Social intrigue at a theater party and proposed match
In a bustling box and theater scene, Miss Henrietta Winstanley nudges Mr. Twining about Barbara Hemingway, Dan Winstanley funds social ventures, and Anthony Ankony woos Barbara while Barbara navigates rival suitors. The bishop and his sister observe, and a proposal is rumored to have occurred just after Twining leaves.
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Miss Winstanley
Henrietta Winstanley
Barbara Hemingway
Dan
Anthony
Central Savings Company
Miles Winstanley
Barbara
Dr. Winstanley
Winstanley
Lusan
Jack Ankony
Mra. Ankony
Ankony
Iika
Mr. Twining
Parquette
Crump
Anne Bowers
Rose Terrell
Bishop Winstanley
Sistine
Edith
Jack
Miss Streeter
Miss Witetanley
Narrowest Street In the World at Kitty Witches Row
The seaport town of Great Yarmouth in England hosts Kitty Witches Row, claimed as the narrowest street with a maximum width of 56 inches and only 29 inches of clearance between walls. Yarmouth features about 147 such "rows" across seven miles of streets, noted for quaintness over convenience.
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Great Yarmouth
England
Yarmouth
New York Tribune
Nurse for a Hotel in New York Provided Free Care
A hotel owner installs a nurse at the end of New York hotels to care for guests' children when mothers have no nurse. The nurse tends to babies, freeing mothers from constant care and from consulting unfamiliar doctors when a child is ill. Her services are not charged.
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New York
Young Mr Guifson's Poem Earns Mixed Praise
Maude notes Maymie was touched by a poem written by Mr. Guifson but Maymie deems it not a good work. She adds that the effort mattered more than quality, contrasting with Shakespeare as a measure, highlighting youth effort and adult reception.
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Mr. Guifson
Maude
Maymie
Shakespeare
Well Painted Value and Umbrella Fire Joke
An ad by National Lead Company promotes value through well painted homes and offers a free Houseowners Painting Outfit No 49 with color schemes specifications and a testing instrument. A humorous Detroit anecdote features Thomas Simpson reacting to an exploding cigar with a joke about an umbrella catching fire.
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National Lead Company
National Jead Company
Trinity
Thomas Simpson
Detroit
Simpson
Tom
Jim
Saturday Evening Post
Quaker Oats Praised For Purity And Strength
The article extols Quaker Oats as a model of purity under strict food laws. It claims the brand is ideal for building muscle and brain, notes its unique husk and speck removal, and recommends regular or large family packages depending on store proximity.
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Quaker Oats Company
Enough Till Eternity In West Rutland Marble Quarry
The largest marble quarry in the world sits near West Rutland Vermont. It holds about 12,000 finished blocks at its mouth and a vast deposit beneath a bare hillside. After decades of blasting no depth is known, suggesting an inexhaustible supply of marble.
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West Rutland
Universal Healing Ointment Ad Versus Pets and Humans
An advertisement touts Resinol Salve as a universal remedy for skin troubles applicable to humans and animals including horses and dogs. It features vet W. P. Schmitz of Hinsdale Massachusetts endorsing its efficacy. The page also includes scattered lines on a cathedral insured, a cigar brand, and a joke segment.
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W. P. Schmitz
Vet
Hinsdale
Mass
Footwear tale from Aunt Anne in the kitchen
Aunt Anne an old family darky sits with knees crossed as a young house daughter asks about her shoe size. She jokes that thin wear eights and she usually wears nines, but these are twelves that hurt her, a line delivered with humor and pain.
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Anne
Aunt Anne
Everybody’s Magazine
Language of Eden Refers to Old Fashion Plates
A man critiques a catalogue of women styles saying they still speak like the first fashion plate while his wife questions the reference. He cites Fig 1 Fig 2 plus one and calls someone judge in a terse exchange.
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Eden
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Heals Woman's Ailments
Willimantic resident Mrs Ezra Donovan credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after five years of painful female troubles. The ad touts the remedy for displacements inflammation irregularities backache and nervous prostration and claims it has helped thousands over thirty years as a standard female health treatment.
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Ezra Donovan
Willimantic
Conn
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Shaled
Alma Martin
Durlin PaTeresa
Rying
Harper's Weekly
Cathedral
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Lewis
Winslow
Lydia
Pinkham
Garters
Rlde
Carters
Lers
National Leag Company
Trinity Guilding
Dr. Pierce
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