When Mother Reads Aloud A Mother Day Tribute
A sentimental piece celebrates mothers and the impact of maternal love on great men. It cites Edison, Moody, Lincoln, Garfield and others, urging readers to honor mothers on the second Sunday in May with letters, gifts, or visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Althea Joma
Lincoln
Thomas Edison
Dwight L. Moody
Jean Paul Ritcher
Garfield
Loudet
France
Gald
Con
Dorothy Dix
Gho
Que Shadow
Mary at the Cross A mother's steadfast love reflected
A devotional reflection on Mary at the crucifixion highlighting a mother's pain and enduring presence. The piece centers on Mary’s role, sustaining Jesus, and the call to emulate maternal comfort and devotion in times of suffering. Selected text emphasizes sorrow, faith, and redemptive care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Jesus
Maury
Alma Mater Refrain At College Station
A confused student wanders through a college shop and writes Alma Mater repeatedly on a paper while a clerk tries to guide him. The exchange centers on his fear the young clerk will learn his true age and schooling status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mie
Colfese
Mother's Hair Preservative becomes schoolyard joke
In a small town tale, Tom and Susan tease their mother with a pretend product called Mothers Hair Preservative. The prank spreads through the family as they secretly prepare doses from wood shavings and buckwheat batter, sparking curiosity and family laughter about worry and gray hair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
Jim Ashton
Mike
Susan
Bee
Brian
Tom
Geo
Hic
Suzan
Rook
Busan
Hesheshi
Mother Bee Giug
Tsing
Temples to Temptation and a Cautionary Town Tale
A dialogue on sin and self control frames a sermon about temptation as a building of character. A curiously long town tale parallels a smith named Jonas Applegate with moral decline, warning that small sins compromise integrity over time. The piece ends with unrelated camp references to Dr Thongys Ellectric Ole, offering advice for cold camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dilek
Unis
Dad
Edna Tebe
Harself
Ultun
Jonas
Jonas Applegate
Mothers Day Observance and Symbolism in Public Life
The piece discusses Mothers Day as more than a surface celebration, urging genuine appreciation and personal effort. It argues the value lies in remembering advice, prayers, and care, not in outward rituals or symbols alone, and advocates daily reverence for motherhood.
No Way of Knowing in This Blackened Morning
An elderly man named Bain, known as Bitton, wears a fur coat and recalls years of frugality as he walks with a friend. They discuss the cold day and glance at a paper, implying hidden stories behind the weather and possessions in a wintry street scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sian
Bitton
Bain
Han
First Loop Flight Inches Toward a World Record
An amateur aviator recounts his nerve wracking first loop the loop over Pensacola Bay describe the gusts throttle and high speeds as the plane climbs to over three thousand feet and then plunges earthward before recovering into horizontal flight the narrator declares mastery of the machine and pride in his performance
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Han
Lampke
Carranza
Mexico
Pensacola
Uume
Earth
Planning saved the day through careful use of time
An unclear excerpt hints that deliberate planning and timely actions prevented loss. The hour not wasted is described as valuable, implying that foresight and work prior to an event secured a positive outcome. The fragment emphasizes preparation over chance.
Domestic management and the limits of female efficiency
A wartime era treatise argues that a woman's true efficiency lies in training others rather than doing all tasks herself. It contrasts household leadership with hands on work, warns against overloading servants, and emphasizes teaching children through participation to prevent future idleness and incompetence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nike
Mona & Hour
Mary
Ti Ta Creata Heroism Repudiated by The Moscalings
A fragment notes the Moscalings rejecting the hero Ti Ta Creata and his extraordinary deed, contrasting it with the standards of an average man and implying a lack of tradition rising to his level.
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Desart
Mothuel
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Suan
Agai
Jow Tanega
Ulling-Room
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Dicky
Dusan
Tun
Ulster
Tadkea
Thongys
Morty
South America
Enahead
Europe
Cherie
Mount Atry Mexenger
Touse
Domuiloy
AL Grant Lachead
Publi- Uruich
Department of Agric
Barna
Council
Preston
ONT
Alnecnanor
Gyproc
Rochoard
Insplex
Canada
Gypsum
United Paris
J.B McKenzie
Georgetown Lumber Co., Ltd
Astor,Ont
Acton
Ohster
INER
Durant Bude
Durant
Vasile Bey
Durang
Femee Pheer Lodeittomtr
el Fee
L. E. Atkinson
Acton, Ontario
Neutone
W. D. Talbot
Mill Streets
Varnoleum
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