Riding a La Mode Through Time
Edwin L. Sabin recalls three generations of women moving by horse carriage and coach in London Virginia and the American West. The modern scene shows a daughter’s daughter gliding smoothly by a quiet wheel on a nimble mobile.
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Edwin L. Sabin
St. Nicholas
Love and danger on the Merton farm unfolds
Rossiter recovers from a brutal ambush at the Mer ton farm as Parmelee and Miss Densmore tend him. A new suitor, Wolffe, arrives for Sylvia, while Rossiter hides his hope and plans to plead his case, watching the orchard for a chance to speak.
Hidden Escape In Evening Grounds
A figure vanishes into the growing shadows as Miss Densmore glimpses his retreating silhouette. He believes it is fear prompting his rush and slips away through bushes into dimming light.
Goodbye to the hop-fields chapter ends in departure
Miss Densmore faces solitude as Rossiter leaves to begin life anew. Jack Parmelee hands her a note while Wolffe drives off to Illica. Miss Densmore recalls their hop-dance promises and wonders if she will ever see Rossiter again as she preserves his goodbye letter among treasured trinkets.
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Jack
Miss Merton
Rossiter
Sylvia
Merton
Dick Whittlesey
Jossiter
Miss Densmore
Mr. Rossiter
Mr. Merton
Mrs. Merton
Joe Becraft
Mr. Wolffe
Illica
Jack Parmelee
Hintonville
Mlica
Philip Rossiter
Pungent Paragraphs and Sharp One Liners in Collage of Jests
A collage of brief quips and bon mots from Hometown papers features jokes about playwrights rejected by Blobbs Scribbler and a Chinese actor cueing, plus puns about cake and dining room furniture. The collection includes a sharp courtroom quip and a child’s witty retort about beauty and brains.
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Blobbs
Philadelphia Record
Columbia
Borum
Knippe
Johnson
Tucque
Syracuse Herald
Ann Teek
Mint
Kansas City Journal
Philosophic musings on women and progress
A Baltimore News column mockingly weighs gender roles and social habits. It jokes that women uncover women and hair loss leads to Dickensian trouble while latchstrings outpace doorknobs and auto progress is questioned in a wry, satirical tone.
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Baltimore News
Vaudeville Botany Prank At Summer Resort Charity
At a seaside pleasure venue young girls staged a charity vaudeville show. A male attendee flung a cabbage head bouquet onto the stage, prompting the performer to credit Edward Morgan for enjoying the act. She quipped that Morgan had lost his head over the performance.
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Edward Morgan
N. Y. Tribune
Intimate Wedding Scene in Ancients Theatrical Comedy
A Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune excerpt portrays an international marriage scene with a foreign groomsman and creditors watching from a reserved seating area. The dialogue hints at social tension as the ceremony proceeds despite looming financial pressure and strategic seating arrangements.
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Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune
Science and Industry Notes From Early 20th Century Merits
The summary collects scattered items: Prof Braun’s experiment heating a Munich room from Nuremburg via flashlight, Liverpool's plan for concrete slab houses, rising petroleum at Baku, a damp vault preserving ink while wiping typing, union member unemployment in 225 English trades, a two piece axle gearing in cars for turning corners, an ancient tanner’s guesswork vs. a modern machine that measures all four quadrants in metric and standard systems.
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Prof. Braun
University of Strassburg
Munich
Nuremburg
Liverpool
Baku
Sad Story of Success
A Harvard student once hailed for physical vigor endured complete paralysis of the legs in 1883. He studied at home and, despite illness, earned a degree in 1888 from the class of 1884 and pursued a prize winning manuscript for two years. He died before the outcome was announced.
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Harvard
Couldn't Do Worse. Father Tests Suitor's Wealth
A Chicago Daily News cartoon caption frames a stern father questioning a young man's ability to support his daughter in style. The dialogue features the youth joking that his girlfriend once refused a theater outing for lack of attire.
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Chicago Daily News
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Simpson
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Craft
Ilica
Wolfie
Wolffe
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Chicago Record-Herald
Science and Industry
New York Tribune Farmer
New York City
the Tribune Farmer
the Mail
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