French Marriage Customs Exposed in Old Press Reflections
A dated essay details French marriage practices, from birth certificate scrutiny to parental consent. It describes a staged matchmaking process at the Opera Comique, with mothers guiding introductions, common friends testing suitability, and a formal proposal route via the bride’s family. It notes rituals of consent and social maneuvering within Parisian middle-class life.
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Prenchman
America
Opera Comique
Cinamea
Thompson's Watch Cost Him a Wife
In a Chicago club story set after a bachelor dinner, James notes the library clock as Captain Barry fears a late train. Thompson recalls a family heirloom watch given by Uncle Jackson, its moral burden, a dive of loss, a river recovery ruse, and a cautionary tale about honesty and duty.
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William Bloss
Daily Story Pub
Leisure
Nowaday
Thompson
James
Barry
St. Paul
Telware
Keftle
Board of Trade
Ann Arbor
Jackson Thompson
Cherinh
Method of Inducing Sleep Observed in Java
Dr Steiner notes a method used in Java to induce sleep by compressing the carotid arteries. The operator sits behind the patient and presses the carotid with the index and middle fingers, pinching toward the spine. The technique is described as harmless and yielding rapid anesthesia with the patient waking promptly and free of nausea or malaise.
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Steiner
Java
Love at First Glance in a Turbulent World
A lyrical reminiscence inspired by New York Times prose recounts two lovers, one a dreamer and the other a serious maid, as they share artful days and a chafing dish apron scene. Their bond grows when chance brings a shared meal and a quiet moment despite war and distant ambitions.
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Rand
Artalons
Wight
New York Times
Watch and Will Reveal A Milwaukee Tales Farce
Two day’s old telegrams summon a narrator to Michigan where pneumonia and heartbreak meet. Uncle Jackson’s altered will shifts a $50,000 bequest to $5,000 for the narrator, with $45,000 left to Ethel if she marries a cousin she despises. The tale ends with the watch tossed into the Chicago River as a grim symbol of the spree’s consequences.
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Jackson
Michigan
Chicago
Carroll
Uncle Jackson
Jaweler
Tom
Lfe
Unela Jackson
Ethel
Michigan Central
Uncle Jacksonh
Charlie
Cusack
Thompson
Wells Street
The
Salt Lake Tribune
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Tribune
Mountain Farmer and Ranchman
Parmer and Ranchman
Tribune Distribution Bureau
P. O
Salt Lake City
What He Might Eat Delights and Delusions of Dinner
A humorous tale recounted at length about an eastern minister, a vegetarian, invited to a Sunday dinner by a flock member named Brown. The conversation at table features a volley of food refusals and a flurry of wordplay, ending with the dinner spoiled by the awkward meal choices.
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Brown
Kansas and the prairie trip remembered by a traveler
A Wichita Eagle fragment recalls a July journey where a tourist describes vast corn and prairie lands and a distant house with smoke rising from the chimney. The bystander identifies the landscape as Kansas, amid hints of Indiana Iowa and miles of agricultural scenery.
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Kansas
United States
Indiana
Iowa
Wichita Eagle
Expressive Tribute to Civil War Veteran Saul's Headstone Inscription
John Saul of Bridgewater Maine, a civil war veteran, has been married three times and outlives all three wives. His final headstone inscription for Mary Ann Saul, born Rec. 22, 1248, died Aug. 6, 1696, reads that she was the best wife he ever had, engraved by a local marble worker.
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John Saul
Bridgewater
Saul
Mary Ann Saul
Farquhar Works Lands Big 1400 Plows Order in York
An order for 1400 eighthecne plows to break virgin soil in South Africa has been received by Farquhar Agricultural Works of York Pennsylvania. The Plow order is described as a compelling implement and possibly the largest ever issued for this purpose.
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South Africa
Farquhar Agricultural Works
York
Philnp
Gould's Palatial Private Car Nears Completion in Missouri
George Gould's private car Atlanta, nearing completion at St Charles, Missouri, costs about 150000 dollars and will be a veritable palace on wheels. Also notes on Burdock Blood Bitters, high cost magic lanterns, and other advertisements and quips from the era.
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Gould
George Gould
Atlanta
St Charles
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