Irinda and Barney on a Train to San Francisco
Irinda and Barney travel by train to San Francisco for a week of opera while Jim, her friend, fears being replaced. Barney defends magnetism over looks and Irinda learns he never valued beauty, causing inner conflict about her self image and love. A tragedy hints at a looming separation.
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Irinda
Irlnda
San
Jim
Barney
Irindy
Trinda
Irinda Bowen
Irindda
Barey
Alderly
George Washington
Stinds
Hye
Jin
President Taylors Fenats and Greenway Court Ham Traditions
The account describes the cooking craft of a wealthy Virginia planter at Greenway Court. It praises a negro cook for fried chicken and ham slices, claiming the hams were the finest ever, bred from oak woods and corn fed pigs. The narrative details feeding and processing steps through adulthood.
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Tyler
Virginia
Greenway Court
Jane
Moist
Edmund Kean The Lightning Read Shakespeare On Stage
Edmund Kean rose from a fisherman’s son to a legendary actor famed for reading Shakespeare by lightning. From sea life to Windsor Castle recitations, his rapid rise included a London debut at twenty eight and a defining Drury Lane night, with a famed talent tempered by hard living and controversial habits.
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Shakespeare
Hogland
Coleridge
Edmund Kenn
Wong
Fife
England
Hee
Moses
Swell
Philip Kembie
Hamlet
George
Windsor Castle
Eton
Drury Lane
London
Henry Irving
Kenn
A Tree of Ill Repute and Upas Poison Explained
The Upas tree Antaris toxi caria, native to Borneo and East Indian islands, is said to kill birds instantly and harm animals or people beneath its shade. Its sap poisons, used by Dyaks to tip darts, with darts delivered by a blowpipe. Fresh juice swallows or injected causes convulsions and death, as reported by the Chicago News.
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Upsas
Borneo
East Indian Islands
Pie
Chicago Newa
Larval Nests and Winter Hiding Spots in Insects
Describes how wood boring beetle larvae hide in rotten logs and near ponds under debris in midwinter. Notes butterflies also overwinter under leaves or leaf webs near their host plants, and mentions a humorous exchange from the Chicago News involving a child asking about hush.
The Caller Parody Exchange at Mary Biggs Visit
An Eastland newspaper snippet captures a playful miscommunication as a caller reports Mrs Biggs visiting, with a puzzled response about the Bigges name. The excerpt features dialogue amid magazine misprints and quirky wordplay.
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Biggs
Mr. Bigge
Etrand Magazine
Osana San and the Motor Quest in Yucca
Osana San, a Japanese girl, admires an American stranger and a horseless carriage. She borrows a motor, loses control along a rural road, and is found asleep on temple steps by Douglas Morton. He asks her to marry, she agrees softly with a shy yes.
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Yado
Osa San
Mrs. Carrington
Osana San
Carrington
Alice
Mr. Carrington
Osama bin
Yacca
Qsana San
Osana Ban
Yucca
Tokyo
Diana San
Yacco
Osanna San
Lck
Osana
Atranger
Douglass Morton
Osana Sno
Osane San
Morton
Japan
Ogana San
Dartingtons
Dsana San
Douglasa Morton
Osana Gan
Ragged beggar appeals for aid amid charity debates
A curbstone mendicant's plight prompts conscience over organized and improvised appeals. He describes his suffering as a living plea, lamenting his starvation, sunken cheeks, and emaciated frame as the mute evidence of begging.
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New ‘York
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Organ Grinder
Organ Grinders
America
Millonaires
Jaly
Riviera
Naples
Genoa
Uttle
Alps
Grasse
Edmund Kean
Willie
Chicago News
Micky Mulberry
Miss. Sharpe
Prayibing—Voltalra
Osana San’s Adventure
Homer Sprague
Norman
Maine
Look Mey
Ratherville
Lowa
Sa Fy Basco
Palassimoer
RF. F. D
Chamberlain
Oklahoma
J.T. Ragan
Real Estate
Vinita
Walter Cr
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