Edison at Llewellyn Park Reveals Working Habits
The Chicago Record describes Thomas Edison’s day in his lab at Llewellyn Park New Jersey. Edison, dirt smeared, oversees twelve concurrent projects while his aides detail his routines and endurance. Mallory notes long hours sleep deprivation and occasional lapses in time sense. Edison's slight deafness is portrayed as a help by allowing undisturbed focus.
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Edison
Llewellyn Park
N. J
Prince of Inventors
Mr. Edison
Mr. Mallory
Hkiboratory
Sam
Luneh
Large Families of Mosquitoes in Old Fashioned Style
The text humorously compares mosquitoes to large families, noting their reproductive success and lack of parental duties. It plays on traditional worries about raising children and suggests mosquitoes avoid common home concerns like sleepless nights and stocking mends, implying they thrive without such burdens.
Edison and pie sport and insect life in Ainslee's Magazine
Ainslee's Magazine recounts Edison’s light eating habits and fondness for Yankee pie learned during a London trip. It notes his evenings spent reading invention notes for fresh ideas. The piece also describes a mother's massing of wigglers, their larva and pup stages, and a mosquito’s lifecycle with cautionary notes on drowning hazards.
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Mr. Edison
Mr. Mallory
London
Edison
Chpe
Jie
Tom
Harvard
Dorothy
Vassar
Mamma
Ainslee
An Indian's Glass Wagon and Osage Wealth Folklore
A Kansas City Star reprint notes Osage wealth from government payments and land rents averaging about $8 quarterly per person. It tells of an Osage man who bought many items then bought a glass-sided hearse to haul his family and goods, using the wagon for town visits and grain transport.
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United States
Coffeyville
Kansas
Wice
Jim
Ikansas City Star
Music and Matrimony in the Tales of Great Composers
The piece reviews composers friendships with marriage, noting Handel’s engagements and the pressures of parents in law, Beethoven’s rejected hopes, Gluck’s banker father and his death, and Chopin and George Sand’s notorious liaison, all exemplifying music and matrimony in Cornhill.
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Luther
Handel
Venice
Tandel
Nuasicinus
Belini
Beethoven
Gluck
Chopin
George Sand
Cornhill
Ingersoll’s Great Defect Analysis and Response
The Philadelphia Press argues that Ingersoll and similar critics fail to persuade because they lack philosophical depth. De Saint Simon told Talleyrand he could only win by a decisive display of new faith or by crucifying the old theories and rising from the dead. Without ocular proof or a compelling replacement faith, people remain loyal to ancestral beliefs.
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Ingersoll
de Saint Simon
Talleyrand
Ingersell
Philadelphia Press
Keeping Youth: Depew on Age and Vitality
Chauncey M. DePe w argues that age does not limit achievement or joy. He urges mentorship with youth, continuous study, and active work, claiming older professionals can outpace younger peers in vigor and fulfillment. He warns against withdrawal from life and endorses living fully with younger generations.
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Chauncey M. Depew
Made of Various Materials and Sold in Large Numbers
They describe bone dice imported to the United States from France, produced in a Paris area district. Eleven sizes range from 0 to 10, with square and rounded corner shapes. rounded corner dice are far more common and favored for backgammon due to easier rolling.
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United States
France
Tis
Paris
Lawyer Waggoner Converts to Christianity
Toledo lawyer M. O. Waggoner, once agnostic, now embraces Christianity after sacred music from a phonograph swayed him and he burned his library on August 20. He replies at length to letters from curious readers, infidels, clergymen, and a Cincinnati bookseller, while accepting and rebutting criticism.
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M. O. Waggoner
Toledo
Anachine
Cincinnati
Ohio Colege
Chicago Tribune
Old Sorrel and the dice trade in New York Sum
The piece recalls an aging horse Old Sorrel and a lesson on staying active. It then describes the manufacture and varieties of celluloid and bone dice, including colors, sizes, and poker dice. Retail prices range from a penny per die to seven fifty for a set, with millions of dice sold annually in the United States.
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Nuide
New York
Vizier of the Two Horned Alexander tale on Joshua's rheumatism
The Century's Part VI of Stockton's Vizier features Crowder meeting Moses and treating Joshua's rheumatism. Crowder recalls Joshua and Moses discussing leadership, then applies a heroic remedy with a crude ointment and pods, claiming Joshua's pain vanishes by the next day.
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Stockton
Alexander
Crowder
Moses
Joshua
Petrarch
Laura
el Khoudr
Mrs. Crowder
Nun
Miriam
Jaron
Mer
What Is Yiddish Debate In Court Hearing
A court hearing described Yiddish as a blend of many languages with varied pronunciations. Witness Morris Abraham Wolfski explains Yiddish origins, noting migration and intermarriage create a dialect rather than a fixed language.
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Morris c
Abraham Wolfski
East End
Ilis
London Daily Mail
Why He Objected to a Government Job
A congressman questions a constituent about a government job with a satisfactory salary. The reply admits the pay is fine but notes the expectation to actually earn it, reflecting a wary view of official employment.
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Congressinain O
Chicago
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