Toledo Artist Thomas Parkhurst Visits Milwaukee Society
Milwaukee news describes Thomas Shrewsbury Parkhurst, Toledo artist, visiting the Milwaukee Art Society for an exhibition. He tours homes of society members, attends dinners, and shares stories of painters. He recounts Turner's color decision stories and how a single color note transformed a gray scene into a vivid view.
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Thomas Shrewsbury Parkhurst
Toledo
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Art Society
Art Society
Cine
Turner
Parkhurst
Orator's Tribute to Women By Ingersoll
A condensation of the passage extolling women as the ideal of virtue and beauty. It credits women with redeeming dignity and enduring love that transcends hardship, praising their influence from cradle songs to exalted artistic visions.
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Hobbert G. Ingersoll
Six Years to Construct Clock of Glass and Gears
A Bavarian giant clock built over six years with a frame of glass bolted by screws, dial plate, hands, shafts, and cogwheels of glass and glass, wedges and pine used to tension running gear. The wound key made of glass. Many parts had to be produced 40 times for a lock to work.
Billions In Exports Of Manufactures For Current Year
The Bureau of Statistics reports that nine months show $720,000,000 in manufactures exported, with nine months’ excesses over the prior year and annual totals suggesting exports may reach or exceed one billion dollars by year end.
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Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
Books and the bonehead turns quicker than Reno pay
A pasted page mixes reflections on books and theater with a tale of a bank clerk and a tale of divorce court costs. It riffs on actors, reviews, and price pressures, then shifts to anecdotes of Senator Gardner and a courtroom misadventure involving doctors and bullets. The piece blends social commentary with quirky vignettes from early cinema and law.
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Books
Bonehead
RENO
Why Left Is The Ring Hand
Professor Polliard at the university discusses theories on why the left hand bears the wedding ring. Landon argues it signals control, while Pilemins counters that many cultures and rituals show no single origin. The discussion notes the right hand in English ritual and ancient bridal customs of giving gold and silver.
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Mont Haroun
Samarkand
Bik
Silane
bin Jong Gray
Wmple
Polliard
University Culleee
Landon
Pilemens
Germany
Jean Nolively
England
Wisdom of McManters Delays Horse Case Ruling
Alderman James V McManters heard a horse related dispute between J C Page and Riverside Mare and Mule Co over a horse bought on commission. Page claimed a payment due in April and the horse died of pneumonia soon after. Judge will study merita of the cave and rule Monday after extended hearing.
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James V. McManters
David Harum
J. C. Page
Riverside
Hare and Mule Company
Anya
Page
What They Did to Webster
In a speech on Amon Joan heroes and institutions Chan cey Depew noted that even the greatest Americans are largely unknown. He recalled Webster’s stay in Washington in the house where he lived six years. A member of the Hugueh nobility replied that Webster was “your greatest statesman and orator,” adding inaccurately that he wrote a dictionary and was hanged for killing a client.
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Webster
Chancey Depew
England
Washington
Daniel Webster
Mont
Orstor
Health and wealth clash in Muldoon interview
William Muldoon declares in New York that the average American today places dollars ahead of health and life, contrasting with European remarks about American capital and the influence of Pierpont Morgan.
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William Muldoon
New York
Pierpont Morgan
Bald Head Partings Then and Now in a Folkloric Vista
A fragmentary reflection traces hair loss from childhood curls to old age. It notes how a man shifts from middle to low parting as baldness grows, brushing long hairs over the crown before thin strands vanish. The piece frames baldness as a timeless Shakespearean theme.
Lady Constance Stewart Richard son At A Piccadilly Anecdote
An anecdote from Piccadilly recalls Lady Constance Stewart Richardson being approached for a pose by a young man near Rath Elu. She deflects, then teases him with a choice of dances, noting her poised wit as onlookers smile at the awkward moment.
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Constance Stewart Richardson
Ington
Constance
Rath Elu
Pleadilly
Washington Star
Violin Brings Farmer Wealth in Gettysburg Tale
Charles Riley a Gettysburg farmer of modest means unexpectedly gains wealth from a violin of great value. Initially offered 40 dollars, the instrument’s price rises to 7600 as the owner refuses to sell. A second buyer also seeks the violin, which bears the date 1708 and was bought by Riley’s father at a public sale.
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Charles Riley
Gettysburg
Lre
Riley
Gold in Jewelry Through the Ages
The piece explains that real gold has not been used for centuries in jewelry, with ancient Roman and Renaissance pieces sometimes pure gold. Jewelers shifted to alloys to increase hardness, wear, and secure gem settings, leading to common use of 18, 14, or 10 carat gold, especially 10 carat.
Bird Slaughter Condemned in South Australia
A protest denounces the continual slaughter of rare birds such as the Ibia egret cranes and spoondil to meet milliner demand. The act is said to deplete beauty and wildlife and, per the Journal of Agriculture, worsen grasshopper plagues and threaten fish spawn relations as crustaceans rise along capes.
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South Australia
Journal of Agriculture
Capes
Nurse Bell Remembers Lister Days at Glasgow Infirmary
A Glasgow Royal Infirmary nurse marks 45 years nursing and recalls aiding Lister’s early antiseptic work. At 69 she still serves in the hospital, sharing memories of 1861 to 1868 classes and the day Lord Lister received the city’s freedom.
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Lord Lister
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Nurse Hell
Professor Lister
Royal Infirmary
Glastow
Nurse Bell
St. Andrews
University Chapel
Abe
What the Mosquito Costs
The Mosquito costs are substantial. Hector Howard of the agriculture department notes enormous real estate value losses in mosquito infested areas. New Jersey dairying and grazing lands lose potential yield, and land near New York and Philadelphia is rendered nearly uninhabitable by swarms. Estimated national costs reach around ten million dollars.
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Hector Howard
Department of Agriculture
New Jersey
New York
Philadelphia
United States
Goethals Tells Cadets Simple Post Repair Plan
A story about Col George W Goethals at West Point recounts a recitation question. The cadets propose complex rigging and gear but Goethals cuts to the chase with a humorous solution telling them to simply command, "Boy Beaut, put up that sag pole."
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George W. Goethals
Wast Point
Pergeant
Cornea
Goethals
Batur Gay Evening Post
Start the Day Right at Breakfast
A refined breakfast idea is offered contrasting a pleasant morning meal with a fresh snowy table and well made coffee. The piece frames breakfast as a promoter of good temper and harmony for the day, warning that a soiled cloth and harsh food can derail both mood and digestion.
Widow Keeps Business As John Jing Signs In Registry
A widowed meat purveyor appoints John Jing as manager. Despite illiteracy he learns to write, signing the marriage register with Settled, John Jinx. The union follows naval preliminaries and a vestry ceremony, with the couple's secured partnership and legal formalities completed.
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John Jing
John
Hirewine
Happy John
John Jinx
Synthetic Diamonds Spark New Manufacturing Claim
Numerous diamonde with bar marks of real stones appeared in Parte and were offered to dealers at low prices. Experts say Tigtdoats were applied to disguise fakes, suggesting a synthetic production method. Some observers believe the process may soon rival established manufactured gems in the market.
Symmetry in school desks questioned by Chicago official
Ella Flage Young, superintendent of schools, argues that seating layout harms child health. She notes many children arrive round shouldered in primary grades and blame desks not being properly heighted. She urges abandoning rigid symmetry for child health oriented design.
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Echoo Roome
Schoole Mra
Ella Flage Young
Chicago
Young
Dewka
Heaith
Antebellum mammy seeks fit in city shoe shop
In a Chicago Post item, a cautious antebellum mammy enters a shoe store and asks the clerk to help as she trials men’s heavy plow shoes. The clerk stands ready while she jokes about fitting and being white folks raised.
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Antebellum
Faye
Chicago
Interesting Lot of Things and Penny Won’t Do
A fragmentary item notes Mrs Gee and Mr Exe Humph remarks on a quirky list of tasks and a penny. The incomplete column hints at humorous list content and playful banter without full context or names. The piece preserves a light tone and local newspaper voice from an era of brevity.
Bread of Vikings Found at Ljunga Sweden
An archaeologist at Stockholm University Dr Behnit identifies an Ikrome brand bread from Viking times. The bread appears to be made from pine bark and pine ash, indicating pine trees grew in Sweden long ago. Only a few ancient bread specimens have been found in Egypt, Sweden, and northern lands, including a fourth century corn meal loaf unearthed by Dr Schnittter in 1898.
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Ljunga
Gothland
Behnit
Stockholm University
Sweden
Egypt
Blanket Ballot Tale Involving Senator Lag and Overseer
A sensational excerpt recounts a North Carolina tale about Senator Overman and a loyal colored maid in his house. The anecdote describes a belief that counting ballots in Raleigh could boost his wife's standing, culminating in a prayer asking divine intervention to shield "Maubatalee" with ballot protection.
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Lag
Overman
North Carolina
Senate
Legislative Chamber
Raleigh
Maba Tah Lee
Moon Struck Proposal Under Moonlit Lake
Moonlight music fills the scene as a couple shares a tender moment by a lake. He leans in to propose while the moon seems to fall, the line between dream and reality blurred by a gentle sigh and a soft embrace. The moon’s movement and a distant splash frame a quiet, intimate moment.
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Min
Ate
Mourning attire shifts as health science shapes taste
The Baltimore American notes social circles will discuss the young widow of Col. John Jacob Astor wearing white mourning instead of black. It argues sanitary science drives changes in mourning fashion, reducing health risks from traditional garb and expressions of sorrow.
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Baltimore American
Thelma Ruth Questions Folk Reminders On Disease Rules
In a childlike query Thelma Ruth asks what illness she might catch from shared items. A white east aide girl wonders about disease transmission from family brushing tools after being taught not to use others’ brushes.
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Loglea
Thelma Ruth
White East
Thelma
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