Dramatic chase and tragic fate in Delaware tale
In a tense pursuit across dawn light, Sylvia pleads with Dave to rescue Delight. The group tracks the captors, discovers Delight’s peril, and a fatal shot ends a key romance. Gilbert Merridale dies, Desire endures grief as the family plans a future with the new army.
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Israel
Timothy Leland
Dave
Harvey
Gilbert Merridale
Fashioning slenderness in India silk gowns of 1900s style
A feature on summer gowns in India silk fabrics highlighting how slender silhouettes are achieved. Describes high chiffon collars, tucked sleeves, yokes, and decorative turquoise accents. notes black and white dotted silks, lace appliques, and embroidered trims. Mentions an Argentine wheat king and a stray fashion critique.
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India
Eloth
Holland
Dar
Bicycles misrouted at Liverpool party over tire tickets
At a Liverpool area party, guests arriving on bicycles had tickets issued by the hostess for storage. The housekeeper, not a cyclist, pinned tickets to front tires, damaging several pneumatic tires while ensuring visibility. Cyclists retrieved their bikes later, noting tire-related mishaps amid the ticketing system.
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Liverpool
England
Excellent Thing Burglar Alarm News Letter
Mrs Lumley urges family to install a burglar alarm. Mrs Watkins doubts, but Mrs Lumley insists it is excellent. They explain burglars appeared night before last, and the alarm allowed them to retreat to the attic and lock the door before intrusion advanced inside the house.
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Mrs. Lumley
Speechless The Patron Hor s Business Barber Bad
The excerpt hints at a New York Journal item about a barber named Patron Hor dealing with a cold. It presents a fragmentary, tongue in cheek tabloid style noting speechlessness and discomfort while hinting at a business angle.
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Hor
New York Journal
Admiral Dewey Nearly Threatened War With Mexico
In May 1873 Admiral Dewey commanded the Narragansett surveying the Gulf of California. A Texas incident near La Paz prompted a tense standoff as American and British engineers were held by Mexicans. Dewey warned the Mexican colonel that an American life was in danger and demanded 24 hours to rescue the engineer before bombardment.
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Mexico
Dewey
Narragansett
Winslow
Gulf of California
Virginius
Santiago
la Paz
Takee
Wwe
Ike
Relig
Patty
Mare Stand Navy Yard
Devrer
Panama
la Pag
Washington
Barris
Wright
Manila
Spein
Virginius Sitei
Dewer
New York Tribune
Gardener Prima Donna Caire Fields Vegeables Abroad
Mile. Caire, famed soprano, runs a Cevennes farm in summer. She tends a kitchen garden, wearing blue jeans and sabots, hoeing and watering daily. Friends in Paris received harvest notes while she credits spades and potatoes for health restored by outdoor life.
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Caire
Emm Cslie
Cevennes
Atle
Paris
Mile
Cale
Philadelphis Post
Evening party ends in fall after lights go out
Poet Campbell of Hohenlinden fame attended a party where lights suddenly failed. In the ensuing confusion a guest pushed Campbell, sending him downstairs. When asked who was there a voice from below replied, It is I, sir, rolling rapidity.
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Srivia
Dave
Dickz
Sylvia
Derek
Timothy Leland
Trace
Bostos
HNL
Roger
Sadon
Israel Leland
Harvey
Dimothy
Be T
Israel
Tol
Gacher
Harver
Déligh
Delight
David Townsend
Fred
Hite
Roger Stedman
Sue
Desire
Jala
Mistress Esther
Dolly
Tisha
Dauighter
Campbell
Smoking 20d Influenza and Tobacco Smoke Myth Claim
A fragment states that tobacco smokers have been more exempt from influenza during recent epidemics than nonsmokers, then oddly shifts to a line about a woman admiring a man leading to persecution. The text is unclear and garbled with unfamiliar terms and misplaced phrases.
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