The Musician Next Door In A Southern City
In a refurbished French quarter suite, a winter resident grows fond of his musician neighbor Mr. Daubert of the Paris opera. While he admires Daubert’s piano artistry and mourns the end of his nightly concerts, a sudden cab sounds as trouble erupts outside the front door signaling a disturbing turn in this moodful tale.
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Harris
St. Julian Daubert
Mendelssohn
Warris
Monsieur Daubert
Heidelburg
Leipsic
Erard
Mr. Daubert
Roederer Harris
Jean Pierre Sauveur d’Aubert
Dauphine
France
New Orleans
Marquis
Monsieur
Alma and the Wounded Musician in the Old City
A narrator recalls nursing a wounded, hard drinking pianist named Daubert with the help of Alma a devoted daughter. Alma and Daubert depart with the Erard piano to the countryside and the narrator continues his work while longing for melodies from past nights. The piece blends memory of romance with a melancholic sense of unfulfilled desire.
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Monsieur Daubert
Daubert
Bolton
Miles
Alma
Old City
Erard
N. O. Times-Democrat
Chief Obstacle to Success in Skimming Habit
Quoted reflection by Q S Marden on the danger of superficial work. The text exhorts young Americans to avoid rushing to quick results and to value patient, deliberate effort to prevent blunders that hinder advancement.
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Q. S. Marden
Battle of Shiloh Opens With Unforeseen Confederate Attack
The battle begins Sunday morning April 6 1862 as Confederate forces surprise Union Gen Crant near Prentiss division. The attack drives back Union troops on day one and ends in a Confederate rout on day two after Prentiss is captured following a stubborn defense.
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Shiloh
Crant
Prentiss
School and Church Beliefs Across Nations and Faiths
The excerpt surveys religious education and social notes from Bulgaria to Iceland, New York teachers, and clergy incomes. It cites Strassburg school physicians, a Midletown minister’s wages, Korean education grants, and Icelandic domestic schooling. It also touches on Cain and his wife in biblical and Koranic texts and ends with a humorous ministerial misreadings anecdote.
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Bulgaria
New York
Strassburg
Charles M. Winchester
Middletown
N. Y
Korea
Russia
Iceland
Cain
Land of
Nod
Enoch
Byron
Adah
Abel
Kabil
Habil
Earth Once Pear Shaped Says Darwin and Jeans
In a Youth's Companion report Prof G H Darwin endorses J H Jeans Trinity Cambridge calculations on earths past pear shaped phase. The transition to its current form came through ruptures leaving traces, with the pears large end near England and stalk near Australia. A volcanic quake belt followed the former equator.
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G. H. Darwin
J. H. Jeans
Trinity College, Cambridge
England
Australia
Humorous Snippets and a New England Clock Tale
A collage of lighthearted exchanges and quips from various papers. Jokes include cauliflower about lovers, a caustic remark from the Detroit Free Press, mercy tempered justice over photos, and a Boston Transcript style gag about looks. A New England man encounters a clock with a 300 day wind and ponders its running when wound.
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Johnson
Thompson
Detroit Free Press
Chicago Daily News
Kate
Boston Transcript
Philadelphia Press
Beryl
Jack
Ethel
Pearl
Sibyl
Baltimore Herald
New England
Overdose Aspiring Statesman Demands Newspaper Clippings
The Chicago Tribune recalls an ambitious politician requesting three months of newspaper clippings, then asking to stop, and finally offering a price to halt future mailings. The Bureau of Press Clippings insists the contract runs three months and will continue sending copies.
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Statesman
Bureau of
Aspiring Statesman
Chicago Tribune
Freak Calculation puzzle from Canton Ohio paper
A reader puzzle asserts a magic calculation using living brothers and sisters to reveal counts of deaths and living siblings. The steps describe doubling brothers, adding three, multiplying by five, adding sisters, multiplying by ten, adding deaths, then subtracting 150 to reveal the numbers.
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Canton
Butter in the Dietary
Butter is presented as an essential natural fat with high digestibility and energy value. It surpasses cod liver oil in fuel content, contains diverse fats, and is advised for sick and healthy diets alike. The article cautions against excessive cooking, promotes generous use with starches, and endorses butter as a superior dietary fat.
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The
Washington Star
Tricked by His Frau Freezes Musician at Home
A German musician, head of a private conservatory, dodges evening requests to play. His wife Louisa secretly performs a piece she knows he loves. He objects at first but, after her trick, he becomes eager to play and forgets his resolve for an hour.
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New York Mail and Express
Wagner
Mendelssohn
Himmel
Louisa
Nature's Thermometer in Colloquial Dialect
A Chicago Daily News fragment records a colloquial exchange about the cold. The speaker estimates last night’s temperature near an inch and a half below the freezing point, noting ice formed deeply on a backyard tub.
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Nature
Mistah Johnsing
Cole Mannin
Mistah Jackson
Ecole
Chicago Daily News
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