Spider Lady Meets Mud Rolling Meadow Dwellers
In a playful meadow scene Mrs Turret Spider meets the Lories and Tum, as Katy and Tilly tumble a mud ball down a hill. The Spider Lady explains egg carriage by mud and back, contrasting with their egg carrying method. The jesting meeting ends with all parties carrying on their way across the meadow.
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Tilly
Tilly Ug
Tillyug
Mbiebug
Lady Spider
Tilly Ge
Turret Spider
Gmblebug
A Wife’s Confessional and Kitchen Surveillance
Adele Garrison stage manages a scene to test Fanny Powell with Mrs. Ticer’s help. The narrator observes Mrs. Ticer scrubbing the kitchen while paying her for a full day’s work and hints at tension between Katie and the house staff as Miss Garrison navigates the domestic dynamics.
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Katherine
Fanny Powell
Katie
Meesis Graham
Messis Graham
Fashion diary sketches a slimming black satin ensemble
Madame designs an afternoon frock for Mrs. Rogers to slim apparent size. She outlines a black satin gown with side seams for length and a white satin inset vestee, offering a slender line and a shallow U neckline.
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Grace Thorncliffes
Adame
Rogers
Madame
Mrs. Rogers
Largest stone arch in England and long iron bridge spans
The note highlights England and London structures with 200 and 240 foot spans. It mentions Canada standardizing crops with over 100 wheat varieties in 1907, dropping to six last year. It also notes pygmy mice from Africa small enough to fit a family in a matchbox.
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England
Chester
Southwark Bridge
London
Canada
Africa
Sign of insanity questioned in California will case
Justice Thomas J. Lennon of the California Supreme Court presides over a will case where the charge of insanity arises. Clara Ann Perkins, aged fifty six, left fifty thousand dollars to Irving E. Bigelow Jr., a young aviator she had known only somewhat.
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Thomas J. Lennon
Supreme Court of California
Sio
Lennon
Clara Ann Perkins
Irving E. Bigelow, Jr
Perkins Will Sparks Family Dispute Over Heir Money
In 1925 Li Ke reports that Clara Ann Perkins left a substantial bequest to a young aviator, while her brothers and sisters challenge the will accusing her of madness and jealousy. The article notes uncertainty about Perkins's status and origins of her wealth as relatives debate the rightful heir.
Contested Will and Family Ties Stir Reflections on Kinships
A voice questions whether kinship obligates money or affection. The writer argues a bequest is personal, scoffs at demanding love as a legal duty, and mocks certain relatives while preferring distant strangers to tense family bonds.
Tomorrow's Horoscope by Genevieve Kemble
Wednesday June 3 foresees conflicting planetary influences with social and domestic matters satisfying, business and financial issues complex. Avoid speculation and money risk, protect employment, and those with June birthdays face a mixed but not wholly hostile year.
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Wang
Home Making Helpers on Wall Paper Trends
In this home decorating piece by Wanda Barton readers learn the shift in wallpaper design emphasizing space perception. Neutral grounds with borders create height. vine striped papers and scenic designs enhance distance in rooms with low ceilings. Shadow papers suit sunlit breakfast rooms while garden and tree motifs pair with Colonial furnishings.
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Pers
Sack Ste
Your Health Advice for Sleep and Infant Care
Dr Royal S Copeland offers guidance on infant sleep routines emphasizing safe crib use, letting a baby cry to self soothe, and avoiding constant parental pacing. He links infant sleep issues to digestion and stomach discomfort and stresses proper feeding, digestion, and temperature as sleep factors.
Famous Firsts Behind the Wall A Look at Weathercocks and Antiques
A fragmentary piece by Mark Stuyvesant surveys the antique craze in America with notes on weather vanes, wind symbols, and a historical description of weathercock use. It touches on wind personifications and a satire of cock-throwing in British war culture.
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Mark Stuyvesant
Dias
Johnson
Epye
Stancy
Annie Laurie Grows Teasing With Judge Sam Across Weeks
A teen narrator recalls starting a flirtatious relation with Judge Sam several weeks ago. The court figure left town briefly, leaving the young woman to continue the “heaping company” in his absence.
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Annie Laurie
Sam
Yee
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