Breach of Promise Farce in Lord Bayswater Case
In a comic breach of promise setup, Elsie Marston and Dolly Cartwright recruit Mr. Cooley to trap Lord Archibald Tomnoddy. A disguise plot with a Quasimodo child exposes alleged affections, while Queenly intrigue and a staged libel of love letters ignite a chaotic young nobleman farce.
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Elsie Marston
Johnny Cool
Httle
Dolly Cartwright
Lord Archie
Duke of Bayswater
Archie
Lord Tommoddy
Quasimodo
Tomnoddy
Hal
Mr. Cool
Archibald T
Lord Tomioddy
Rome
Archia
Lord Tomnoddy
Archibald
Duke
Modern Whist Too Scientific Becomes Pure Recreation
A serialized critique of modern scientific whist. It laments the shift from lively social games to rigid, cerebral play. The piece contrasts old, relaxed whist with the new, solemn, highly structured version. It notes a Philadelphia whist congress where attitudes were severe and spectators silent.
Remorse and murder confession at Gratiot station
A man bursts into the Gratiot avenue police station in Detroit confessing a 15 year burden of remorse and a murder in Dubuque, demanding punishment. The sergeant dismisses him as one officer orders him out into the night. Also recounted is Bourke Cochran’s tale of life as a dry goods porter in New York, which leads to his decision to study law.
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Peter Flath
Tomnoddy
ES Marsting
Quasimodo
Tommy
Johnny Cool
Lord Tomnoddy
Duke of Bayswater
Sallie
Sally
Missus
Philander Johnson
Kate Kiel
Washington
Gratiot Avenue
Canada
Dubuque
Panos
Tom
Mina
Wes
Detroit Free Press
Bourke Cochran
Ee Ee
A.T. Sweeny
Con Rector
New York
Stewart
Chambers Street
Cockran
Cochran
Bourkeier
Giant athlete races a messenger boy on New York street
A towering athlete speeds along South Avenue as a rickety messenger boy on a late bike delivers a letter and challenges him. The crowd jeers and cheers as the two dash toward 58th Street, around Fifth Avenue, then the boy, triumphant, heads toward Bleeker Street declaring he beat the giant in a street race.
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Sth Avenue
Democratic Anti-Sammany
S0th Street
Siister
Bleeker
Tangent
New York Sun
Edible toadstools and deadly mushrooms debated
A writer discusses common beliefs about identifying edible Boletus edulis versus deadly Amanita bulbosa. The piece notes popular tests fail, cites cases of misidentification, and warns that Amanita poisoning can be fatal hours after ingestion.
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Harper's Magazine
Highest L of all in Leavening Power Story
A collage of short anecdotes from varied topics including a rail track foot rescue in Long Island City where bystanders freed a trapped woman, Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus critique, and Catherine the Great repainting baboons on a Chinese bridge, with reflections on medals of taste and rusted artistry.
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U.S
Burns and the simple truth in Tennyson style
Excerpt recounts a Greenock lecture by ex Baili Walker of Kilmarnock praising Burns for his natural, universal appeal. The speaker contrasts Burns with Tennyson, noting Burns’s ability to capture ordinary scenes and moments with vivid emotion, from a gowan to a haggis on the table, and lauds Burns as a genius who saw and felt all.
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Baili Walker
Kilmarnock
Burns
Greenock
Dr. Stalker
G' Wn
Tennyson
Vm Ee
Ion
Tay Beas
Lea
Jense
Sekceo
Ayr
Robert Burns
Moonlit confession under Cupid’s gaze in judge story
On a soft moonlit night Adele and SSeS declare love as a Paris oculist’s visit is revealed. The couple declare happiness, a glass eye shock is shared, and George turns away his face in the grass as the scene closes with a judge’s interlude.
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Adele
Sses
Papa
Paris
George
Memory of the White City Palace of Art Survives
The Palace of Art endures beside the lake after the fire, a lasting gallery of painting and sculpture. As the Field's Columbian Museum it will entertain and instruct future generations, a World Fair in miniature, recalling the 1893 exposition and Dr Price’s analysis winning the Highest Award for leavening strength and purity.
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White City
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Conn
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Hawaka
Mishawaka
Woolen Mfg. Co
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Tomnodéy
Mrs. Marston
Catwright
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Thomas
Cook
Lord Archibald
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House of Bayswater
Shepield Telegraph
Indianapolis Journal
Philadelphia
Amneh
Clarence
Caltipers
Ullice
Long Island City
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N. F. Herald
Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Hoagland
N. ¥. Tribune
Catherine the Great
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