Disgraced Manning Finds Redress in a French Romance
Manning, ruined in fortune and reputation, falls for a Frenchwoman on a moonlit coast. She seeks a state paper stolen by her husband’s allies, but the plan unravels as loyalties clash and Manning learns the baroness’s aim to save her husband’s name.
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Fletcher
Manning
Marseilles
Chateau Lasgourgues
Lfe
M'Sieu
Buda-Pesth
Chateau
Baron von Franz
M'sieur
South Africa
Marie von Franz
Judge Reminded of Baldness by Rural Farmer
A Virginia circuit judge was humorously teased by a local farmer who quipped that soon he would need a string around his head to mark how far up to wash his face, highlighting a light moment amid legal life in Harper's Magazine.
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M'Sieur
Manning
Fletcher
M'‘Sieur
Jace
M'Sseur
M'Stear
Sey
M'sleur
Chateau Lasgourges
Chateau
Liberty Hall
Pierre
M'Sier
Harry
Monte Carlo
Harper's Magazine
Virginia
Columbus
Jamaica
Peres OBERT and Other Fragments in a 19th Century Nonsense Tale
A collection of playful vignettes and puzzles featuring names to solve, Aunt Cassie’s quirks, a bee versus pigeon race with a math riddle, and colonial history as told in fragmentary notes. The text mixes pseudoscience, poetry references, and local color as it moves through tales of love, bravery, and mischief.
Race Between Pigeon and Bee Delights Village Fans
A Westphalia tale tells of a pigeon and a bee racing across each rivals’ home village. A Rhynern bird fancier wagers his speedy entrant against a Hamme bee keeper. Each animal starts from the opponent’s village, creating a curious twist in this unusual match.
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Rhynern
Westphalia
Hamme
Out of the Ordinary News Snippets and Trivia
A miscellany surveys global labor, railways, emigration and curious facts. It notes German female labor pay gaps, Mexico City streetcars, a wheat export price, vast arable lands in Manitoba, Hawaii’s Asiatic population, Siberian travel limits, a tiny North Yorkshire church, Bengal hailstorms, and four daily meals in Washington hotels. Also mentions a Tokio shrine gift, Peruvian wall erosion, Swedish emigration, and a poetic puzzle commentary with prize hints and a winner list.
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Germany
Mexico City
United States
England
Manitoba
Assiniboia
Hawaii
Siberian
Shanghai
Upleatham
North Yorkshire
Jessore
Bengal
Washington
Tokio
America
Portland
Vast Sawmill Activity Amid Caribbean Trade Wave
Sawmills within fifty miles of Martinique island are busy with lumber and cooperage orders from St. Pierre and Fort de France. A physician notes a sleep whispering trick that makes a sleeper answer questions, while Palestine is described as a small country with limited dimensions and population.
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Martinique
St. Pierre
Fort de France
Palestine
Beersheeba
Mississippi
Davis
Beauvoir
Biloxi
Miss
Thomas Garigue Masaryk
University of Prague
Baltimore
American Republic
Lord North
Maria San
Iquitos
Brazil
Lima
Peru
Amazon
Atlantic
New York
Panama
Pacific
South America
Andes
Baku
Theater Hesitancy Founds Religious Audience Impact
A Philadelphia manager notes many residents avoid plays due to scruples while others attend only when a play carries a religious element. He observes nontheater patrons may be swayed by church endorsement, driving large turnout once such approval is gained.
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Philadelphia
Mrchoneh
Sona Traction Iy
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Ernest Granville
Hig
Sandhurst
Army
Diplomatic Service
Colonies
States
Canada
Africa
Old Man
M’sieur
BE. R. Chadbourn
Lewiston
Maine
Peres Obert
M. C
Cassie
Jack
Quebec
Dorothea
Rhynemn
F. L
Daphne
Ali
A. L
WM. Wilson
Winona Newsom
Carthage
Ind
Kate Schooley
Nellie J. Flint
Marian Pettengill
Black
Gray
Green
White
Spenser
Holmes
Castle
Field
Tennyson
Hawthorne
Hardy
Hare
Hunt
Swift
Brooke
Sand
Reade
Bachellor
Lover
Caine
Goldsmith
Cooper
Webster
Steele
Moore
Stowe
Lamb
Crabbe
Roy
Hogg
Suckling
Howe
Saxe
Cooke
Paul
Growlore
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