Ice Maiden melts as Penelope proves tender heart
Roy Danford visits Penelope Dunbar at the Stanford home where a baby illness sparks a change. Penelope shifts from ice to warmth, caring for Dottie with novice skill, revealing her gentle nature. Danford admits his love as the couple share a quiet, candleless moment before Mrs. Stanford returns and uplifts the scene.
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Panferil
Penelope Dunpart
Mrs. Stanford
Danford
Walder
Povielope
Swerl
Penelope
Stanford
Penelope Goodby
Roy Danford
Roy
Dotti
Dottie
Stanford House
Moe
Dan
Ford
Tarred Roads and the Eyes Warn of Dust Risk
Doctors warn tarred road dust harms eyes and a French Academy professor says protective goggles may be needed as tar use rises. Wallace Riche notes about 10 000 miles of tarred roads in Great Britain now versus 2 000 in 1908, with extensions mainly in southern England.
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French Academy of Science
Jexstar
Wallace Riche
England
London Daily Mail
The Outcome
A fragmentary account notes a man entangled with multiple engagements and mounting expenses. A related remark suggests he fell behind on board bills and faced mounting debt, culminating in a questionable financial and social outcome.
Breed Army Horses to Create Aristocrat Hunter Breed
London reports a proposed government stud using a 250000 grant to develop a pure bred hunter type for cavalry and territorial forces. The plan aims to standardize the hunter, improve quality, and reduce lottery risks in army horse breeding, with breeders offering mares and stallions to start the program. A public letter notes war department progress on mobilization horse supply, while War Secretary Haldane delays a conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Royal Commission On Horse Breeding
Ireland
Hertfordshire
Hallane
City of London Territorial Force Association
Lony
Haldane
Marry to Escape Schools in New York
The board of education disclosed that fifteen Italian girls aged 14 to 16 have recently married to avoid schooling costs. Edward B. Shallow, head of compulsory education, noted cases where parents seek transfer cards, temporarily move to Jersey, then relocate to dodge court-ordered schooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Board of Education
Edward B. Shallow
Department of Compulsory Education
Jersey
Ice Baseball on Lake Erie Off Kelly's Island
Nearly two thousand Sanduskians witnessed a novelty as a regulation diamond was marked on ice off Kelly's Island. The Elfers and the Porters played under baseball rules, the Elfers winning 22 to 20.
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Sandusky
Ohio
Lake Erie
Kelly's Island
Elfers
Paying Chicago Fire Debt in Buffalo Bonds
Buffalo issues 30000 dollars of 7 percent bonds on October 10, 1871 to aid Chicago after the fire. The debt will be wiped out by 1917 with the latest refunding. County architect Edwin Rice Baker found the item in Buffalo's comptroller William G. Justice's annual report and sought clarification for public record.
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Chicago
Buffalo
Edwin Rice Baker
William G. Justice
Largest electric clock built for Liverpool offices
Gent & Co. of Leicester constructed what is described as the largest electric clock in the world for the Friendly Society offices in Liverpool. One dial section is being assembled at Leicester Trades Hall, with sixty to seventy guests invited for luncheon around the clock face serving as the table. Each dial measures 25 feet in diameter, the minute intervals are 1 inch, and the minute bounds stretch 14 feet.
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London
Gent & Co., Limited
Leicester
Friendly Society
Liverpool
Toy House to Be Retained in Chicago
A small toy house built in Thomas Lynch’s Dearborn Avenue yard remains to be repaired and kept intact after Miss Leila Lynch now Mrs. J. F. Stevens wed. The ten by eight foot replica of a modern home features three lower rooms, a tower, electric lighting, and a yard ringed by an iron fence. The coachman lamented the timeworn ruin while noting plans to renovate and preserve the cherished miniature dwelling.
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Chicago
Thomas Lynch
Dearborn Avenue
Leila Lynch
Washington, D. C
Parrot Chews Up Her Tag Delays In St Paul Office
Polly the parrot shipped from Chicago to Mrs Cook chewed the address label at the Wells Fargo Express office in St Paul causing ten days of delay. Clerks remembered the bird chattering all day and say it was fed and cared for, though the lost label provoked a protest from the owner via the Humane Society.
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St. Paul
Minn
Chicago
Wells-Fargo Express Company
Polly
Polly Was Shipped To A Mrs. Cook
Dodging the Dentist Misadventure of Vedderman
Vedderman stalls at a toothache and resists a dentist visit as his wife pressures him. He repeatedly postpones, citing a busy schedule and mock dignity, until a forced appointment Finally he confronts the dentist delay and blames others while pretending resignation.
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Mar
Associated Literary Press
Wadsworth
Washington
Vielch
Great Britain
New York City
Chicago Fire
City of Buffalo
TOY House
Parrot
Vedderman
Henry
Fleury Wedderman
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