The Viscount and the Secret Letter Romance
Lady Evesham discovers a counterfeit typewritten letter that triggers jealousy and suspicion in her marriage to Viscount Evesham. Rupert Leighton’s alleged manipulation leads to a confrontation at the Imperial cafe, ending with Lord Evesham exposing the culprit and restoring trust.
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Parkins
Lady Evesham
Evesham House
Leon
Evesham
John
Jenks
Janet Stepney
Bertie Stanhope
Lord Evesham
Mr. Leighton
Cavaliera
Kittie Hamer
Leighton
Rupert Leighton
Beatrix Evesham
Warroth
Hurlingham
Myr
Ceatrix
Imperial Cafe
Hvesham
Svesham
Nature's Child Finds Heaven In Earth’s Quiet Song
Henry Coyle writes of a boy close to nature whose ear is tuned to earth’s melodies. He cherishes all living things and senses God near in every wayside flower, a simple child connected to the wild. Poets see on earth a part of heaven.
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Heaven
Henry Coyle
End of a Feud In a Quiet Chicago Street
A long standing neighborly dispute between the Burnett and Deakin families explodes into a small domestic war over fences, cans and taunting. After a fall injures a Burnett child and Mrs Deakin intervenes, mutual apologies soften tempers and the two households agree to peace with the men and children choosing restraint. The feud ends with a shared supper and a pledge to avoid further trouble.
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Frank
Mrs. Burnett
Morton
Mr. Burnett
Doy
Deakin
Alice
Morton Barnett
Deakins
Larry
Tom Dealin
Lawrence
Willie
Tom Deakin
Morton Burnett
Morty
Mrs. Barnett
Mrs. Deakin
Burnett
Chicago
Runaway Steamer Marchioness of Breadalbane
The Marchioness of Breadalbane on the Rothesay Gourock run suffered a machinery failure causing the captain to steer to midchannel and circle until steam ran out. Ropes secured the ship at Gourock as the remaining steam exhausted.
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Marchioness
Breadalbane
Rothesay
Gourock
Loudon Graphic
Lesson on demoniacal possession from a story
A Sunday school teacher asks what lessons to take from a tale of demoniacal possession. A Boston boy responds that the word demoniacal is stressed on the antepenultimate, highlighting a humorous linguistic point in Chicago Tribune prose.
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Wendell
Boston
Chicago Tribune
When They Wrote Their Books
Brief reflection on novelists aging before major works. Mentions Scott Thackeray Eliot Hawthorne as near forty or older when landmark novels appeared. Also notes the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo railroad posting a 1894 surplus and references Jerry Simpson as the Trilby of congress. Senator Call of Florida is contrasted with Neal Dow of Maine at 91 in good health.
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Scott
Thackeray
George Eliot
Adam Bede
Hawthorne
Brander Matthews
St. Nicholas
United States
Columbus, Hocking Valley and
Toledo
The
Philadelphia Times
Jerry Simpson
Congress
Senator Call
Florida
Neal Dow
Maine
Notes on Chicago Society Quips and Old Song Origins
A compact, period style excerpt surveys sharp Chicago social jests at a Fellowship Club event about Mrs. Alice J Shaw and a London acquaintance. It notes misattributed Scottish origins for The Blue Bells of Scotland, now traced to English ancestry via Annie McVicar.
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Chicago
Fellowship Club
Boulevard
Alice J. Shaw
London
Chicago Weekly
Scotland
Annie McVicar
Grant
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Frazer Axle
PHILA
the Times
Pennsylvania
TERIS
Philadelphia
Warren National Bank
Warren, Pa
G. N. Parmlee
H . Jamieson
E. Hertzel
Wm. D. Brown
Jerry Crary
D. W. Beaty
A. T. Scofield
Christian Smith
Andrew Hertzel
N. P. Wheeler
Schimmelfeng
H. T. Russell, Jamieson
First National Bank
F. H. Rockwell
FF. K. Russell
Warren County
Pend’ A
England
Ireland
Europe
National Line of Iron
Liverpool
Queenstown
Antwerp
Hamburg
Bremen
Havre
Paris
Gothenburg
Chrissania
Copenhagen
New York
M. Waters
E. T. Hazeltine
D. L. Gerowald
L.W. Dennison
Ass't
E. T. Bazeltine
John M. Siegfried
O. F. Hoffman
P. J. Bayer
C. A. Cornen
L. W. Eenlens
Jas. O. Parmlee
E.W. Parshali
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