Bold theater goer confronts misread deck figures at show
A theater box incident reveals a slightly bald man asking a fellow patron to explain the ticket figures while a near argument erupts over value for money. Separate tale recounts Kirkwall man Robert Miller dodging a press gang to wed in disguise, becoming first head of Kirkwall Free church.
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Financial Polot
Chicago Tribune
Robert Miller
Kirkwall
Waale
Che
Kang
Miller
Kirkwall Free Church
Chambers’ Journal
Breathing system and inventions described by Dr Oertel
The text discusses systematic breathing exercises to combat insomnia weak lungs and seasickness, citing Dr Oertel of Munich and a large work on the subject. It also mentions a new flywheel device with a 20 foot diameter wheel driven at high speed for experimental purposes and notes favorable views of paper wheel experiments.
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Oertel
Munich
Han
Couquerabon
Greater
Hatlutal
New York
Little Edouard Lockroy and the Fifth Floor Slide
An anecdote from Youth's Companion recalls Edouard Lockroy as a boy living in Paris in a building on Rue Washington. The concierge notes his habit of sliding down from the fifth floor on the balcony rail, a memory that amuses her now that he is a minister in France.
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M. Edouard Lockroy
Marure
France
M. Lockroy
Paris
Rue Washington
Aho
Edouard Lockroy
Abe
Palace of the Elysee
Unlikely compliments drift from eyes and sea tales
A collage of old anecdotes from New York Dispatch and Bojourner Truth recalls a beauty praised by a coal heaver and a ship’s captain’s messenger. Truth’s memory of injustice in New Jersey ends with a learned yet tender regret as a lash of fate replies to cruelty.
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Waying
New York Dispatch
Truree
Truth
Bojourner
New Jersey
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