His Stepmother by Mary Angela Dickens
The Rev Evelyn Carstairs discovers his stepmother Lady Laura charming a married man Mr Fraser. A dinner at the Manor exposes a hidden romance as Laura and Fraser confess their past feelings while Evelyn grapples with scandal and duty.
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Evelyn Carstairs
Mr. Carstairs
Mr. Jones
Wimnington
Laura
Evelyn
Fraser
Lady Laura
Mr. Fraser
Mrs. Fraser
Donkey Engines Shift Lumber Work in Northwest Timber
J L Martin of Portland reports donkeys or donkey engines are moving logs through timber faster and more safely. Cables up to a mile long pull logs to mills, with uphill pulls and snaked descents replacing dangerous hillside hauling. He says timber is abundant, trade remains strong, and no lumber crash is expected as the industry steadies to a normal pace.
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Kansas City Journal
J. L. Martin
Portland
Happy Little Home In The Evening Of A Prayer
A nostalgic verse recalls a happy home with children at play and a loving mother. The speaker remembers mornings with chores and neighbors, evenings with supper and prayers, and a sense that happiness rests in family and faith as Louise R. Beker reflects.
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Louise R. Beker
Charade and rebus items for department readers in Lewiston Maine
A fragment list includes puzzles and notes addressed to E R Chadbourn in Lewiston Maine. It features a rebus item and a long verse about a fallen monarch of the forest ending with a hopeful note to the southern forest king Saxon.
Dropped Ends and a Summer Theater Dream Dorothea
A narrative follows a sturdy boy leaving at dawn, tending cows and extending a fence, while a sister manages the purse. He repairs a pig pen and protects stock, noting a city summer resort influence on William, as his father vows to keep him from wicked ways. Dorothea.
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William
Dorothea
Riddle of the Voice Hidden in Senses and Features
A riddle describes a voice heard in notes of many kinds never seen yet heard in night and day with few features no mouth or ears yet loudest din echoed far a small eye and a nose oddly placed hidden until cut deep by sight and a head that may be cut off yielding an ugly self invoked when guessing right
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Evelyn
Pia
Laura Carstairs
London
Laura
Napoleon
Mr. Carstairs
Lady Laura
Parron
Grant
Lizzie Stone
Lizzie
Dick Stone
Brisbane
Jones
Ant
Tiptons Complete Rest Ends in Comedy of Restful Escape
Tipton abandons business life for a mountain retreat promising perfect rest but soon chews through misunderstandings and temptations. He seeks silence away from mail and wires, only to crave news and contact as the trip doubles back to city life, highlighting restless indulgence and misread peaceful hype.
Physiology Quiz From a Historical Page
A list of riddle correspondences matches body parts to objects and terms. Questions include musical instrument parts, prisoner’s abode, tools, tree body, blacksmith tools, river top, hill, a unit of measure, and animal references. Answers align with common metaphorical names for body parts and other terms.
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M. HB
Noted Miscalculations In Wartime Note
Fragmentary verse recalls a veteran remark about danger and fame. The lines reference bullets and missteps in war, noting someone named Spica moving forward then faltering. A third attempt ends with injury and defeat as the speaker named Nillor reflects on the rough ground and bruising outcome.
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Spica
Nillor
A Fair Night Math Puzzle for a Young Reader
A boy attends a fair for four nights. Each night he spends 10 cents to enter, half his remaining money on neurons, and W cents to exit. After the fourth night his money is gone. Determine the initial amount. The verso includes scattered literary lines and puzzle flavor with numbers and place names from the era.
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G. Oo
Prize for Best List of Completed Words No. 24
An attractive prize will be presented to the sender of the best list of completed words answering No. 24. Solutions must be forwarded within one week. In case of doubt the winner will be decided by any feature adding special merit to a nearest complete list.
Knocking around the world and linked word patterns
A collage of names and terms lists authors and figures from literature and history, including Reade Prior Story Hope Crabbe Sharp Page Swift Lang Black White Hewitt Wordsworth Ford Winter Allen Nye Keats Hunt Johnson Gray Poe Lamb Hedge Field Moore Sterling Dryden Riley Greene Lover Gay Young Goldsmith Fellowes Butler Cook Mot ley Bacon Browning Burns Shadwell Bagehot Dickens Newman Hardy Hale Walker Cowper Hoge Blood Drake Shaw Byron Homer Pope Howe Best Kipling Sterne Underbrush Features Seracs Scares
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Reade
Prior
Story
Hope
Crabbe
Page
Swift
Lang
Black
White
Hewitt
Wordsworth
Ford
Winter
Allen
Nye
Keata
Hunt
Johnson
Gray
Poe
Lamb
Hedge
Field
Moore
Sterling
Dryden
Riley
Greene
Lover
Gay
Young
Goldsmith
Fellowes
Butler
Cook
Motley
Bacon
Browning
Burns
Shadwell
Bagehot
Dickens
Newman
Hardy
Hale
Walker
Cowper
Hoge
Blood
Drake
Shaw
Byron
Homer
Pope
Howe
Best
Kipling
Sterne
Rheumatism in the New York Times outlines the contagion claim
The article critiques doctors for asserting rheumatism is contagious and laments medical impotence. It notes the disease battering patients, provoking fear and social shunning, while urging humility and awe from the medical community rather than bold contagion claims.
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New York Times
Adam
Noah
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Mary Angela Dickens
Laura Kelile
Car Stairs
Nps
Rose Lane
Newport
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Kidder
Katharine
Johnny
Tommy
Billie-boy
Lewiston
Maine
E. R. Chadbourn
H. See Bee
Sphinx Lore
Riddle
Tipton
Tom Masson
New York
Long Branch Express
Bingham
Heber
Reginald
Delian
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