Portraits, deception, and a fisherman's love in art
Lena Seymour, a gifted 14 year old artist, moves at Grantville Gazette in a seaside town. She meets Mortimer Gilroy posing as a fisherman, and amid romance, deception unravels to reveal Lena’s true wealth and passion for art. He learns Lena is Madeleine Seymour, an artist of means.
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Mins Seymour
Lena Seymour
Margaret
Lena
York
Buzette
Surview Terrace
Dean Bo
Ocean Place
Seaview
Jon
Wilton
Joy
Mortin
Europe
Elery
Grantville
New York
Sencean Place
Flor
Oie
Accens
James Sialth
War
James
Helf
James Smith
Aunt Margaret
Mortimer Gilroy
Lona
Madeleine Seymour
New York Ledger
Evils of Drug Substitution Highlighted by Press
A long analysis condemns druggists who substitute cheaper remedies for prescribed medicines. It argues substitution harms patients and harms pharmacy, urging honesty, strict adherence to prescriptions, and industry-wide repudiation of such practice. It cites the Pharmaceutical Era and emphasizes life and death stakes in drug dispensing.
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Allo
Tholy Corminari
Auctioneer Auditions Bargain Mantel Piece Price
A crowd voice hovers over a Carrara marble Riffel tower movement mantel piece in an auction. The bid starts at 102 dollars and drops to 10 cents as a spectator cries out. The crowd chants going going gone as the auctioneer calls the sale.
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New York Tribune
A Social Leper Yabsiey and Wirkwire Exchange
In a stylized snippet from the Indianapolis Journal, Yabsiey declares midges will emerge as a crowd declares retreat. Wirkwire questions why Midge is driven away, while Yabsiey notes his bag grows heavy with drinks and urges alternating recitations on Seoteh Street.
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Yabsiey
Midge
Indianapolis Journal
Warned in Time in Domestic Arrangement
A Detroit Prep Press anecdote describes an agent approaching a gate, a banana peel prank, and a sharp-eyed boy warning him about a woman with red hair and spectacles. The boy exposes family chaos including a grandmother stealing ma's bicycle and unsettled mood, while the agent exits, offering a nickel for a hurried portrait enlargement.
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Detroit
Sonny
Sonry
Fraudulent Voting In Chillicothe Church Fair Ends in Arrest
Costly voting by Hart Bell for a favored girl in Chillicothe Massachusetts led to his conviction for passing fraudulent money. At a church fair last November he spent funds to buy votes, buying 100 votes at once with an old Confederate $3 bill. The scheme was uncovered and he is now a United States prisoner.
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Hart Bell
Chillicothe
Hell
United States
Well-Informed Youth and Riddle Exchange at Tit-Bita
A short Tit-Bita item features a playful exchange where a well informed youth asks about useful articles from a whale and a seal. Johnny answers whalebone and sealing wax respectively.
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Johnny
Fatalfets and Action in a Rabbi’s View
A brief aphorism declares that mere hapra without action writes one’s fate as fatal, while real destiny rests with those who act. The quote emphasizes proactive conduct over passive fate in a rabbinic voice.
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Rabbi Hireeh
Freckle Cure Fails and Ghostly Masks Alarm Family
In a rural London News tale two sisters age nearly alike try a home complexion formula to hide freckles. They mix glycerine tar and lemon juice, apply night masks, and drift to sleep as a storm rages. A burglary attempt by two men in the house ends with the sisters mistaken as ghosts, startling their parents and ending the experiment.
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Kate
Mainy
London News
Abe
Tige
Pon
Wheat & Ides
Nocmnt
Actors In Private Line Cong rreation A Proclaimed Profession
A New York Advertiser quote argues actors should avoid dressing as walking advertisements for their trade. The writer urges actors to blend with other professions, study life outside theater, and cultivate diverse friendships to enrich their craft. It contrasts English actors who lead country life with American actors who roam for work, suggesting balance aids artistry.
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New York Advertiser
Fife
London
New York
Anticipated Mr Cavert Telegram Antics At Dinner
A brief dialogue quoted from Tit-Bits shows Mr Cavert promising to send a telegram if prevented from dinner and Mrs Cavert retorting she already retrieved it from his pocket indicating their witty domestic exchange. The exchange captures light social humor from the period.
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Mr. Cavert
Mrs. C
Town Gossip and Social Scold at Election Time
In Atchison Gloes light debate on town life, editors spar, women critique hats, and men cling to late hours as elections loom. The piece mocks social chatter, shop gossip, and sewing circle talk, noting health myths and the theater of small town manners.
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Cassip
Won
Early Medical Education Seen Through Twisted Classroom Tales
A nostalgic sketch contrasts past medical training with modern student life. It notes that students often learned little practical skill in college, relied on a physician preceptor, and copied prescriptions. Lectures dominated, laboratories were rare, and the MD degree rested on a string of medical lectures, few labs, and a final exam.
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Columbia University Bulletin
Medical College
Tvo
Navel oranges tale and curious marketman's claim
An inquisitive man questions a marketman about nav el oranges while a lengthy anecdote unfolds. The vendor claims seedless Australian seedless orange trees were grafted into California stock to produce the famed California navel, then a racially themed aside follows about creation and a fence, ending with a question about the origin of the Australian seedless tree.
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Lewiston Journal
California
Australia
Old World Veteran Passes as Centenarian Remains
Three More obituaries mark long lives. Charles Goode a Black Hawk war veteran dies at Belmont Wisconsin after celebrating his 103rd birthday. He came from Yorkshire England. Mrs William Caynor of Stafford Missouri dies at age 100, mother of thirteen with many descendants. Maria Benson celebrates her 100th birthday at Windsor Connecticut, daughter of a Revolutionary soldier.
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Charles Goode
Belmont
Wis
Mr. Goode
Yorkshire
England
William Caynor
Stafford
Maria Benson
Windsor
Conn
Where Salt Is Luxury in Central Àte rica
Fragmentary, early text notes salt as supreme luxury in Central Àte rica. Mentions vegetable food, palatal forging tor eat, natives deprived of salt for long periods, with signs of inausity.
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Atérica
Five killed as waterspouts strike farmhouse wreck
A waterspout struck the farmhouse of James Branders near Teun, demolishing the dwelling. Branders his wife and four children were killed. Across Europe there are 274 professors in colleges and universities.
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Jownes Branders
Branders
Europe
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