Claire's Conquest by Justin M'Carthy
Claire Hatherton and her sister Della Temple travel in London with an American aura of wealth and social scrutiny. Claire forms a quiet bond with Julian Marlowe, an Englishman with artistic ideals and a disdained urge to “make a figure” in society. As romance blooms, Claire learns Julian loves her for herself, and both accept an engagement amid a London social world wary of Fortune hunting.
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Claire Hatherton
London
Europe
Della Temple
Claire
Delia
United States
Louisville
Kentucky
Thames
England
America
Canada
Australia
Mrs. Temple
Oxford
New York
Richard Lyster
House of Commons
Lyster
Julian Marlowe
Stonehenge
Miss Haterton
Julian
Shakspeare
Goethe
Marlowe
East End
Tennyson
Browning
Bond Street
Miss
Miss Claire
Frank
Miss Hatherton
Mr. Marlowe
Does money bring happiness in a witty exchange
Washington Star recounts a quip by Mr Comrox on wealth and happiness. He recalls admiring his own reflection in court attire with a sword, noting that a man who earned millions may still look foolish, yet find comfort in financial success.
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Washington Star
Sphinx Lore Enigmatic Knots of Odd and Ingenious Kind
A brief feature explores curious puzzles and witty devices for leisure reading. The piece hints at playful conundrums and clever wordplay, inviting readers to enjoy light brainteasers and nimble reasoning.
A bard’s fall from verse and shifting fate
In compact, oblique terms the speaker recalls a versifier who wrote and entertained, then burned his own verse and faded. Real estate ties and shifting realities mark the pivot from ideal realms to earthbound concerns, leaving rivals teased by his changing, mute abilities.
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Earth
An Old Time Brilliant Talker and Other Book Clues
The item lists book titles via initials, cites characters and authors, notes prize rules for a contest, and acknowledges several readers who submitted solutions. It references Dorothea and various readers, with a focus on matching initials to authors and titles in a puzzle context.
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A. C
B. C
C. D
C. R
A. T
I. F
I. W
J. B
Dorothea
Sallie C. Hughes
Indianapolis
J. B. White
E. A. Nichols
Nora
Thomas
Answers From A Puzzle Page Mix Of Puns And Word Pairs
A reader submits a quirky list of wordplay challenges and solutions. The set features rhyming pairs, homophones, and phonetic puns such as braided with upbraided, stall with install, and tally with totally. It includes multiple numbered sections with varied clues like ball flowers billets and bracket cupola egg and anchor and references to The Pillsbury entry, Bacchus, and Silenus.
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Ward
Pillsbury
The Deceased Scholar of Edinburgh An Enigmatic Lesson
A historic fragment recalls a learned Edinburgh professor famed for wit and wisdom. A prank by students altered a classroom notice, turning a warning into a teasing message about the professor. A convention by The Great Helpers offered an open prize for members in the United States and Canada.
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Edinburgh
Great Helpers
United States
Canada
Out of the Ordinary Bits From a Distant World
A collage of miscellaneous data points and curiosities from around the world. Notes cover Dickens sales, Indian railway fares, snake bites, child labor in mills, Formosa licensing, Boer settlement, Yarmouth ages, Norwegian ore, Bank of England staff and pensions, Belgium labor, Newfoundland population, Galapagos tortoises, Canadian Methodists, smallpox in the U S, Gloucester fish harvests, Britain’s time use, bones from Martinique, Sener bate and Boston, Memphis revolver claim, cattle shipping costs, gemstone bullets, Ardennes poachers, and glass towns near Yellowstone.
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Charles Dickens
India
Formosa
Transvaal
Yarmouth
England
Vadso
Norway
Bank of England
Charles Reed
Menasha
Wis
Belgium
Newfoundland
New York
Gallapagos Islands
London Zoological Gardens
Methodist Church of Canada
United States
Gloucester
Boston
Britain
Paris
Martinique
Pains
Erin
Memphis
Chicago
Liverpool
Northumberland
London
Japan
Kasmir
Bates
Hunzas
Ardennes
Yellowstone Park
Taanmeertees
Stamens
Finlayson
Iteid
How to Prove a Diamond's Worth in October
Leslie's Monthly outlines a faulty gem test using X rays and fluoroscopy. An experiment with a goose fed with bismuth salt shows the shadow on a screen moves with the bird, suggesting a method to detect real diamonds by their interaction with radiation.
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Leslie's
Long Neck
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New York Evening Post
New England
Mitchell
EB. BR
Chadbourn
Lewiston
Maine
H. See Bee
M. Cc
Tom
Mabel P
Ruthes
Nest Endeavor
Josh
Bere
EB. E. Co
W. Erie English Blocx
Eae
Mar
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