Dinner Party Unearths Hidden Romance Across Class Lines
Mrs Emory hosts a dinner featuring Countess Karolyi. Her Hungarian butler John Lisz openly reveals a past love with the countess, once a noble family member, now reconciled as he returns to his former status while staying in America.
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Henry
Mrs. Emory
Karolyi
Carol
Henry Emory
America
John
London
Madame
Peter
Davises
Yorkville
Jan Lisz
Buda
John Lisz
Smithsonian Institution Overview and Roles
The Smithsonian, a government-backed body, oversees the National Museum including the National Gallery of Art and several branches. It maintains a 165,000 volume library and manages the international exchange service for global scholarly publication. Since inception the exchange service has handled over 4,000,000 packages. The Bureau of American Ethnology studies American Indians and the Astrophysical Observatory investigates solar phenomena.
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Smithsonian Institution
National Museum
National Galery of Art
International Exchange Service
Bureau of American Ethnology
National Zoology Park
Astrophysical Observatory
United States Regional Bureau
United States
Clay Coffin Promises Durable All Clay Casket
The article describes a new clay coffin made from dust and vermin resistant material that is waterproof and durable. It includes metal handles cloth linings a glass panel in the lid and is molded in one piece with rounded corners. It can resemble black white or gray finished products and aims for moderate cost if mass produced.
Japanese Skiing Spreads in Niigata and Hokkaido Ranks
The piece notes skiing rising in Japan after 1910, driven by Lt Gen Nagaoka and officers such as Major General Horiuchi and Lt Col von Lerch. It highlights Takata, Ichigo, Niigata and Hokkaido as centers, with postmasters providing skis for mail carriers and students, including girls, taking up the sport.
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Japan
Nagaoka
National Aero Society
Horiuchi
Adolph von Lerch
von Lerch
Takata
Ichigo
Niigata Prefecture
Ashigawa
Hokkaido
Japanese Inventor Develops Artificial Silk Method
The process by Kishi uses chrysalis oil refined to purity mixed with nitro cellulose from mulberry bark and mulberry paper. The solution is made in alcohol and ether and forced through fine holes to form fiber, claimed to closely resemble real silk in luster and flexibility.
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Kishi
Scientific American
Plea for Quiet From Residents Near Rail Yard
A Boston Globe letter urges Dallas railroad officials to curb the yard engine noise. Signed by residents who endure day and night din, the plea lists a long chain of disruptive sounds and asks if such racket is necessary for duty.
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Dallas
Boston Globe
Barnum & Bailey Circus to Exhibit in Lynn
The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth visits Lynn on June 28 with the Oriental spectacular pageant Pertia or the Pageants of the Thousand and One Nights featuring 1350 participants 350 musicians and 3000 costumes. The program includes 480 aerial and riding acts fifty clowns and four new Chinese troupes plus 1400 performers 785 horses and 108 cages with 41 elephants traveling on 89 cars.
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Barnum & Bailey
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Germs on Pedler's Whistles Prompt Health Probe
New York health researchers tested tin horns and whistles from pushcart pedlers and found an average of 99 bacteria colonies per item. Streptococci were among the germs, lethal to some mice in inoculation tests. officials suspect street vendors spread germs to buyers.
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New York
Health Department
Pather's Pants abandoned as family ditty
The Cincinnati Times Star reports the ditty Pather's pants will soon fit Willie has been abandoned in favor of Sidte's skirts will soon fit mother. The note reflects a shifting family joke in local culture.
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Pather
Willie
Sidte
Cincinnati Times-Star
Map of the Heavens A New Star Chart Project
Astronomers worldwide have labored for 25 years to complete a vast map of the visible universe. The work will include every star detectable by the era’s most powerful telescope, totaling under 100 million. Some stars recorded may never be seen by human eye, captured instead on photographic plates more light sensitive than the eye. The final product will be a multi volume atlas of charts rather than a conventional map.
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Hich
The New Poet and His Poetry
Cornelia A. P. Comber argues in Atlantic that new poetry, while not like Tennyson or Browning, remains valid as poetry and can free the spirit. Open-mindedness toward new poetry helps society as art becomes detached from daily life and the new poets propose remedies, though less deep-seated.
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Tennyson
Browning
Cornelia A. P. Comber
Atlantic
Same Old Bull
A Judge quips about Assyrian wall carvings and bulls in a humorous exchange. One man studies world history while another reduces the bull imagery to political posters as a satirical comparison.
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Tive
Miss Emily and Her Store
A nostalgic reminiscence of Miss Emily running a small shop with a strict, efficient presence. The right side sold notions and crafts while the left offered toys and outdoor gear. The narrator contrasts modern efficiency with old time crankiness and recalls stern pennies and careful counting.
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Emily
Sonny
Atlantic
Reparing Dents In Hardwood Furniture
Dents in hard wood may be removed with patience. Cover the spot with damp paper, place a hot iron, and repeat until even. sand, rub with alcohol or varnish, and refinish. For slight dents a red hot poker above it may suffice, with olive oil vinegar and alcohol for finish repair if varnish is harmed.
Preventive for Tarnish on Brass Furniture
To keep brass beds and other brass work from tarnishing and reduce polishing, lacquer with gum shellac dissolved in alcohol. Apply the lacquer with a small paint brush. Ten cents worth will lacquer a bedstead.
Had He a Katherine at Home
Ada Rehan recounted how a Birmingham bandsman praised her Katherine appearance by reacting to her stage motion. She recalled the moment when he shrank back at the footlights, prompting her to send him cigars the next day.
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Ada Rehan
Birmingham
Katherine
Physician's Pigeons in Scotland Aids Doctors
A Scottish physician uses carrier pigeons to speed prescriptions and summon him during long rounds. He carries pigeons on visits and leaves them with patients for urgent medicine and later consultations. An assistant delivers medicines and prepares prescriptions, saving time and labor.
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Scotland
Unconscious Influence
Universalist Leader speaks on the subtle power of our acts and dispositions. Our goodness spreads to others through everyday tasks and interactions, like a rose’s fragrance or a fire’s warmth, quietly shaping those we meet.
Babcock Narrates Misquoted Old Friend Claim
A quarrel arises as Mrs Babcock recalls an alleged remark from an old friend. Mr Babcock denies the statement, insisting he only claimed the friend said he knew his wife when he was a boy. The exchange ends with a repetition of the misattributed line.
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W. G. Chapman
Suburban Gas & Electric CO
C. F. Chisholm
Circes
Lynn
Pedler
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