Revealing Pseudonyms Behind Famous Authors and Royals
Boston report surveys how authors and royalty used pen names to shield identity. It lists numerous examples from Miss Murfree to Queen Carmen Sylva and Charles Dickens era standouts, explaining motives and public reaction to hidden authorship and the enduring “great unknown” phenomenon.
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Carmen Sylva
Elizabeth
Roumania
Max Corell
M. Paul Blonnet
Pierre Loti
Julien Viand
Fench
Marie Corelli
Queen Victoria
Miss Mackay
Alexander
Annie F. Hector
Scott
Lucy E. B. Baxter
Margaret Hungerford
Argles
Edna Lyall
Wou
Walting
Should Women Obey Promises and Modern Roles Rise
A London dispatch notes religious journals debating wives promising to obey husbands with theologians leaning toward modern views. In Toledo, Julia Rice Seney is named superintendent of the registry department at the post office after serving at the Ohio building during the World’s Fair and as hostess for the Toledo Sunday Courier. The Toledo Blade credits Postmaster Brand with appointing a woman to a role never before held by a woman and applauds Toledo women for the choice.
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England
John Wenn
Primitive Methodist Church
London
Julia Rice Seney
Registry Department
Toledo
Seney
Ohio
Chicago
Toledo Sunday Courier
Toledo Blade
Brand
Two Sides to the Question About Fitting Glasses
An optician refines frame bends and bow shapes after initial fitting. He adjusts each ear side for comfort and accuracy, noting most people have asymmetrical ears, so perfect symmetry rarely exists.
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Cenlist
St Louis man draws $10,000 on sultan as bank scam
John Smith of St. Louis, a heavy operator, obtained a sight draft for $10,000 from a bank to pay a deal. The bill passed through New York London and the Rothschilds to Constantinople. The sultan refused to honor it until counsel suggested it could aid a $3,000,000 loan. The draft was paid, leaving Smith astonished at his luck.
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Chambers McFall
Sara Jeanette Duncan
Everard Cotes
Louise Muhlbach
C. Mundt
Bertha Laffan
Geoffrey Stirling
Myre
Leith Adams
Lord Lytton
Bulwer
Owen Meredith
Hlbl
Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson
Cheyenne Mountain
Eugenia John
Harriet Parr
FE. J. Fargus
Alice F. Durand
Cleopatra
Count Xavier
Henry Greville
Heaven
Lawrence Severn
Marvel
Donald G. Mitchell
Octave Thanet
Alice French
Judge French
Iowa
Edward Garrett
Still Waters
Isabella F. Mayo
Henry Hayes
Margaret Kent
Ellen Olney Kirke
Kate McDowell
Sidney Luska
Henry Harland
The
Yellow Book
Gail Hamilton
Mary Abigail Dodge
Julan Worth
Julia Worth Parsons
Professor Parsons
Cambridge
Mass
Dorothy Thorne
Clare
Kenmare
Mary Francis Cusack
Kerry
Ireland
Oliver Optic
W. F. Adams
Sophie May
Rebecca Sophia Clark
Mrs.i. M. Alden
Louis Carroll
C. L. Dodgson
Ennis Graham
Mrs. Molesworth
Arthur Morecamp
Thomas Pilgrim
Anna Bowles Williams
Susan Coolidge
Sarah C. Woolsey
Grace Greenwood
Sarah Lippincott
Bill Nye
Edgar W. Nye
Danbury News
James Montgomery Bailey
Parftington
B P. Shillaker
Melville D. Landon
Artemus Ward
Charles F. Browne
Josh Billings
Henry W. Shaw
M. Quad
St. Louis
Smith
Turkey
New York
London
Rothschilds
Constantinople
John Smith
San Francisco
Argonaut
New York Recorder
Jews In Samarkand and Other Tales
A vignette describes Sephardic Jews in Samarkand enjoying looser sumptuary rules than Bokhara, their Judah lineage, and rejection of myths about lost tribes. It interleaves a cautionary sea tale about a rookie mariner mistaking shipboard lanterns for drugstore glow and a note on U S Navy armor plate progress from 1888 to modern factories and yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samarkand
Bokhara
Russian Turkestan
Central Asia
Russia
Poland
Samarkhand
Judah
United States Navy
Pen Navy
Hardwara
Calumet Remedy Company
Chicago
Siegfried & Co
Frozen Oranges Thaw Safely in Cold Water or Barrels
Oranges that have been frozen may be thawed without injury by placing them in cold water or tight barrels immediately after arrival and letting them thaw gradually. This method, noted by the Philadelphia Ledger, emphasizes careful handling to preserve fruit quality.
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Philadelphia Ledger
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