His Course in Love and the Lesson of Wealth
A man named Treadway wooes Marion Hitesman with money and social promise, but she refuses to be bought. After a failed first approach he returns from Europe to declare true love, asking Marion to teach him that money isn’t everything and love can be enough.
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Treadway
Marion Hitesman
Marion
Wichfield
Perkins
Mmammas
New York
Hitesman
London
Paris
Seraglio
Tricking a Jeweler in West London heist
A fashionably dressed woman lured a barber into a plan to abduct a jeweler, claiming her son needed his head shaved by order of a doctor. She recruited two assistants, seized the jeweler, shaved his head, and then drove away with £300 worth of gems, never seen again. London Mail reports the ruse and disappearance.
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London
London Mail
Training a Dog by Provocation Allegory
A club scene shows two readers debating an article on dog training. One man mocks the idea of attaching a dog to a handler, claiming his dog will attach itself with provocation, illustrating a humorous clash of perspectives.
Waltz Origins From Provence To Court and Courts
The waltz is not modern despite beliefs it appeared late. It moved from Provence to Henry II of France’s Fontainebleau court via the Comte de Saulte, reached Scotland with Mary Queen of Scots, spread through southern Germany and Austria by the late 1600s, and only then entered England and the United States in the first two decades of the 1800s amid mixed poetical opinions.
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America
England
Provence
Henry II
France
Fontainebleau
Comte de Saulte
Mary
Scotland
John Knox
Palace of Holyrood
Germany
Austria
United States
Dog’s Loyal Retriever Returns to Owner After Quail Hunt
A Columbus man who hunts quail and owns a fine retriever lent the dog to a friend who was less skilled. The dog returned home mid forenoon after a morning of good work. The borrower’s poor shooting led the dog to abandon the effort and head back, leaving the men to explain the failure.
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Columbus
Columbus (O
Puritan Preachers Use Hour Glass to Time Sermons
The seventeenth century puritan preachers spoke two hours or more by the hour glass not the clock. One preacher joked by turning the glass to humorously announce more time with drunkenness as the subject. A parish clerk kept watch and, as most left, asked the minister to close the church and push the key under the door.
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Roger L
Philadelphia layout credited to Thomas Holme design
The city grid plan was drawn by Thomas Holme as surveyor general, but the overall design is attributed to Penn. Holme’s descendants still live in Philadelphia, though his land and city lots have long passed from his family possession.
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Philadelphia
Thomas Holme
Pennsylvania
Penn
A Remarkable Hat Divides A Couple In Divorce Tale
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt notes a wife seeks divorce after her husband buys her only hat in twenty five years. The needle point of the joke asks if any hat remains intact enough to straighten life.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Social Duty in Modern Conscience
A philosophical note highlights social duty as the central, urgent ideal shaping contemporary thought. The author, touching on debates and ironies, argues duty permeates public life and personal ethics in today’s society.
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Georges Touchard
la Nouvelle Revue
Paris
A Case of Luck
Benevolent lady questions a long unemployed man about why he has never found work, the tramp attributes his lack of luck to sheer good fortune rather than effort.
Often the Case Editorial Quotation Reflected
A Harper's Weekly quote contrasts caution in speech by men and singing by women. The line, attributed to the periodical, underscores gendered expectations and social prudence typical of 19th century commentary.
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M. M. Cunningham
Charles F. Dole
Atlantic
Holme
Harper’s Weekly
Washburn
Washburn Printing Co
Callahan
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Lippingett
Washington
Ninth Street
United States Patent Office
Washington, D. C
Sia
C. Dewitt & Company
Chicago
Ill
Willi Care
Matt J. Johnson
M. M. Sweet
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