Will of an insane man read in New York dinner
Justice Smith quotes extraordinary document as the last will and testament of Charles Lounsbury who died in Cook County Asylum. The draft bequeaths to children and combines poetic phrasing with whimsical gifts while noting life estate and rights later to lovers.
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Walter Lloyrd Smith
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
New York Law School Alumni Association
Charles Lounsbury
Cook County
Dun-ning
Ilinois
ABE MARTIN Cigar Barometer Stirs Congress Debate
The columnist uses a quip about a three for a quarter cigar to mock Congress and imply they gain nothing from sending trivial tokens to distant constituents, highlighting a satirical take on political exchange.
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason The Ruined Life
The poem recalls Abner Lushington LeGrand once vibrant and admired, now confined in a padded cell. Fame brought relentless snapshot scrutiny. photographers pursued him at meals, in baths, and at rest, driving his mind to decline and despair.
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Abner Lushington LeGrand
Jevous
Bequests Of Youth And Love In An Enigmatic Will
A will grants varied legacies to different groups from boys to lovers to men, detailing places for play and retreat, fireside scenes, imagined worlds, sports, songs, and enduring memories. It distributes life stage wishes from childhood adventures to aging respect and poetry.
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Meade
Burns
Shakespeare
Turn to the Right arrives on screen at Fox Theatre
The stage comedy drama Turn to the Right by Winchell Smith and John K. Hazzard has been adapted for cinema. Rex Ingram directs the film presented by John Golden and Marcus Loew and distributed by Metro Pictures. It plays Tuesday and Wednesday at the Fox Theatre.
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Fox Theatre
John Golden
Winchell Smith
John K. Hazzard
Marcus Loew
Rex Ingram
Metro Pictures
Fragmented humorous musings and a doctor’s complaint
A collection of scattered quips about manners, happiness, and modern life. A doctor named A John Droz complains of woodpeckers disrupting his sleep with early morning tapping near his sun roof.
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A. John Droz
Vt Letter Turns Alley Tragedy Into Silence
A tense street scene unfolds with a moaning speaker asking what is in vain while a man named Adam recalls a joke and a pin drops in the distance, leaving a charged quiet after an apparent incident.
Two Americans by Elias Liebermann
A patriotic poem tracing a family’s lineage from European oppression to a promise of liberty in America. The speaker proclaims proud American identity, linking ancestral sacrifices to the duty to live and die for the flag.
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Elias Liebermann
Critic’s Real Duty and the Ideal of Rectitude
The critic should serve many by duty and precision. He walks a garden not his own and should not pluck flowers or break branches. Instead he should point to what lies beneath and help raise what is buried. Landor.
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Landor
Carlyle on insight and sympathy in a business man
The writer argues that true insight comes from sympathy and a businesslike faculty to discern the genuine essence of objects. He notes mortality lingers in how we perceive and interpret what we observe, shaping how one’s likeness is reflected in their words and actions.
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Carlyle
Distilling Moisture From Breath Practice Warned
A Youtl's Companion note describes men adrift at sea dying of thirst and a dubious method to distill water from breath. It claims a glass tube and bottle can yield up to an ounce of pure water per hour by inhaling through the nose and exhaling into the bottle.
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Youtl
The Help Situation In Wellman
The Wellman town scene notes professional snow shovelers and ice cutters regret no work now. They expect next winter to find harvest hands when the thermometer drops to zero.
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Wellman
Wellman Advance
Man learns simple needs of a tenant farmer in Iowa tale
A man from Illinois seeks farm loans in Iowa and meets a bright raggedly dressed boy who assists him. The boy returns a dollar offered as thanks, explaining they are not poor and that the tenant farmer's needs are modest yet exacting about meals, clothes, and daily routine.
April Fools Prank Escalates in Family Home
A reader recalls a family prank where Willie tells his mother of a supposed man kissing Miss Wilson. The shock ends with the reveal it was papa in a playful April Fool moment. The clipping closes noting a Washington store salesman as an example of sturdiness.
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Willie
Papa
Nonbreakable hair comb shatters wall in dramatic town scene
A man touts a hair comb as unbreakable then violently hurls it to the floor, breaking it into many pieces. The passage also recalls a 23 year old wild west show hanged man and past chariot races, plus a taxpayer's delay note to the treasurer.
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Milt Dicken
J. B. Crail
Message to Wallace on Licence Numbers and Deposits
A correspondent asks Wallace to stop sending thirteen licence numbers and bank deposits. The note requests omission of those items from future messages and implies the sender is being overwhelmed by such requests.
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Wallace
Prevaricators Color and a Tale of Turnips
Two visitors swap whimsical tales of failed crops and oversized kettles. Wilder Bell, famed Dad of the DeMolay, sports a pew mustache as readers are urged to hurry to Lemmaon's Pharmacy for the latest nonsense.
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Wilder Bell
de Molay
Lemmaon
23rd Anniversary Arrival Man Lemmon Celebrates
Community marks 23rd anniversary of Mr Lemmon's arrival with cigars and a note that another celebration may be unlikely. Ernest offered a second cigar and added a lighthearted farewell hint.
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Mr. Lemmon
Ernest
London Glee Club of 1787 Marks Early English Music
A glee club formed in London in 1787 flourished until 1857, representing the early and significant development of England's distinctive choral music. The style, written in the mid eighteenth century, likely marked the first major English glee ensemble.
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London
England
Luxurious Sea Traveling Evolution of Steamships
A century of steamship luxury is traced from Washington Irving’s view of voyage oblivion to today’s modern liners. The steel hulls now feature electric elevators swimming pools gymnasiums lounges promenades children’s galleries drawing rooms verandas smoking rooms and writing rooms.
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Washington Irving
Passenger trains in Missouri make brief notation
A brief item notes passenger train movement in Missouri with two cars and a numbered coach. Details are fragmentary but indicate standard railway service activity and passenger car numbering for the era.
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