Honeymoon Shadow Over Blue Beard Home
A troubled married couple argues over separation and a planned abroad stay. He hints at hiring his former flame Mrs Beardslee as housekeeper if she leaves, while she resists and plans to go with her mother. They agree to theater, seeking escape from a tense domestic night. The exchange reveals strain, leverage, and looming divorce considerations. Eugene Holmes Burt reports.
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Blue Beard House
Harriet
Eugene Holmes Burt
Tailor Turned Tenor Becomes Italy's Great Rubini
In Bergamo a modest tailor who supported his mother impressed Nazari by reaching high notes on request. The demanding lesson began with singing the A and B flat, revealing potential. Nazari predicted future fame if he practiced, and the tailor later became the celebrated Rubini.
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Bergamo
Italy
Nazari
Opera
Nozari
Signor
Rubini
Chicago Record-Herald
Brief Panic Ends Quickly in Wild Creatures Says Pall Mall Gazette
A Pall Mall Gazette remark notes wild animals recover from fright swiftly. Partridges, rabbits, and foxes resume normal activity soon after being or chased by guns. Observers say nerves do not linger in wildlife and fear is short lived.
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Reynard
Pall Mall Gazette
An Actress In Africa Recounts Zulu Auction Tale
In Random Recollections R Ganthony notes a European actress in Africa who visits a Kaffir kraal and rejects a chief’s auction bid. She toys with oxen prices from three to five, declines, and escapes with friends praising her safety as a Zulu oath ends the episode.
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Africa
R. Ganthony
In the Wrong Pew in Cornish Chapel
A visitor and his fiancee sat in the same pew in a Cornish chapel where men and women sit separately. The steward challenged them, saying in a sharp tone that sweethearting is not allowed and ordering them to move.
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Dr. Shoop
Eoceh
Margaret’s Pig Spelling Joke Provokes Papa
A Washington Star item notes Margaret, mastering words like dull pig boy and papa, and when a visitor asks what pig spells she answers papa. Everyone laughs except papa who fails to see the joke.
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Papa
Margaret
Washington Star
Dartmoor Governor Crumbles Criminology Plan After Escape
Governor Cunningham who boasted of never letting a convict escape is drawn into a complex plot involving James Broughton, a willing thief with insight, and a Russian anarchist who exploits a bribe to flee to South America. The affair ends in a sensational escape, a public backlash, and Cunningham’s resignation.
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McClure
John Cunningham
Dartmoor
James Broughton
Broughton
South America
Houghton
Russia
Freeman
Convict
Liverpool
Cunningham
England
M. Quad
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Jeanpether
Washburn
Washburn Printing Co
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