Courting Expenses and an Ill-Fated Proposal in Pennsylvania
A Bradford, McKean County tale recounts Frank Benevite and Saylie Seraphin, lovers for three years who courted openly. A rash marriage proposal spoiled the romance, turning the courtship into a comic yet telling episode about expectations and missteps in love amid Pennsylvania gossip.
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Cwn
Pennsylvania
Frank Benevite
Saylie Seraphin
Bradford
McKean County
Frank
Sophie
Courtship Skirmish Ends With Inevitable Billing
Frank sues Sophie for 216 dollars in expenses from seven years of courtship. He describes outfits, ice cream, bootblack, and other costs plus 40 cents per visit to see Sophie. Sophie counters with a bill for kisses at one dollar each, arguing the affair ended long ago with both sides claiming claims.
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Frank
Sophia
Sophie
Kiasea
Chicago
Eges
First war correspondents shaped by telegraph era
The piece notes Henry Crabb Robinson as the first war correspondent in 1805 during the Peninsular War. It credits the Times and Daily News for pioneering war dispatches by telegraph, following guidance from Sir John Rabienwa and Archibald Forbes during the Franco German War. Fox Bourne cites dramatic Telegram-based readership growth.
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Henry Crabb Robinson
Times
By Post
John Rabinewa
Archibald Forbes
Fox Bourne
Paris
Henry Labouchere
Americans See Strong American Trade Competition
An English shoe trade organ quotes the traveling salesmen of a Liverpool house lamenting American competition. The article notes American firms have gradually expanded and adapted to various markets, becoming formidable rivals rather than the feared bogey.
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Liverpool
Enfranchisement Effort Highlighted by Mrs McCulloch
Mrs Catharine Waugh McCulloch presided at Rochester New York at a meeting of the national association's executive committee. They planned a large bazaar in New York with contributions from women across the United States and territories to fund the suffrage movement.
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Catharine Waugh McCulloch
Timots Woman's Suffrage Association
Rochester
N. Y
National Association
New York
Porto Rico
Philippines
Hawaii
Untidy Travelers on Hot Summer Trains
In 100 degree heat the pace and temper of travelers sink, amplifying irritability on trains and boats. The Baltimore News notes women in short skirts, men frowning at minor mishaps, and two young women misreading schedules with pins to guide their progress, revealing a weary travel scene in the dog days.
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Ora
Jerane
Eost
Baltimore News
Saint Francis Tames the Wolf of Gubbio Tale
A fragment from Contemporary Review recounts Saint Francis’ pact with the man-eating wolf of Gubbio. The saint persuades the wolf to cease harming people, promising humane feeding. The wolf raises a paw in pledge, two years pass peacefully, then the beast dies of old age amid mourning townspeople.
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Pranels
St. Francis
Gubbio
Wolf
Francis
Cleveland Choir Scandal Sparks Turmoil at Epworth Memorial
Members of Epworth Memorial M. B. E. church in Cleveland face upheaval after a rehearsal led by tenor J. Haven, when hosts Hayes and others offered beer to guests. The music committee labeled the incident scandalous, triggering church leadership and congregational tension.
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Epworth Memorial M. BE
Cleveland
J. 3 Haven
Hayes
Ward Beecher Packard
Preacher Urged Wheat Work Blocked by Local Shouting
An overzealous Oklahoma preacher clashed with farming methods as neighbors tried to harvest wheat on a Sunday. He led a protest that halted work briefly before he was placed in a wagon and taken to a doctor's office for repairs.
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Oklahoma
Irish Beaul y 18 and the Marchioness of Downshires Twin Beauties
An Irish beauty, the Marchioness of Downshires, is famed as a leading social belle and horsewoman. Her likeness to Julia Marlowe is noted in height, build, and coloring. The dowager Countsess’s Irish roots and wealth define her life, with a son trained in pony riding and a preference for Irish homes over English estates. She is often seen in Mayfair drawing rooms, rarely wearing jewels.
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Julia Marlowe
London
Marchioness of
Miss Marlowe
Marchioneas
Marchioness
Downshires
Mies Hare
Earl of
Listowel
Downahires
Bernie
Marehtoneas
Londonderry
Erin
England
Viscount Hillsborough
Ireland
County Down
Abe
Mayfair
Woman Preacher Mary Gammill Rheabottom Leads Indiana Congregations
Mary Gammill Rheabottom of Indiana, one of the nation’s most successful women preachers, leads several Christians churches including Millersburg Wakarusa Pleasant Hill and Belleville. She completed revival series at Pleasant Hill and Millersburg with 103 and 92 conversions respectively, baptizing 106 at one time. A new brick Pleasant Hill church awaits dedication. Born in Ohio she is known for fearless sermons and officiates weddings and funerals as crowds come from miles around.
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Mary Gammill Rheabottom
Indiana
Millersburg
Wakarusa
Pleasant Hill
Belleville
Old Pleasant HM
Ohio
Sha
Lightning Flash Width Measured at Hamburg Observatory
George Rumker of Hamburg observatory measured a lightning flash in a photograph taken last August. From a tower a third of a mile away the focal distance of the camera allowed calculation of the discharge breadth. The sash in the image measured one fifth of an inch, with wind driven shreds appearing like a silk ribbon on each side of the main arc.
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George Rumker
Hamburg
Brass Food Apples Said to Aid Brain and Sleep
Physicians increasingly endorse Brass Food Apples as brain food due to phosphoric acid content and easy digestion. Eating them before bed allegedly stimulates liver action and promotes sleep.
Women anglers haul four man-eating sharks from Fire Island
A fishing party off Fire Island landed four man-eating sharks last week. Led by Captain Ketchum, women in the group including Mrs. Griswold, Mrs. Draper, Mrs. De Ross and Mrs. Grinwold hauled the big catches as crewman Howell fought the largest shark. The prized blue-nosed shark weighed 270 pounds.
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Bay Shore
B. F. Draper
Mia
Frank de Rossers
Joseph B. Grinwold
Fire Island
Ketchum
Howell
Mra, Rogers
Mra. Draper
Mra. Griswold
Mra Griswold
Duty in Kind. Turkish Customs and a Lost Dress
An embassy official in Paris paid ten pounds for a wife’s dress but customs valued it at sixty. They demanded duty on the higher value. he refused and kept the dress, later buying it back at six pounds at auction, profiting from the dispute. A Kurd Armenian incident over a tobacco box ends with a police verdict and a five piastre prize.
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Parla
Turkey
Mar
Reverend Lorenzo Waugh, longest serving Methodist minister dies
Rev Lorenzo Waugh died Saturday at Williams California aged 92 born in West Virginia and raised near the Blue Ridge Mountains. In 1852 he crossed the plains with an ox team to Sonoma County California where he took land and began a ministry that spanned about sixty eight years earning the nickname Father Waugh across his widespread service.
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Lorenzo Waugh
Williams
Cal
West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Plains
Sonoma County
Time limit lamp invented in Germany halts after hours
A German invention introduces a self contained lamp that burns for a fixed time. A copper wire dissolves through an electrolytic action in a copper sulfate solution at the lamp base until the circuit breaks. By selecting wire size and length the device can extinguish after a set period, possibly for homes troubled by late visitors.
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Germany
Dairy and Poultry Tips From Farm Department
Advice on egg quality and storage amid seasonal changes. Emphasizes clean handling, prompt collection, and proper temperatures to boost prices. Discusses storage impacts on Chicago markets, egg pricing trends, and risks of overstorage. Also covers poultry breed changes and the Michigan oleomargarine law requirements for labeling and consumer notice.
Left Handed Separator Restored by Night Repair
An expert recalls fixing a creamery separator run backwards by a farmer. The machine, guaranteed to skim 1000 pounds of milk per hour, produced only 759 pounds. After he corrected the reverse operation, the creamery improved markedly and the former co operator became a top local buttermaker.
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Babcock
Individuality of the Cow in Milk and Butter Production
A study of cows from the Connecticut Agricultural College herd during 1898 shows wide individual variation in dairy efficiency. The top cow yielded 509 pounds of butter at a $42.82 profit, while the lowest produced 172 pounds at a $4.09 loss. Five best cows averaged 409 pounds of butter and $31.29 profit, versus the five poorest at 448 pounds and 87 cents profit. The article notes similar disparities in milk and discusses Denmark's oleomargarine trade and dairy pricing, ending with a definition of the term saddle as the cow back region.
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Connecticut Agricultural College
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