Confession of a Thief and the Moral Debate at the Seaside
A man recounts a near theft in a seaside resort leaving him remorseful about finding a gold coin. A banker peers debate nature versus civilization, self interest versus others rights, and the temptation faced by those handling money. A bank president’s mercy and a vow to seek restitution conclude the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Robin Hood
Colin
Western Bank
Indiana University
George
Widow of Maine Governor Named Republican Founder in California
Mrs. Robina Washburn, widow of Israel Washburn and famed Maine War Governor, now lives in a San Diego home after years in California. The article recalls Washburn’s pivotal 1854 Kansas Nebraska bill moment inspiring the Republican party’s naming, praising his call for a new anti slavery platform and the adoption of the Republican label as a unifying, principled choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles Times
San Diego
Robina "Napieree
Israel Will
Republican Party
Maine
Washburn
Lake
James G. Blaine
Thomas Brackett Reed
Ah Dingley
Hanni- Hemslin
Eugene Hale
Pine Tree
Portland
Congress
Elliott
Dickinson
Massachusetts
England Pensions Writers Who Have Done Worthy Work
London Letter notes Civil List pensions to writers and scholars including Rhoda Broughton Justin McCarthy Gardiner widow and Earle widow. Pensions total 7250 annually, near legal limit set since Victoria era, reflecting royal recognition of literary and scholarly contributions.
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London
England
Rhoda Broughton
Earle
Austin Dobson
Maeterlinck and Henley on Writing Influences
Maeterlinck discusses his Jesuit schooling in Ghent and his move to Paris after an unhappy legal career, noting literary mentors including Villiers de l Isle Adam and Shakespeare. The New York Tribune reflects on William Ernest Henley as a prolific journalist who inspired many but whose cult faded as readers questioned his celebrated self reliance.
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Philadelphia
Maurice Maeterlinck
America
Ghent
Paris
Maeterlinck
Villiers de l'Isle Adam
Shakspeare
New York Tribune
William Ernest Henley
Stevenson
Henley
Phil
Mr. Henley
American Boy in Story and the Ideal Boy Hero
A discussion of American boys in fiction led by Sidney Lanier and Howard Pyle. Miss Alcott and Mary Mapes Dodge are praised for humanizing youth, with examples like Tom Sawyer and Harvey Cheyne. The piece notes the national ideals of pluck, independence, and revolt against moral priggishness, then shifts to a Philadelphia Record anecdote about a publisher’s misleading practices and autographs.
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Gunton'’s
America
Sidney Lanier
Howard Pyle
Miss Alcott
Mary Mapes Dodge
Holland
Gallagher
Lew and
Jakin
Aldrich
Bad Boy
Tom Sawyer
Pony Baker
Harvey Cheyne
Dan Disko
Starkey & Co
Authors Profit from Magazines by Publishing Stories
The writer criticizes editors who seek writers for magazines and then profit by compiling their stories or poems into books, noting the vanity of human nature as authors end up paying for the exposure while others gain financial reward.
Misquoting in Literature and the Theft of Phrasing
August Reader notes widespread misquoting and miscrediting of verse and prose by newspapers, orators, and literary publications. It urges borrowing only from authentic works, accusing memory of unreliability and warning that misattribution robs authors of due credit and harms living and dead alike.
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W. J. Ghent
Richelieu
Marriage of Miss Josephine Dodge Daskam to Mr. Bacon
In Chicago Post Roswell Field notes the engagement between Miss Josephine Dodge Daskam, twenty six, and Mr. Bacon, fifty, calling the match discreet and conservative. It records admiration from admirers and offers best wishes for happiness in the union despite sharp opinions on her long name.
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Roswell Field
Chicago Post
Josephine Dodge Daskam
Bacon
Josephine
Dodge Daskam
Chicago
Notable American Writers and Literary Moves Recap
A collage of literary news covers Gertrude Atherton renting in Munich with her spouse, Elizabeth Waltz’s Louisville journalism ties, Hamlin Garland’s authorial profits from rediscovered stories, Josephine Daskam’s Stamford marriage to Selden Bacon, Anthony Hope’s new novel Double Harness, Gertrude Lynch’s stage adaptation of The Fighting Chance, and Henry Harland’s London focus while praising Norwich as the rose of the world. The piece also notes Hawkins anecdotes and Harland’s Russia birth claim alongside McClure's serial My Friend Prospero.
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Gertrude Atherton
Munich
Elizabeth Cherry Waltz
Pa Gladden
Louisville Courier- Journal
Frederic H. Waltz
Louisville Herald
Meadowbrook
Louisville
Waltz
Hamlin Garland
Conn
Selden Bacon
New York
Smith College
Anthony Hope
Scott Craven
Henry Harland
London
Norwich
New England
Russia
Italy
Prospero
McClure
Mr. Harland
Meditations of a Troubled Spirit Poem from the Pope
A fragmentary ancient poem attributed to the pope on his deathbed, translated by Harry Thurston Peck. It speaks of Leo and a destined hour, the burden of the Keys, fear, and comfort from Christ offering grace to those who seek.
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Rome
Harry Thurston Peck
New York Independent
Leo
Christ
What He Says of Jewett Pianos in Boston 1902
Giuserre Creatore offers praise for the Jewett Piano Company upright piano in Boston Massachusetts. He notes a sweet pure tone with a round sonorous volume, even touch and light repetition, calling it an instrument of exceptional quality.
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Giuserre Creatore
Questions and Answers in the old exchange columns
A long reader Q and A feature covers diverse topics from geography and biography to chemistry and industry. Questions touch on Milton S. Latham, brass, the Wandering Jew, Dr Cronin, camel digestion, Magruder, census trends, German emperor income, apple orchard pruning, tsetse fly, and a mix of trivia. Answers provide concise factual recalls, historical dates, and practical notes.
Medical Triumphs Yet to Come in Modern Medicine
Joseph Walsh notes in Booklovers Magazine that scientific medicine is in its infancy and will extend life by eradicating childhood diseases. Cholera infantum, once a terror of mothers in summer, has yielded to a medical student Duval at the University of Pennsylvania under Professor Flexner’s direction, with exams in Vienna and Munich ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. K. Chesterton
Sigurd
Achilles
St. George
Eurystheus
Hercules
Joseph Walsh
Duval
University of Pennsylvania
Flexper
Vienna
Munich
Bats Own This Theater in Tavares Florida
The Brooklyn Eagle reports a unusual bat roosting event in Tavares a central Florida lake town. Bats swarm a brick theater window after sunset forming a moving dark belt over Lake Dora. They feed above the lake then return to their daylight roost, a vast mass filling the window and surrounding air. The phenomenon draws attention as an extraordinary natural occurrence in a warm climate cinema setting.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Tavares
Fla
Central Lake Region
South Florida
Jacksonville
Florida
Taree
Dora
New York
Travares
Abolishes the switchman in KC streetcars
Kansas City Star reports the Metropolitan Street Railway Company has purchased fifteen automatic electric switches tested at Nineteenth and Main Streets. The device, controlled by the motorman, could eliminate the need for a switchman with rapid, low delay switching as cars approach intersections.
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Kansas City Star
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Nineteenth
Main Streets
Main Street
Nineteenth Street
Twenty-fourth Street
Southwest Boulevard
St. Louis
Pennsylvania lawyer solves dispute without court action
In Pennsylvania, lawyer John Fow disposed of a knotty problem by ordering a tenant to brick up a floor to stop dishwater from a lower floor. The method, aimed at letting the wife avoid stairs, used the chimney as the only outlet, with water currently flowing and no further sound.
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Lloyd
Maria
Navy Yard
Norfolk
John M. Brooks
France
England
Mary
Philadelphia
John Fow
Fow
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California
Scots’ Observer
Byron
Sherlock Holmes Stories
Sherlock Holmes
Strand
Colliers’ Weekly
Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes
Sherlock
Obliging Publisher
Franklin Inn
John Ruskin
Ruskin
O. K
Keats
Miss Daskam
Giuseppe Creatore
Winona Park
Jewett
Boston
Mass
Jewett Piano Company
Boston, Mass
Indiana
Illinois
Rade Aeolus
North Penn
Questions and
Aoeay
Sixth Cavalry
J. Q
Philippines
Nua
United States
Wm. B. B
Milton S$. Latham
Columbus, O
Jefferson College
A. M. No
James Emerson
Dr. Cronin
D. M
Raistaaie
H. W
J. B. Magruder
Houston
Tex
Winchester
West Point Military Academy
Prussia
N. P
Africa
Dow
Thirteenth
Maine Volunteers
Butler
New Orleans
Mississippi
J. H. Tooke
Nasby
Pampuis
Gladstone
Herbert Spencer
Petroleum
Lee & Shepard
Nast
A. E. Winters
East Ohio Street
Huxley
Spencer
Tontie
Eee
Kaa
Grover
Mrs. Cleveland
Ole
Grover Cleveland
Rocaweed
Cleveland
Richard
Bushard’s Bay
BATS
Pennsylvania
Solomon
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