A Night of Farms and Family in Abbeylands
Ned Burton hosts a grand Abberlands dinner for Lucy and Tom as plans, marriages, and fortunes swirl. A telegram arrives from Algiers announcing Lydia's birth and the family’s return home, hinting at a shift in loyalties and new heirs.
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Cliapter
Tracy Porager
Mamma
Tom
Lucy
Papa
Abbeylands
Pieiis
Abberlands
Ned
Mother
Thomas
Lady Burton
Ned Willong
Algiers
Lydia
Donkey and olives echo tastes in playful exchange
A Washington Star quip contrasts a donkey’s thistle appetite with a plain eater’s view. The man notes peculiar tastes while the other suggests humans too have odd cravings such as olives for breakfast.
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Washington Star
Born Collector Muses on Willie’s Art Fate
A proud mother proclaims Willie’s future as a multi millionaire while the father doubts the art career. The judge notes Willie’s lack of understanding of art despite family aspirations and ambition.
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Willie
Vinegar Quips Stirred by Motherly Advice
A humorous exchange presents vinegar as refusing to be bottled during its salad days. The mother of vinegar urges work while the sour liquid deflects with a wry reply. A concluding line notes true obedience neither delays nor questions.
Venezuela Agriculture and Industry in a Crumbling Economy
The report describes Venezuela’s agriculture including coffee and cacao crops, sugar cane, tobacco, rubber, bananas, and cattle, noting limited yields, export shifts to New York and Hamburg, and a trade crisis. It highlights forestry, leather, chocolate, breweries, and a lone telephone company with Caracas and Valencia as major cities having streetcar lines.
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Venezuela
Tavre
New York
Hamburg
Trinidad
la Guaira
Puerto Cabello
Orinoco
Cuba
Caracas
Valencia
Mrs Julia Dent Grant Dies in Washington
Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, widow of Ulysses S. Grant, died in Washington from bronchitis Bright's disease and valvular heart trouble. She was one of three White House widows with Mrs. McKinley and Mrs. Garfield. Mrs. Harrison was excluded as she married after the White House. Surviving children included Mrs. Sartoris. Gen. Frederick D. Grant was in Texas, and Ulysses S. Grant Jr. and Jesse Grant resided in San Diego. Her life spanned from January 26, 1826, through a career linked to national leadership, including travel with her husband to world monarchies and a long-lasting devotion during his later years. The government later granted her a pension.
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Lucy
Phelps
Cherman
Abs
Charles Hunter
Devanter
Dezunter
Degunter
Tom
Indies
Julia Dent Grant
Washington
Bright
White House
McKinley
Garfield
Penjamin Harrison
Harrison
Grant
Sartoris
Frederick D. Grant
Texas
United States Army
Ulysses
Frederick Dent
Missouri
West Point
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Barracks
Dent Plantation
Mexico
Chapultepec
New York
Canada
Countess Cantacuzene
Europe
Evolution of the Razor and Beard in Antiquity and Europe
The article traces hair removal history from ancient Egypt Greece and Rome where beards were scorned to medieval Europe where beard fashion varied by class. It notes Egyptian stone knives and Greek metal blades for shaving and the shift after the Thirty Years War toward minimal facial hair and the rise of perukes.
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South Africa
Europe
France
Germany
Beard fashion shifts since the 1840s
The article notes that beards faded with perukes, then reappeared in the 1840s in modest form. They grew gradually to larger sizes, and in the last decade or more there is essentially no restriction on facial hair.
A Costly Perfume From Philippine Attar Tree
Attar of Ylang Ylang commands 40 to 50 dollars per pound and comes from a Philippine Islands tree that reaches sixty feet, bears flowers from age three, and can yield about 100 pounds annually by eight years old. The oil is produced by water distillation with no chemicals and is used as a perfume and native medicine for toothache and other pains.
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Ylang-Ylang
Philippine Islands
Speech Sparks Confusion at Football Game
A foreign spectator comments on a local crowd in a grand stand scene as others enjoy a foot ball game. The remark highlights language and behavior at the event.
Royal children and pets in the imperial nursery
The article describes how children of European royalty cherish living pets over toys. It notes Victoria Louise and Joachim of Germany with a lamb that grew into a sheep, the Kaiser’s son raising a pony and English terrier, and Prince Edward enjoying ponies, dogs, and miniature military plays. It ends with empires’ princes learning sailing and canoeing under royal supervision.
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Victoria Louise
Prince Joachim
Mary
Potsdam
England
Palace of
Peterhof
Prince Edward of
Fork
Prince of Wales
Prince Edward
Rover
Sandringham
Dewet
Lord Witchener
Spain
San Sebastian
Alfonso
London
Afil
Germany
Well Educated News Editor Roast in Somerville Journal
A humorous quip from the Somerville Journal mocks a new reporter by noting the absence of foreign phrases or large words in his writings. The exchange contrasts newsroom style with perceived education levels.
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Somerville Journal
Learned His Jucsson Well
Comic exchange from a New York Times item in which a father asks his son what he learned at school and the boy answers he learned to say yes sir. The dialogue captures a child’s obedience and humor in a domestic vignette.
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Ned
Bobbie
New York Times
The Power of Flattery in Advertisements
A Somerville Journal item notes how patent medicine promoters use flattery and advertising to persuade buyers. It discusses strategies suggesting medicines are indispensable for brain workers and hints at deceptive claims about safe gun use and reliability.
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Somerville Journal
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Percy Fitzgerdbeld
Mrs. Wortager
Vhs Lucy
Billings
Draving
Ned Burton
Forager
Burtons
Mr. Hunter
Hunter
Jtalia Dent Grant
Guipenract
Hotwar
Coe
Ple
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