Old Man Sir John Faces a Quiet Family Crisis
Sir John contends with a secret engagement fallout as Millicent Cantourne and Jack Oscard drift apart. Lady Cantourne confronts the consequences, and Sir John recalls fifty years of devotion while maintaining a stern household discipline.
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Lacy Cantourne
Sir John
Lady Cantourne
John
Millicent
Cantourne
Jack
Womman
Guy Oscard
Africa
A Queen of Song Natalini Cavalieri to Share Covent Garden Stage
Natalini Cavalieri the Rome born soprano famed as the most beautiful singer in opera will join Melba and Tetrazzini at Covent Garden this season. Her rise from cafe chantants to La Boheme in Naples and Fedora in New York marked a dramatic career, and her natural acting method challenges traditional study. London will judge if she can outshine the era’s leading divas.
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Mme
Natalini Cavalieri
Italy
America
Covent Garden
Melba
Tetrazzini
Mme. Cavalieri
William Armstrong
Munsey
Rome
San Carlo
Naples
Mimi
Bonci
Paris
Folies- Bergere
Massenet
New York
Giordano
Fedora
Manon Lescaut
Donna
London
A Trying Language Admits Little Ease for Western Learners
The article cites Clive Holland to note Japanese is hard for foreigners to master. It quotes that a Japanese child takes seven years to learn the alphabet, and 214 signs are needed for a dictionary. It adds the language requires learning both written and spoken forms and 2500 to 3000 ideographs for higher newspapers.
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Clive Holland
Japan
North Pole
Holland
The Merry Widow Kipling Tale From Simla
In Simla Kipling described a grass widow the cool mountain town residents call the wives left behind while husbands toil in the plains. The tale centers on a pretty, charming lady who confronts the notion of her absent spouse as the heat of the low country grills below.
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Rudyard Kipling
Simla
India
Kipling
The Return Trip Notes Mercury Rise
The Washington Star records anxiety as temperatures climb unexpectedly with the mercury rising rather than falling signaling a change in the weather pattern.
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Washington Star
Not Much Doing
A burglar asks how business is and a newspaper reply says activity is poor. The exchange satirizes crime news and current market sentiment with a sly quip about pickings.
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Ilndidhapolis
Painter Clings to Knife During Narrow Falls Rescue
On June 1 1872 painter William McCullough slipped into rapids above the falls between the Sister Islands. Spectators watched as Thomas Conroy used a rope to reach him and hauled him to shore. McCullough kept gripping his putty knife for three hours at the brink before safety.
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William McCullough
Thomas Conroy
Painter
McCullough
Dublin bootblacks of 1780 polish with lampblack and eggs
In Dublin 1780 the shoeblacks formed a large, feared group. They used lampblack and eggs as polish, applied with a three legged stool a blunt spud and a wig. Gentlemen paid for the work as the boot was scraped and painted, with strong odors from the eggs lingering in homes. Grease remained common in the countryside.
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Dublin
Statesmen Wage Earners in Legislature Note
The Boston Traveler praises fifty legislators who come directly from bench, shop, mill, and worker trades, summing up that their intelligence honesty and industry match any peers sent by the people of the state to govern.
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Boston Traveler
Death of General Linevitch Stuns Russia and Japan
Gen Nikolai Linevitch dies at St Petersburg at 73. A veteran of the Crimean War and the Turkish war, he led Russian forces in Manchuria during the Russo Japanese War. He opposed Japanese aggression, warning that war with Japan could draw the Americans into conflict and urging a strong land alliance.
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Nikolai Petrovitch Linevitch
St. Petersburg
Japan
Linevitch
Turkey
Caucasus
Siberia
Lord Roberts
Roberts
Linoviteh
Kuropatkin
Manchuria
Oyama
Dusky von Moltke
Portsmouth
Sunguri River
Russia
Taft
Vladivostok
Passing of the Patent
A humorous exchange notes patent leather shoes once shiny now dull as the patent has expired, reflecting a playful Chicago newspaper quip about aging fashion and novelty.
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Higgins
Wiggins
Chicago News
New thought will beautify the plainest girl
A light exchange from the St Paul Pioneer Press notes a debate over beauty standards and skin care, teasing a shift from lotions to new notions while acknowledging few will adopt the idea.
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St Paul Pioneer Press
Wise gatekeeper guards hay with pitchforks to deter cars
A Chicago News item recounts a rural scene where a farmer plants a dozen pitchforks through a hayload. A tourist wonders if the man is crazy, but the gatekeeper explains the devices keep automobiles from hitting him.
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Chicago News
Why Indeed A Spinster Rejects Marriage
In Lippincott's Magazine a wry quip notes a spinster who rebuffs marriage claiming independence. She lists a dog that growls a parrot that swears and a cat that prowls at night to mock suitors.
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Lippincott’s Magazine
A Hopeless Case
A rich citizen scolds a generous yet desperate man named Mean dering Mike for begging. Mike defends his charity as born from a kind heart and insists he cannot morally steal from others despite his need.
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Mike
The Venturesome Squirrel Crossing a Cable
A gray squirrel attempts to cross a road on a two inch cable while a large steel bucket used for earth transport blocks its path. The creature keeps moving at high speed as the bucket approaches and rises, narrowly escaping each time.
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Siong
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