A Change of Coat Ends Comic Magician's Show
In a New York Times account, magician Herrmann’s practical jokes spiraled from a hospital charity appearance to a chaotic Academy of Music performance. Cards, feathers, and trick gear flew as his dress coat swap with the manager’s caused mistaken tricks and a comic finale after the audience saw the returns of Herrmann’s act.
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Academy of Music
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New York Times
Rapsacy Sibyls Ethelwynd Hetherington Portrait
A young novelist describes the heroine with sky blue sereny nose resting under golden hair, tiny bangs, a chewy mouth with pearly teeth, pink ears and dainty dimples. The mobile face displays constant emotional shifts from grave to gay as Sibyls Ethelwynd Hetherington appears.
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Sibyls Ethelwynd
Hetherington
Wher They Gush in a Baltimore Note
A Baltimore American quip notes the crowd at the fair courting with sentiment. The young woman responds that the phrase gushing fits, while noting the writer uses a fountain pun in his prose.
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Baltimore American
Fragmentary dialogue hints at widow seeking position two
Historical text shows a fragmented exchange where a widow claims to seek number two while another speaker insists on number one. The snippet reveals gendered roles and positional ambitions in a terse, imperfect OCR line.
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Evi
The Man in Her Room by Gertrude Potter Daniels
A fragment notes Gertrude Potter Daniels contributes to the September issue of 10-Story Book with a work titled The Man in. The line suggests a literary piece featured in the magazine's pages.
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Gertrude Potter
Daniels
Man
Her Room Brings Sharp Insight Into a Curious Situation
Literary appraisal notes the work as a vivid entry in the author’s strongest vein. It analyzes a gripping, intricate situation that showcases the writer’s signature capability to build tension through character and circumstance.
Paint Pots of Yellowstone: Boiling Mud Springs Awe Tourists
The article describes Yellowstone National Park’s paint pots, two main groups near Alum Creek and the Grand Canyon wall. It details Blue Mud Pot, its 85 foot diameter, and the multicolored springs with mud at 180 degrees, yielding plaster and meerschaum like forms, with vivid kaleidoscopic eruptions and sulfur taste.
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Crater Hills
Grand Canyon
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Brains vs Hands in Lifelong Skill and Earning Power
The New York Press argues that the brain remains sharp longer than hands, noting that many men stay active when brain work prevails. After 30 to 40, hands decline, but a well trained brain can sustain or exceed prior earnings, with brainwork only improving after 40, enduring beyond the man’s active labor.
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New York Press
Remarkable will case ties scores of years to a single line
An elderly witness claimed a brother who died a century and a half ago. The court heard astonishment turn to disbelief, then to belief as documents proved the old man’s claim. The tale involves a father who married at 19, sired a son who died the same year, then remarried at 75 to have another son who stood before the court aged 84.
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J. W. Harwell
Stockdale
Texas
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San Antonio
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Southern Hotel
A Boy's Essay on Water Source
A curious contemporary quotes a boy's original essay on water noting four types rainwater soda water holy water and brine He also comments on water's many uses including sailing firing squirt guns fishing and a puzzling claim about towing without water He mentions water hazards and the idea that pits saved lives by keeping people from swallowing pins
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The Old Man Chevreul Reaches Hundred Birthday
The aged painter Chevreul celebrated his hundredth birthday with a four o’clock dinner. His son, a senior official in the department of justice, also attended. The elder Chevreul told a story, slipped, and his son corrected him. He then reminded the youngster to keep silent.
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Department of Justice
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New Houses Stir Voour Neighborhood Debate
In Voour, Bilk builds new houses provoking neighborly friction. Critics say the addition spurs decline while Bilk defends the project as a response to local demand. The exchange echoes long running tensions as residents weigh change against community character.
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Playful badger tames camp chaos from New York Sun
A playful badger disrupts a Colorado camp as described by a former bookkeeper. A cranky camp commissary man boasts he can tame the creature, but the animal outwits him by stealing food and hiding in holes. The tale unfolds with humorous misadventure and stubborn antics.
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Jim Gleason
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Badger
New York Sun
Irish Judge Summing Up Splays Courtroom Drama
Fragmentary report from the Four Courts Dublin describes a case where a conservative Irish judge delivers a lengthy summing up. The plaintiff and her daughter, noted for wit and charm, attract attention as the proceedings begin and courtroom observers recount the scene with interest.
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el Roeick
Apt Litt Returns From Mexico With Dodge Pedigree
CAPT AS apt Litt returns from Mexico carrying a Dodge and a pediat Bice. Wells Paige Mac press company reports his return last night with details of the trip and the notable items aboard mixed with company news.
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Wells Paige Mac Press Company
Mexico
Beeswax and Beekeeping Across the American West
The article surveys beekeeping as a lasting, profitable pursuit supported by 300,000 beekeepers who produce eight million pounds annually. It highlights Florida, Texas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wisconsin, and New York as key regions, notes how alfalfa and clover sustain honey and beeswax, and describes international demand, especially Russia, for beeswax and ecclesiastical candles.
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New*York Tribune
Patti Delivers Adorable Gift Of A Dog At Opera
Patti’s Donizetti aria performance becomes a moment of delight as a dog gift, hidden in a rose basket, is revealed on stage. Mme Diaz, the Mexican president’s wife, witnessed the scene, and Patti’s playful reaction, kisses, and the crowd’s rapture create a remembered finale with “Home Sweet Home” sung by Signor Arditi.
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Patti
Mme. Diaz
Mexico
Ricciana
Signor Arditi
Managing College Business Like a Town or City
An excerpt compares university management to municipal finance. At the year start, probable income is estimated, about 20 percent deducted for the business department, and the remainder divided among educational departments, likening it to a hoard of concession or a modern institute handling real estate, collections and staff.
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Harper's Weekly
Quotable quarrel between Mrs Selldom-Holme and Mrs Ondego
A brief exchange from the Chicago Tribune captures a sharp domestic contrast as Mrs Selldom-Holme notes her husband is highly disputatious and always "begging leave to differ" while Mrs Jenner Lee Ondego replies her husband is an angel, theirs differing without apology.
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Chicago Tribune
Unclear fragmentary dialogue between Mrs Mannow and Mr Mann
Fragmentary reading shows a quarrel or disagreement with vows and sewing mentioned. Names and context are damaged leaving uncertainty about setting or outcome.
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