Bess Hillyer Faces a Choice of Fortune or Family
In Cape Desolation Bess Hillyer resists Mrs Ellicotts offer to become Elizabeth Ellicotts heiress. She stays with uncle Caleb and Rose, declines wealth for family, and navigates love entanglements with Jack Harold and Mr Hume at a cliffside village dance.
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Bess
Cape Desolation
Rose
Old Caleb
Hume
Caleb
Hillyer
Bess Hillyer
John Hillyer
Ira Berry
Boston
Miss Hillyer
Ira
Elizabeth Hillyer
Jack Harold
Ellicott
Maine
Elizabeth Ellicott
Elizabeth
Ellicott's
Giddy Rose
Andy
Mrs. Ellicott
Uncle Caleb
Hillyer’s Cove
Andy Gaff
Rose Gaff
Mr. Hume
Jack
Miss
Harold
Cape
Goodby
Mechanical violin player alarms readers in Chicago exhibit
Kubelik reacts with astonishment to a new automatic violin player showcased in Chicago. La Nature describes a device with a keyboard, electro magnets, and an electric motor that can imitate, vary, and even duet with human violinists. It notes professionals fear loss of work yet predicts limited appeal for rustic performers due to high cost.
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Kubelik
Chicago
Literary Digest
la Nature
Paris
Ourolin
Mosquito Extermination Urged By Surgeon General Wyman
Surgeon General Wyman Warns of the mosquito’s role in spreading filariasis malaria yellow fever and dengue and urges practical home measures. Drain standing water seal cisterns and remove refuse to destroy breeding sites and commence control now.
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Wyman
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Stegomyla Calopus
General Wyman
Hats Off to This Girl in the Business World
An editorial reflects on how women are treated in business revealing varied views from rude to polite. It urges a model of restraint and courtesy, avoiding gossip and personal entanglements while asserting professional demeanor. A note adds a claim of a 170 year old Japanese man as the world’s oldest.
Catacombs mined for gold in Guanajuato claim
A Mexican dispatch reports Americans W S Davis and Elisha Moore claim a rich vein of gold and silver uncovered in Guanajuato's catacombs during foundation work for a Mexican Central railroad station. Mining will disturb the city’s main ossuary, a long underground chamber once bare and now draped for modesty.
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Guanajuato
New York Press
Mexican Central Railroad
W. S. Davis
Elisha Moore
Mexico
Timber farming on worn-out Ohio farm yields varied timber
An Ohio farmer converts sixty acres of worn land into a forest after planting 35,000 Norway spruce on eleven acres for Christmas trees and interplanting hardy catalpa black locust elm box elder and ash. He plans to harvest spruce later and replace with chestnuts alongside six or seven lumber types and Christmas trees within five to six years.
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Union
Ohio
Watson Attacks Bryan in Macon Campaign Speech
Thomas E. Watson, Populist candidate for president, opened his Macon Georgia campaign with a one hour Grand Opera House address. He denounced Bryan while praising Roosevelt and Taft, urged southerners to vote their conscience, and warned the south against Democratic control and disregard of its interests.
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Macon
Thomas E. Watson
Grand Opera House
Georgia
Bryan
Taft
Roosevelt
Crisp
Brownsville
Mr. Watson
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Mr. Bryan
Watson
Parker
Wall Street
Democratic Party
Denver
William J. Bryan
Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Taft
Jefferson
Jackson
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Massachusetts
Egypt
San Antonio
Tex
Aaron Burr
Stephen James
New York City
Burr
Alexander Hamilton
James
Junel
Theodosia
Jumel
Stephen Jumel
Madam
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