Ogre captain schemes as a father pressurizes a match
In a dim hotel scene, Captain Brand pressures Charlie Stuart, claiming to be Arline's father. He offers a fortune for marriage with the girl, while Stuart pretends ignorance, probing the danger of a coerced match amid rumors of destiny and bold threats.
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Artemus
Brand
Stuart
Tin
Lnter
Charlie
Devihy
Masy Street
Charle
Charlie Stuart
Invention Expands Real Lace Making By Machinery
An Austrian inventor Mutltech Mikode or Matitsch develops a machine to reproduce torchon lace varieties. He later and patiently refines jacquards in Nottingham to reduce setup, enabling one jacquard swap for many patterns. He plans no company formation yet, having spent near $100,000 on experiments while Nottingham lace makers resist competition.
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Mutltech
Herr Matitsch
Vienna
Nottingham
England
Matiusoh Ua
New York Tribune
Inoklig
Nottingham Lace Manufacciara
MatiWich
Lave
Northwest Notes and Miscellany From Montana to Oregon
A wide array of readings covers weather damage in Colorado and Wyoming events, a Grand Army of the Republic meeting site in Montana, wool sale figures in Wyoming, a murder and trials in Montana, public health quarantines near Cheyenne, local elections in Rowling Wyoming, a Cheyenne money-raising dinner, a large Shelter project in Butte, and various accidents, crimes, and legal actions across the region. Notable items include a 16,000 pound wool shipment, a man murdered for money, a Roseburg electrocution, a manslaughter verdict near Fort Benton, miners demanding an eight hour day, and organized Masons forming a coastal Grand Lodge.
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David Gonton
Wyo
Cheyenne
East Butte
Butte
Pittsburg & Montana Copper Mining Company
Roseburg
Ore
Roseburg Lighting & Water Company
Winchester
Edmund Rowse
Frank Hallack
Idaho Springs
Colo
Waa
Smiles as Masks for a Range of Emotions in Social Life
A Chicago Tribune piece analyzes how smiles conceal diverse feelings from embarrassment after a spilled hat to relief, fear, or sarcasm. It traces how ordinary and “real” smiles differ, including party, photo, infant, and courtship moments, noting the social scripts that govern smiling.
Snake oil remedy claims cure for St Vitus dance
An Farnham England resident recounts a man who boils snakes for oil to heal wounds and deafness. The man describes a ritual for curing St Vitus dance by drying an adder, grating it, mixing with tea, and taking nine doses over weeks, with one patient allegedly cured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Tus Dance
Farnham
England
President’s visitors tally shows notable public figures
A White House records keeper, fond of statistics, lists monthly visits by public men to the president. Highlights include James R. Garfield sixty five, John R. Proctor fifty eight, Ward A. Wood fifty eight, Foulke fifty eight, Senator T. C. Fiat thirty five, Frank P. Sargent forty, Senator H. C. Lodge fifty one, Hay ten, Root eight, Knute Nelson twenty two. Garfield leads by bearing part of Commerce Dept duties from Cortelyou.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
James R. Garfield
John R. Proctor Ward A. Wood
Foulke
T. C. Fiat
Frank P. Sargent
H. C. Lodge
State Hay
War Root
Knute Nelson
Garfield
Department of Commerce
Cortelyou
Prince Adopted by American Family in Duston
Prince Imra and his father request adoption by Col. Owen J. Sweet of the Twenty eighteenth United States Infantry. The young prince now lives in Duston with the colonel's family.
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Prince Imra
Trother
Holi
Col
Owen J, Sweet
United States
Duston
Bachelor Life and Deceptive Etiquette Claim
Fragmentary OCR notes allege a Scotland feature mocks bachelor life and praises deceit as a social tactic. The text references a “liar” and contested ethics, but specifics and context are unclear.
Lengthy Submarine Cables Claim Lunar Reach
The article asserts that the Robmarine cables extend to the moon, with Joimea cited as the key point of assertion and implying a global reach beyond oceanic depths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robmarine
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Oliver
Arline
Mark OK
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George T. Beck, Jr
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Oma
Archie
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