Waste Product Reflected In a Wanderer's Life Tale
In a Bloomsbury tavern Smith recounts a life of wandering from Canada to California and Australia, fighting in the Cape and Matabele wars, and serving with the BSA Police. He laments the emptiness of fame and the urban life, longing for the veld, sea air, and the next war, then leaves vowing never to see forty.
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Canada
States
New York
Chicago
Utah
California
Frisco
Sydney
Australia
Caps Town
Cape
Caira
Sam
Fellows
London
Outlook
Kite life saving device aids shipboard rescue duties
The kite, once a toy, now serves meteorological and life saving roles. It can establish communication between a stranded vessel and shore by towing a guide-rope, carrying signals and telephony apparatus. Invented by Comte Brossard, trials reportedly succeeded at Touy on and Brest Chambers Journal.
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Comte Brossard
Tou- Yon
Brest
Chambers’ Journal
No Difference Which Side in Ferry Tale
A fragment recalls an Alabama scene where a white man and a black ferryman Uncle Mose discuss crossing with no money. The stranger claims he has no cents yet asserts the fare costs three cents as Mose weighs whether to ferry him, ending with a quip about crossing the river.
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Booker T. Mishington
Alabama
Mouse
Mose
Tosa
Rooseveltian Poem By Joaquin Miller Valued At Ten Cantos
The poet Joaquin Miller presents a ten canto poem titled As It Was in the Beginning, with a cover illustration featuring Roosevelt and imagery of war and death. The preface appeals to national angst, praising the President and discussing themes of sacrifice, gender, and prophecy, including strong critiques of maternal and sexual themes. The dedication is to The Mothers of Men.
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Roosevelt
Joaquin Miller
San Juan
Nippon
Canada
Germany
Ruth
David
Solomon
Phyllis
Dr. Agnew
A Stork's Humble Admission In Modern Rooms
A stork recounts a blunder while touring a chic apartment, mistaking a single woman for a bustling bride and proposing a baby. She reveals the rooms are hers and she’s a bachelor, leaving him embarrassed and wary of modern independence. The tale, from Town Topics, lampoons matchmaking missteps in urban life.
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Sary
Amile
Ull
It Made a Difference Lady of the House Rosa Dialogue
A humorous exchange records Rosa denying a dragoon guest, who flattered her mistress, claiming affection but vowing to distance herself from his remarks. The servant recalls the gentleman as decent yet reckless in conversation, highlighting social chat in Pick-Se-Up.
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Pashion
Hell
Rosa
Crows Nesting Habits Across Woodland Inhabitants
A narrator observes crows building false nests and notes a sequence of tenants including hawks, squirrels, owls, and falcons. Nests are continually repurposed by species such as red-shouldered hawks, great horned owls, and sparrow hawks, with other wildlife like red squirrels and even ducks using abandoned nests. The piece muses on the crow’s design and cross-species borrowing, stressing that the original builder is less concerned with alterations than with overall approval of his plan.
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Hy Ha
Cooper's Hawks
Enaily
Women insured rise as more enter life coverage
A Chicago insurance agent notes women are increasingly taking life policies and now face similar premiums to men after past barriers. She cites professions with higher ownership such as nurses and physicians, teachers and actresses, and mentions notable women with large policies including Leland Stanford and Mrs. Lowden, illustrating growing female market presence.
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Chicago
Secur
Ufe
Leland Stanford
Mra
Frank QC
Lowden
Lulu Glaser
Paulina Hall
Laura Joyce
Science and Religion in the Human Microbe War
The article notes that science says each person harbors both good and bad microbes in constant conflict. It cites New York Life attributing support to Dr. Ly man Abbott who claims an inner hell within us.
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Welf
Science
New York
Life
Ly‘man Abbott
Monkey Debate Sparks Odd Election of Heads and Tails
A fragmentary dialogue presents a scramble about ancestry and outcome. One speaker asserts the first monkey is to be considered, while the other quips that heads win and tails win the wager, reflecting a whimsical or coded exchange titled Sinark Set.
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Thay
Forgetful neighbor borrows items during dinner guests
A fragmentary note from a 19th century telegraph page mentions a forgetful neighbor at a dinner who borrows something from the speaker. The terse line references a family next door and a request tied to an evening gathering. The text also alludes to a lady guest forgetting her teeth.
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Mpeeti
Mocon
Day After the Day of Judgment and Reflection
A reflective piece from the Contributor Club extols the Day After as the supreme red letter moment. It argues the Day After reveals character, fate, and the true measure of success or defeat, framing it as more pivotal than the event itself and noting its impact across personal and historical realms.
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Manifiold
Manila
Philippines
Adam
Eve
Paradine
Kipling Letter on Lecturing Refuses Tour
A Kipling letter from 1895 surfaces discussing Major Pond's offer to organize a lecture tour. Kipling weighs the burdens of travel, debts, and crowded schedules, noting the effort and prices, and declines, preferring to continue writing. He cites weary experiences with hotels and railways across America and says the country is great but not suited to lecturing.
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Kipling
Major Pond
States
America
The Best laid Plans and a London Party
A prominent public figure in London plans an elaborate entertainment for friends at his country seat. To avoid inviting a disagreeable cousin he sends tickets for tonight’s play in town. The cousin, arriving with tickets changed to tomorrow, exposes the host’s careless ruse and foils the plan.
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London
Ark Buildin' Boy Supposed Flood Saver
dialogue notes a slow boy named Sam praised by Mr. Dobbs. remarks compare Sam unfavorably to Noah's ark builder, suggesting his slowness would have doomed the flood unless he acted.
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Perkins
Sam
Reggies Conclusion at the Circus Breakfast Ring
A playful line from the Smart Set features little Reggie exclaiming to his mother that the circus rings are being filled with breakfast food, capturing a humorous observer’s delight at a breakfast scene.
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Reggie
Traveling by Night With a Wife and Stockings
A New York family recounts a night journey to a summer resort near Buffalo. A father describes hunting for his daughters stockings amid berths and a crowded sleeping car, while a boy notices the wife’s bare legs and the staged embarrassment ends with a humorous escape at Buffalo station.
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New York
Tribune
Buffalo
Builwo
Laat
Bobby
Gwen
Gladys
Gladys Ia
Buffalo Station
Count Proposes Riches in Oil Painting Cipher Scene
A man counts money with a pencil in an oil portrait scene, converting marks into dollars from 1 to 10,090,000. The narrator notes the count’s eloquent eyes and speculates on becoming a real countess in three weeks, per a Chicago Record Herald fragment.
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Papa
Chicago
Record Herald
The dress that turned her head in high society
A satirical poem describes a gaudy purple dress trimmed with blue and green. The speaker notes ugly seams and bursting thread but asserts the dress is praised by an exclusive set, though a woman in the crowd rejects it, claiming it did not suit her. The piece ends with the Daily News reference.
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Daily News
Where He Was Tanned
A fragment shows a playful dialogue with a frivolous girl boasting of arm tanning after swimming, a brother protesting his lighter tan, and a child receiving a bedtime nudge, reflecting domestic humor and rural setting in a bedtime vignette.
Experimenting With Convicts On Dartmoor Training Boys
A Times correspondent describes a Dartmoor experiment to elevate young criminals to respectable trades. Thirty two of the youngest convicts are selected into a separate class, kept apart from older inmates, and taught a trade in a former French War prison adapted as a carpenter shop. After work they attend sessions with a schoolmaster, with warders and instructors chosen for strong personal influence and strict discipline to guide the youths.
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The
Times
Dartmoor
Clever Anecdotes and Laughs From Notable Figures
A collection of witty vignettes about royalty and celebrities. Dowager Empress notes a pardon sketch on a prisoner, Whistler at a dinner without a necktie, Bishop Colorsilo's charity wit, and Lincoln era quips. Includes Kingsley, Barrie, Alten, and Russell recollections with light, humorous twists.
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Russia
Alexander III
Siberia
James McNeill Whistler
Beaver
Whistler
Sanford Gimeted
Colorsilo
Hi-hop Almated
Tim
J. H. Shorthouse
Abraham Lincoln
James Quarles
Tennessee
Quarles
Feller
William Clark
D.C.L
Westminster
Charles Kingsley
Clark
Toronto
Westmins Yer Abbey
Pen-And Scissors
Barrie
Pye
James Lane Alten
Mr. Allen
Century Magazine
Andrew Dickson White
United States
Germany
Ode Russell
Berlin
Russell
Bealmars
Prince Biamarck
Dimarck
Rigmarck
All passes Art alone Enduring stays to us
The lines reflect a meditation on art, endurance, and power. A terse, lyrical meditation anchors the verse with classical imagery of a bust and a throne, invoking Tiberius and enduring artistic value.
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Tiberius
Austin Dobson
Calves Dominates In Arc Of Our Glorious Republic
Stock note notes Misa Fairy Titmarsh holding a pile of calves described as unbeatable in a sweeping arc of the republic. Tolode te.
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Misa Fairy Titmarsh
Jon
Repubblic
Tolode Te
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