her grandfather in London as disputes about identity and Scottish lineage surface. Amid a tale of family lands Bal loray Ballingean and potential debts, a newspaper owner offers private help, while old George Bethune challenges implied loans and the Chronicle project proposing ballad studies with notes and cash advances.
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Bethune
Balloray
Ballingean
Cadzow
Maisie
Mr. Carmichael
Eadh
Bonnie Mary
Northumberland Avenue
Pire
Vincent
Chronicle
Scotland
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