A Clock on a Strike. Brothers and a misbehaving timepiece
A humorous tale from a New York Tribune page recounts a clock that would not run and vexed a betrothed woman and her brother Albert. The clock, a gift from the bridegroom, balked at time and sparked embarrassment on a train and in a jeweler’s shop before a repair revealed a repeating mechanism. The brother and sister spar over the clock and its stubbornness, ending with a quip about women who cannot wind a clock. The piece blends domestic satire with a clockwork misadventure.
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Albert
New York: Tribune
Wand
Shakespeare
Stratford
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Central Park
British Museum
Louvre
New York Tribune
Poets Burials and Literary Abbey Speculations
A digest of notes on where poets rest and would be buried, tracing Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley. It contrasts churchyard and abbey burials, cites Dean Sprat’s stance, and mentions public opinion on posthumous honors. Also included are satirical anecdotes about visitors and a brief section on medical quackery and an art-world vignette.
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Shakespeare
Westminster Abbey
Stratford Upon Avon
Milton
Church of
St. Giles, Cripplegate
Phillips
Dean Sprat
Byron
Goldsuyth He
Temple
Gray
Stoke Poges
Slough
Wordsworth
Tennysom
Botha
Grasmere
Shelley
Keats
Rome
Browning
Tennyson
Arthur
London Telegraph
Dr Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy Praised by Reader
Mrs Simpson writes Dr Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy helped her kidney weakness and female illness after years of suffering. She notes improved appetite sleep and energy with consistent use and urges others to try the remedy. The letter highlights personal testimony as proof of value for women.
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