Eleanor Stagg and Professor Baldwin Dinner at Beverly
Emma Stagg hosts a fashionable Beverly dinner for Eleanor and her bachelor uncle Phineas Baldwin. The talk flows as Baldwin charms guests with travel tales and humor while Emma weighs Eleanor’s feelings for Owen Page and the future of a possible match.
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Beverly
Eleanor
Reed
Beverly Shore
Emma
Owen Page
Mr. Page
Harold Stage
Phineas Baldwin
New York
West
Silas Baldwin
Staggs
Phin
Harold
Professor Baldwin
Mr. Stagg
Hue
Question Who Wrote Epistle to the Hebrews
The piece discusses authorship debates around Hebrews and names proposed writers like Appollog Luke Aquila and Priscilla. It notes a strong literary quality and a suspicion that dogma has colored conclusions. The author values understanding a cultivated mind before Paul, noting intense interest from the London Spectator.
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Appollog
Luke
Aquila
Priscilla
St. Paul
London Spectator
Bait for Wild Turkeys Draws Noted Hunter's Fire
North Carolina and several states report plentiful wild turkeys though concerns rise over a hunter named Gil McDuffie who allegedly killed 1500 wild turkeys and 700 deer by baiting. He places corn to attract flocks, hides in a blind, and shoots as birds bunch for feed.
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North Carolina
Arkansas
Texas
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Missouri
Gil McDuffe
McDuffie
Himeelf
Breathless census satire on a self running farm machine
An English census parodies a motor that would reap sow plow mow haul thrash grind grain cut turnips churn and assist on a farm. It imagines a farmer seated on a fence watching it go by while the inventor is blamed for omitting chores such as washing dishes cooking meals making beds sweeping and washing.
Fence of Elks Horns At Livingston, 200 Feet Long
A fence nearly 200 feet long in Livingston Montana is built entirely from elk horns. Elk shed their horns annually and regrow new ones. The discarded horns are collected from forests and used for various commercial purposes.
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Livingston, Mont
Pulitzer marks twenty years owning New York World
The Weekly Panorama notes Joseph Pulitzer’s twenty year proprietorship of the New York World. It recalls his move from St. Louis in 1883, his Civil War service, founding the Post-Dispatch, and brief congressional service in 1885. He is described as always hardworking and informed across all paper departments. he was 56 on April 10.
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New York World
Joseph Pulitzer
The
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
Pulitzer
Westliche Post
Congress
Silver Jubilee Honors Bishop Chatard at Indianapolis Mass
A large church gathering at St. Johns Indianapolis marked Bishop Francis Silas Chatard of the Indiana diocese celebrating his silver jubilee. Cardinal Gibbons, multiple archbishops, about forty bishops and abbots, and roughly 300 priests and nuns attended the high mass. Archbishop Quigbey of Chicago preached the sermon.
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Apiop FS Chatard
Indiana
St. John's Church
Indianapolis
Francis Silas Chatard
Cardinal Gibbons
Quigbey
Chicago
Rome
Chatard
Leave Of Absence Amid Postoffice Scandal Inquiries
The Post Office Department inquiry led to A W Machen receiving a leave of absence from his role as general superintendent of free delivery and the appointment of a post office inspector as his successor. In Washington a tall man in a checked suit and flaming red banded straw hat sparked public chatter when seen boarding a street car near the British consulate, later identified as Sir Michael Herbert, King Edward’s ambassador to the United States.
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Awtiachev
A. W. Machen
Ambassador Herbert
Washington
Sir Michael Herbert
King Edward
United States
Bishop Le Roy studies Negro problem in America
Bishop Alexander Le Roy, founder of a chain of Christian villages across Africa, arrives in the United States to study the Negro question here. Gen. and Mrs. Laurence P. Graham of the United States Army marked their sixty second wedding anniversary in Washington last week, married at St. Augustine, Florida, during the Seminole War.
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Alexander le Roy
Africa
United States
Laurence P. Graham
United States Army
Washington
St. Augustine
Fla
The Stream of Time and Scientific Experiments
A collection of verses on time and folly contrasts with a Home Science feature from Christan Register. It describes simple experiments you can do at home with liquids, glasswork, and a water candle, plus notes on the Climbing Perch and a giant dinosaur skeleton exhibit at the Natural History Museum Cromwell Road.
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Geological Department
The
Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
South Kensington
England
Oxford
Peterborough
Alfred N. Leeds
How Horses Sleep
The article notes that about four in ten horses do not lie down to sleep. While standing, a horse rests one leg at a time, risking a dangerous fall if weight shifts. Such standing sleep leads to injuries, and there is no cure for the habit.
Chairs That Grow From Garden Vine Illustration
An excerpt notes a Corean gardener crafting a chair from a bent vine, seeds of gingko growing into the vine fiber. The chair, cut free, dried, and polished, stands 3 feet 4 inches high and 25 inches wide, weighing over 100 pounds. Also included are several light conundrums and jokes about fish, cows, and other playful teasers.
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Scientific American
Corean Gardenere
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Harold Stagg
Robert Bonner
Wapra
Phineas
Baldwin
California
Jones
Dea
Mrs. Stagg
Bishop Chatard
Postoffice Department
Percy F. Bicknell
Boston
Christan Register
Central Asia
Daldorf
Goliath
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