Ordering Up Home Runs In An Old Coaching Tale
The tale recalls Eddie Ashenback recounting a 1902 UNC coaching episode with a chemistry professor who advised distributing hits as if guiding a cart of beverages. Ashenback recalls asking about balancing his job and the professor insists on a compromise to alternate the trick.
Mamma's Company Voice
A family scene in which Nellie notes mamma and Fred are the only others in the parlor. A "company voice" reading from Fun prompts smiles, but a mother contemplates how this polished persona hides sobering truths about how she and others often speak harshly to those closest to them.
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Coffee and Kisses as a Frugal Path to Wedlock
Roy Farrell Greene contemplates marriage under poverty like a satire on midcentury domestic life. Prue argues that coffee and kisses could sustain a household, while the speaker laments need and decor, imagining a parlor suite and home luxuries as the cost of love.
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Moscow Officials and Imperial Figures Targeted in 1906 Raid
During the era of Gov Gen Trepoff in St Petersburg, when he led Moscow police before a state liquor monopoly, he was ordered to suppress corruption at popular resorts. Days later raids hit major restaurants after midnight and Trepoff sought guidance on prosecuting a member of the imperial family, two high court judges, the mayor and deputy mayor, several generals, and many Moscow society women. The case ended without further action.
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High Court
Lady seeks last Literary Digest at Detroit bookshop
A book loving woman visits a Detroit store asking for the latest Literary Digest. The novice clerk cannot locate it and finally offers an alternative, a copy of What to Eat and How to Cook It, after the last Digest is found sold out.
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Will Co
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Japs at Work at Port Arthur
Japanese salvage teams at Port Arthur employ 1,200 workers repairing ships and hoarding coal. They claim to expect the recovery of fifty vessels as a result of salvage efforts and have collected artillery vehicles locomotives cars and other trophies ready for shipment.
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Port Arthur
Port’ Arthur
Physician's harsh view on women blocks truth in diagnosis
The text cites a physician asserting women lie to doctors about female ailments. It promotes Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts as a trusted confidante, inviting unmarried women to write for free advice and sharing patient testimonials praising her vegetable compound’s cures.
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Witty Society Talk Touches Morals and Modern Cliches
A dialogue between two ladies mocks social pretensions and gender norms. Quotations critique honesty, hypocrisy, ambition, and self interest while weaving in a Wabash line update about ticket validation at the World's Fair. The piece blends humor with social commentary.
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