The Timidity of Great Men at Social Gatherings
The writer claims Caleb Cushing and Rufus Choate were unusually shy around women and crowds. It recalls Choate’s awkward hotel reunion with Harvard graduates, his glancing, shy manner, and a Newburyport party anecdote where Cushing asked a girl how love begins and was joked about for his error.
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Cushing
Choate
Society of Women
Caleb Cushing
Rufus Choate
The
Boston Journal
Boston
Harvard
Hoston
Josiah Quincy
Tio
Newburyport
Electric car danger and a fall on Cambridge night
An account describes a passenger falling from a Cambridge electric car after midnight. The conductor and driver refused to stop until a lightweight boxer, aided by Harvard students, intervened and threatened action. The wounded man was taken to an apothecary, then to a hospital.
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Cambridge
Boston
Harvard
Boxer
Hispital—Fostun Post
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription Promoted For Women
A vintage note extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a guaranteed cure for female ailments including painful menstruation prolapse and ovarian pain. The text laments high mortality from weakening conditions and claims the remedy cleanses the liver and bowels while promising relief for sufferers.
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Pierce
Moving pains and keepsakes as a family plans a larger home
A young woman tells a friend on a streetcar that moving is hard work after ten years in the same house. She hopes to take a strip of woodwork and decorates the new home for the children over the years. She laments one missing keepsake and the loss of a five year record. It ends with a note about a long friendship and the plan to move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred
Jessie Jane Jones
Jack
Jessie Fane Jones
Mr. John
Walter
Detroit Free Press
Darelay Jack Recited Prayer During Run Downstairs
In Gardiner Home Journal a playful excerpt titled Our Boys and Girls presents a child named Harry attempting to spell his last name while Walter teases him. The scene shifts to a running staircase where Harry quotes his prayers, prompting a humorous reflection on earnestness and faith.
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Harry
Walter
Gardiner Home Journal
Adventurous youths dream of plains and snowbound tracks
The fragment follows Tommy Janders and friends planning a boy scout trek toward Montanner with talk of Indians, gear costs, and a bold aim to ambush foes. A passing figure delivers a curious lead about three boys camped behind a fence as the scene blends playful bravado with danger.
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Tommy Janders
Seanse
Montanner
Eddy Adkins
Willie Wabbles
Mebby
Willie
Willie Wabbies
Quiet school feud ends in renewed friendship in Golden Days
Della and Mattie mend hurt feelings after a slander inquiry. Della refuses to hear slights yet forgives and persists in kindness, while Mattie admits past words and apologizes. A reconciled trio, with Trene observing, shows charity over rumor. A separate tale from the Boston Courier recalls a masked party prank where police demand guest lists, only to reveal a host’s friend in disguise.
Where Wild Fowl Go to Breed in Alaska's North
A Norton Sound source confirms that the summer habitat for many wild fowl lies in Alaska with breeding grounds around Golovin Bay on Norton Sound. Geese ducks swans cranes and other birds gather in vast numbers, laying eggs in blue-stem grass as bears and fowl feed on salmon berries.
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Alaska
United States
Yukon River
C. J. Green
Norton Sound
Dall
Golovin Bay
Birthday Cake Proposal In A Short Exchange
In one day Ernest turns four. He asks for gifts and a cake. Mamma promises a birthday cake with four candles. Ernest wonders if four cakes with one candle would suffice.
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Ernest
Mamma
Tiny Street Peddlers and a Family of Nine
A Philadelphia scene follows three little girls selling newspapers on Seventh Street and a lame boy helping. They live with their father, John Greenbaum, in a dingy Locust Street shop as Mary Greenbaum, age 12, narrates their struggle to earn money for medicine and food. The story portrays child labor, poverty, and a city in which nobody knows anybody else.
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Chestnut
Red Riding Hood
Chestnut Street
Ninth
Continental Hotel
Ninth Street
Locust
J. Greenbaum
Mary
Mary Greenbaum
Jake
Loy
Sarah
Lacey
Papa
John Greenbaum
Greenbaum
Philadelphia
Hearie Courtesy and the Heroic Courtesy Tale
A French writer in The Revolution, the Empire, and the Restoration recounts Percy, Lord Beverly hosting a brave Conde army marquis. To honor the guest and the royal cause, the English lord has his butler bring a century-old wine, described as a sunray in crystal, and offers a glass to the marquis.
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Lord Beverly
Percy
Conde
Making a Nog Happy and How It Resulted
A lazy summer scene at Taylor's grocery ends with a drunken hog rampage after a St. Louis visitor feeds him liquor. The hog causes a spree, colliding with pedestrians, a buggy, a wagon, and businesses, before the culprit vanishes, leaving a moral about giving everything a fair show.
The Microbe of the Magnet Promises Electricity’s Queen Era
In a sweeping view of magnetism and energy, the article argues magnets amplify work, drawing energy from unseen sources. It envisions a future breakthrough by discovering the microbe of the magnet, transforming electricity into nature’s foremost force and reshaping steam’s role.
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Physical and Electrical Laboratory
Nature
Electrica Review
Willing to Let t Drop in Albany Court
A dated Albany Superior Court session under Judge Wrights heard a case of an old Black defendant charged with theft. The defendant, without a lawyer, showed no plan to hire one and stated through a yawning, weary voice that he is willing to drop the case as far as he is concerned. The scene captures a magistrate asking about defense and the defendant’s indifference. Also included are brief, unrelated asides about football and a porous plaster factory remark.
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Jim
Boston Courier
Albany
Atlanta Constitution
Lost pocket-book described by New York woman
A New York woman recounts items in her lost pocket-book after a finder phones a newspaper office. The clerk asks for details and she lists coins stamps silk samples a poem a lock of hair a ticket and various small tokens in a compact three by two inch book.
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Dorn
New York
Rai
Purifying Blood With Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup
A Marshall Michigan man reports relief from biliousness and rheumatism after using Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup. He says four bottles restored his liver and kidneys to healthy action and praises the medicine as a wonderful blood remedy. The product is sold by druggists and packaged by The Charles Wright Medicine Company in Detroit.
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Hibbard
L. C. Robinson
Marshall, Mich
B.C. Hoprison
Marshall
Mich
Charles Wright Medicine Company
Detroit
Bittera Guardian for Travelers and Mariners on the Sea
An 19th century ad extols Hussetter's Bittera as a reliable remedy for travelers mariners and emigrants. It claims to prevent and relieve constipation biliousness malaria indigestion rheumatic and urinary ailments and to be safe with no objectionable ingredients. The copy targets captains ship doctors voyagers and those acclimating to new climates.
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Hussetter
Tropics
Savage Club Tales Doctor Delays Doomed Woman Death
A Victorian Savage Club scene shows a doctor arriving to find a sick woman dead and a husband explaining their delay. He laments not being summoned sooner while the husband admits delaying care to save costs. Another tale recalls a late arrival after a patient’s complaint of feeling ill.
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Savage Club
Husband
Eugene Field
London
Randall declines fund for family while in office
A Philadelphia newspaper recalls two years ago the plan by prominent citizens to set up a fund providing $2,000 yearly for the Randall family. Randall refused contributions while in public life, suggesting the fund be invested for his widow and children if retirement or death occurs. The fund and its interest now form the family’s main support beyond Mrs. Randall’s Washington home and a small inherited pension.
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Philadelphia
Randall
Washington
Earthquake test boosts tall San Francisco top
Fragments report the Chronicle building nine stories high, withstood quake shocks in San Francisco showing no plaster loss or damage. Also notes soap tones on figs laxatives and Hibbard's Liver Pills claiming safety and wide use, plus a promotional plug for Dobbin's wraps and Brown's Bronchial Trechetos with unverified claims.
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Amsterdam
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Charles A. Vogeler
Baltimore
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Yun
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Mattle
Janders
Adkins
Mr. Wabbles
Mattie
Della
Irene van Horn
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Irene
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Trene
Trene van Horn
Sheir
R. S. MacArthur
Calvary Baptist Church
America
New York Star
Taylor's
St. Louis
Cooper
Taylor
Esquire Smith
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Watkins
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Sabin
Elm Street
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Prettyboy
Pensonby
Bloodgood
Burlington Free Press
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Woman’s Pocket Book
Nepro
Arkanaae Traveler
Kemp
Stevens
Mount McClellan
California
Paya Bos
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Worth’s Dispensary Mexican Association
Main Street
Buffalo
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Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Mass
Eneariti
Persie
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Fancy Souls
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J. F.smitit &Co
St Louta, Mo
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Washington, D.C
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Northern Pacific
Mellions
Minnesota
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Mantata
Oregon
Martein Cyeweriig
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Ghas
B. Lamborn
Iz Saris
Little
Renrings
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Smith & WE Aria
Wawa
Smeth & Wesson
Gannet
Ilreas
Apphieston Oswith & Wesson
Springfield
Wilcox
Chichester
Mall
Thiebester Chemical Co
Madious Sq
Pallada
Aoaly
Vans Chemical Co
Ohio
Rede
ULM Ingraham
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AmMsterdam
N.Y
R Dyche&co
Chicago
Jeuse
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