Vanity and ads replace literature in modern magazines
A columnist laments advertising invading fiction and magazines, notes hotel encounters and industry practices, and jokes about a future where books are given away to feed ad revenue. Examples include product placements, brand names in introductions, and a critique of Mrs. Wharton's remedies fueling marketing.
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Noveusty
Mrs Wharton
Vanity Farr
Great Iron Gate
Smith & Jones
Iren
Skiggs & Co
St Pauls School for Choir Boys Planned in Washington
St Pauls Episcopal Church approves a winter school led by choirmaster Ernest T Winchester to train boys in choir singing on cathedral like lines. Rev Alfred Harding sponsors with free instruction, daily sessions start tomorrow, with lectures on church music history and hymns. admission strict on punctuality and attendance.
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Kien
Washington
St Paul’s Episcopal Church
St. Paul's
St Paul's School
New York
St Pauil’s
Baltimore
Cathedral Choir
England
Alfred Harding
Ernest T Winchester
W F Deles
Hart
Clark Middleton
Minnick
Milford Witts
One-Eyed Pete’s Horseman: Deadwood Coachman Legend
Maj G W Lillis recalls One-Eyed Pete McGoy who allegedly drove a Dakota stage through Deadwood and nearby towns at reckless speed. The tale praises him as daring yet skilled, noting a fatal stroke of luck when a horse collapsed but Pete kept driving to the hotel door.
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Deadwood
Maj G. W. Lillis
Pawnee Bill
Pawnee
Okla
Pete McGoy
Haat
Alfred Vanderbilts
James Hydes
Loriblard Ronaldses
Pete
Carbonate
Judge Had Been Reading Up How One Ohio Judge Read Up
Ohio magistrate Dalzell recalls a local court anecdote about a judge notorious for literacy lapses. The pair discuss reading history and literature during vacation, illustrating cautionary courtroom banter and a moment of self improvement.
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Ohio
Washington
Dalzell
J. B
Woman's Remedy for Sleeplessness and Nervous Calm
The writer shares a personal technique to ease nervousness and induce sleep. By rubbing the forehead with the right hand and patting the chest with the left, the author describes a circular rubbing motion that calms the nerves and helps them drift to sleep, noting it may not work for everyone but has always made them sleep soundly.
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Cory
Fisherman's Luck and a Day on Chesapeake Bay
A traveler recalls a foggy Maryland outing with a small boat on Chesapeake Bay. He rows most of the day after a black boy misstates his ability, catching rockfish and perches as the sun sets, then discovers the boy actually rowed all along.
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Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
Pickaninny
Ilay
Darky
The Bass Drummer's Art and Mrs Burgess at the Club
At the Players' Club a comic vignette centers on Mrs Neil Burgess and a Hifalutin Dramatic Critic. A performer praises plain work over theory while Burgess, likened to a bass drummer, avoids abstract questions about realization versus idealization and plays by ear rather than note.
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Neil Burgess
Players
Bases
Fashions Writer Recounts Early Journalism Struggles
A young woman journalist recalls paying for expensive tea with Wellesley graduates while noting success in writing fashions. She laments low pay when interviewing celebrit ies for her book and recounts an unusable interview with Richard Watson Gilder who said the key trait for young women in literature is postage stamps.
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Boston
Wellesley
Richard Watson Gilder
The Laughing Leaves in Autumn's Lament
Poem excerpt reflecting on laughing leaves as timeless witnesses to human loss and the decay of life. The speaker contrasts the leaves joy with human fading, pondering time and the secret of true mirth, in a tone like a devotional meditation by Blanden.
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Blanden
Untrimmed Hats Sale Ad Features Silk Braid Hats
An advertisement promotes untrimmed hats available in all shapes and colors at a special price tomorrow. Prices listed start at $1 with silk braid hats faced by black velvet also offered. Some items priced around $3.98.
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Auice
French Felt Hats Go On Sale At Low Prices
French Felt Hats in all shapes and colors priced at 1.50 with another epeelly 99c attraction noted as a value offer.
Felt Plaques in Black and Colored Sets
Felt plaques offered in black and many colors at 99 cents, low price item promoting affordable home decor.
Children’s Trimmed Hats for Fall Wear
Colorful hats offered for children with a fall style in stock. Displays a Tomorrow's special price of 99 cents. Noted value tag of 150 dollars appears in advertisement copy.
Ladies' Trimmed Turbans in All the Wanted Colors
Advertisement notes ladies trimmed turbans in desired colors with a price of 150 dollars, highlighting a special attraction and urging purchase.
Sea voyage chaplain and a landsman shipyard tale
An aging coast liner skipper recalls a stormy voyage that led to a young man aboard seeking to preach to sailors. The captain tells how the voyage altered the boy, and how a seaside mission helped him become a chaplain at sea. Also included is a column on how sulfur remedies from calcium salts improve health and a brief note on ocean salinity and freezing.
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Tella
Cape
New York
Stuart
RM. Wilkins
Buria
Bahia
Seaman's Mission
Snug Harbor
Canada
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Atlantic City
Virginia
Fourteenth Street
Ewners
Ickery
Ann
Meiely
Ghosr
Washington Church
E. T. Winchester
Ernest T. Winchester
One-Eyed
Judge
Sophane Lee
Oxford
Mayer Bros. & CO
Quality Store
F St
Cor, 10Th
Hogany
Lansburgh Furniture Co
Inter-Ocean Building
9Th St
Vernis Martin
Nottingham
Smyrna
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