Goblet of Memories Reclaims Love and Promise in Paris
Octave Ducrozel, distraught by a vanished vow, learns Louise Audry, now Mme Brunard, unknowingly kept his porcelain goblet for years. In a chance meeting at a curiosity shop, the lovers reunite as he discovers she preserved the heirloom tied to their past. They plan marriage with the narrator as best man.
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the Opera
Octave Ducrozel
Batignolles
Louise Audry
Louise
France
Wolman
Monsieur
Mme. Brunard
Mademoiselle
Octave
Dadam
Mme
Audry
Paris
A M. Brunand
Mme. Brunand
Trom
A Betested Plant Detests Animals Across The World
The castor oil plant is described as universally detested by animals. It repels birds, beasts, insects, and even worms, with goats starving before nibbling leaves and horses turning away from it. Army worms, locusts, and moles also avoid it, making castor beans a strong lawn repellent.
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Yen
Warship Commerce: Landsmen Run Ocean Profits on Board
The article details how battleships in British and American navies conduct extensive aboard economies. It cites a first lieutenant’s provisioning shop handling over 30 000 dollars annually in Britain and a larger purser’s turnover in America. Sailors diversify income through sewing, barbering, washing, mat and hat making, with some earning more outside pay. An Austrian seaman on a Royal ship earned about 700 dollars yearly by translating German books for New York publishers, illustrating broad onboard wealth. Money lending and pawnbroking operate secretly on many ships, though naval rules prohibit such activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackie
New York
Jie
New York Press
Wandering Old Musician Plays Book of Airs in Stores
An elderly man ill from out of town carries a slim leather case and a flute. He visits city music shops, selects a book of airs, and plays softly, turning pages with careful fingers. Clerks grow weary as he samples tunes, asking if the book suits him. He responds with a gentle rebuke about not having played half the tunes yet.
Leviticus and Brer Rabbit in a Family Moment
A London Chronicle quip recalls a modern father who lets his boy pick the Bible story Leviticus for bedtime reading. The child then suggests Brer Rabbit if Leviticus is unavailable, mixing sacred text with fable in a humorous family scene.
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London Chronicle
Meant to Keep Faith and the Horse Deal
A sharp practitioner negotiates a horse for £20. He accepts an offer to pay £15 now and owe the rest, then refuses to pay the balance claiming no breach since paying would cancel the debt. The seller seeks the remaining amount.
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London
Forgetting You Years Later In Philadelphia Parlor
Miss Pechis greets a young man in the parlor with playful reproach as he admits longing and asks for a kiss. The Philadelphia Press vignette captures a social exchange of flirtation and desire in a domestic setting.
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Miss Pechis
Philadelphia Press
Very Long Meals in Fifteenth Century England
An anecdote from the Arte of Rhetorike shows long medieval meals in England. An Italian sues an archbishop of York. dinner begins at 11 and drags to 4. The Italian’s arrival, gate refusals, and his journey to Rome illustrate the era’s dining customs and delays.
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Thomas Wilson
England
York
Jie
London
Italy
Rome
Customs chief puzzled by three legged stool classification
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet shows a customs official fretting over how to classify a tres legged stool. He recalls past odd rulings like frogs legs as dressed poultry and a Canadian colt as household furniture, then laments the dilemma of a stool with three legs not fitting bipeds or quadrupeds.
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Canada
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Nest Building Gouramis Among Oriental Seas
An account of gouramis, nest building fish of Cochin China Java Sumatra and Borneo. Breeding pairs select shallow beds to build spherical mud plated nests with broad fins from the abdomen for attachment. Females reach six feet in length and 110 pounds. eggs per nest range from 500 to 1,000.
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Oriental
Cochin China
Java
Sumatra
Borneo
Hip Pocket Classic Quip From a Kentucky Stop
A Chicago traveler recalls a Kentucky town where a shop sold paints and hardware but had no vest pocket classics. The proprietor offered a hip pocket gun instead and advised against buying the pocket classics for use there.
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Kentucky
Chicago
Chicago Record- Herald
Barrister Replaced by Adolphus Sparks Irish Banter
A Retort Courtzouse tale recounts a barrister displaced by Adolphus an Irish lawyer. The rival quips he is reminded of the three B s blarney bully and bluster and replies you did not complain of my bees until they sucked your honey.
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Ballantine
Adolphus
For sale large East Main Street property with outbuildings
A six room house with cellar cistern barn and other outbuildings plus a fruit orchard on a very large lot on east Main street is offered for sale on reasonable terms by Jonathan Frurvs. H O Huckery advertises two well bred horses with service fee ten dollars and offers to deliver horses to farms by phone from Waynetown Indiana via 2 41.
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East Main Street
Jonathan Frurvs
Huckery
H. O. Yuckrry
Waynetown
Ind
Notice of Administration for Sophia Fletcher Estate
The administrator Caplxis C Moors named by the Montgomery County Circuit Court judge announces the estate of Sophia Fletcher is solvent. May 27, 1904. See Sayes of Waynetown for bargains in watch chains.
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Circuit Court
Montgomery County
Indiana
Sophia Fletcher
Caplxis C. Moors
Sayes
Waynetown
Big Four Excursions and Travel Deals Announced
Tickets go on sale April 25 for World’s Fair admissions and May 16 to June 30 for coach fares priced at five dollars round trip. Discounts offered for 10 16 and 60 day passes with routes via Danville and Wabash to St Louis. Special trips to California and Pacific Coast via Big Four Route for delegates and grocers. George Le Newlin, agent, notes liberal stopover privileges and Chicago Peoria St Louis Cairo connections.
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Danville
Wabash R. R
Louis
Wabdasu
California
Big Four
Conference Methodist Episcopal Church
Los Angeles
National Association of Retail Grocers of
United States
San Francisco
Cal
Chicago
Peoria
St. Louis
Cairo
Cincinnati
Western Christian Advocate
Pacific Coast
George LE. Newlin
Western Railroad Announces Low Fare Laser Wingate Indiana
Low round trip fares from Wingate Indiana effective April 25 1904. Example 10 65 for any day return by December 15 60 days from sale 85 00 good only in coaches Tuesday or Thursday May 17 start. Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars Cafe Free Reclining Chair Cars on all night trains Meals served a la carte. Contact M B Ocheltreet agent Clover Leaf Wingate or George H Ross General Traffic Manager Toledo Ohio.
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Wingate
Indiana
Pullman Palace
Briffet
Clover Leaf Route Excursions for West and Southwest
Homeseekers excursion to the west and southwest runs on the first and 38th Tuesday of each month. The Knights Templar triennial conclave will be in San Francisco September 5 to 9. The Sovereign Grand Lodge I O O F meets in San Francisco September 19 to 25. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis runs April 30 to November 30 with stop over privileges at St Louis on all tickets. Write for full information to C D Whitney, General Traffic Manager Clover Leaf Route Toledo Ohio.
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Knights Templar
San Francisco
Cali
Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O. O. F
Cal
St. Louis
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Sherwin-Williams
Harry Wilson
C. A. Ellis
Jess ZI
Attorney At Law
Zuck Block
Wm. Marks
Is AA Western
ST. 1
M. B. Ocheltreet
Clover Leaf
George H. Ross
Traf. M.gr
Toledo
Ohio
C. D. Whitney
Mlsuls
Tlcce
Waynetown Insurance Co
Munn & Co
Aimericatt
Wernis
Amine! & Gg
New
F St
Washington, D. C
Cc. G
ST. Bh. RY
East
West Run Bees
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