Pamela Hitchcock Chooses Love Over The Farm
Pamela Hitchcock resists Abner Brown’s attempts to reveal her secrets and a real estate agent’s visit pushes her toward a life change. Abner confesses his long love as Mrs. Hitchcock contemplates selling the 160 acres to move toward Springfield or another city. Pamela delays the decision, awaiting tonight’s caller and a possible future with Abner.
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Minnots
Springfield
Ladies’ Aid Society
Pamela
Abner
Pike's Peak
The Price of Freedom in Self-Directed Farming
David Buffum argues that farming demands long, irregular hours beyond the eight hour norm. He notes continual collaboration with nature, toil that wears the worker down, and the heavy price paid for independence from wage labor.
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David Buffum
The
Atlantic
Hard Up. A sharp exchange about attention seekers.
A terse dialogue contrasts people who stay quiet with those who cannot attract attention except by noise. The exchange highlights societal perceptions of visibility and complaint in a concise, pointed banter.
Airship Is Unique Engine Coupled With Wheels
London English inventor L B Goldman proposes a covered central conical body aeroplane with wheels and skids and wings on ball bearing collars that oscillate to maintain balance. The design includes a tilting central body, upper vertical plane with stops, water landings, folded wings for road transport, and engine drive to rear propellers. The inventor is an invalid and has not tested the concept.
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London
L. B. Goldman
Goldman
Many Cities Buried in Sea Off Central America
New Orleans report cites Dr. Emil Monsonyi of Budapest claiming vast Central American cities lie beneath Caribbean waters at shallow depth. He theorizes a cataclysm submerged land along the twentieth parallel, destroying thousands and sending survivors toward North America. A second brief notes a Jersey City death from septic poisoning after cat scratch and a fly sting.
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New Orleans
Caribbean Sea
Emil Monsonyi
Budapest
Hungary
Monsonyi
Central America
North America
Jersey City
N. J
Edward H. Pratt
Pratt
Curfew Bells Ringing in Christiania Norway Cause Buzz
In Christiania curfew bells at eight or nine settle for winter and summer aim to keep children off streets. Social workers hail the plan though initial alarm faded. Critics blame dime‑novel literature for juvenile misrule, questioning the bells’ effectiveness amid restless youths.
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Christiania
Norway
Girls urge high school girls to curb boys smoking
In Kansas City Missouri a high school principal advocates female influence to stop boys smoking. He cites that about 75 percent of city high school boys smoke and argues girls can deter them by objecting to smoking. He warns chronic smokers rarely graduate and notes nicotine effects on behavior.
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Kaness City
B. D. Phillips
Manual Training High School
Kansas City
Small Boy a Gold Mine in Paterson NJ
Johnny Pelford a six year old boy is in the general hospital after swallowing a five dollar gold piece. Doctors work to dislodge the coin but have not yet succeeded. The child asked for a penny and, thinking it real, swallowed the coin while leaving for a candy store.
Plunkville Palladium Editor Seeks Fresh News
The Plunkville Palladium editor laments scarce news this week and asks for reader tips while joking about filling the paper with guidance for the new king.
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Acarce
Plunkville Palladium
Servant Girl Seeks $60,000 Left by Dieing Heir
Evansville Indiana notes a probate filing by Mrs. Mattie Hannoun of Vincennes claiming a will written by Marshall McMurren, a tramp, who left estate to a servant girl Mattle Drain who aided him during hunger. Relatives plan to contest the will as witnesses are dead. Also from Towanda a cow nurses two lambs after their mother died, lambs gaining weight rapidly.
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Evansville
Ind
Marshall McMurren
Mattie Hannoun
Vincennes
McMurren
Emma Grant
Hannyn
Misa Mattle Drain
Mattle Drain
Towanda
John Bustin
Bustin
Woman breaks shoulder saving eggs on farm
Mrs Henry Menges seventy years old of Jackson township York Pa was carrying eggs from the barn to the house when she stepped on a loose stone and fell in trying to save the eggs she landed awkwardly on her right shoulder resulting in a broken shoulder though the eggs were unharmed.
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Pamela Hitchcock
Abner Brown
Abner
Pamela
York
Henry Menges
Jackson Township
New Theology and the Faith of Modern Pulpits
A critique of the so called new theology argues it omits core doctrines, lowers the Bible’s inspiration, and removes God from religion. It warns of an evangelistic crisis as churches become social centers and culture dominates piety, urging a return to evangelical truth and the atoning Saviour.
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United Presbyterian
Herald and Presbyter
Following the Higher Plan and Life as a School
A devotional reflection quotes Job and asserts God has a definite plan for each person guiding them through trials toward a noble end. It emphasizes life as a purposeful school, where hardship and humble living shape character, and discouragement has no place in those true to their divine lesson.
Faith and Jesus Belief Across Time
The text contrasts faith in Jesus among familiar locals who knew him as a carpenter's son with modern readers who see him as a distant, divine figure. It notes that memory and distance ease belief in his divine nature, whereas proximity bred doubt.
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Jesus
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Associated Literary Press
Mrs. Hitchcock
Ed Lamb
Roosevelt
Romanes
YY Theater
Ter
Theodore Roosevelt
Oxford
Indiana
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