Trouble Man from Hoopoe to Seville Adventure
A narrator recalls a feverish chase to catch a passenger train before Seville, slipping through obstacles. He manipulates a telegraph delay, rides a buggy to the Pletwick stop, and braves daring stunts to hold a northbound train for ten minutes. The high stakes and brisk tempo mirror a melodramatic travel misadventure.
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Sam Richards
Mowkey
Sevilla
Seville
Richards
Col
Burrowsleck
Pletwick
Pletwick, Jones
Swinford Junction
Mr. Jones
Jones
Barroweleck
Chicago Daily News
A Good Name For Me Jones From The Pickle Drill
A humorous dialogue follows a salesman named Jones as he recalls his unsettled trial in Burrowsleck. He laughs at his own name and tells of failing to sell in town, meeting Jack Hau, and sharing drink with him while pondering his next move after a dry sales day.
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Tee
Montmorenci
Cholmondeley
van Ruyten-Livingston
Paul
Tom
Sam
Jones
Leonidas Y
Boggs House
Jack Hauaman
Jack
Monorail Model Shown At London Exhibition
A working model of a proposed Liver pool to Manchester monorail is displayed in London and will tour the St Louis exposition. The 1 16 scale model demonstrates the train riding on a central guide rail with horizontal wheels for stability. Inventor Behr claims trains could travel 120 miles per hour and safely handle curves.
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London
Liverpool
Manchester
Behr
Modern Bupposition in a Newlywed Room
A quip contrasts a bachelor and a newlywed as the man in the next room is teased about his mother insisting on her way. The joke hinges on a mother’s influence and the couple’s domestic dynamic in a witty exchange.
Spider Crusoe Finds Liberty On a Desert Island
A Hearth writer recounts an experiment with a spider named Crusoe placed on a mast in a wash-basin filled with water. The spider explores, sways, and tests a rising air draft to cast a line ashore, eventually hauling a rope and walking to safety, earning its liberty.
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Crusoe
Mr. Crusoe
Desert
Notable Children Across the World Youngest Leaders and Gilded Fortunes
The richest baby in the world is the son of the late Harold Brown of Providence whose fortune is estimated at up to 40 million dollars after his father and uncle died. Sultan Ahmed Mirza, born 1891, is the 13 year old youngest Persian general with a regular star. Daud Chua, about eight, is the youngest king of Uganda with a parlia mentary protectorate and pompous courts. Kathleen Mills at 11 presides over the Ongar Catholic church organ in England. Lord de Clifford, 18, is the youngest master of fox hounds for the Dalgan pack in Ireland.
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Gald
Harold Brown
Providence
Daud Chua
Uganda
Daudi Chum
London
Doua
Kathleen Mills
Ongar
Essex
England
Little Miss Mills
Fox Hounds
Lord de Clifford
Dalgan
County Galway
Ireland
Koreans Swear Off By Kite Messages In New Year Folly
A curious habit in Korea uses kites to cast off faults at year’s start. Koreans write their vices on paper and attach them to strings, letting the kites fly away as a symbolic purge. An American in Korea recalls a night so dark no kite appeared until the string was fully extended and released, signaling a bid for renewed courage.
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Korea
Frankie Orser
Boston
Mass
Scuttling a City in Pingyang’s Water System
The ancient Korean capital Pingyang is nicknamed the boat-shaped capital. Inside the walls no digging for water is allowed to avoid sinking the city. water is carried from the river to distant quarters, and water carriers’ peculiar gait becomes a street oddity.
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Korea
Pingyang
Philadelphia
Proper posture tips from a 19th century housekeeper
The article urges avoiding wall leaning and long bows in social greetings. It recommends standing with hips and heels together, shoulders and head free, and a slight 60 degree hip bend for a proper bow while keeping eyes level. A nod should be curt and noncommittal.
Ornament Your Own Lamp With Porcelain Vase Craft
A guide for decorating a porcelain lamp vase featuring the sarra cenia pitcher plant motif and color instructions. Includes expansion tips to taller vases, background color ideas, and notable plant names known in Europe. Also mentions improvised storage and cranberry serving tips from period home magazines.
Pretty home made gifts and handkerchief crafts
A column of craft ideas outlines making pincushions from a large doll’s parasol and decorative handkerchief bags and bureau covers. Instructions include silk parasol bases, fabric stuffing, ribbon bows, and lace trimmings, with variations for color and embroidery to enhance presentation.
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Kansan City
Brown and White Sandwich Recipes and Variations
Table Talk describes savory sandwich ideas using finely chopped nuts moistened with mayonnaise for brown or white bread. Waldorf sandwiches combine white bread, butter, apple, celery, walnuts and mayonnaise. Chicken sandwiches omit nuts and apple. Ripe olive sandwiches gain popularity for teas. A gluten bread recipe blends olives, cheese, mayonnaise and cream into a paste for spreading.
Cautionary Household Remedies From a Troubled Page
A fragment warns that equal parts ammonia and spirits of turpentine remove paint from clothing regardless of dryness or persistence. It also begins a note on bread for sandwiches, mentioning bread baked in large-size baking powder cans, but the passage cuts off before completion.
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Williston Graphis
R C. Corsraup
Williston
Washington
Europe
St. Paul Globe
Eilgore
Dodd
Rey Rf Wufferer
Fae Milan
Qyrong
Victoria
John A. Salter Seed Co
LaCrosse
Wits
Lord Cla Ion
Piso
Minnchapel Minn
Tollerness
Jeremy Taylor
Robert Collyer
Lydia Pinkham
W. L. Douglas
W.L. Douglas
Pera Agers Wardigeand c. F
Irs
Detroit
Mick
Suse Fitfolr
ALD &Co
Bex M
Washington, D.C
AK. EK
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