Nan's Wooing By TAYLOR WHITE
Nan Udell insists on leaving Pleasantville to attend her own wedding as she commandeers a ride to town for her trunk. In town she reunites with the expressman who helps her and later meets Mr Newhall, who proposes a brief wooing. Nan’s romance moves toward a marriage with a western flavor and a new partner.
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Nan
Bert
Pleasantville
Nell Taylor
Dwight
Montrose
Sue
Korminently
John Montrose
Expressman
Mrs. Cromwell
Templeton
Paul
Lee
Cromwell
Nan Moeingly
Mark Twain
Mabel
Mr. Clemens
Oriental Jugglers Among Chinese Indian Magicians
A Chicago observer recalls marvels seen from Chinese and Indian jugglers aboard a ship. Tricks include vanishing coins from closed fists and producing tall living plants from a seed under cloth. Describes bare arms and a clan tradition of secretive tricks passed father to son. Detroit Free Press account cited.
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Far East
Chicago
Detroit Free Press
Dressed Sealskin How Fur Is Brought to Perfection
An article explains how sealskin jackets differ from imported coarse sealskin and describes the process to prepare the fur. It details washing, stretching, thinning the flesh side, removing coarse hairs, softening the pelt, and a dyeing step that yields a uniform deep color.
Von Bulow Rebuke Delays Beethoven Recital
In Barnett's Musical Reminiscences Von Bulow stops the first movement of the Sonata Pathetic to pace with two ladies approaching their seats. He slows to match their footsteps then quickens in response as they hurry away, showcasing his theatrical temper.
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von Bulow
von Bulew
Debtor to Antiquity and a Witty Exchange
A quip filled fragment cites the Portland Oregonian on civilization’s debt to antiquity, noting tentative yet instructive past efforts and the world’s overall progress. A light dialogue follows about portraiture, camera readiness, a cautious boarding mistress, and a playful Socratic line about wings in camphor balls.
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Portland Oregonian
Spats
Miss van Bhelf
Light Restored in Conversation About Women
A light exchange reveals shifting views on women. One speaker notes many more women exist than previously believed and admits underestimating his wife before. The dialogue contrasts past assumptions with current, more expansive views of female presence.
Luminous paint used on baby's face sparks exchange
In a brief, fragmentary exchange Benedick and Singleton discuss a luminous paint and its use on a baby, raising questions about its purpose and safety. The OCR text is garbled but hints at applying glow paint to a child's face and a suggestion to give him a little something.
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Benedick
Bees in warfare two ancient bee weapon incidents
History notes two instances where bees were used as weapons during sieges. Romans triggered mines in Themiscyra to unleash bees on workers below. in Chester Danes and Norwegians faced Saxon and Gaeldhil defense who dumped beer and water over attackers and finally deployed beehives to swarm the besiegers, driving them away.
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Appian
Themiscyra
Pontus
Lucullund
Mithridates
Themineyra
Biblotheque Royale
Brussels
Chester
Dormouse Delicacies in Ancient Rome and Its Sausages
A fragment recounts Roman dishes from dormice to cow and calf foot jellies, noting dormouse fattening methods and the inventor Bambonselverglus who popularized sausages. Petronius Arbiter is cited for dormouse fattening by sleep and a poppy seed honey sauce said to induce slumber.
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Rome
Bambonselverglus
Petronius Arbiter
Cheering Tommy Up and a Carnivorous Plant Tale
A joke about photographing a child shows a frazzled mother recalling an hour in a hot studio. The corpse plant in Natal lures birds to their doom with a bell mouth and sticky secretions. A Chinese brush tailed goldfish can fetch 250 to 700 dollars in fancy fish markets. A Milwaukee joke ends with a rain check after a near kiss.
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Tommy
Mre. Green
Natal
Doctor Debate Over Necessity And Debt Collection
The dialogue questions whether the operation is absolutely necessary while acknowledging it as the only chance to recover a bill. The text hints at hardship, elderly patients, and employment struggles affecting the decision.
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