Heart and Crass Love in Meadowville
Drixie Hart chafes with Jennie Cross over years of valentine trees and Stella Geyland’s flirtations. After jealous trials and a broken romance, a Valentine day gesture and a near-fatal bicycle crash bind them as Jennie finally responds, offering forgiveness and love.
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Drixie
Prixie
Hendricks Hart
Jennie, Cross
Hen Hare
Hart
Stella Geyland
Meadowville
Jennie Cross
Goube
Stella
Jennie
Breadonville
Larse
Orixia
Valentine
Smythol
Fmn
Society of Women
Sugarfoal Hill
Cat Shake Nets Big Prize for Philadelphia Church
In Philadelphia a colored Baptist church faced debt. Pastor Griggs devised a "cat shake" fundraiser after sociables and a church fair underperformed. A lively cat caused a mass scramble. George Miller of Addison Street captured it and won half the entrance fees, with the rest split among organizers.
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Philadelphia
Griggs
Mr. Miller
Grinss
Skates Say Eye Opener in Battle with Me
A humorous exchange features Skates Say asking why recognition fails outside conflict while Winks replies the moment carries a pastoral air and an eye opener. The quip highlights playful wordplay on battles and recognition.
A captive monarch on St Helena recalls Napoleons fate
The article recounts Dinizulu, last Zulu king, sent to St Helena as a dethroned ruler. It traces Chaka’s rise, the Isandlwana defeats of the British, the involvement of the Prince Imperial, Cetewayo’s death, and Diazulu’s exile, linking it to Napoleon’s storied residence on the same rock.
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St. Helena
South Atlantic
Napoleon
Dinizulu
Nan
Chaka
Zule
South Africa
Natal
Amazula
Africa
Dingnaan
House Bonaparte
House of Chaka
Prince Imperial
Cetewayo
Diaizulu
Life of a Singer Voice and Vices Across Time
A curiously mixed column on vocal longevity notes fifteen years as an average life for a voice with Patti and Sims Reeves as exceptions. It links smoking and drinking to ruined male voices, and mentions cane-necked dress and champagne as hazards to female vocal health, while claiming a singer can earn and save over forty years before fading. A secondary anecdote recalls Mr. Bradlaugh and a minister over a yes no question, followed by a drunken front door incident in State Street with a jumbled exchange about residence and intoxication.
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Patti's
Sims Reeves
Bradlaugh
State Street
Back Bay
Wazzer
Asha
Lonn
Arunk
Wake Up in a Coffin Exhumes False Death Tale
A Wilmore man Paul Pelkey believed dead forty years ago reportedly woke during a funeral when pallbearers carrying his coffin down a narrow stairway slipped. The coffin broke and Pelkey rose asking water, delaying the funeral indefinitely with no immediate rescheduling.
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Paul Pelkey
Wilmore
Jury in the Pasture Court Room Tale
In Greer county Oklahoma a jury must render verdicts without a dedicated room. With funds short the courthouse lacks a jury chamber, so a bailiff escorts jurors to a vacant lot nearby and guards them with a shotgun to shield their deliberations from corruption.
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Greer County
Oklahoma
Landlord and tenant debate rent rise in odd exchange
A landlord declares a rent increase and the tenant responds with unlikely willingness and humor, saying the raise is preferable to attempting any other course. The short exchange highlights a tense but comical negotiation dynamic.
The Colonel Withdraws From Taylor County Campaign
Coyore Benfield found his state senate bid faltering as Taylor county crowds stayed away. Rumors questioned debts, drinking, religion changes, a divorce, a boss, and past legal troubles. Benfield finally declared himself an angel, withdrawing to preserve his reputation from bigots and fanatics.
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Coyore Benfield
Taylor County
State Senate
Jim
Trinoy
Kansas
Sim Hobson
Tim
Great thing this electricity on the street car
A comic dialogue aboard a streetcar laments the astonishment at electric transit. A passenger and conductor discuss progress from horse cars to twelve miles per hour, noting humane efficiency and public appreciation, while a disruptive passenger slips away into the crowd.
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Dor
Time to Calla Halt Story of a Scottish Baird
An old Scottish tale recounts a baird at a dinner table describing a great fish he had taught. When asked by Donald how heavy the fish was, the servant stays silent and the baird presses. Donald finally answers with a riddle about weights from breakfast to supper, noting he will not tell lies to please the fishers.
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Baird
Donald
Countryman Seeks Time to See Town in Hotel Lobby
A lank countryman presents at a city hotel desk asks meal hours. Clerk replies with service times, quoting breakfast to supper. The man exclaims Jerushy and wonders when he will have time to see the town, highlighting travel fatigue and urban pace.
Reform Plan Meets Mr Hishfier In Risky Pursuit
Mamie proposes hearing Mr. Hishfier to reform him while Katie warns the risky move may cost them everything. The dialogue centers on a bold bid to change a stubborn figure through personal intervention.
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Mamie
Katie
Mr. Hishfier
Gali
Edna and Mildred Debate Ancient Stacking Speculations
Edna questions if the ancients formed stacks while Mildred cites Plate and Aristotle. The brief exchange hints at ongoing curiosity about ancient practices and scholarly speculation without firm evidence.
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Edna
Mildred
Plate
Aristotle
Squatter and Catfish Towboat Scheme in Arkansas Bayou
An Arkansas squatter recounts a tall tale of using tame catfish as towboats to haul saw logs down a bayou. The plan, conceived with Colonel Bunker, involved collaring large catfish and towing logs, but a hurricane-like roof collapse ruined possessions and led to a falling-out with the colonel and a hasty departure.
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Kurnel Bunker
Abe Hoye
Washington
Arkansaw
Itz Busum
Inventions and engagements ripple through daily life
A survey of recent devices includes a slate sharpener, a two hinged notebook easel, fall protection nets for shafts, a churn motor, a can opener with perpendicular blades, a plumb line bob with a spring reel, telescoping bicycle tires, a clock controlled fire lighter, and a pneumatic saddle cushion. Also featured are bag-opening bellows, a two-scale mailing patent, streetcar guard devices, a lamp chimney with prism rings, a soldering iron with adjustable head, a jar opener with curved wire, a safety cap for lamps, a bottle neck break cork device, a one wheel roller skate with a gear rim, perishable bottle seals, adaptable dining tables, and a new shaving brush. The piece notes patent developments, fishing rig improvements, and the engagement of Adelaide Mason to Charles Dana Barrows, with Mason’s iron manufacturer father based in Pittsburgh.
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Ase Hias
Westphalia
Adelaide Mason
Jack Mason
Marion Manola
Charles Dana Barrows
Speaker Reed
Atlanta
Miss Mason
Henry §. Mould
Pittsburg
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Isle of
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Calla Halt
Eamel Bunker
Abe Hope
Arkamsaw
Rome
Bev
Kurnel
Bez
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