When Marcia Came Home
Marcia refuses to return to forest life with Phil but after two months of social gaiety and growing doubt she realizes romance faded and tears and tension test their marriage. On a sunset train home Phil insists on loving and protecting their child and Marcia asks forgiveness as they reunite.
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Marcia
Constance
Phil
Connie
Baby
Baby Margaret
Philip Ames
Margaret
Mother
Whdq
Philip
Unknown medieval king statue added to Westminster hall
A gray stone statue of a king newly placed aloft in Westminster hall attracts puzzled experts. It bears a heavy crown and orb in the left hand, with the scepter hand missing, its identity uncertain and possibly an ideal majesty from a 14th century craftsman.
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Hons
Westminster
Legion
Westminster Hall
Architectural Museum
Hall of Kings
Lord Beauchamp
London Times
Siwash baskets and a dream of white luxuries
A Seattle area Siwash craftsman Crooked Bear saves money to buy three white man luxuries: a telephone, a bicycle, and a talking machine. He already has a tepee telephone and admires it, rides with baskets, and hopes for the other two items, despite sparse use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Crooked Bear
Ashton Expands This Year With Modern Home Improvements
The article notes Ashton residents invest in substantial upgrades including a wood finished interior, oak trim, and private gas electric and water systems for a new home valued around four thousand dollars. Other homeowners add barns replacements and new residences with costs ranging from a few hundred to about four thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Vender
John A. Wagner
Adam Gleim
Fred Mehlhouse
Dangerous candera fish dives into human bodies
The Wide World Magazine warns of the candera or canera fish, three to eight inches, with two distinct forms. It can dive into a victim through bodily channels, causing shock and possible death, requiring surgery. rare surgeons are found in remote areas.
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Wide World Magazine
Riveralta
South America
Thunder Sours Milk Theory Questioned by Paris Scientist
Harper's Weekly reports Professor Trillat of Paris challenges the ozone idea linking storms to milk souring. He concludes atmospheric depressions raise putrefying gases that promote decomposition and lactic fermentation, noting faster gas decomposition at low barometer during storms after numerous experiments with different substances.
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Professor Trillat
Paris
Trillat
Harper’s Weekly
Pilgrim Ponders Magazine Habits in Dentist Office
A weary traveler on a train muses on how doctors obtain magazines and recalls browsing a dentist's reception room. He discovers a January 1904 Literary Digest article about a Russia Japan war scare, dated from the long past issue as he reads.
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Russia
Japan
Trousseaux Through Time in Ancient Civilizations
Harper's Weekly notes tracing the evolution of the trousseau from ancient Greece where brides’ households made them to Merovingian customs requiring brides to bring all possessions. It cites a Covey seigneur’s daughter with a trousseau including nine servitors, thirty Hiegemen, a chaplain, and an astrologist, and describes later fashion-driven expansions in seigneur and peasant households under the empire with jewels, lace, lingerie, bonnets, and veils.
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Trousseaux
Greece
Covey
Trousses
Harper’s Weekly
Butterflies on embroidery provoke child’s candid aside
In a domestic vignette Mrs. Featherton shows a gown embroidered with lifelike butterflies. Her son Frankie critiques the design requesting antennae be placed on the opposite end, a Jeet for a moment of playful honesty. The piece shifts to praise of art collecting as sensible recreation for wealth and busy workers.
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United States
London
Heroic Rescue by Two Toddlers in Bath
In a bath time drama, three year old Montague and two year old Harold screamed as the stopper failed and the bath began to flood. Montague rescued Harold, declaring that he saved him as they stood shaking on the bathroom floor. Their mother had briefly left the room.
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Montague
Harold
Mislaid Mirror Delays Train Fatal Trip
A Fort Scott couple planned a trip but the husband teased they would miss the train. The wife forgot a mirror and then another item in her suitcase causing them to rush. The train left just as they arrived and the wife blamed the delay on the hurried dressing.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Tere
Notice of Adminstrator Appointment for Emma H Boyd Estate
Faust H Boyd administrator of the Emma H Boyd deceased estate announces appearance before Lee County Court at Dixon during the August term. All claimants must attend to have claims adjusted and all indebted persons must pay promptly. Dated June 16 1918. J E H Brewster attorney for the administrator.
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State OF Illinois
Circuit Court
Ida Mecklenburg
Herbert Mecklenburg
Chancery General No
Herbert Meckenburg
Lee County
WM. B. McMahan
Dixon
Ilinois
Watts
Emma H. Boyd
Emma IH. Boyd
Court House
Faust H. Boyd
H. Brewster Atty
L.W. Miller
Gertrude Declines Men as She Prefers Younger Partners
In a short local column Gertrude notes no man has ever kissed her and she has a decided preference for Mere boys, prompting readers to wonder about her dating choice and the social signals of the era.
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Gertrude
Two Iowa Farm Bargains
A 362 acre stock and grain farm near Des Moines offers two sets of buildings two large silos three wind mills and 35 acres of timber with a bargain price of 125 per acre for three weeks. Also offered is 120 acres very good land at 145 per acre with terms by 2011 T E Epson Woodward Iowa.
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Iowa
Des Moines
T. A
Epson
Woodward
Hunting Licenses for 1913-14 Issued by Village Clerk
The village clerk has received the new hunting licenses for the 1913-14 season. The season’s license color this year is white.
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Opyright
Associated Literary Press
Hall of Westminster
Ashton
McCrea’s
McCrea the Peach Man
Illinois Northern Utilities Co
Pilgrim
Che Ashton Market
Ashton Inn
The
Faber Lunch Room
Woodlawn
BR. H. A.bremmer
Ffice
Illinois
C. R. Root
D.D.S
Dr. Bremmer
Farmers Telephone No
H. L. Winder
Meister’s Feed Barn
Arthur Wir Harris
Dixon, Illinois
C. C. Baker
Ral
Arnanda, Manitoba, Can
Winnipeg
B. Bly
Arnanda
Manitoba
Canada
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