Shakespeare Night At A Women's Club Ends In Farce
Mr. Thompkins attends his wife’s women’s club to critique their literary talks. He mocks their topics and belittles the members, faces sharp questioning, and is met with cold faces and a formal rebuke from the president. He leaves humiliated as the meeting adjourns.
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Mrs. Thompkins
Mr. Thompkins
Shakspeare
Ignatius Donnelly Tenable
Bacon
Sheakspeare
Thompkins
Hemilet
New York
Hamlet
Paris
Ophelia
Pope Leo XIII Death Sheds Vatican in Quiet Lament
The Vatican received a steady outpouring of grief as Pope Leo XIII died after weeks of decay. Nephews and relatives visited the chamber while Cardinal Rampolla and Cardinal Oreglia grappled with rites and duties. The city tolled bells across Rome as conclave plans form for an August start.
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Leo
Vatican
St. Peters
Rome
Rampolla
Cardinal Oreglia
Cardinal Oregna
Cardinal Macchi
Rospiglios
Lapponi
Quirinal
Anna Pecci
Camillo
Oreglia
L'itaile
Cardinal Gibbons
Italy
Gibbons
Count Camillo
Conclave Likely Short Says Cardinal Svampa
Cardinal Svampa of Bo Ingpa, recovering from paralysis, says the conclave will be brief, possibly one week, as differences in the Sacred College are not as strong as in past eras. He notes the future pope will shape policy on the Roman question with a personal tilt.
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Svampa
Bo Ingpa
Sacred College
Swampa
Holy See
A Farmyard Tale Of Milk And A Fearsome Beast
A narrator recalls a near escape from a fierce creature near a farm and a farmer’s timely intervention. A talkative neighbor explains a milk deal gone awry with a warning note about Sie Har Tower and an aggressive merchant named Sile, linking a forged option to a $200 bank note and a history of strained cattle sales at Alderney prices.
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Weseuer
Asez Ricketts
New York Times
A Fragmented Tour Through Historic Relics and Oddities
The excerpt surveys Cromwell’s silver black jack relic and its engravings, plus a gallery of curios from cigar collections of notable figures, a gray memory of John McCullough, a chained bear watchdog, and a Greenland Eskimo Bible project led by Hans Heede. It blends anecdote with antiquarian interest and reverent oddities.
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Olivarius
New York Herald
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Leo XII
Chicago Examiner
Centra
Camille Pecci
Oregila
Amuletus
Contra
EZ Onla
Ieee
William Wallace Whitelock
Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
Europe
Havana
Sir Wilfrid Leurier
Portugal
Gen. Mercier
Dreyfus
Rennes
Leopold Rothechild
Billington
Australia
London
Queen Victoria
Gottlieb Weest
Letpersilie
Penn
Freak Green
Brain
Sach
Haswegian Petitor
Hans Hgede
Greenland
The
Bible Society of Denmark
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