Minuet Brings Old Flame Back in Village Dance
Miss Hepsey, once ridiculed for reviving an old fashioned minuet, captivates villagers as she dances with Mr. Brooks. The pair, heirs to a long quarrel, reconcile after forty years, with Miss Villiers aiding the reunion at the Grange. The Boston Post notes Hepsey Brooks’s return to happiness as mistress of the Grange.
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Hepsibah Springer
Dorothy Palmer
Dolly
Dorothy
Hepsey
Villiers
Miss Hepsey
Miss Villiers Hersel
Brooks
Mr. Brooks
Miss Villiers
Hepsibah Brooks
Boston Post
A Great Leveler in Civic Contact
A Detroit Free Press note states that rank and wealth do not bar a person from being considered for a match, as the richest man will speak to you if he needs a helper. The piece reflects social leveling in urban life.
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Detroit Free Press
Not Needed. Old Customer Wants Vine in Nice Home
Florist offers a wall flower but the old customer declines citing two plain middle aged daughters. The Baltimore American records the exchange in a brief consumer note.
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Baltimore
Lady at western fort tavern Faces quiet threat in town
A wife of an army officer travels to a western fort stops at a pioneer town tavern where the landlord reports a dangerous customer named Jim Wheeler. He vows protection with calm violence, insisting he is a gentleman and will kill to keep the peace if needed.
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Jim Wheeler
Allus
Kansas City Journal
Coffin Nails in China Quickens Smoke Habit Across Population
Consul J C McNally reports cigarette use in China has surged beyond kerosene demand. Both men and women from age ten smoke openly as cheap five cash cigarettes flood the market. Despite opium use, production rises to meet demand, aided by widespread advertising near temples and city gates.
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J. C. McNally
Nanking
China
King of Subscription Agents Fired in Brooklyn Tale
A publisher Clarkson fires Culverson the king of subscription agents after a Brooklyn judge receives a bundle of supposed proofs. Culverson’s job loss follows a tale of psychological indications of genius and a side note about the legal oratory project. The incident leads to a later office inquiry and a commission on a set of Legal Oratory. A separate office mixup has a new boy misrouting a wife’s phone call, causing embarrassment in a downtown firm.
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Clarkson
Porter & Clarkson, Publishers
King of
Alexander
Peter
Servia
Culverson
Gulverson
Morocco
Brooklyn
Supreme Court
Hugh Buchanan Culverson
Baker
United States Supreme Court
Washington
United States
David
Absolom
Cal
Post Office
Department
New York
Hvening Post
Philadelphia
Bee Farmer Foes Mustard Plant Bees Risk Peace
The tale from Frank H. Short of Fresno recalls a quarrel over bees and mustard. A neighbor burned a patch of wild mustard after a dog shooting incident, then a cornet practice disrupted peace until the mustard grower cut the plants and the two men reconciled.
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Frank H. Short
Fresno
San Francisco Chronicle
Irish-American voter backs Bryan after eight years
A Republican orator ends a speech by inviting arguments from the other side. An old Irish-American citizen accepts the challenge and recalls voting for Bryan eight years ago, claiming prosperity then and saying he will vote for him again. The anecdote appears in Everybody's Magazine.
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Bryan
Everybody’s Magazine
How Nations Have Died: Rome to Venice in Decline
A historical sketch chronicles the collapse of major powers from the Roman Empire to the fall of Venice. It notes Rome's split, sack by barbarians, and papal temporal power. Constantinople’s fall to the Turks. India's Moguls. Poland’s partitions. and Venice's terror-driven government under the Council of Ten and the Secret Three, ending with Napoleon.
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Rome
Italy
Turin
Milan
Constantinople
England
Egypt
Ome
Nile
India
Elizabeth
Delhi
France
Poland
Ued
Europe
Russia
Austria
Prussia
Warsaw
Duke of Monmouth
Charles II
Republic of Venice
Council of Ten
Secret Three
Venice
Napoleon
St. Mark
Pearson’s Weekly
This Horse Could Jump Inspiring Canyon Trail Jump Tale
A California cowboy guiding steers near Bear River and Little Snake camps at night. A stampede drives his horse to four or five mighty leaps as steers fall into a deep canyon. Hoof marks reveal the jumps were triggered by cattle clearing a 1500 to 2000 foot chasm.
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California
Leadville
Bear River
London Standard
A Lemon for George
George Vincent notices a trim young woman on his train and dreams of meeting her. After several stifled attempts and a sonic dance at a Masonic event, he finally expresses his love only to learn she is engaged and cannot listen.
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George
George Vincent
Vincent
Chicago Tribune
Microscopic penmanship to rival ancient masters
A historical feature on M. J. Sofer a French artist who writes the Lord's Prayer a sixpence wide and compiles biographies of kings on grains of wheat. The piece traces similar marvels from Cicero Pedotti Peter Bales and Mason and notes museum and college examples read under a microscope revealing Psalms prayers and creeds in miniature.
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Edward
M. J. Sofer
M. Sofer
Cicero
Pedotti
Urban VI
Urban
Italy
Peter Bales
Henry Mason
British Museum
St. John’s College, Oxford
Charles I
Bankrupt Man Keeps Auto After Court Parade
In Altoona a bankrupt man owned a fine forty horsepower limousine that disappeared during settlement but later reappeared in his garage. A creditor accuses him, and the debtor explains with a smile that the automobile went round while he went through the Bankruptcy Court.
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Altoona
Argonaut
Lady's Job Interview Turns On Spelling Reference
In a humorous Cleveland Plain Dealer item a job applicant seeks a cook position with a lady of the house. When asked for a reference she admits destroying hers after spotting a misspelled word, noting the reference letter called the writer’s own “worthless” spelling.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Bluff at Versailles Date Not Clearly Given
Fragmentary text references a Bluff at Versailles with a remark quoted as "Then, sir" and mentions New York Sun. no clear date or event details are readable.
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New York
Editor Dodges Deadline With Times Copy Graft
A Southern newspaper editor and part owner delays due to late convivials. With presses near, he steals a leading editorial from the New York Times, pastes it onto his paper, and writes We cannot agree with the New York Times when it says. The issue ends as he returns to the saloon.
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New York Times
Times
Present gift joke from a Kansas City Telegram clipping
The husband visits at breakfast for his wife’s birthday and kisses her thirty times with one to grow on. He says that will do for the present, prompting a playful complaint from the wife about another present.
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Kansas City Telegram
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Bret
Gornet
Archer
Versailles
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