Intimate with a King and the War Telegram Trap
The Chicago News recounts how during the Franco Prussian war William Howard Russell and George W. Smalley fell into traps set by rulers and editors. Russell accepted 15 000 a year to telegraph letters to the Times and Sun, met King William, and avoided sending dispatches to avoid aiding the enemy. Smalley instructed Paris reporters to gather news by any means and telegraph to London, triggering mass publication of a single page.
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Army of the Potomac
New York City
William
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New York Sun
George W. Smalley
London
the Tribune
Paris
Hook
Crook
Renan Speaks to Lycee Louis le Grand Pupils on Youth Life
M Ernest Renan delivers a long address to Lycee Louis le Grand pupils urging them to seize life with passion and responsibility. He argues youth carries opportunity not peril and contrasts optimism with elder caution.
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M. Ernest Renan
Lycee Louis le Grand
Kingdom of Heaven
M. Jouffrey
Poe
Lycee
Charlemagne
Earth
Poet Reflects on Writing Over the Hills to the Poor-house
The author explains the poem’s origins from school visits to an almshouse and paupers. He cites two elderly companions, notes the moral impact including donations and reconciliations, and discusses craft driven by work rather than mood plus the aim to write for the people.
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Harper’s Weekly
Cleveland
Betsey
Johnson
Denver Tribune
A Word to the Girls on Stage Careers
Maggie Mitchell, famed as Fanchon, warns young aspirants about acting life. She describes a lottery with scarce rewards and long exile from home, detailing relentless rehearsals, travel, and meager comforts that erase dreamlike leisure under a harsh professional burden.
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Maggie Mitchell
North American Review
Fanchon
Cards in an Odd Place in a Chattanooga Graveyard
A wartime memory in a Chattanooga cemetery recalls a vault with a coffin table and three soldiers playing cards. The scene contrasts veteran nonchalance with a nearby marble lamb bearing a bullet loss, hinting at lingering reverence for the fallen of fifty years past.
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Chattanooga
Manhattan
A Harlem Yard Sign Defies Bill Posters
A Harlem man with a large yard and high fence posted a sign reading Post no bills under penalty of the law. He caught a paste-slinger applying bills to both sides of the sign and quipped about the penalties while the worker claimed to respect the rule.
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Harlem
New York World
English Speaking Traveler Fails In Normandy Inn
An American woman arriving at a Normandy inn fails to communicate in French with the clerk until she asks if he speaks English and he replies he does after recalling he grew up near Bangor Maine. Berlin tradesmen push coop stores and urge the Kaiser to bar army and navy members from participation.
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Bangor
Maine
Berlin
Remarkable Presence of Mind Told by Milwaukee Bay Tale
A group in Seventh Ward Park recounts feats of quick wits. An old mill post rescue in six feet of water ends with the man freed by a coat slip and his cat still beneath the post. A Milwaukee bay diver tale follows where a powder horn sinks in thirty feet. The diver waits twenty minutes then returns to find his partner calmly siphoning powder and whistling.
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Seventh Ward
York State
Milwaukee Bay
Peck
The True Test of a Good Watch
The article argues a watch should be judged by daily comparison to a standard chronometer and consistent rate of variation. It notes that a watch with slow, regular gains or losses, such as five or six seconds per week, is preferable to one that fluctuates irregularly despite small end-period errors.
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W. Anson Wood
Chase Taylor & Co
Buckeye
Jackson
Moline
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Paris
NEW Hartford
Boston Herald
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