Friday the Thirteenth Brings Rescue and Romance
Marcus Randolph, born under a haunted star, helps Eleanor Deane during a rail delay on Friday the thirteenth. He assists with a box and a broken car, is invited to a Paxton home party, and discovers a shared birthday as romance blossoms at Eleanor’s birthday gathering.
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Marcus Randolph
Marcus
José Doney
Bhin
Marecus
Paxton
Millville
Mne
Eleanor Deane
Muarcus
Deane
Deane Hind
Castitutenant
Chaauffeur
Tovan
Eleanor Eazerly
Marrecus
Priday
Eleanor
Papa
Miss Deanendicu
Mr. Deane
Knight
Long and Short Wills Across Wealthy Victorians
The article contrasts wills from £5,000 to £3,000,000 noting Clarecarde’s £2.5 million will equates to about £72,000 per word. It cites Thorne of Streatham with a three word will, Witcairn’s 32 lines, Russell of Killowen’s 12 lines for £150,000, and Bush of Alveston with 26,000 words for £144,000.
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Earl of Claircarde
Thorne
Streatham
Witcairn
Pennsylvania Railway
Lord Russell
Killowen
Edward Bush
Alveston
Gloucestershire
London
Contemptuous remark links Dash failure to business tactics
Henry Green tells a New York financial editor that Dash failed due to his aggressive Eastern-style business approach. A vizier proposes buying autos from Oberholtzer at an 80 percent discount and arranging prompt payment by return post to settle the bill later.
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Lnte
Henry Green
New York
Dash
Oberholtzers
Oberholtzer
Glad He's Free and Letters Reveal Voter Rights
A fragment describes a man finding a packet of old love letters. The other character notes the letters returner later engaged in sun worship, women’s suffrage and birth control activism, reflecting social shifts. The Birmingham Age-Herald quote underscores changing attitudes.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Life on the Argentine pampas and large estates
The piece follows a lone journey across the pampas with gaucho riders and a four-passenger coach, then surveys estancias like Quillalucuea near Buenos Aires. It notes vast land ownership, cattle and sheep herds, labor, and the owner class who keep estates intact for heirs as revenues fund cosmopolitan living.
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Southland
William A. Reid
Los Angeles Times
Argentina
Pampa
Gran Chaco
Estancia
Mendoza
Pampas
Buenos Aires
Europe
Exquisite Fans in Louis XV Era Du Barry Pompadour
In the peak of Fan making under Louis XV, Versailles era favorites Du Barry and Mme de Pompadour favored elaborate fans. Pompadour reportedly ordered a fan nine years in the making, paper cut like lace with tiny medallion sticks visible only under a powerful microscope, a symbol of royal extravagance, with the king paying for them.
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Louis XV
France
Versailles
du Barry
Mme’de Pompadour
Imagination and individual contribution in work
The passage argues imagination as a uniquely human gift and contrasts it with natural creations like beaver architecture and honeycomb cells. It asserts that people must inject personal originality into their work, or they become mere copies or echoes, a purveyor of hollow ideals.
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Samuel Johnson
Velvet trains dominate Paris fashion for costly gowns
Retailers report French gowns priced high due to imports and tariffs, pushing American women to stretch budgets. Velvet dominates both evening gowns and trains, with trains added as the fashionable solution to update existing gowns. The fashion scene shows a strong demand for fur coats and one piece street wear, while velvet remains the key material across luxurious ensembles.
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New York
France
Paris
Marie Antoinette
Catherine de Medici
How to Attach Lace and Create Button Repairs in Sewing
Instructions for workers on lace edging for centerpieces using boiling water to set a circular edge. Steps include dipping, drying, unrolling lace, and whipping flat without stretching. Also describes repurposing old nightgowns and skirts into protective covers, and mending worn button centers by criss crossing thread to stabilize edges.
Metal Thread Run In Silk Hosiery Fashion
Silk stockings in black and delicate colors feature fine metal threads woven in garland motifs along the edges and a shadow design in the weave, reflecting decorative fashion details.
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Atlantic
American States
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