A Revised Fable: Grapes Sour and Table Turning
The piece reimagines Aesop style fables, suggesting the fox is misunderstood and that loss can reveal resilience. It contrasts traditional moral fruit with a softer, reformulated view from Caroline Evans in Century.
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Fox
Caroline Evans
A Postwar Love Quest in Paris and a Robbery
A veteran narrator recalls Tom Marsden’s dying wish and the voyage from Africa to Europe to win Tom’s sister Mary Marsden. After Aunt Cashmere’s robbery of Tom’s medals, a train theft leads to recovery of the keepsakes in Marseilles and Paris, where Mary accepts the narrator’s love.
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Tom
Harry
Mary
Europe
Paris
Mary Marsden
Marseilles
Monte Carlo
Jewellers
Riviera
Tom Marsden
Cashmere
Hotel Des Palmiers
Marsden
Miss Marsden
Thompson
Mentone
Ivy on trees harms growth and timber value
An English authority notes ivy on hardwood and pine trees retards growth and eventually kills the trees. Removing ivy should be gradual to avoid sudden death or bark damage, as the root systems, bark, and grain are affected.
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New York World
The Rise of School Globes in America
The manufacture began in 1852 with five inch globes and quickly grew. Boston made the map backing laths sent to Troy for covering and mounting. papier mache balls carry small drawing paper maps with seamless edges. Production takes three months from start to finished globe, sizes range from three to thirty-three inches, priced from two dollars to over two hundred, marketed in forty stores.
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Boston
Troy
New York Dispatch
Explosion Tillts Banquet Panic at Madras Czarevitch Visit
Reports from India say a loud blast outside Government House Madras interrupted a banquet for the Czarevitch of Russia. Officials and his suite rose with drawn swords as a soda bottle burst on the veranda causing trepidation about an assassination threat.
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Czarevitch
Russia
Government House
Madras
India
New York Post
The Jokers Budget and Lively Humor Sketches
A collage of jokes and quips from Harper's Bazaar to Washington Star and Boston Courier. Bits about elopements, poets, tramps, the prodigal son, and women’s understandings blend with gags on burglars and cake. Recurrent banter features April humor, domestic twists, and caricatures, reflecting a late 19th century humor page tone.
Under the Earth and Volcanoes Lessons
The article explains deep mine heat limits and Borings simulate only part of earth’s interior The Sperenberg bore near Berlin reached 4172 feet The piece discusses volcanic energy how seawater rocks and steam form eruptions and the vast heat beneath the surface with references to Vesuvius and New Zealand forests
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Europe
Comstock
Sperenberg
Berlin
St. Louis
New Zealand
Goldthwaite
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