Nazarenes in Hungary Oppose Military Service Refusal
A long feature reports Nazarenes in Bacska and Szegedin prisons resisting army conscription, praising their peaceful creed. It notes their weekly Last Supper, lack of Sabbath, and widespread growth from a thousand to about two hundred adherents, with several jailed for refusing to bear arms. It follows two imprisoned men, Joseph Kurucz and Renard Bersesacz, who endure years of captivity before a pardon prompts a staged rifle drill, while authorities hail their conversion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Bacska County
Possiig
Tolstoi
Szegedin
Joseph Kurucz
Renard Bersesacz
Buda-Pesth
Jesus
Joseph
Renard
Dolly Grays Club and the Kitchen Help Craze
A satirical tale of a Dolly Gray era club that serves macaroons and mocks public tastes, labor disputes, and Kipling’s pedestal. It follows parties rallying around Home Topics, debates over men, and efforts to attract households with a worn thread of reform and fanciful theories from Myrtle McGraw and Myrt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolly Grays
Dimple Sisters
Buck
Wing
Maeterlinck
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling
Myrtle McGraw
Myrt
Home Life and Sewage Systems Fused in 1902 Excerpts
A vivid romantic vignette contrasts domestic dreams with social temptations and practical talk on family life. The text then shifts to public health, detailing sewage treatment debates led by Dr. C Mynott Tidy, criticizing rest periods and soil aeration in Brockton Berlin and Aldershot style systems and noting how clogs from solids impede filtration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Berlin
Aldershot
England
C. Mynott Tidy
Woman Explores Modern Man In Home Making Discourse
A fragment finds a speaker describing two broad male types in the context of home life. She asserts that some men cherish home so deeply they resist leaving once settled, while the excerpt ends before naming the second class or full argument.
The Gossips On Absence And Domestic Life
A humorous essay contrasts husbands who stay near home with those who vanish for work or club life. It notes the rising unspoken exits after a first month of attention, then the quiet departure as duties and social circles pull him away. Details on humor and moral conclusions about happiness follow.
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Mick
United States
Adams of
Galesburg
Adams
Blue Lodge
Business Men's League
Committee On
Wise Sisters
Emerson
Number 4
Questions and Answers on Beekeeping and Law and Life
A long Q and A column covers weight of coins, naval history, snakes, language, Indian reservations, clerk salaries, biblical timelines, cedar propagation, author bios, census figures, bee behavior, pensions, Pitcairn Island, spleen removal, instrument expressive power, Fra Angelico, Moravians, and oath practices. It provides concise factual answers, names, dates, places, and figures, highlighting archival inquiry and public notices.
Enigmatic Knots of Odd and Ingenious Kind
A leisure hour feature presents Sphinx lore with puzzling knots and clever details. The piece invites readers to engage, promising witty challenges and curious twists from a curious tradition.
When the TOTAL days appear and earth becomes TWO ONES
A poem fragment reflects on shifting weather and human reactions. It contrasts floods and mud with papers about the flood, the return of warmth, and a sudden urge for spring cleaning as terror grips households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. C
Geographical Patchwork and a Curious Park Figure
A riddle about deletions hides in a Myrtle text. A man or woman is not fully well, a contract may fail, and both relate to a patchwork map. A park bench observer describes an elderly gentleman with a cap, scarf, and green shawl, plus a green tied rope and a benevolent act toward beggars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sore
Sweet 1 to 9 and the soldier wed in Eden’s trap
A clipped verse fragment speaks of a soldier’s marriage blest by deep love yet warned by Satan’s entrance into a perfect home. It alludes to deceit in friendship and a fate shaped by mankind’s detestation of Tranza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eden
Satan
Anu
Oaths In English Courts Face Scorn For Scotch Swear
London Telegraph notes that kissing the lament is not required to swear a witness and the Scotch uplifted hand oath was introduced thirteen years ago to ease fears of contagion from kissing Testaments. Judges distrust its non sacred nature, fearing perjury, as perjury remains a concern in courts. A recent case saw Mr Justice Phillimore admonish a witness for banging a Testament on the witness box ledge. The book was deemed sacred and ordered removed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Marlborough Street
Marlborough-street
Fenwick
London Telegraph
Justice Phillimore
STATES AND COUNTRIES MYRTLE RIDDLE
A riddle styled query list asks about states countries and life milestones. It ponders principal state jolliest place native and foreign lands plus pairs of couples and common items, ending with the name Myrtle as signature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
Arkansas
Literary Patchwork Riddle by Abel P
A cryptic verse puzzle invites readers to join small fruit a spinese tree a known mover a place of worship a mound a writer found a tent collection a movable gong to locate a writer of poem and son Abel P signs off as the author in a playful literary patchwork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abel P
German wordplay and spelling drill prompts
A cryptic page lists word pairs and homophones with corrections and numbers. It includes a section on guided chess notation describing S and H moves and a garbled phrase about outselling and a puzzling run of letters and syllables.
Drift of Modern English in Lippincott's Magazine
A Washington resident known for pride in home defies fashion by dwelling year round, while a fashionable critic is challenged in modern speech. The exchange turns playful as the unapologetically uninhibited speaker declares she not only wintered and summered there but will astonish by declaring deeper ties with the place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armenia
China
Lippincott’s Magazine
Washington
His Worldly Goods. ippincott's Magazine tale
A minister recalls an early parish in the West woods and a rough wedding in a log cabin. The bridegroom, a shabby figure, weds a buxom bride with many guests present as the ceremony is completed amid rustic banter and odd phrases.
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Ippincott’s Magazine
West
Peraps
Hank
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Francis Joseph
Keleti Joseph
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George W. Sloan
Charles Co. Brown
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Santiago
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California
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Elizabeth Wetherell
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Pacific
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Angelico
Fiesole
Clinton B. Fiske
Cedarville
New York
Clearwater
Mich
Freedman’s Bureau
Fisk University
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New York City
Treasury
Dominion of Canada
Indiana
the Treasury of
North America
Henry Timrod
Charleston
D. C
University of Georgia
Charleston Mercury
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Paul Hagne
New Orleans
Andrew Johnson
G. W
Anthony
Cameron
Cartel
Chandler
Cole
Conkling
Conness
Corbett
Craigen
Drake
Edmunds
Ferry
Frelinghuysen
Harlan
Howard
Howe
Morgan
Morrill
Maine
Vermont
Morton
Nye
Patterson
New Hampshire
Pomeroy
Ramsey
Sherman
Spregue
Stewart
Sumner
Thayer
Tipton
Wade
Willey
Williams
Wilson
Yates
Bayard
Buckalew
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Dixon
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Fessenden
Fowler
Grimes
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Hendricks
Johnson
MecCreery
Norton
Ross
Saulsbury
Trumbull
van Winkle
Vickers
Wateh
Moravia
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Moravian Church
Bohemia
E. R. Chadbourn
Lewiston
Robert
Guise
Enigma
Tranza
Germany
Wright
Vale
Eager
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