Wedding in Manila Serenades a Desperate Pair
In a Manila garden a sergeant named McManus elopes with Katie, a colonel's ward. Despite danger of desertion and a wary colonel, they marry in a church with a Filipino priest as Fatty Martin and Silver Jones cheerfully involved. The couple rides away under cover of night decisive and hopeful.
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the States
Manila
Katie
Iady
Indy
States
Boo-hoo
Philippine Islands
Mr. McManus
Ser
Sergt. McManus
Katy
Sergt. McManna
Sergi
McManus
Finney
Kitty
Col
Francis
Shentry
Col. Francis
Jim
Corp
Wilgo
Murphy
Tom
Sergeant McManus
Useful hints for the dressmaker and maid in cleaning and refurbishing hats and gowns
The article offers practical, period specific advice for economical outfits. It covers cleaning and restoring feathers, ostrich fibers, ribbons, and silks using hot water, soap, oxalic acid, starch, benzine, and gasoline. Warnings note flammability and dye safety, with step by step tips for curling, washing, drying, and ironing.
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Chicago Tribune
Mrs Joseph Choate and the London diplomat’s wife praised
London Letter lauds Mrs. Choate as a refined, influential ambassador’s wife who backs her husband’s career through diplomacy and charity. It notes her lavish entertainments, emerald jewelry from the orient, and aid to Americans in distress, including runaway girls and penniless artists, along with their devoted marriage. A final note adds a tip for knife cleaning with potato and brick dust.
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Joseph Choate
Choate
Boston
Hub
London
Chicago Chronicle
Mrs Annie Yeamans Longstage Public Figure and Mentor
A portrait of Mrs Annie Yeamans, famed for 56 years on stage, noted for Harigan plays impersonations and recent farce roles. Described as realism itself with rare comic spontaneity and praised as a generous model and mentor to young actors. her temperment free of jealousy. Also includes quirky notes on recipes Tomato Muffed with Rice and a tip One Little Borax Does for ironing.
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United States
Annie Yeamans
Richard TH
Harrigan
Mrs. Yeamans
My Grandma in a Sunlit Window
A child recalls a grandmother aged and kind, describing her rocking chair by the window, a lace cap, a white apron, and peppermint drops. The poem contrasts grandma’s youth with the speaker’s current smallness, cherishing her stories, songs, and warm naps in a gentle, nostalgic voice.
Witch hazel blooms despite November frost
In late November the witch hazel remains the only bloom, with star like yellow flowers clinging to branches among seed pods. The piece notes its odd out of season flowering, its seeds launched by bursting capsules, and quotes John Burroughs and Edward Rowland Sill on time and almanac witchery.
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John Burroughs
Edward Rowland Silt
Witch-Havel
Jack Frost
The Jap and Hin Washing
The Japan rip their garments apart for every washing and iron by spreading them on a flat-board. They dry clothes leaning the board against the house and sun removes wrinkles giving a luster. The Japanese woman washes out of doors with a low wet washtub. Cate Hare Brilliant Exes and beasts of prey are noted for enhanced light from their eyes compared to humans.
Old Mule Chicago Evades Work Then Goes Underground
A Wyoming ranch mule named Chicago earned a rover tag for avoiding Tuesday and Friday herding. After being lassoed and put on a picket, he sulked and bucked when pressed, finally killed while hauling coal, ending a life of play hooky and mischief. Ross B. Franklin reports from Chicago Record-Herald.
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Wyoming
Chicago
Ross B. Franklin
Chicago Record-Herald
A Toads Adventure In A Park And A Clever Horse
A summer afternoon in Vandalia park follows Walter, Vandalia, and Eleanor as they observe a dignified toad, then a wise old man uses a cane to stir the grass and spook the toad into dramatic leaps before it escapes downhill. The tale shifts to a Boston Herald note about a street horse eating oats through a wheel and a clever workaround.
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Eleanor
Walter
Brother Toad
Toady
Boston Herald
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