Street lunch wagons replace hot wieners in city
A long read on street cafes and lunch wagons lining Illinois and Washington streets. Vendors report rising winter demand, with 23 itinerant carts and wagons selling sandwiches, pies, and coffee for five cents each, chicken at 15 cents, from 11 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Rivalry among Jewish and Greek sellers grows, while downtown restaurants feel the bite as crowds shift to roadside lunch stands and moving cafés.
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Warners
Penn- Weylvania and
Washington Streets
Thisty
Illinois
Washington
Frankfort
Ohio
Missouri
Michigean
South Africa to be rehabilitated under new tax plan
A Johannesburg letter envisions a revived South Africa as peace spurs growth in mines and rail, with Boers and Dutch settlers backing a Canada-like constitution and the Witlander element shaping the new republic. It argues the 10 percent tax on net profits will fund reforms while boosting Rand mines profits and colonial railway reforms.
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J. D. Jones
Johannesburg
Canaan
South Africa
Transvaal
Cape
Canada
Rand
Netherlands Railway
Delagoa Bay
T Is
Copyright pirates and the early US book trade tales
In a column praised for its piquant tone William Walsh explains how publishers once skirted copyright rules before modern acts. He cites cases like Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, notes serial publication risks, and recounts Edison-esque anecdotes about editors, poets such as Poe and Hawthorne, and Mrs. Barr.
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Era
William 8. Walsh
United States
Houghton, Mittin & Co
Poe
Hawthorne
Emerson
Captain Kidd
Acore
Autocrat
Breakfast Table
Atlantic Monthly
Holmes
United States Supreme Court
Justice Brown
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Daniel
The Earliest Books and Papyrus Material in Antiquity
Frederic George Kenyon discusses how papyrus shaped ancient literature on papyrus rolls rather than bound volumes. Rolls up to thirty feet long held single plays or two Iliad books, causing many works to survive only in fragments due to separate scrolls.
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Frederic George Kenyon
Harper's Magazine
Pericles
Caesar
Egypt
B. C
The Short Story Versus the Novel Debate in Modern Times
A discussion of literary forms contrasts poetry and prose development with papyrus and vellum materials, noting short stories thrive alongside novels. It cites Edith Wharton, W. W. Jacobs, and Hornung as strong short fiction writers while describing the role of librarians and "the shadows of the novelists" aiding historical novelists. The piece mocks demand for historical novels and lampoons the serial writing process.
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New York Evening Sun
Rudyard Kipling
Edith Wharton
W. W. Jacobs
Hornung
Prolific Philadelphia Writer Brady That Dictates and Sells
The Philadelphia cleric novelist Cyrue Townsend Brady is praised for extraordinary output. In nine months after July 1, 1%, he produced Woven with the Ship a 40000 word sea tale The Southerners 100000 words Border Fights and Fighters 100000 words a boy story of 000 words In the Wasp s Nest plus short stories two 2000 word monthly book reviews and thirty sermons of 1250 words each He rewrote Hohenzollerns into a 46000 word romance carried through press Hohenzollern The Quiberon Touch and Colonialist Fights and Fighters and kept up extensive correspondence preached twice weekly and kept a cashbook showing his earnings and book sales all while living in Philadelphia
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New York Evening Post
Miles Standish
Cyrue Townsend Brady
Philadelphia
Plymouth
Hohenzollerns
Hohenzollern
A Western Woman’s One Story That Won Harper’s
In Harper’s August Editor’s Study Alden recounts a Western woman who, after losing her husband, wrote to earn a living. Her tale Why I wrote it was accepted and published, the sole story she ever placed in the magazine, reflecting a vital moment echoed by Oliver Wendell Holmes on writing one true life tale.
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Amelia E. Barr
Barr
Thousan
Johnson
Thrale
Gyauige
Harper’s Magazine
Mr. Alden
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Aldrich Summering at Tenant's Harbor Cottage
Literary notes report Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich spending summer at Tenant's Harbor Maine. His new short story collection A Sea Turn and Other Matters will publish in early October. Also covered are Blackwood's Magazine lawsuit details and Sir Conan Doyle's Boer War pamphlet earnings and charity plans.
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Tenant's Harbor
Blackwood's
Sir Conan Doyle
Conan
University of Edinburgh
Leslie Stephen
George Eliet
London
Austin Dobson
Jeasopp
Scott
Thackeray
British authors and a planned US visit noted
A literary note discusses Madame Sarah Grand and her recent activity. It mentions her view of English historical novels, references Es mond and Babs the Impossible, and reports plans for an early trip to the United States. It also notes her work on a dramatization of The Heavenly Twins begun by Robert Buchanan and continued by George H. Sims.
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England
Esmond
Sarah Grand
United States
Robert Buchanan
George H. Sims
Little Men Peculiarities Told By Philadelphia Shoemaker
A Philadelphia shoemaker notes that many little men in his customer base demand high heels to appear taller. He observes vanity and a belief in added height, with actors also using heels on stage, though the effect relies on perspective.
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Philadelphia
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