The Acropolis Hotel Tale of Maggie Brown and Miss Bates
In New York a faded hotel tale unfolds around Mrs. Maggie Brown the third richest woman in the world and Miss Ida Bates the Acropolis stenographer. The narrator recalls their wild hotel life and a dramatic coming out banquet turned crisis ending with a wedding and a twist about a newspaper artist.
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Cinderella
New York
Fourteenth Street
Boston
Hammerstein
New Bagdad
Terre [Haute
Maggie Brown
Mrs. Brown
Adam
Acropolis
Ida Bates
Miss Bates
Vienna
Remingtorium
Acropolis Hotel
Jersey
Maggie
Benton
Fifth Avenue
Aunt Maggie
Bryan
Lower West Side
Lathrop
Man
Medgersville
Hedger County
Pygmalion
Mr. Lathrop
Nee Bates
Ida
Squeers Inspired Portrait Brings Down Grief on Bowes Academy Master
The piece notes Dickens and his illustrator met William Shaw at Bowes academy near Greta Bridge while researching Nick Bled, revealing Shaw as the inspiration for Squeers. Shaw, once ridiculed and said to have died of a broken heart, is described as kind at heart despite the cruelty mocked by popular opinion.
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Dickens
Yorkshire
England
Humble to Exalted The Great Lesson From Philippians
A religious reflection on humility as shown by Jesus Christ. Paul urges Philippians to imitate the Mind of Christ, valuing others, rejecting self-interest, and remaining faithful to God. Exalted after sacrifice, Jesus is hailed as King, with all to bow and acknowledge Him.
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Jesus Christ
Philippi
Christ
Apostle
Jesus
St. Paul
God
Satan
God the Father
Christ Jesus
Adam
dJohn
Timothy
Heb
Calvary
Evolution of golf balls from pebbles to rubber cored core
History traces golf balls from rounded pebbles to hand cut wooden balls and feathers to gutta percha. A Scottish caddie reportedly fashioned early gutta percha balls from a discarded shoe sole, leading to molded and hammered gutta percha balls used until 1898. The rubber cored ball emerged in 1898 in the United States and reached England a few years later, with Aleck Herd winning the British Open in 1905 using it.
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Scotland
United States
England
Aleck Herd
New York Sun
Feathered surgeons healings in wild birds described
A London Answers report notes snipe and woodcock with feather bands over broken bones. Birds are shown applying plasterlike mixtures of clay and feathers to immobilize fractures, sometimes lasting over an hour for setting, while other wounds also appear plastered.
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London
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Henry Stories
The
Doubleday, Page & Co
Valenciennes
Brooklyn
Squeers
the Man Christ Jesus
Antsseth Amsries
Congress
the Peoples State Bank
Sullivan, Indiana
Terre Haute
Sullivan Union
Postoffice
R. R. No
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