Story of Mary Alice Brown and a Galahad knight
Mary Alice Brown is humiliated by mischievous boys spilling washing, then rescued by Francis Willett and taken home. She wanders, stays at Sam Thom as farm, meets Charlie Thomas the cripple, and characters navigate hardship. The tale ends with Mary Alice finding faith in God and duty.
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Clipper Hill
Mary Alice Brown
Calvert Street
Francis Willett
Mary Alice
Sam Thomas
Httle Charlie Thomas
Sam
Mrs. Brown
Lem Brown
Charlie
Francis
Francis Willett Dashes Risk by Dam to Help Friend
In Chapter four V continued, Mary Alice watches Francis Brown test a rotted dam plank while the two children fish for shiners. Francis falls into the ten foot deep flume and Mary Alice, remembering a line about faith and repair, crosses the dam to reach him and seek help.
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Francis Willett
Dick Brown
Francis
Charlie
Mary Alice
Girl Saves Friend From Flume as Courage Beats Fear
Mary Alice steadies a drowning Francis Willett with a fishing pole and bare grit. She toils over the slick flume wall until his hand grips hers and he climbs out. The next day Charlie sketches Francis and Mary Alice, preserving the dramatic rescue in art.
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Francis
Mary Alice
Charlie
Martha
Francis Willett
Sketching Faces and Fun at the Mill Pond
A child named Charlie and Mary Alice discuss drawing caricatures of themselves and animals. Charlie aims to create humorous images while admitting some drawings resemble dogs or a cow with horns. He prefers doing something active like a duck or a boy falling into water instead.
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Oly
Charlie
Mary Alice
Return of Lem and Mary Alice in a Sheffield summer
Mrs Brown resumes work while Mary Alice faces schooling choices as rent and child care press for the family. Francis Willett encounters Mary Alice on Clipper Hill as she starts a job at Stacey’s and hopes for word on Charlie Thomas’s medical condition. The scene ends with a tease of past romance.
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Lem
Mary Alice
Stacey’s
Toots Stacey
Sir Charlie Thomas
Sam Thomas
Billy Jackson
Charlie
Billy
Francis Willett
Francis
Beth
Grapes Require Sun, Proper Planting and Pruning Guidance
For grape planting, expose vines to full sun, allow cultivation on all sides, and plant one to two year old cuttings. Trim tips to three or four eyes, spread roots six inches deep, and firm soil. Mulch in dry seasons and prune to limit clusters to 30 through 80. The best fruit comes from the strongest buds on well formed canes.
Pruning Grapes and Training Systems for Vines
The article explains pruning aims including limiting buds and canes, with methods to cut back to 5 or 8 to 10 buds and renew growth from the trunk. It lists training systems such as trellis, fan, kniffin, Munson, and various overhead setups, and notes fertilization, girdling, and ring pruning to speed maturity and fruit size.
Women Barber Assistants Grow In Tokyo Shops
The article notes women increasingly enter barbering in Japan with many being wives of barbers or independent. It highlights grooming norms such as shaving facial hair and eyebrows on Western women, a barber holiday on the seventeenth with theater trips, and shops displaying playbills. Many barber tools are now Japanese made after initial imports.
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Japan
Tokyo
Why She Asked
A wife questions her husband about sincerity and honesty. She asks if he could confess sins before God tonight without fear of damnation, comparing truthfulness to his vow not to lie again. He replies that he could indeed be sincere.
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John
Polemic Salon Drags Congress into a Swirl of Debate
A contentious discussion turns on how easy it is to draw a congressman into debate. The author remarks that involving a lawmaker resembles teaching a duck to swim, signaling frustration with public discourse dynamics.
Reducing English Sparrows by Regular Nest Destruction
The article urges persistent trapping and breaking up of nests every ten to twelve days to cut the sparrow population, stressing neighborhood cooperation. It notes some residents install sparrow nest boxes but focus on nest destruction rather than providing habitats.
Summer care for strawberry plants in hot weather
During hot weather frequent cultivation helps keep soil moist. A dust mulch and regular hoeing prevent soil surface from caking. Use pulverized sheep manure if barnyard fertilizer is unavailable. Apply nitrate of soda carefully: 100 pounds per acre in spring and again at bloom, avoiding contact with plants due to burning risk.
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Dean L. H. Bailey
New York State College of Agriculture
Manuring Asparagus For Best Growth
For asparagus the best manures are nitrogen rich. Horse, sheep and hen manure work well, and nitrate of soda aids growth. Potash is important. wood ashes provide it, as do commercial forms. Apply barnyard manure as a winter mulch after soil freezes to curb deep frost.
Better Milk Pail Record Advice
A farmer advises feeding and providing ample water to a cow to keep her content and at ease. This care is said to improve milk yield and quality in daily farm records.
Brushes for Separator
Special brushes for washing the separator accompany the machine. If they wear, replace them at once.
Cheerful Giving and the Laws of Benevolent Grace
A Bible study on 2 Corinthians 9 outlines cheerful giving as a voluntary heart act, not coercion, and explains sowing and reaping in spiritual finance. It emphasizes that God loves a joyful donor, Christlike generosity, and that offerings support believers and powers of ministry, with the Jerusalem church cited as a beneficiary and example.
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Jesus
Paul
Corinth
Church of Jesus Christ
Jerusalem
God
Jesus Christ
Alberta ranchers profit from large and small holdings
A Gleichen Alberta rancher expanded from a small start nine years ago to sell 1,243 cattle for 101304.50 and ship 217 steers for over 80 a head. Additional consignments to Seattle and Spokane showed strong demand for Alberta stock amid rising beef prices and active livestock movement across western Canada.
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Canada
Gleichen
Alberta
Seattle
Pincher
Spokane
United States
British Columbia
Carstairs
Calgary
Provincial
Dept. of Agriculture
Joan Young
Sidney
Man
Manitoba
Department of Agriculture
Insinuation About a Seven Hour Parade
Omar recalls marching in a procession lasting seven hours to pass a point. Henry quips that the point was a saloon, turning a boast into a punchline about drinking.
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Omar
Henry
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Promises Snowy White Clothes
Preparedness ad urges shoppers to buy Red Cross Ball Blue from grocers for a clear white wash. It claims the product makes laundry look clean and bright, featuring a positive slogan about blue that is true blue.
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Red Cross
Citizen chases pickpocket across nine blocks
A citizen pursued a pickpocket for nine blocks and captured him. The thief was said to have taken something valuable, but the wallet carried only two dollars and snapshots of fish the citizen caught during the summer.
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Alyt
To Fortify the System Against Summer Heat
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic touted as a standard remedy to fortify the system against summer heat. It claims strong individuals withstand heat better than the weak, with a price of 50c.
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Grove
Just the Thing Do you consider journalism proper work for a lady
A brief exchange about women's suitability for journalism adds a note on opportunities. The snippet suggests ongoing discussions about women entering press roles and hints at room for progress at the era's top seats.
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Chittenden
California
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International Sunday School
E. O. Sellers
Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Western
Williams Mfg. CO
Cleveland
Daisy Fly Killer
Harold Somers
de Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
B. C
Il and
Reliable House
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Peat
Osineme the Feet Company
Providence
R. L
Indianapolis
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