Margery's Lovers End in a Fatal Double Deception
A tale of Margery Blenheim choosing Ferdinand over Dan Allston at a ball. Dan, a bank cashier, absconds with 60,000, leaving Margery to a social life under scandal. Years later a dying Dan reveals a forged will and 60,000 draft to repay Margery, confessing it was done for her sake and she mourns the lost vow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margery
Ferdinand
Dan Allston
Fortune
Margery Blenheim
Dan
Canada
George
Mierrly
Silpher, Bullyon & Co
Wiseacres
Narcerr
Mron
Cal
Dramn FerpivaAxp
New York
Goodby
Foodby
Wolfe Tone
Tone
Gil Blas
Duke of Lerma
Carnot
Treland
Love and happiness in lifelong mutual adoration
The New York Ledger reflects on Byron and Don Juan, arguing true happiness in love requires a lifelong mutual adoration. It notes that long life favors unity of faces, and that the death of one person is often soon followed by the other's death, suggesting a deep, enduring bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Byron
Don Juan
New York Ledger
Making Their Islands Grow in the Thousand Islands
Landowners enlarge their rocky islets by riprapping pile driving and importing earth. The process is gradual, year by year, expanding the island to provide space for a comfortable house and room for future growth. The method allows owners to extend their land as needed.
Imagination and science in Tyndall’s work analyzed
The text praises Tyndall for constructive imagination in science and teaching. It cites his ability to form true ideas of learners minds, invent methods to build new concepts, and avoid abstract preconceptions, contrasting with faulty past teaching methods highlighted by Herbert Spencer in McClure's Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyndall
Tyngell
Herbert Spencer
McClare
Smokeless Fireplaces And The Progress Of Combustion
The London Times notes that eliminating smoke from fireplaces could transform city life. A new smokeless fireplace system can produce fire with no smoke, though a special unit is needed now. The writer envisions households and manufacturers eventually burning their own smoke to improve efficiency and heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Trath
Isabella Bird Bishop Sets Course for Japan Voyage
Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, renowned traveler now sixty, travels across the United States toward Vancouver to sail for Japan. Her health will decide further travel. She owns a cottage in Scotland where she studied photography last summer and autumn to illustrate her own books.
Bright Boy and Teacher Do You See The Difference
A dialogue contrasts animal instinct with human reason and the need to study. Miscellaneous notes discuss phosphorus in matches, the origin of the title colonel, missionary languages in South America, kangaroos leaping ability, and French law treating frogs as fish for night fishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Brazil
The Ghost of My First Love in Yale and a Death
A man recalls a Yale classmate John Ferry and a first love Helen Waters. After years of unrequited longing and an inner devil’s voice, he learns Ferry marries Helen Woodward in New Haven. A hotel death of Henry Woodward prompts a coded note about Providence and a changing outlook on grief.
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Yale
John Ferry
West
New York
Ferry
Weill
New Haven
Helen Waters
Thad
Harry Woodward
Helen
Henry Woodward
Connecticut
Ferry—Woodward
Helen Woodward
Providence
New York Press
Boston Telegraph Satire on Syntax Sparks Debate
A Buffalo Express excerpt recounts a Western Union clerk tale about savings on 28 cent per word telegraph to London. It contrasts Boston’s grammar jokes with a woman’s cost minded insistence, ending in a phrase about false syntax for cheapness.
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Boston
Atomea
Western Union
London
Charles
Aml
Buffalo Express
London Wit Sparks Education Bet Over English Speech
A London crowd bets on illiteracy and English speaking skill, with a humorous claim that 100000 cannot read or write. A reporter notes a method to measure brain effort using a thermo electric pile and galvanometer to detect head blood flow as mental work increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Balbi
Fountain Pen Makers Evade Tax Joke Series
Comic exchange in the Detroit Free humor column questions why fountain pen makers escape income tax. The punchline notes they never earn enough to be taxed, reflecting a light, satirical jab in the metropolitan paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe
Bob
Detroit
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Tal
Hzenkyy Houpsoyx
James Smith Woolen Machinery Co
Philadelphia
Ayer
United States
J.C. Ayer &Co
Lowell
Mass
F.B. Brown & Co
Eeenae
York “al Works
Mars I
L. A. Miller
Pethieham
Caann's Kidney Cure Co
Venango St
Iske
H. Hallett & CO
Portland
Maine
Novi
Kopf & Henry
U.S
Washington
C.a.snow &Co
Patent Office
Maria
Marie
M. D. Hatch
New York Tribune
Europe
Satan
Congress
Kate Field
Qosinews
ST. Neill
Hoffman Block
Samuels Bros. Dry Goods
Liberty
Second Streets
J Norman Davies
Liberty Street
Warren, Pa
Perry
H. Stick
Warren
Water Street
Geo. Hall
Waste
D.S
Third St. Warren
Bofschlin
Wilbur and Schnur
Hazeltine Buildingiwerty St
W. A. Greaves
Episcopal Church
Ossuth
Warren Lodge Hall
Smith
First National Bank
Second Street
Golden Horse Shoe
Allen & Sons
It Law
Allen Week
Corner Second and
Liberty Streets
Orren C. Allin
Samuel G. Allen
Ilarrison Allen
Frank W. Whitcomb
Third Street
Ofice
Beaty Block
A. A. Davis & Co
Bull
Notary Publics
Thompson
T Simoon & Petiurson
Attorneys At Law
New Savings Bank
CIEAS
Atrstow
Kodak
Geo. Ball's Store
W. W. Freeman
Hazeltine
Lizzie Sayles
Todand
Samuels’ Bros
Water St
Uhman
Apa
Voss
Busey Arnuss
Morgan Saddle
Lawrence
Villaraor
Greaest
Rouker
W. P. Harrison & Co
Columbus
The
Buffalo Co-Operative Brewing Co
John H. Gray
Carver House
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