The Irving of Japan as Initiated Many Reforms
Special Letter lauds Ichikawa Wanjuro as Japan’s top actor likened to an un crowned king. It notes his influence, high income, and role in modernizing stagecraft while detailing his lineage, aliases, and reform efforts against old acting norms.
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Ichikawa Wanjuro
Irving
London
Lyceum
Henry
Marquis Ito
Japan
Becket
Shylock
Louis XI
Portia
Beatrice
Macbeth
Tokyo
Danjuro
Gonjuro
Shu Horikoshi
Naritaya
Toyokuni
Tyro
Kuniyoshi
Kunisada
Mr. Danjuro
Sleigh Ride Tale Ends With a Cold Foot Confession
Judge Blank recalls old time sleigh rides using bob sleds and cow bells. He jokes about the countryside races, noting he proposed to his wife during a moonlit run and admits he froze his feet in the tremor of the moment.
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Judge Blank
A Pacific Cable Could Link Hawaii to Manila Across Ocean
The piece argues for laying a transoceanic cable with landing stations on American soil. It outlines a route from San Francisco to Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, the Ladrones, and Manila, totaling about 5,500 miles. It notes that Congress previously failed to act and that the next session may pass needed legislation.
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Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
Admiral Dewey
Washington
China
India
England
American
San Francisco
Hawaiian Islands
Wake Island
Guam
Ladrones
Manila
An Attractive Chance in Washington Visit
A brief exchange notes a colonel heading to Washington to testify in a beef inquiry and invites another to accompany him. Both express eagerness for the trip, framing it as a rare opportunity neither should miss.
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Washington
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Hooper Mystery at the Express Office
A boyhood memory recalls an express company in a town with banks and hotels. Hooper, a messenger, vanishes after handling three large money shipments. The narrator hid details due to company secrecy, while Hooper is found dead in a river with no evident violence.
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Rony
Hooper
Death by own action shadows hooper case revealed
A coroner's jury verdict is explained by a route agent who recalls Charley Hooper's mounting thefts and planned suicide. Wealthy English relatives later paid the company to remove the stain, while Hooper left the cash in the strong box to tempt others, confessing his intent to die.
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Charley Hooper
Lfe
Michigan City
Hooper
England
Cyrus the boy who chose truth over escape
A Persian child named Cyrus grows into a natural leader in pretend games. When caught stealing pomegranates with his peers, he confesses he led the raid and accepts punishment, taking responsibility for the others he governed.
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Lie
Persia
Cyrus
Cyrus Apyare
Mourning Customs Color and Customs in Turkey
In a New York Press piece the author notes Turkish mourning favors violet, contrasts European black and Chinese white, and cites a Constantinople hotel emblemed in violet with host Arghiropoulo. The anecdote includes a Washington legation’s panic over white handbills and a three day business shutdown.
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New York
Hotel de Byzance
Constantinople
Arghiropoulo
Turkey
Europe
China
Ethiopia
Spain
Washington
Legation
Fourteenth Street
Wolf Boy in India Lived Among Wolves and Humans
A Wolf boy history recounts a Hindu child found living with a wolf pack by a water edge. A police officer took him in and treated him kindly. The boy could not speak until near death when memories resurfaced and he spoke a few words. The elder brother may have been carried off by wolves. He gnawed bones and shared food from a dog’s dish, and he avoided human society and clothing.
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India
Flow the Human Race Lives
The passage estimates global living conditions in broad terms. It notes 500 million well clothed, 250 million naked, and 700 million covering parts of their bodies. It also cites 500 million living in houses, 700 million in huts or caves, and 250 million with virtually no shelter.
Greatness in Common Life Versus Special Occasions
Not a news article but a quotation from Rev. George L. Perrin of Universalist Boston stressing that everyday life challenges demand ongoing greatness more than single special events.
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George L. Perrin
Universalist
Boston
Mass
Queues Hung Up In Shanghai Rebellion Report
A New York Sun letter from a missionary describes chaos in North Anhui as rebels advance and refugees flood cities. He travels with a corporteur and two boys, reports village gun preparations, and notes hundreds of heads with queues displayed at Suchen for couriers.
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Shanghai
New York Sun
Anhui
Henan
British and Foreign Bible Society
Eiger
Suchen
Miangsu
Parents go insane over Christian Science and harm children
Ten years ago in Paso Robles a sixteen year old Swedish girl married a native of her country. The couple lived in comfort for a decade and had five children. They refused medical aid for convulsions and burned their children's bodies with hot irons. They planned a joint crucifixion on April fifth and are now committed to Agnews asylum.
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Christian Science
San Francisco Examiner
Paso Robles
Agnews
Monterey County
Standing on His Dignity in Family Talk
Dialogue presents a strained reconciliation between a daughter and a son’s father. The son insists he will not speak to the father until spoken to first, arguing it would be unjust to all, while the daughter seeks a resolution amid lingering affection. Detroit Free Press.
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Osaka
Danjuro
Mme
Theo
Green-Eyed Monster
Tokio
Shakespeare
Archer
Nort
Hedéa Gabler
Harukashi Fan
Beatrice
Katharine
Papa
Detroit Free Press
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Fukuchi
Bjornson
Count Inouye
Pacific Cable
Violet
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