The Neighbors Notice a Mysterious Red Handkerchief
Miss Sophia Nichols rooms near Beech Park observe the elderly man in the opposite house waving a red bandanna at her window each night around 10 o clock. Her nephew Jack Brown confronts the man after witnessing the gesture and vows to uncover the intent behind the strange routine.
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Sophia Nichols
Laurel Street
Beech Park
Spinever
Miss Sophia
Jack Brown
Jack
Sophia
The Thermometer Habit Haunts Household Health
A physician forbids patients to use clinical thermometers or risk not being treated. The thermometer fiend keeps a register at home and, upon any headache real or imagined, tests a temperature and fears a deadly illness.
The Man Who Ran From Opportunity Becomes Rich
A New York Sun telling of two men who travel together. One accepts small pay and builds a fortune, while the other declines chances and remains penniless. The $2.50 weekly worker becomes head salesman, partner, and founder of a vast wholesale firm worth millions in twenty two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middle West
New York
New York Sun
His Third Marriage and the Doll Superstition
A Lahore paper recounts a Badaon resident in Upper Burma who, after losing two wives, followed his bride family’s demand to marry a doll to appease death. He then announced the doll’s death and proceeded to wed a fourth wife, defying the superstition about a third marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lahore
Badaon
Upper Burma
A Dry Bath and the Dry Scotchman Joke
A Scottish man follows advice to fit a bath with a cistern and colander. He reports the shower was fine and he stayed dry. The friend asks how he enjoyed it and the man replies he stayed dry by standing under the water without being soaked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandy
Vet ii
London
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Pont It
Tentinna
S.S.S
S. S
Atlanta
Oho
Cliett
Ealers IN
Builders
Patton
RHP
ROY Myers Co
Vian
Gia
TRAC
Governor’s Mansion
South
al. J. O. Bagwell
Pres
Peachtree St
Atlanta, Ga
Ape
Japan
Standard Oil Company Incorporated
Fre&s
BH Levy
Bre
Savannh
Georgia
Panama, Canal
Tichenor
Sheercase Medicine CO
Mallory
Fachinery Co
Macon, Georgia
Gotton
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