Two-bits the Brave Girl in Burning Hills Rescue
In a Wyoming night hike, Two-bits guides George Casey across a dangerous burned ridge. He, a Boston-born tenderfoot, admits fear. she mocks bravado, leads with courage, and saves him at a chasm. He rewards her with praise and a pony gift, Nickel, for her bravery.
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Ae George
Tenderfoot
Ge Casey
Wyoming
Fold Us
George Cas
Lawd
Rod
George
George Casey
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Longworths to Visit London for King Edward's Drawing Room
The Longworths will stay in London as guests of the American ambassador and his wife. Mrs Reid, returning from a long vacation, plans for King Edward's first drawing room of the season on May 25 and will present American women, including Mrs Nicholas Longworth, Roosevelts' daughter. The couple will lodge at Dorchester House with ambassadorial suites reserved for them. French boudoir furniture arrives to enhance the rooms.
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Longworths
London
Mrs. Reid
Court of
St. James
King Edward
Nicholas Longworth
Roosevelt
Longworth
Reids
Dorchester House
Ambassador
France
Exiled Queen Ranavalo Visits Paris After Madagascar Rule
Ranavalo the ex Queen of Madagascar visits Paris while living in Algiers since 1897 on French charity. Now forty four she ruled Madagascar for fourteen years and married the Prime Minister as war with France began.
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Theorld
Ranavalo
Madagascar
Paris
Algiers
Ranavale
France
Chinchillas in Danger of Extinction in Andes Trade
The chinchilla, once abundant in the Andes of Bolivia and Chile, is threatened by overhunting for fur. Chile's government struggles to enforce protections as demand drives exports from Coquimbo to about twelve thousand dozen skins last year with prices nearly double the year before.
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Andes
Bolivia
Chili
Coquimbo
Time puns and prison line turn up in old quips
The squib compiles jokes about clocks and time phrases from various papers. It riffs on Weeks the Pennsylvanian, a judge, and a ten year sentence, then plays with Hour and Minute wordplay, noting how the quip has circulated for a decade.
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Weeks
New York Evening Mail
Washington Post
Chicago Tribune
Wichita Eagle
Toiling Toward El Dorado A Stevenson Echo
A compact quotation notes that laboring with hopeful purpose outweighs arrival and that true success lies in the journey rather than a destination with a distant horizon and a sunlit spire.
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el Dorado
Robert Louis Stevenson
Newest Wearing Apparel for Summer Gowns and Linens
The piece surveys summer fashion focusing on circular skirts with flounces and gored washing fabric options, flat trim bands, and contrasting piping. It notes boleros as versatile adornments for morning and evening wear, recommends lingerie waists in sheer fabrics, and highlights voile linen, cashmere, mohair, and serge as ideal gown materials with white and black mixtures gaining popularity.
Nonymous Letter Ends in Mail by Zeke the Messenger
A Virginia congressman kept a colored man named Ezekiel in his employ. The master forgot a letter at the Capitol and later found it missing. Ezekiel testified he mailed it without address, mistaking it for an anonymous communique.
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Virginia
Ezekiel
Capitol
Yassah
Yo’ Lef
Zeke
Jesse
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