A Model Step-Daughter Meets Miss Perceval at Farmhouse
Abigail Wray brings Miss Perceval to the farm for coffee and blueberries as secrets unfold about Elihu Wray, Abigail's father, and a past love triangle. Miss Perceval reveals her public identity and shares memories with Elihu, while Abigail deciphers a note from her late mother explaining brokered romance and a vow to become a model stepdaughter.
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Abigail i Wray
Williams
Abigail
Elihu Wray
Miss Perceval
Wray
Daggett
John Tracy
Mr. Wray
Lucia Lee
Huldah -Daggett
Huldah Daggett
Millville
Janet
Elihu
Huldah
New York
Father
Miss
Perceval Chooses Quiet Farm Life After Brisk Courtship
The narrator recalls Miss Perceval smiling in a window seat with a daisy, asking Abigail if she wants a stepmother and seeking her father's happiness. The world wonders at her marriage to a quiet country farmer and her secluded life, as described by the New York Ledger.
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Perceval
Abigail
Miss Perceval
New York Ledger
Lake St John Limited Privilege Club Plans Vast Canada Grounds
Ambitious proposal plans a Lake St John Limited Privilege Club to secure 30 000 square miles for hunting and fishing with thousands of members mostly American. Promoters have control of trout ouananiche waters and rivers feeding Lake St John and await Quebec government approval for two 1000 square mile game parks.
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Fish and Game Club
Lake St. John
Province of
Quebec
Roberval
St. Maurice
Lac de la Belle Riviere
Canada
Quaint Prayers From Humble Folks Of Faith And War
A farmer quotes the Bible on cattle as the Lord's, two or three cattle lost to disease. A clergyman recalls a pious alms house worker who prays for the preacher to be candlestick gold and to endure trials with love. Civil war cotton shortages prompt a mill worker to beg for pure cotton, not Surat.
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Newman Hall
Surat
India
Bride reveals secret marriage to London family cook
A suburban London family learns their cook Hannah has married last week. She explains her husband is a chef at a hotel and has gone to Jersey on his honeymoon for about two weeks, planning to stay on with the family for now.
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London
Hannah
Jersey
London Telegraph
Hoist with His Own Petard in Odd Ball Chat
A fragmentary anecdote features a greedy grocer and a farmer's wife over butter weighing a pun' o sugar. satire notes avoid detail at witness stand. The piece jests about fating thirty quail, a cat with nine lives and a girl fond of music.
Pathos and tragedy in Burke love tragedy and suicide
Chicago tale of Mabel Burke a gifted stenographer who rose from hardship to a high social circle. After learning her lover attorney David J Wise was already married she shoots him at the Hotel St Anthony then kills herself in the piano parlor.
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Chicago
Burke
Midian
Mabel Burke
Mabel
Windemere
Miss Burke
Mark Hanna
David J. Wise
Wile
St. Anthony
Grant Monument Equestrian Statue Unveiled in Philadelphia
A new bronze statue of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant stands 15 feet 34 inches tall on a pink Jonesboro granite pedestal in Fairmount Park Philadelphia. Created by Daniel Chester French and Edward C. Potter the piece weighs five tons and cost $82 675.35.
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Philadelphia
Gen. Grant
Fairmount Park
Fairmount Park Art Association
Daniel Chester French
Edward C. Potter
Grant
Fred Grant
Jonesboro
Society Leader Mrs William C Whitney Dies After Long Life
Mrs William C Whitney longtime social figure and widow of Capt Randolph and later William C Whitney died at the Whitney country home on Long Island. She survived by two daughters from her first marriage and had ties to the Kane Winthrop and Oelrichs families. Her life included a 1896 marriage in Bar Harbor and a late life spent near Westbury New York with a custom track view for watching races.
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William C. Whitney
Whitney
Long Island
William May
Baltimore
Edith May
Germany
Capt
Randolph
England
Dr. May
May
Ran
Dolph
Canada
New York
St Savior’s Church
Bar Harbor
Westbury
L. I
Superstitions Among English Herring Fishermen
English herring fishermen are highly superstitious with rules against whistling on boats and forbidding milk or burnt bread onboard. They avoid mentioning the hare and may punish enemies by tossing a dead hare. Some trust luck in odd numbered crews, though red hair may negate it.
Waste gases used to power gas engines in Germany
Gas from blast furnaces that was previously wasted is now used to drive gas engines. In Germany the experiment reportedly proves this neglected product economical and satisfactory, costing little to secure the gas.
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Germany
Blood poisoning fatality from schoolyard birthday prank in Elizabeth
A New Jersey schoolgirl died from blood poisoning after playful blows on her arm during a birthday joke. The incident highlights harm from a prank and warns about the lack of respect in such behavior.
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Elizabeth
N. J
Eight Year Old Hero Rescues Baby From San Francisco Fire
The San Bruno Hotel fire trapped guests including a two year old child. Eight year old Theodore Steiner, son of the hotel owner, rushed upstairs through flames to save the infant. He carried the baby to safety just as escape became impossible.
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San Francisco
San Bruno
Theodore Steiner
Theodore
Protest Against a Sunday Law in Bavarian Mills
Paper mills in Bavaria protest a Sunday work ban arguing water power is unreliable and must be used when strong currents occur. Officials weigh suspending the Sunday curfew for mills to avoid loss of time.
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Bavaria
Origin of the saying as clean as a whistle
The familiar expression traces to the whistle tankard of olden times when the whistle signaled the tankard was emptied and a waiter was informed that more liquid was needed.
Unmarked Graves Of Indiana Governors Lie Hidden
A historical note recalls Indiana governors who died unmarked and buried without tombs while once being prominent figures of their era. The piece reflects on memory, public recognition, and the fate of political leaders after death.
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Indiana
Manford and Sanford Dialogues in Social Gossip
A Mirror of local chatter about romance and social behavior. Men discuss love signals while neighbors reflect on a pattern of excessive borrowing and its social talk.
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Miss Percival
Inlilu
Manford
Sanford
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