Paris stage beauties magnetize Paris with subtle power
The piece profiles Yvette Guilbert as a magnetic performer who transcends mere beauty, compares her to Bernhardt, and notes rivals La Otero and La Pongy in Monte Carlo showdowns. It highlights Anna Helder, De Merode, and evolving Paris coiffures shaping celebrity.
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Yvette Guilbert
Paris
London
Bernhardt
Guilbert
Yvette
Bier
Ranger
Anna Helder
Ign
Kate Jordan
Leslie's Weekly
Otero
New York
Folies Sergeres
Eden Musee
la Belle Otero
la Pongy
Monte Carlo
Diane la Pongy
Oter
Nature
Helder
de Merode
Euryphees
Kipling Uses Tribune Test for Autograph Requests
Rudyard Kipling, flooded with autograph hunters, creates a circular offering his signature only to those who have contributed at least 2.50 dollars to the Tribune fresh-air fund as printed in the New York Tribune.
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Rudyard Kipling
New York Tribune
Tribune Fresh-Air Fund
California Fruit Output Surges in a Decade
California’s fruit crop rose sevenfold over ten years, reaching a value last year of 50 million dollars, about 10 million more than the state’s gold production. The text argues demand for fruit is practically unlimited.
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California
British Athletes Shine at Stamford Bridge Championship
The London Times lauds Britain's greatest all round field and track group at the Amateur Athletic Association meet. Cambridge stars Fitzherbert Munro and Lutyens led wins in key events while Bacon set a new British and world record in the mile. Spectators numbered around 7000 as Oakley Bredin Shaw and others claimed titles in sprints, hurdles, jumps, throws and walks with multiple records and strong national showings.
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Amateur Athletic Association
Stamford Bridge
Oxford
Cambridge
London Times
Fitzherbert
Blue
Horan
Bredin
Lutyens
Bacon
H. A. Munro
Munro
Butler
Richard Webster
Bradley
England
Downer
Oakley
Shaw
George
W. J. M. Barry
Queen's College, Cork
Southport
Ryan
Horgan
Dickenson
Windermere
C. A. Bradley
London
A. C
A. R. Downer
E. C. Bredin
Godfrey Shaw
W. J. Oakley
P. R. Lowe
D. D. Bulger
Dublin
F. E. Bacon
Ashton
W. E. Lutyens
W. Fitzherbert
Philip J. Blignant
W. Cryer
Highgate H
Curtis
T. F. Kiely
Ireland
MacDonald
Carr B Neel Emerges As Western Tennis Champion
Carr B Neel, western tennis singles champion and doubles co champion with his brother, proves his place among top players by defeating Sar T Chase twice this spring. He is a University of Chicago student and a keen tennis critic. reporter for the Inter Ocean covering Chicago events and Lake Minnetonka and West Superior tournaments.
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Carr B. Neel
Sar T. Chase
University of Chicago
Neel
Inter Ocean
Chicago Tennis Club
Kenwood Country Club
Lake Minnetonka
C. B. Neel
West Superior
Wis
Chicago
Newport
Shakespeare Name Variants Counted in Old Documents
A Tit Bits note counts about 4 000 spellings of Shakespeare in historical records and asserts that twenty two forms are correct according to Shakespeare’s own chirography. The examples include Shaks pere Shaxpere Shakspire Shaxper Shakespere and many more.
A Gourmand and the Dinner Bella
A playful exchange in which Miss Gushah questions which belle proved the most alluring during an American tour and His Lordship responds with a boast about the dinner belle. The dialogue captures flirtatious wit and social satire.
Comedy of Drunken Bloopers at the Front Row
A humorous scene unfolds as a wife questions a husband about his drinking and his odd excuse of using a baking pan. Willie notes Charley’s prideful bearing as he stalks the front row, revealed as love for a chorus girl keeping him courtly for a month.
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Willie
Chawley
Noted Poet Prank Sparks Editor's Frayed Nerves
An editor accuses a prankster of sabotaging the chair with a bent pin after a pointed morning article. The playful exchange hints at a tense newsroom dynamic and hidden tensions between writer and editor.
A Hint to Doctors Laughable Patient Complaint
A comic exchange has an invalid arguing that a medicine fails because it does not taste bad enough to work. The wife questions the claim, prompting a quip about the lack of taste affecting efficacy.
Those Extravagant City Folks Scarecrow Tale
A fragment from a period voice portrays Uncle Reuben’s quip about city folks and their costly scarecrow versus a humble one made of old clothes and straw. The tone hints at rural humor and social satire from a World publication.
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Reuben
Burglary Arouses Sleepy Couple In Comical Family Tale
A startled husband fires at a burglar in the dark but the intruder vanishes. The wife later jokes she checked the pockets herself. In a separate school scene in Dundee a pupil misreads a prompt about Charles I death, prompting a class laugh as decapitation is misinterpreted as cholera.
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Dundee
Charlies I
London Morning Journal
Northside Father Quips at Daughter's Suitor
In a Pittsburgh Chronicle item Mr Northside visits his parlor and finds his daughter Lucy seated on Mr Hilltop’s lap. He quips that her race for a husband is nearly over noting she is on the last lap as Lucy blushes and asks for clarification.
Egg Diet Doubts Hair Return In Atlantic City Letter
A young woman recovering in Atlantic City after severe illness writes home that she eats four eggs each morning and sees no hair regrowth. Her father replies jokingly that continued egg eating might grow feathers rather than hair.
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Atlantic City
Philadelphia Times
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