Wife Reunites with Hermit Husband After Fifteen Years
A Jersey City merchant A B Conway vanished fifteen years ago leaving wife and son. A long search with rewards and detectives failed until in Florida a hermit lived near New Smyrna. Mrs Conway and two clerks found him. he confessed bankruptcy drove him away.
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Maine
California
Gulf
Great Lakes
Storman
Jacksonville
Fla
New Smyrna
Conway
Jersey City
Florida
Washington correspondents and the art of interviewing
The piece notes the challenges and skills of Washington correspondents who question lawmakers and officials. It highlights crowded press galleries in the House and Senate, limited access, and the persistent, discerning effort required to extract timely opinions for major newspapers.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Telegraph
Jove
Hercules
Forests of Dwarf Trees on Greenland Bluffs
Greenland coastlines host dense stands of a tiny birch species known as the Green and Birch. These midget trees live 75 to 130 years and rarely grow taller than ten inches, thriving even in poor soil and long freezes.
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Greenland
The Mary Who Had a Little Lamb
Mary Tyler of Somerville Massachusetts inspired the famous verse Mary Had a Little Lamb. The lamb followed her to school in her childhood, and as an old woman she showed bits of the famed fleece. The tale connects her life to the jingle and its enduring memory.
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Mary
Mary Tyler
Somerville
Mass
Wss
Self‑Judgment in 19th Century Writings on Work
The excerpt notes a 2n judging others and four men laboring in vain. It claims common error and weak effort, but when the man judges himself he is wisely employed and useful in examining and judging his own work.
Clever Retort Saves Day by Southern Senator
In Huntsville Alabama Judge Samuel F. Rice, famed Alabama lawyer and ex chief justice, switches to Republican campaigning after the Civil War. A heckler cites past speeches alleging battles and wars, and Rice admits his remarks about whipping Yankees with popguns but insists the opposing side would not fight that way.
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Alabama
Samuel F. Rice
Supreme Court of the
Staite
Washington
South Carolina
Huntsville
Ala
Judge Rice
Three European Countries with Old-Age Self-Reliance
The article notes Norway Sweden and Switzerland as thrifty nations whose workers fund their old age without state aid. It contrasts Spain Portugal and Italy where the poor rely on the church and begging, and mentions Russia where beggary is common yet influenced by superstition.
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Europe
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Russia
Mick
Inventions Spotlight New Englander's Electric Bicycle
A New England inventor unveils an electric bicycle powered by storage batteries and a geared rear wheel. The piece also notes patents for a shovel with fork tines, a screw threaded bicycle core, a friction wheel alarm, a spill safe can cap, a ball and socket flag-staff holder, a pen holder with a wide base, and incandescent gas burners with electrical lighting attachments.
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New
Errand Boy Lays Claim to Odd Job in Moon Joke
A humorous exchange features a boy claiming he has the job, while a gallant governor questions the moon’s distance. The dialogue centers on a witty claim to a trivial yet earnest errand work.
The Champion of Mars in Nova Scotia
A hunter earns a dubious reputation after storytelling to a 16 year old horse boy in Nova Scotia. The boy returns to town and tells guests how the driver claimed to know the sun’s distance and to show a planet with intelligent inhabitants. Locals dub the man the greatest liar in Nova Scotia.
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Nova Scotia
Jupiter
Earth
Mars
Haskins
Aphorisms From Great Thinkers In Abridged Verse
A list of quoted maxims on virtue timing and prudence from Voltaire Henry Fuller Cotton Hazlitt Cervantes Seneca Bulwer Confucius De May Emerson Henry Clay. The sayings emphasize restraint punctuality frugality courtesy and sincerity as guides to character and society.
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Voltaire
M. Henry
Fuller
Cotton
Rochefau
Bulwer
Confucius
de May
Emerson
Henry Clay
English Queen Inspires Cane Fashion Among Ladies Abroad
A New York wholesaler imports London cane styles that mirror a craze among fashionable English women. The fad stems from their devotion to royalty as the queen, aged and infirm, relies on a cane. Young society girls wield canes on boulevards, while Americans ponder adopting the trend and pairing it with derby hats and dog whistles.
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New York
London
Slaves of Monticello Remembered by a Cincinnati Minister
Rev. Peter F. Fossett, 83, longtime Cincinnati minister and last living slave of Thomas Jefferson, recalls life at Monticello Born June 6 1815 and just before Waterloo. He describes Jefferson as an ideal master opposed to the slave trade and planning to free his slaves after death. Fossett recounts Lafayette visit to Monticello with a gala reception and a grand university procession led by Jefferson Guards and Virginia militiamen.
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Cincinnati
Monticello
Peter F. Fossett
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Waterloo
Ohio River
Virgil
Gen
Lafayette
Red Gate
Jefferson Guards
Virginia Milicia
W Lafayette
Eng Weit
Patsy Randolph
Martha Ann Jefferson
Chestin Coy
Mr. Jefferson
Gen. Lafayette
Monroe
Mr. Madison
Chestin Cox
George Washington Lafayette
Ts Tefferson Randolph
Gen. Lavassor
Virginis Toflitia
Depth of Atlantic Ranges Deep Between Canary Islands and West Indies
The Atlantic Ocean between the Canary Islands and the West Indies reaches depths that plunge to about 19,000 feet. A deep ocean trench forms a steep descent from Africa toward the Americas, illustrating extreme underwater topography.
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Atlantic
Canary Islands
West Indies
Directory of Secret Societies Meets Weekly
Silver Lake Lopez No. 576 I C O F meets Saturdays with officers Myers Babcock Rhodes and others listed. Silver Leaf Lopez No. 496 Davucutters of Repexan meet Wednesdays with Mary Myers J J Babcock F.S. Lake View Lopce No. 164 K of P meets Mondays with J J Babcock F McKrill and others. Silver Laxre Lopce No. 587 F and A M meet first and third Fridays with Terry Clymer and J C Hay.
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Silver Lake Lopez
I. C. O. F. Lodge
P. G. L. W. Myers
N. G
J. J. Babcock
V.G
S. F. McKrill
R.S
J. H. Rhodes
E. B. Javien
L. W. Myers
Silver Leaf Lopez
Davucutters of
Repexan
P. G
Mary Myers
Allie Flavien
V. G
Kate Wiltrout
Myrtle Smith
F.S
Nora McKrill
Treas
Maggie Paulus
Lake View Lopce No
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V.C
S.F. McKrill
J.C. Hay
J. M. Amiss
E. Wells
Trustees
S. L. Groninger
Charles Amiss
W. M
P. E. Terry
John Clymer
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Globe Telegraph College
Lexington, Ky
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HAT Akron Savings Bank
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Smyth
Akron Sewing Machine & Bicycle CO
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Tan Patent Record
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