Fate and a Runaway Bride On a Train
A narrator recalls a July day last year when a pretty stranger on a first class smoker seat clashes over a smoking car. Their chance meeting turns into a tale of attraction and a thwarted runaway marriage as they travel from King's Cross to York with shared confidences and a wedding in the balance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred. JuHan
Gee Guan
Scarborough
King’s Cross
Cansene E
York
Peterborough
Ner
Lis
Penny Pictorial Magazine Excerpt Brief Dialogue
A fragment from Penny Pictorial Magazine shows a conversation where a young man asks for a name, and the response prompts a prompt, direct reply to call the person Julian. The tone suggests social exchanges or serialized fiction snippets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will
Julian
Penny Pictorial Magazine
Doctor of Laws Miss Eleanor Ormerod Honored at Edinburgh
Miss Eleanor A Ormerod receives honorary LL D from Edinburgh University for lifelong entomology work. The Gloucestershire native has studied insect pests for twenty three years and leads in linguistic and scientific correspondence, aiding scholars worldwide.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University
Europe
Board of
Eleanor A. Ormerod
George, Ormerod
Sadbury Park
Gloucestershire
Royal Horticultural Society
Miss Ormerod
America
Babylonian Library Found in Nippur by Hilprecht Expedition
Babylonian explorer Herman Hilprecht reports from the east that excavations in Assyria and Babylon revealed the great temple library and priest school of Nippur destroyed in 228 B C. The find includes 16 000 stone volumes and 5 000 official documents totaling 23 000 written records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman VV. Hilprecht
Assyria
Babylon
University of Pennsylvania
Nippur
B. C
Sparrow's Odd Escape Through Stove Pipe
Mrs Susan Fox of Hast 2d street reported a sparrow escaped a chimney trek through two elbows and stovepipe into the ashpan under the oven. Despite a hot fire at the time the bird appeared none the worse for its peculiar journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Fox
Hast 2d
Oil City
Premier Once Reporter Sir Gordon Sprigg Becomes Cape Premier
Sir Gordon Sprigg the new premier of the Cape Colony in South Africa began life as a reporter in the house of commons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Sprigg
Cape Colony
South Africa
House of Commons
Woman's Literary Club Delights With Fine Program
A local newspaper notes a womens literary club presented a particularly fine program that reminded attendees of shared youth and friendship, highlighting a sense of community and enduring secrets. The piece evokes nostalgia and the intimate bonds formed through reading and discussion.
Putnam Face Less Dues and Health Claims Feature
An article fragment promotes Putnam Face Less Dues as a time saver and asserts Accord helps couples work together. It also touts Garfield Tea as a cure for chronic constipation and blood purification, and notes a harness dealer calling his storeroom a bridle chamber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garfield
Kidneys and Bright's Disease Mentioned in Text
The fragment discusses kidney trouble symptoms such as odorous urine and burning sensations as indicators of progress toward Bright's disease or other fatal kidney conditions. It references "KID-NE-OIDS" as a term related to these disorders.
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LAWS
New York Almanac
H.fletcher
York City
New York
Allen
Alten S. Olmsted
LeRoy
Putnam
Kid-Ne-Oids
Lilly Pratt
Robt. Henderson
Beatrice
H. I. Small
Omaha
D. Nagle
Iowa
Morrow
Morrow &Q
Sprinatelm
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