Managers Won't Read a Play From Unknown Authors
A fragment from a 19th century dialogue contrasts editors not reading unknown writers with managers who ignore unsolicited plays. A New York manager returns a manuscript unread within six days, seals intact, and the author remains unknown, illustrating skepticism toward new literary talent. The second passage describes princely Russian households, where every service and craft is produced by “own” men, from piano tuners to confectioners, as the ideal of landed proprietors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tam
New York
Express
Prince Kropotkin
Atlantic
Moscow
Herr Schimmel
Tremble
Lobsters Deep in the Sand Belief of Homing Instinct
Portland Maine Argus reports a fisherman who refuses to sell spawn lobsters for a $3 price, believing lobsters hatch and return to their native spot. He notes lobsters are less migratory than thought and seek deep bay holes to wait out winter, resuming activity with warm weather.
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Fish Commission
Portland
Argus
Speaking of the Klondike in old magazines
A Chicago Post reader recalls a line from an old issue as a man debates who watched the Klondike during the war era. The exchange riffs on figures like Dewey and Schley and questions when the event capitulated, reflecting nostalgia for past conflicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey
Schley
Shafter
Miles
Sampson
Chicago Post
Winged bullets in smooth bore guns proposed
English inventor Martin Calvert proposes winged bullets to impart rotation without rifling. Wings expand after leaving the muzzle to grip the air, claiming higher speed cooler guns less recoil and flatter trajectories. Applicable to all gun sizes and shot types, with cordite as preferred propellant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin 8
Calvert
Emblems of Political Parties Across Nations
A survey of political party emblems from around the world notes primroses for April 19 and various historic symbols. Jacobites favor ivy and oak leaves with white roses on specific dates, while French factions use daisies and white carnations. Carnations also appear in Boulanger’s movement, with other nations using cornflowers and daisies as badges and street flowers during public appearances.
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Parnell
James III
France
House of Bourbon
Les Blancs d’Espange
General Boulanger
Algeria
Austria
Germany
Italy
Marguerite of Savoy
Electricity Killing Of Files
Entomologists report that annual crop of files is decreasing rapidly. Electric traction is credited with this result. Stables are breeding places for files and street car horses are emancipated. Fewer arables mean the fly cannot be born in multitudes as before.
Fine MHistanes Measurement and Cripple Creek Silver Heist
A new pendulum chronoscope touted as the world’s most accurate timing instrument measures to one thousandth of a second and operates without need for specialists. In Cripple Creek, a building near First National Bank yielded a dramatic silver dollar find totaling 98 dollars after a workman recovered a sack containing 100 silver dollars from a prior fire loss, with bank accounts charged to profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Pilok
First National Bank
Bennett Avenue
Cripple Creek
Denver News
Remarkable relief letter praises Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
A Philadelphia woman recounts years of womb trouble and severe discouragement. After months of worsening symptoms including nervousness and insomnia, she read a testimonial and started Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports significant improvement after the first dose and success by February end, thanking the medicine and inviting others to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Gerstle
Mann
St. Joseph's
Oss
Sarah Jenkin
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Ben S. White
Shreveport
T. L. Stringfellow
Cashier
Geneva
Cor, Spring and Milamats
Shreveport, la
Merchants’ and Farmers’ Bank
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L. M. Cartier
EB. B.rand
Victoria Lumber Company, Limited
SG. Dreyfus & Co
Corner Spring and
Crockett Streets
Herman Loes
Commerce
Col. Crockett St
Vicksburg
St. Louis
New Orleans
Galveston
Houston
M. Hicks
Pres
B, Hicks
V-Pres
W. F. Chase
Sec
Treas
Hicks
F. H. Goaman
T. I. Scovel
J.0. Drew
the Hicks Company
Spring and
Travis and Commerce SL
Hood
Mrs. Rank
Mrs. Pinkham
Thos, Gillard
Elgin
Merling Remedy Company
Chicago
Heatress
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