Wife of a Bonaparte and the American connection
The article tells how Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon’s youngest brother, married Elizabeth Betsy Patterson of Baltimore and how their son Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, known as Bo, navigated royal ties across Europe. Betsy’s defiant letters to power, her American pride, and Bo’s complex status within the Bonaparte family are chronicled, with details of dowries, pensions, and the couple’s contested legacy.
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Philadelphia Press
Ventri loquist Jokes On Elevated Train Misleading Passengers
A ventriloquist aboard an elevated train used loud calls to misdirect riders toward wrong stations. Passengers grew frustrated at Fifty-ninth Street being announced at Terenty-sighth before laughs erupted as the prank continued and the culprit was revealed.
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Prosaic City Life Lifts a Moment of Mystery
A fragment describes a quiet urban incident as a man rides to Fiftyninth Street and remains undetected. The scene captures urban life’s small, unnoticed events, with Epock lending a wry, observational tone to the moment.
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Travel tales of gesturing and misread signals abroad
Mrs. David Ker recalls miscommunications with foreign servants in India and Africa, where gestures or mistaken identities led to humorous and awkward moments. She recounts a hotel mix up in Jubbulpore, wrong assumptions in Allahabad, sketches of port workers, and a washerwoman in Old Calabar keeping her clothes as curiosities.
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Ray Middleton’s House Joke Ends With Split Coat
In an anecdote from the New York World, Ray Middleton, famed in England for mischief, confronts a guest who wears a dress coat in the smoking room. Middleton seizes the coat tails, tears the coat up to the collar, and the guest offers no resistance. The prank cascades as the guest reveals he wore Middleton’s own evening coat on the way down.
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First Metal Stove Ever Made by Old Germans
The Chicago Herald notes that early Germans built a outside mounted metal stove, warming the exterior of the house. One end projected into the room, making morning fires awkward, with ashes carried from the bed and heat lost to the room.
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Giants of the Guards and a poison found in dairy
The article notes Captain Plaskow of the First Guards as one of the tallest men, with a Rhinelander volunteer reaching over eleven feet. It also mentions a toxin in stale milk found in oysters with milk and old cheese, traced to improper cooling and handling of dairy products.
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Castoria Advertisement Through Generations
An old promotional verse emphasizes Castoria as a trusted remedy from infancy to motherhood. The rhyme traces a mother’s care as she uses Castoria for Toby’s illness, a child’s cries, a girl's growth into Miss, and then passes it to her own children.
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Girl Fights Panther in Mountain Cliff Rescue
Nora, daughter of a leading settler and an amateur ornithologist, climbs a crag to descend a ridge with an eaglet on her shoulder when a young panther and its mother attack. She fights with a knife and pistol, stuns the mother, and the panther falls to its death as Nora clings to a branch and survives the perilous ordeal.
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Bible Critics and Misquotes In Preaching Spark Debate
A Maine Yankee story teller cites a Cumberland County exhortation as an example of misinterpretation. He recalls a pious man who likened Jesus’s suffering to the persecution by Jews, describing the crowd’s mistreatment and crucifixion scene to illustrate his point.
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The Earl Reforms the Artful Dodger in Whitechapel Tale
A lord seeking a lost watch triggers a dramatic night in Whitechapel. A gagged boy is found in a sack with the missing watch and a taunting card. The Earl declines corrupt advice, reforms the boy, and the pair inspire the London shoeblack brigade.
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Shrinking Crickets and Fashionable Cloth Trade Techniques
English Mechanic describes how crimped channels require extensive shrinking by London cloth workers in the west end. The process uses heavy wet sheets over twenty four hours, drying on hot pipe heated rooms, folding in glossy papers, and hydraulic or large hand presses. Chowp flannels avoid shrinking due to heat sensitivity.
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Two Men From Sun to Sun and Their Fates
Two men walk side by side from sunrise to sunset and see the world differently. One seeks goodness in others and hopes, the other sorrows and questions, troubled by doubt and discontent.
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Beecham's pills advertised for biliousness and related symptoms
Beecham's pills claim relief for bilious headache dyspepsia heartburn torpid liver dizziness sick head ache bad taste in mouth coated tongue loss of appetite sallow skin when caused by constipation noting constipation as the common cause Book free pills 25c at drugstores or write B F Allen Co 365 Canal St New York
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Free Wrestling Match With Four Bears In Central Park
Spectators watched a playful bout as four black bears fought in a narrow Central Park cage. The smallest bear pressed the big one, a makeshift referee in a flat cap called time and foul in a loud tone. The bears roared and rolled, one striking hard enough to topple a crate.
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