Hat Dilemma Sparks Karen to Find Real Value
Karen resists buying an expensive Gainsborough hat for Fanny Reid's fashion chase. She sacrifices a costly prize to help her family as Dan Eustace notices her true worth, and a Sunday outing leads to newfound happiness and affection.
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Miss Fry
Fanny Reid
Fanny
Miss Ives
Brave Fight With Brigands At Rosetti Station
A band of brigands attacked the Rosetti railway station in the dead of night. The telegraph clerk and his wife defended the home. a brigand was killed by a pistol shot, another wounded by a shotgun blast. The couple and assailants fled as gendarmes arrested several members. The wounded man was allegedly thrown into a deep well and found later.
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Rosetti
London Chronicle
Jenny Lind’s Modesty and Divine Gift
A brief reflection on Jenny Lind noting genuine self restraint alongside her powerful talent. The piece recalls her street charity singing in San Francisco and the audience’s uplifting reaction to her modest reply.
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Jenny Lind
San Francisco
Springs on the Brain Explain American Quirkiness
Two French visitors admire a pastoral scene as an American artist claims the painting sprang from his brain. The joke hinges on a phonetic misunderstanding with the line about one spring off his brain and a punchline about Americans’ behavior.
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Monsieur
Henri
Expert Diagnosis by Hopkinson Smith Story
A southern slave diagnoses a boy’s fitness in her master’s home and declares there can be no such thing as too much watermelon. The reply acknowledges dignity, and she retorts that there aren’t enough boys.
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Hopkinson Smith
Joliet Port Channel Plan Moves Forward In Illinois
Illinois state news reports Joliet Inland navigation experts back four changes to open the sanitary district channel. Recommendations include removing a rail bridge near the power house, operating the locks, elevating the tow path bridge, and removing 500 feet of crib north of Ruby street.
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Osborne
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Illinois & Michigan Canal
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Rock Island
Canal Board
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Sanitary District
Chicago
Walter Jones
Wabash Avenue
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Harrison Street
Edgar Miller
North Park Avenue
Austin
Baltimore
Jones
Miller
Aurora
Jessie Ross
South Broadway
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Jesse Ross
Ross
WANTS HER LETTER PUBLISHED
A Minneapolis reader urges publicizing a testimonial for Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter from Mrs Joan G Morpan claims relief from female troubles and promotes confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Joan G. Morpan
Second St
North
Inn
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