The Girl of the Saratoga on the Ocean
A narrator narrates a shipboard romance with Miss Gray fated to two travelers. After a comic exchange during a voyage from Liverpool to Philadelphia, a mutual confession near Delaware reveals two people running toward love rather than apart, ending with shared resolve to face their futures together.
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Sion
Gladstone
Saratoga
Miss Gray
America
Elian
Philippines
San Francisco
Lizzie
Lizze
Euclid
Old
Delaware
The Little Foxes at Sea Shore Cottage
A Boston clergyman summers at a sea side cottage once home to New York artists. Children gather empty wine bottles from under the piazza and arrange forts. The visiting cleric denounces smoking as leading to drinking, prompting a stern reply from the host.
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Boston
New York
Boston Herald
Tiey
Labrador Fur Trade Sees High Prices and Mild Winter Losses
Reports from Labrador indicate a mild winter with fewer Indian fatalities and a strong fur market. The New York market recorded a $300 top price for a black silver fox skin, with similar high values for other rare furs. Marten skins sold for up to $25 each as prices remained favorable compared with last year.
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Labrador
Fara
Saya
New York UN
Change in Watches From Bull’s-Eye Timepieces
A Chicago Tribune line reporter canvassed watch, pawn, and junk shops in search of old bull's-eye silver watches but found none. Dealers recalled only one specimen, later sold or lost, as a veteran watchmaker noted these prewar pieces were unreliable and inferior to newer machine-made watches that cost less and keep better time.
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Chicago
Telic
Vagrant Journal Notes on Labrador Trade and Old Time Watches
Fragmentary items describe Labrador traders proud of otter and mink furs from Labrador, isolation in winter with mail and nails scarce, a Virginia vineyard destroyed by wine, old bull's-eyes and Virdge movement watches now worth only their metal, and remarks on valued heirlooms and timepieces. The text blends miscellany with regional anecdotes and curios.
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Labrador
Queen Victoria
Old Bedford winegrower destroys vineyard after nuisance grows
A Bedford proprietor who turned his grape crop into wine and shared it freely with family and neighbors says imbibing became a nuisance. To rid his household and community of the trouble, he destroyed his vineyard beginning a year ago, according to a local report.
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Old Bedford
Vienna
Chainless bicycles gain ground as superior gear design grows
A Cycling Gazette article compares bevel gear chainless wheels with traditional chain drives, noting rising popularity and potential dominance if prices align. It praises cleanliness, simplified frames, minimal backlash, and reduced chain derailment, while acknowledging higher manufacturing costs.
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Cycling Gazette
Novel motor bicycle with three cylinders on standard frame
The inventor Dickerson attaches three motor cylinders to a bicycle frame, one on each main tube, with a central spider crank and shared crank shaft. Acetylene or hydrocarbon powers the engine, stored in a tank on the seat mast, barefoot to balance the Weyele frame. The design aims for even balance and reduced frame twist, enabling a lighter frame.
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Dickerson
Cycling Gazette
High Gears for Women and Horses’ Fear of Motors
A veteran rider urges bicycle shops to feature low gears for women to ease grinds and fatigue. He notes women ride higher gears than men and historically used smaller numbers. Also discussed is motor cars frightening horses and a call for horse owners to acclimate horses by regular, gentle exposure.
Mile a Minute Murphy Plans Wire Walk Between Piers
Charles Murphy known as Mile a Minute Murphy intends a perilous New York to Brooklyn ride along a two foot wide wire strung between East River bridge piers. He vows full control of nerves despite the sway and height and says past success behind a flying train proves his steadiness. Authorities may block the stunt yet he presses on with confidence.
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Charles Murphy
Murphy
Tom
Automobile Glasses for High Speed Driving
An excerpt describes automobile glasses with large shell shaped lenses and a projecting mask to shield the eyes at speeds of 40 to 50 mph. Initially imported from France, they are now manufactured locally in varying mask materials and cost 2.50 to 5 dollars a pair.
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France
Topics of Interest in a Curio Daily Digest
A scattered digest notes Pasteur’s overlooked high school rank, a critic’s study of 40 000 people including criminals, and czar cenotaphs as plain marble blocks. It also covers Paris’s first anti tuberculosis dispensary, English Channel octopus invasions, world population under major powers, a Wurtemburg election by one voter, Queen Alexandra’s Windsor oak, Russian student riots, and UK egg consumption per person.
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Woon
Dijon
Russia
Peter the Great le
Neva
Paris
England
Victor Hugo
English Channel
Devon
Cornwall
Im Wurtemburg
Alexandria
Windsor Forest
Moscow
National Poultry Organization Association
United Kingdom
Johnson at Work Again in Racine
John Johnson of 024 Hamilton Street Racine Wisconsin suffered chronic kidney and urinary trouble for years leaving him unable to work. After trying various remedies he used Dodd’s Kidney Pills and achieved a complete recovery now back to daily labor and in good health.
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Racine, Wis
John Johnson
Hamilton Street
Kinney
Dodd
Johnson
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