The Halloween Initiation Mixup at Raritan College
General Cobb recalls Nathan Browning a freshman who clashes with campus rules and a planned Halloween ritual. Lane Cornelius, a cowardly rival, loses his chance for Cap and Bells while Nathan ends up accepted after a mistaken identity paddling scene. Lane disappears from campus after the prank.
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Nathan
Raritan
Nathan Browning
Kings ‘Building
Wilets Hall
General Cobb
Nathan Browning -Nat
Sophs
Hal
Jone
Monument Square
Browning
College Avenue
de Lane
Lane
Cape and Bells
John Becker
Hallowe'en
John
Reshman
Daniel Langley
Cap and Bells Honorary Society
Daniel
Lane Cornelus
Lane Cornelius
Dan
Cornelius
Lonely House Mystifies Hayes England Secrets and Gardens
Readable fragments describe a large vacant house near Hayes with walled gardens ablaze with exotic flowers and thriving hothouses. Lodges are occupied, gardeners employed, dogs patrol at night, and no one has entered the house for 45 years. The head gardener delivers baskets of produce to Beckingham’s elderly recluse owner each morning.
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Hayes
England
Beckingham
104th Birthday Celebrated by Ontario Pioneer Matilde Girard
Matilde Girard, born in 1828 in a French settlement near the Detroit River, celebrated her 104th birthday at her son’s home in Lassalle Ontario near Windsor. She recalls War of 1812 era, Fenian raids, and life across the river in a log cabin now modernized, recalling five British sovereigns and early frontier adventures.
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Matilde Girard
Lassalle
Onntario
Windsor
Canada
Detroit River
William Girard
Detroit
Island
Des-Chree-Shoska
Woman in Distress Refuses Help After Car Breaks Down
A woman stranded by a car breakdown on the road near a plowed field declines a farmer’s offer to tow it with a four horse team. She explains with a smile that twelve more horses are needed because her car has a sixteen horsepower motor.
Rainbow Trees Transformed Wood From Central Europe Forest
In a Central European forest sap is used to color tree leaves and wood through soil additives drawn up by the sap. A forester aims to tint saplings into multi colored timber for furniture, with the emphasis on colored wood inside the trunks rather than the foliage.
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Europe
Fairyland
Gilding the Lily in Annapolis Valley Apples
A new combined apple cleaner and polisher installed in Berwick packing plants treats Annapolis Valley apples. The machine attaches to the grader and uses rotating brushes to clean and polish the fruit as it moves toward grading, reflecting an era of beautification through technology.
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Berwick
Nova Scotia
Annapolis Valley
Agricultural Department
Canadian
S National Railways
How to Interest People Advertising Book Excerpt
Bruce B Brewer argues flyers and weekly papers win reader interest by featuring people readers know and care about. He notes newspapers offer best read advertising space with broad community coverage at reasonable cost for merchants.
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Bruce B. Brewer
Ferry Hanly Advertising Company
Jesus
John
Nosh
Mr. Merchant
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Hallowe'en Browning
Georgetown
Acton
Milton
Georgetown Lumber Co. Ltd
N. McLeod
Dominion OF Canada
Dominion
Great Britain
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