Will Jack Go to Africa for a Candid Love Plea
Sir John urges Jack to confess his feelings to Jocelyn Gordon and marry, arguing romance matures with time. Jack agrees to depart for Africa after a visit, while Sir John confesses he has long known Jocelyn is the right person for Jack. The scene sets the journey and a moonlit meeting with Maurice Gordon.
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Jack
Sir John
India
Oscard
Sir John Meredith
England
Jocelyn Gordon
Millicent
Dack
Johan Meredith
Jac
Africa
Jocelyn
Journey on the Bogamayo Aboard West African Steamer
On the steamer Bogamayo bound for Leango Africa, Joseph converses with his master Jack Meredith about Missis Marie Durnovo returning to Sierra Leone. The scene unfolds with passengers seven aboard and Maurice and Jocelyn dining as the vessel nears the African coast, changing plans with the ship’s arrival.
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Missis Marie
Missis Durnovo
Sierra Leone
Joseph
Bogamayo
Africa
Leango
Jack
Jack Meredith
Maurice
Jocelyn Gordon
Maurice Gordon
Jonz
The Telephone Reaches Across Nations and Courts
A survey notes the vast reach of telephones in 30 000 plus towns in the United States and Canada with over 6 million lines. It cites uses from Chinese exchanges in San Francisco to petition booths in Persia to testifying by telephone in New York as evidence of the instrument’s democratic spread and rapid growth since its emergence decades ago.
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United States
Canada
San Francisco
New England
Fersia
Shah
Edward
New York
Visiting Your Friend From Masson’s Pack Note
A humorous essay recounts visiting a friend’s new home and garden and the social pressure to praise every room. After a tiresome tour and a wife’s running commentary, the narrator longs for home and ends with the line there’s no place like home.
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T. L. Masson
Edam Cheese Making in Holland’s Northern Region
The article describes Edam cheese production in northern Holland from milking to curing. Curd is pressed, salted, washed, and aged two to three months producing the distinctive yellow rind, with export cheeses dyed for brilliance.
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Holland
Nature cures and the limits of medicine
The piece argues that nature, not drugs, cures illness and that medicine mainly prepares the body for nature to act. Faith in recovery is valued as the best aid, potentially reducing the need for physicians, nurses, or extensive drug use. Surgeons perform mechanical corrections, while physicians should use minimal medicines in most cases.
Forgotten Crime At Pen'rallt Inco Involves Missing Illicit Child
A miner at the Trefriw Aluminium Mine found human remains believed to be Jane Owen, the petite unmarried housekeeper who vanished from Pen’rallt Inco in April 1877. The case stirred local theories of foul play, hidden child custody matters, and searches of nearby fields and lakes.
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Conway Vaile
Pen’railt Inco
Jane Owen
John Williams
Trefriw
Gaborian
Pen’rallt Ince
David R.griffith
Griffith
Owen
Trefrin
Dulyn
John Evans
Evans
Pen’rallt Inco
England
David Griffith
Dandelions in Bloom Brighten Lane and Plain
A poem from Woman's Home Companion celebrates dandelions as merry yellow blooms. The verse describes alert cheerful flowers brightening the plain and lane, likening petals to butter pats and noting the greens they create.
Profitable Exchange in Village Market Banter
The village star keeper jokes that time is money but does not value it, and a loarer questions him. The storekeeper replies he would rather customers spend more money here and less time, in a light exchange reported by Chicago News.
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Chicago News
The Coming Question and The Suffrage Debate
A terse verse piece explores the suffrage question and the caution advised when asked for views. It urges readiness to speak while withholding specific timing or commitments, reflecting a cautious stance on enfranchisement.
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Leveland Plain
Deaian
First Esperanto cabman in Paris wears star badge
M Pelletier, a Paris cabman, becomes the first cabman to adopt Esperanto and can be identified on duty by a star badge. Police in Paris and Stockholm are learning the system, with Dresden congress in August prompting further instruction.
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M. Pelletier
Paris
Stockholm
Dresden
A Force Proportioned to Its Frame War of 1812 Quote
James Madison argues that free government grows stronger as it is tested. He asserts the Union of the states guards freedom and safety for all, and becomes more powerful through challenges.
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James Madison
Not In Her Class Observation in London Opinion
A brief exchange on gender roles where Mrs Spenders contemplates wearing men's clothes and Mr Spenders remarks men’s clothes are not expensive, signaling themes of social norms and class in a light satirical tone.
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Mrs. Spenders
Mr. Spenders
London
Good at Keeping and the Commandments Clash
The dialogue contrasts self view with duty as one speaker declares honesty by claiming to keep commandments while another suggests the rules apply to others. The exchange highlights irony over moral ownership and personal integrity.
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