Portrait of Beatrice La Salle Haunts a Photographer
A traveling narrator in Longman's Magazine recalls a camera quest in Bringley and Hampstead, chasing a living face seen in a graveyard cross. He falls in love with the Beatrice La Salle portrait, contends with haunting mystery, and learns the living woman is Beatrice, daughter of Lasalle, meeting her in person at the end.
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Paaid
Swanuuys
Bringley
Restoration Society
Bringle
Norman
Hamstead
Tim Goit
Riga
Lamaya
Hiere
Beatrice Lasalle
Pegs Eves Ras
Mr. Lasalle
Hampstead
Tobyshire
Sansa
Miss Lasalle
Jove
Pat Meltet
Barry
Ubticiaa
Longman's Magazine
Roller rink misadventure ends in laughter and injury
Johnson tells Boswell of a chaotic roller skating night at a city rink. A novice fall led to a head lump, broken skates, and a costly dressing-room exit as he vows never to skate again. The tale blends comic mishap with a tempering moral about friend tickets.
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England
Barry
Mater
Ehi Sapoil
Conan
Johneee
Boswell
Johnson
Tribune
Butto Lo
Larose
Chauncey
Herbert
Regin
Seppess
Newmarket
Chicago Tribune
Unclear local church and educational notes amid period items
Unreadable OCR mixes items on church building funds, church history in New Jersey, Italian Episcopal missions in New York, night school aims, and Yale College catalogue details. Names include Unitarian, Methodist, and Reformed Dutch mentions, with scattered notes on school ages, vacation plans, and faculty.
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John Wesley
Baltimore
Pittston
Pittsburgh Post
A. P. Myers
York County
New Jersey
Green
Hackensack
Sun
New York
Tribune
Yale College
Tra D. Sankey
Ted
Quotable Snippets and Humorous Bites From Older Papers
A collage of light verse, satire, and cartoonish quips from various papers. Jests range from farm life brag to demagogue jokes, linguistic malapropisms, and a bishop buying Banbury cakes, reflecting a late 19th or early 20th century punch.
Every Point in Her Favor on Boston Ferry
An East Boston ferryhorse car tale describes a slight woman using a cautious elbow maneuver to ward off a large man who abruptly sat near her. The interaction ends with the man startled, praising her restraint and recalling a past ice boat strike as he submits to her perceived dominance.
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Richard Levy
Rio Janeiro
Samuel H. Crook
No. 12
Center Street
Mr. Crook
Jack
Ack
Nora
Crook
Times
Boston
Scott
Sporation
Armstrong County
United States
Crestline
Ohio
Washington
Youths Department features Prissy Prim and lessons on real womanhood
A long feature blends fictional tale of Prissy Prim with moral essays on gentility and charity. It contrasts a vain mother with a charitable ideal, recounts a boy’s punctuality lesson, and includes reflections on kindness, women's roles, and practical empathy for the poor. It notes a hospital visit in New York, a Bible teacher, and calls for unselfish deeds.
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New York
Sho
Angel
Dace
Jesus
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Bilston Town
Lahore Pat Ave
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Thad
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Ana Ponte Creatutarns
Athens
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Ty Ty
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Ilde
Society For Psychical Research
Feng
Psychical Society
Aes
S.P.R
Mom
Dakota
Russian River
California
San S Francisco Chronicle
Devonshire
Arkansaw
N. ¥. Herald
Mark ‘Twain
Trott Free Press
Boston Transcript
New York and
Kin
Weskerston Post
Bean
Smith
John Grap
Bsaesisien
Banbury
Prissy Prim
Mrs Prim
Prisey
Prissy
Tadien Fen
Perey
the Eorrows Cetren
Webster
Defini
Dee
Abe
Beedania
Othare
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