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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1916
Page
2
Mary Alice and Francis debate love and drinking on a cold day. Francis offers a marriage pact tied to sobriety while Mary Alice refuses to sacrifice her future, insisting on a two year try and a pledged decision from Francis’ parents if he stays true. She leaves him to ponder alone.
Francis Willett proves bright but unstable as Stacey guides his fate. John Willett schemes to use marriage and reform through Mary Alice Brown, the glove shop girl, while warning of a dangerous habit. The moral tug between ambition and vice drives this salon drama toward a cliffhanger.
Public carriages or hackney coaches were first introduced in London in 1625 and grew rapidly despite royal opposition. By 1660 there were over 300, and by 1694 London numbered more than 700. In Paris, Nicolas Sauvage introduced them under Louis XIV, and hackney carriages there came to be known as flacres.
Mary Alice Brown begs for secrecy after a tearful confrontation with John Willett. She pleads for understanding while fearing exposure to a boy, and he vows to intervene without letting him know of her sighting. The scene centers on loyalty, guilt, and an impending talk.
On a hot harvest day Francis Willett is gravely injured when Lem Brown, provoked by poisoning water with whiskey, throws a bucket at him. Doctors rush to operate as Sam Thomas fights a barn fire to save both the property and the boy. Mary Alice Brown and Charlie Thomas cling to hope for recovery and justice.
In Willett and Doctor Jackson's library Dawn breaks over a night of events. They discuss Lem's near salvation and the dangers avoided as the morning light slips into a calm, quiet start while a lighthearted note about the girls and their cerise ice cream soda hints at lingering tension.
A dramatic fall leaves the theatrical manager briefly stunned and seeing stars. Witnesses note he struck his head but were relieved his injuries were not serious.
Elder Hogan toiled in the stables as younger townsmen enlisted. He phoned a dealer for hay straw and oats and clashed with the awkward instrument. The dealer requested the recipient, and Hogan replied the order was for the horses.
An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue for laundry, claiming clothes become clear and dazzling white, whiter than s810W and free of greenish tinge. Encourages purchase at grocers with a five cent price.
A German lieutenant recalls a dramatic aerial encounter over Douaumont. A French pursuit engaged two French aviators whose flaming craft crashed to earth after a clash in the clouds. Moments later Boelcke, returning from the fight, broke through the clouds.
A southern rosebush on the Old Orchard road near Collum place, Saco, Maine, stands 100 years old.
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