A Bridegroom From the East
Peggy Morland, trapped by monotony at Highfield, longs for life beyond the show of propriety. She hides a wish to break an arranged engagement to Charlie Denton as she faces quiet house, the sound of rain, and a planned departure at dawn with trunks nearly packed.
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Morland
Peggy
Randle
Ecutside
Highfield
Charlie Denton
Charlie
Marshcotes
Solmn
Brokenshire
Piccadilly
Singapore
Port Elliot
Sir Richard
A Train Meeting Shapes A Courageous Promise
Peggy travels to London as a sobbing young companion Ethel faces an urgent marriage plan. A brotherly man and a crying girl reveal a secret wedding in the Malay states. Peggy comforts and discovers a path for Ethel while pondering her own restrained life and looming choices.
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Osbornes
Hanson Hall
Erridge Green
Osborne
London
Morland
Basingstoke
Peggy
Ted
Ethel
Reading
Waterloo
Basingstroke
Peary
Peg
Malay States
Charlie Denton
Miss Baines
Ee cMaeet
Cleveland
Chumpley
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Philadelphia
Telephotography and the tangled meaning of telegraphy
The Engineering News notes confusion over terms like telephotography phototelegraphy te lectroscopy and electrography arguing telephotography should mean taking long distance photos while electrical transmission should be phototelegraphy. The piece highlights inconsistent usage and the trouble of clear terminology.
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Engineering
Women and Medicines in the Middle Ages
The London Chronicle notes Abbess Hildegarde of Rupertsburg founded a nurse school near Bingen on the Rhine in the twelfth century. She studied healing art, taught nuns plant use, and compiled Jardin de Sante, a materia medica describing medieval plant and mineral therapies. She corresponded with popes and emperors and was later canonized.
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Hildegarde
Rupertsburg
Bingen-on-the-Rhine
Jardin de Sante
Materia Medica
P Apes
London Chronicle
To Make the Mouth Water Pala Table Treats
A colonial foodie note recalls revelers praising how a well cooked Black person is when first then cooked and seasoned. Readers describe two recent suppers with sweet potatoes red peppers onion and corn bread muffins as the master server portions the tender meat.
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Mexico
Intelligencer
General Drum helped reporter with Little Big Horn scoop
A veteran Chicago Inter Ocean piece recounts how General Drum relaxed his reserve during a 1876 briefing on the Little Bighorn battle. Sheridan and officers examined maps, shaping theories of Custer’s plan, yielding a day’s reporting that informed New York and St Louis papers. The tale frames reporters as trusted wartime informants.
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R. C. Drum
Chicago
Drum
Army
Sheridan
Ree Grant
Corbin
Cheyenne
Custer
The
Little Big Horn
Department
Adj Ant
New York
St. Louis
Knights of the Golden Circle
Sons of Liberty
Newcastle
Ind
Julius Benbow
Copperheads
Knights
Benbow
Bellefontaine Raad
Indianapolis
Morton
United States
B. Martindale
Bembouw
Quirky World Wit From Fading Socials
A collage of vintage quips and jokes from union calls to high society banter. The snippets feature socialites, theater talk, lovers’ missteps, and small-town humor with punchlines about auditions, marriages, and daily oddities. Notable bits include jokes about amateurs, opera careers, and mistaken fortunes.
Conversation Focuses on His Children’s Smartness
Don’t spend time praising your children’s intelligence. He wants to discuss the intelligence of his own children with you.
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Bacon
Hubert
Yonkers
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Admiralty
Salvation Army
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Smith
Louisville Courier Journal
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Mothers’ Congress
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Brooklyn
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Yonkers Statesman
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