Two Brave Women Sail Catboat to Atlanta via Inside Route
Miss Minnie Mathews and her mother Bijou the Newfoundland dog sail a 26 foot catboat Herald from New York Oct 31 bound for Atlanta. They travel the inside route via Raritan canal Delaware and Chesapeake canal to Savannah then Tybee River aiming for Christmas week arrival. Bijou fends off Jersey men with a Winchester and Colts, though voyage is not highly dangerous.
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New York
Atlanta
Dispatch
Philadelphia
Herald
Minnie Mathews
Bijou
Quaker City
Raritan Canal
Delaware River
Delaware and Chesapeake Canal
Chesapeake Bay
Currituck Sound
Core
Bogue Sounds
Savannah
Tybee River
Minnie Matthews
Bay
Harvard Litterateurs Spotlight Wister Lummis Roosevelt
Three Harvard graduates Owen Wister Charles Lummis and Theodore Roosevelt born 1882 1881 1880 now about thirty five reflect on literature and politics. Wister aims for eminence with Western tales Lummis excels near the same region and Roosevelt could have become a notable historian if not for politics.
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Harvard Litterateurs
Owen Wister
Charles F. Lummis
Theodore Roosevelt
Harvard
Wister
Lummis
Roosevelt
Edward Eggleston Growing Younger
Edward Eggleston appears younger with each passing year and splits his time between Chelsea New York in winter and Joshua's Rock on Lake George in summer where he is known as an avid yachtsman. His novels, especially The Hoosier Schoolmaster, bring greater returns than his historical works, causing him to occasionally abandon the latter to write romance.
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Edward Eggleston
Dr. Eggeston
New York
Chelsea
Joshua’s Rock
Lake George
Hoosier
Hairbreadth escape from two lions on mountain
Jake, mounted, battles a hungry lion that lifts him, then another lion joins from above. He retrieves a rifle and shoots, killing both beasts. The lions lie dead within ten feet as Jake escapes the dangerous encounter.
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Jake
Earliest Bank Egibi & Sons Records Traced to Babylon
Archaeologists uncover clay tablets from 600 B C showing Egibi & Sons engaged in advance exchange and general finance in Babylon. Similar burnt tablets bearing the firm’s signature found across Asia Minor and in Egyptian tombs and pyramids may revealEgibi negotiable notes.
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Egibi & Sons
Babylon
B.C
Asia Minor
Egypt
Egibi
Buck McCarthy Portrait Illustrates Partisan City Hall
Ram's Horn prints a living picture of Buck McCarthy, Chicago citizen and controversial figure. The piece notes his rough features and shifts from county commissioner to central committeeman and city alderman, highlighting his nonuniform party ties.
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Buck” McCarthy
Tammany
Chicago
Ram
Skeletons by the Hundreds at Mitford Abandoned Cemetery
An immense Aboriginal cemetery has been uncovered at Mitford Ohio. Curator W K Moorehead of the state museum oversees excavations as human skeletons are unearthed by the hundred. Graves contain a diverse array of weapons trinkets utensils ornaments and religious symbols in stone bronze and silver. The find supports historic ethnology and sheds light on an important past.
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Mitford
W. K. Moorehead
State Museum
A Man of Polish
A portrait of Richard Malcolm Johnston, a seventy three year old Georgian native living in Baltimore. The essay praises his courteous dignity and Southern gentleman pose, noting his cracker dialect reflects his boyhood speech.
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Richard Malcolm Johnston
Mr. Johnston
Baltimore
Romance in Marble and Hawthorne's Marble Faun
Special correspondence traces Adaline Shepherd and sculptor W W Story in Hawthorne's novel The Marble Faun. It explains the inspiration for Hilda and Kenyon and the statue hand modeled from Adaline's hand, matched to Story's life in Rome and Liverpool.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cleopatra
W. W. Story
John Taylor Johnston
Hawthorne
Kenyon
Hilda
Liverpool
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rome
Italy
Adaline Shepherd
Story
Miriam
Adaline Shepherd Hawthornes Muse and Tragic End
Adaline Shepherd, once a student at Antioch College and close associate of Horace Mann and the Hawthornes, inspired Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun during her Rome sojourn. Later she taught modern languages at Antioch, but illness and strain plagued her marriage and mind. She died by suicide after leaping from a Providence line steamer into the Sound.
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Horace Mann
Antioch College
Yellow Springs
Ohio
Adaline Shepherd
Cleopatra
Metropolitan Museum
Hilda
Hawthorne
Miriam
Kenyon
Adaline
Boston
Providence
Milton's Effort Wasted Provokes Witty Remark
A magnetic quote from the Argonaut recalls a Scotch mathematician who, after reading Milton's Paradise Lost, admired its beauty but asked what it proves. The remark highlights the clash between art and proof in intellectual circles.
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Milton
Argonaut
A Woman’s Reasons A Proposal and a Surety Water Tight
A humorous verse from Truth features a clerk in a dry goods store offering himself to a Paris sweetheart. The speaker mocks aristocratic suitors while praising simple devotion, with playful jabs at social whirl and marriage prospects.
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Tom Hall
Count de Vermicelli Engaged to Maud Snobberly in New York
In New York, Count de Vermicelli an Italian nobleman is engaged to Miss Maud Snobberly of Fifth Avenue. A Snobberly mansion guest described the couple as affectionate and praised the Count's devotion, noting he buys everything Maud desires.
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Count de Vermicelli
New York
Maud Snobberly
Fifth Avenue
Snobberly
Maud
Water-Tight Compartment on Boozle’s Voyage
A Liverpool to New York passenger Boozle arrives in a poor state from drink. A friend jokes about water-tight compartments on his ship and Boozle confirms the joke with a laugh about staying dry during the voyage.
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Boozle
New York
Avery
Dno
Shabby Marriage Exposed by Imitated Illness
A New York World report recalls Mazie and Ethel noting a man married under deception. He faked a consumptive cough to seal the nuptials, then abandoned the pretense after the ceremony.
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Ethel
Daisie
New York World
Woman’s Reason and a Misnomer in Life
A humorous exchange contrasts a music lesson with a misnamed subject and a painting titled Maiden’s Meditation. The conversation jokes about knowledge and appearance, highlighting gendered perceptions in a light moral vignette.
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Antioch
Nathaniel Haw
Badger
New England
Eley
Miss
Paris
Mone
Darling
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