A Working-Man's Wife Leads a Doctor's Happy Life
Doctor Junius Dale abandons a romance with Clissy Clarke for a course of study and gains her as wife a poor physician's love deepened by shared work. Franklin Bartley, chasing wealth, ends ruined while Dale and Clissy prosper with mutual support and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Forrest Graves
Junius
Franklin Bartley
Doctor Junius Dale
Bartley
Doctor Dale
Miss Clarke
Doctor Bale
Alf
Clissy Clarke
Winfield
Clarissa Clarke
Clissy
Claghe
Alhis
Uve
Papa
Crissy
Dr. Dale
Marri
Dale
Some Famous Old Maids From the North British Advertiser
The piece discusses Elizabeth I as a brilliant literary-age ruler and notes Maria Edgeworth as an influential old maid who inspired Sir Walter Scott. It also mentions Jane Deene and her children Thaddeus of Warsaw and The Scottish Chiefs in a compressed, period-tinged reverie.
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Elizabeth of
England
Great Britain
Maria Edgeworth
Walter Scott
Jane Ma Deene
Thaddeus
Warsaw
Exon
Pete
Florence
Inkermann Raskal
Mechanical Automata in the Boston Herald Era
A collection of 18th and 19th century automata stories describes Vaucanson's flute automaton, a life sized duo of mechanical figures in London, Maelzel's automatic trumpet in Vienna, and a tiny three inch conjurer with a tin pedestal. The piece recounts public awe, skepticisms, and the precision of clockwork marvels across Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Herald
Philip Camus
Louis XIV
Paris
Jacques Vaucanson
Grenoble
Vaucanson
London
Vienna
Maelzel
Startling Prediction on Gas Wells From Ancient China
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette warns that ancient Chinese records describe gas wells causing a massive explosion and a lake, called Lake Foo Chang, forming after a large district is destroyed. It contends that similar overdrilling in the U.S. gas belt from Toledo through Ohio, Indiana and beyond could trigger a cataclysmic upheaval, ripping the land and flooding the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys.
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
China
Lake
Foo Chang
Lake Foo Chang
Toledo
Ohio
Indiana
Sones
Lake Erie
Mississippi
The Royal Plate at Windsor Castle Dinner Displays
The royal plate used at Jubilee state banquets sits in two Windsor strong rooms and is valued around £2,000,000. George IV bought the gold service from Rundell & Bridge to seat 130 guests, with a silver wine cooler for two. Historic pieces from Elizabeth I and earlier are part of the display alongside precious items like a jeweled peacock centerpiece.
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Windsor Castle
George IV
Rundell & Bridge
Elizabeth
H Beth
Fry
India
Burmah
China
Charles XII
Sweden
St. George’s Hall
Fragmentary Historic Items Mentioned in Tippoo’s Statuary
The garland of exotic curiosities taken at Seringapatam reaches King George II and George IV in turn. Gold objects, including snuff boxes and richly adorned plates, are valued in the thousands, with one instance costing around ten thousand pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seringapatam
George II
George IV
English Jury Acquits Father in Child’s Death Trial
A London Old Bailey jury acquits George Hammond, a portrait painter, of wilful murder after he admitted killing a rope-dancer in a case tied to sorrow over his lost daughter. He spoke of years of searching and suffering, stating the act followed profound grief and no belief in guilt.
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Hutter Howe Bancroft
Old England
America
George Hammond
Old Bailey
London
Tindal
Poer
Three Kingdoms
Smithsfield
Mountebant
Herbert
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Aeadyn
Ana Way
Dalae
Mas
Teddy
French Academy of Sciences
Boinfail
Antwerp
Bergem of Zoom
Comediens Practiciens
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