Postal clerks and accuracy drive the railway mail service
The article details the railway post office system, highlighting strict accuracy and speed standards, monthly error reports, and penalties for mistakes. It notes oversight of clerks even off duty, the roles of mail clerks on trains, examination and fitness requirements, and the dangers and pride of service. It also cites routes like Pittsburgh to St Louis, clerk promotions, and the demanding physical toll of handling heavy mail.
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Superin Aenient
Post Office
Elec
Tnts City
Cincinnati
Boostolice
Pittsie
St. Louis
Cleveland and
St .Louis
Ofeo
Failway Postal Service
Geert Neeen
Mts
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Texas
Missouri
Arkansas
Kansas
Largest meteorite found in Mexico by Ward dominates Chicago Special
Professor Henry A Ward returns from Mexico with claim of the largest meteorite on record weighing about fifty tons. He says the iron mass, found near Colima after a Mexico expedition, measures thirteen feet one inch long six feet four inches thick and five feet four inches wide, possibly costing about fifty two thousand dollars to move to a seaport.
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Chicago
Henry A. Ward
Mexico
Ward
Academy of Science
Academy
Arizona
Kansas
Gulf
Colina
Colima
Professor Ward
Dodge
Women novelists lack sense of largeness in critics view
A Harper's Magazine observation on Caroline McCormick's poem and Leslie Stephen's George Eliot study sparks a debate on why women writers produce intimate mosaics rather than expansive epics. The NY Commercial Advertiser notes Romola prompts renewed critique, contrasting female miniatures with male epic canvases across authors like Scott, Dumas, Hugo, Tolstoy, and Zola.
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Leslie Stephen
George Eliot
New York Commercial
Romola
Stephen
Jane Austen
Miss Edgeworth
Charlotte Bronte
Scott
Dumas
Hugo
Tolstoi
Zola
Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Henry Esmond
Dickens
Two Cities
Italy
Charles Renade
Reade
May Heralds Farley as New York Archbishop Designate
In New York there is belief that Bishop Farley has been chosen by the Pope to succeed the late Archbishop Corrigan. Farley, born in County Armagh Ireland on April 20 1842, was consecrated bishop of New York on December 21 1596.
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New York
Farley
Corrigan
Diocese of
County Armagh
Ireland
Road to Literary Fame and the Publishing Maze
A New Orleans Times Democrat column defends manuscript rejection as common and not a measure of merit. It urges persistence, noting readers and editors determine fate, with stories of rejections turning into eventual print after perseverance and retries.
Is METHOD ing History Harper's Magazine
After four volumes were printed Harper's Magazine notes the author undertook a complete revision of the four volumes. He made a thousand corrections in spelling grammar capitalization and sentence arrangement adding and omitting words and paragraphs. Yet the history remains clear and plain.
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Harper's Magazine
England
Evolution of Dury’s Works on Bacon and Editions
The narrative traces the publication history of volumes on Bacon, noting England and America editions from 1545 onward. It discusses revisions in 1840 and later, the 1860s volumes, and the final corrections in 1857. It highlights confusion over editions after Macaulay and posthumous edits by his sister, and the public’s general unawareness of a more complete edition.
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England
America
Macaulay
Lenox
Astor Library
Finality in novels and a Tarkington interview reexamined
Walter Sichel surveys new novels and the trend of leaving endings to readers by imagination. Harper's Weekly notes Booth Tarkington’s rising fame and a rumored interview while Brooklyn Eagle questions a Hoosier prize plan. Old cyclopedias are valued for enduring knowledge. a proposal is made to repurpose them.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Rees
Writing as a Long Apprenticeship in Woman's Home Companion
The piece stresses that successful writing demands a long apprenticeship and hard work. It compares writing to trades like bookbinding and typesetting, arguing that novices should endure the toil to learn mechanics and craft rather than expect quick earnings from daydreams.
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Snort
Curious Books Turned Boxes in a Magician’s Library
A Philadelphia Record likely excerpted tale describes a fanciful library of George G. Thomas and William H. Lambert. Magnificent leather bound volumes conceal hollow boxes, revealing clever fakes when opened. The piece plays on illusion and the reader’s trust in physical appearance.
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Philadelphia
George G. Thomas
William H. Lambert
Hidden Treasure Boxes Guard Rare First Edition Books
Magnificent leather boxes with gold decorations shelter first editions by Dickens Scott Lamb and Thackeray. Inside lie plain volumes bound in cloth or paper far costlier than their cases. The boxes protect priceless works whose value surpasses the protection they provide.
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Dickens
Scott
Lamb
Thackeray
Carnegie Gift Creates Vast Library For Historian
In the New Orleans Times-Democrat account the gift of a great library by Mr. Carnegie is praised as fitting for a distinguished man of letters and a learned historian. Lord Acton is highlighted for extraordinary reading speed and retention, with the remark that such omnivorous reading may not recur. The books, set for a destined future, may molder on shelves as caviate to the general.
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Romola
Waverly
Comedie Humaine
Les Rougon-Macquart
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Lord Acton
Carnegie
Richard Whiteing at retreat and Parker’s Donovan Pasha
Richard Whiteing reports from the country that he is deeply immersed in his new story with no finish date given. Donovan Pasha will be the first book published under Sir Gilbert Parker after his knighthood, signaling a shift but leaving room for his ongoing Canadian work. A reader’s stamp chain proposes sending stamps with letters to Editors in a loop until exhausted. Emile Zola cites his education in Aix and Paris as context for a question about education.
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Richard Whiteing
John
Whiteing
Donovan Pasha
Emile Zola
Municipal College
Aix
Lycee St. Louis
Paris
Herbert Darling
Bloemfontein
Western Australia
South Africa
Bret Harte
Harte
Mark Twain
Twain
Cervantes
Hackeray
Dickens
Shakspeare
Charles Reade
London
Peg Woffington
Owen Wister
Bookman
West
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QSHOP
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Willie
New Orleans Times Democrat
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Harper's Weekly
Booth Tarkington
Indiana
Tarkington
Ipple
Mamye
Mr. Gimpsum
Addye
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