Devery and the Russian Bear in a Colorful Rumble
A compact miscellany from SILVER MESSENGER jokes and snippets about Devery in New York papers, the Russian bear in Manchuria, Colombia buying American vessels, rail and trolley quips, stock market woes, wages, and assorted witty observations. It notes Kaiser Wilhelm on trolley cars, University of Chicago’s Japanese chair, and a New York stock seat sale, weaving humor with current events and light social commentary.
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Devery
Mr. Devery
New York
Manchuria
Famous Old Prison Is Being Torn Down In London
The famed Newgate Prison, central to London's criminal lore, is being demolished after centuries of use and myth. Once rebuilt in 1858, it held murderers and awaiting trial inmates, with the famous Jack Sheppard escape shaping its legend.
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Newgate
London
Old City
Oli Bailey
Central Criminal Court
Metropolitan District
Wandsworth
Jack” Sheppard
Owen Wood
Black Lion
Drury Lane
Beas” Lyon
Poll” Maggott
Old Bailey
Endurance and Death in a Dim Table Scene
A fragmentary dramatic passage explores pain, endurance, and the cost of loyalty as a lieutenant recalls a vow and a woman's plea. Interwoven are musings on suffering, death, and the limits of the body, set against a tense meeting at a table and a drawing room moment of grace.
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Leutenant
Telegram Ruse and Royal Toasts Excerpted
A young Elmira man proposed by mail and misunderstood a telegram reading Iale of View.Evers. His mother clarified it as I love you yours, prompting a quick return telegram. The piece also satirizes royal toast length and pomp, contrasting simple affection with verbose court language.
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Elmira
N. Y
Bis
Evers
Rip Van Winkle Returns to a Changed World
After twenty years' sleep Rip Van Winkle asks about friends and relatives. Strangers tell him they are dead and buried as he is led away. He pauses on the coal strike and learns arbitration is under consideration. He finds one link to the past and that old coal strike jokes still echo in public discourse.
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Persia
Rip van Winkle
Leutenant
Neutenant
Ufe
Annie Laurie
Amie
Testimonial for Henrik Abel at Oslo birthday fête
Bjornson authored the cantata sung in Christiania to honor the hundredth birthday of Norway’s famed mathematician Henrik Abel. About 300 guests from foreign countries attended the event with Prof. Nansen presiding at the banquet. Abel declined Berlin professorships for patriotic reasons despite poverty.
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Henrik Abel
Bjornson
Christiania
Norway
Henrie Abel
Nansen
Abel
Berlin
The Lieutenant's Story Leaves a Lost Locket Tale
The lieutenant returns from the Philippines to a party where a former companion’s tale unfolds. Jimmy Livingston, reformed from a dissipated youth, recounts a romance thwarted by class and youth, ending in a guarded death. The lieutenant reveals he carries a locket for a girl who became his wife, a child in truth, keeping a promise to a dead lover.
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Sara Lindsay Coleman
Daily Story Tub. Co
Philippines
Mra
Trelevant
Taah
Leutenant
Tresevant
Jimmy Livingston
Jimmy
Livingston
Ips
Mardi Gras
Mrs. Trezevant
Cuba
Manila
A West Virginia Croesus Henry G Davie Rise to Affluence
Henry G Davis former United States senator from West Virginia is portrayed as a major business figure. Starting as a railroad brakeman he accumulates wealth by purchasing vast West Virginia lands, discovering coal and timber profits, building the West Virginia Central railroad, and predicting future town sites for large gains. Davis, a perennial multi millionaire, dominates business and politics.
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Henry G. Davie
Henry G. Davis
United States
West Virginia
Harper's Weekly
Baltimore and Ohio
West Virginia Central Railroad
Davis
Staton
Mr. Davis
Senator Davis
Feading
The Berth Was Barred and a King's Counsel Clash
A court scene shows a king's counsel urging a witness to repeat slanderous statements to the judge, met with a sharp refusal from a woman witness. Meanwhile Count Rocko Dianovich, a globe trotter in Bor ton, boasts world travels, speaks a dozen languages, and cites accounts from diplomats about his experiences across continents and conflicts.
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Lander
Jdge
Rocko Dianovich
Borton
South Africa
San Domingo
Central America
Art tariff drive by Morgan and other magnates
A coalition led by Pierpont Morgan and Chas T Yerkes seeks to restore the tariff on imported paintings and artworks. They plan to appeal to President Roosevelt and Congress to influence passage or repeal of the law, noting Morgan stocks over a million dollars in paintings and holdings abroad.
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Pierpont Morgan
Chas, T. Yerkes
Roosevelt
Congres
Morgan
London
Parte
Ber- UN
Yorkée
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Silver Messenger
Owallie
Iwaho
Colombia
Eays
Eays Quay
Prince Dhuleep
Kaiser Wilhelm
Chicago
Rouniern
Boris
Paria
Johannesburg
Wall Street
University of Chicago
Vanderbilts
Manda
New York Stock Exchange
Havana
Alhambra
Pall Mall
Thi
Sheppard
Smithfeld
Gray's Inn
Tyburn
Arot
Ana
Elisabeth Ai Hen
West Virginia Croesus
K. C
Fudge
Ophir
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