Coquette and the Looming Rivalry of Hearts
The speaker laments a love triangle with Coquette as the moving target. A rival admires her beauty while the narrator vows resilience, friendship, and renewed laughter despite longing. The poem hints at enduring friendship, playful bravado, and the inevitability of heartbreak. Hue Ga Conway signs the verse.
Pauline Williams and the Superfluous Daughter
A farmer’s daughter Pauline grows from a boisterous tomboy to a trusted caregiver after birth of a large family. Her father initially resents daughters, but Pauline’s energy, schooling, and marriage to Rufus Hosman transform her role into the linchpin of the household and later a devoted wife and mother. Rob pursues a technical career while Pauline supports him and the home. The tale closes with Pauline’s enduring influence on family and community.
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Simon Williams
Nurse
Mr. Williams
Daughters of Afami
Paul
Pauline
Kitty
John
Rob
Tretlly
Charley
Bob
Fraulein
Hans
Prince
Paypathy
Bhelgd
Gene Ores
Chum
Rufus
Jacob
Rachael
Hannah
Rufus Hosman
Uncle Bot
Speaking Through the Eyes Lecture in Berlin Links Expression to Facial Muscles
Medical and Surgical Reporter notes Prof Hugo Magnus lecture in Berlin on The Speech of the Eyes. He shows thoughts and emotions are expressed by surrounding muscles, not the eyeball, with lids brows and orbicularis muscles shaping expressions. The piece emphasizes physiognomy over eye motion as truth of character.
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Hugo Magnus
Berlin
Remarkable Memories and a Gould Family Estate
An article notes feats of memory from Corsican youths to Euler and old “Blind Alick,” then details George Gould and family wealth. It describes his Fifth Avenue mansion with art, staff pay, and lavish rooms plus Irvington country seat, estate size, stables, yacht Alesta, and lavish household budgets.
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Euler
Stirling
Alick
Gassendi
Saunderson
Nellie
Edward
Frank
Harold
George Gould
Butler
Oys
Forty-Second Street Presbyterian Church
Mme. Reed
Gould
44Th Street
Irvington
George Dawson Merritt
Mangold
Mr. Gould Ao
Nyton
Alesta
Ker Ion Cae
Confidence thief dodges as piano fixer in New York
A polite con man arrives claiming to fix and tune pianos, gains access, removes a front board, and steals items from a satchel while the owner is distracted. Items stolen range from jewelry to ticket books as investigators learn the suspect is unknown. London forecloses a 1 500 000 mortgage on the Sutro tunnel.
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New York
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Coquette
HueGa Conway
Jay Gould
London