White Rose romance amid Lola and Sir Karl remains
Dolores Cliefden faces marriage to Lord Rhysworth while secretly loving Sir Karl of Allanmore. Lola de Ferras, eager to win Karl, jealously contends for his affection as Dolores accepts a surrogate marriage to secure her father’s fortune. Karl returns, declares lifelong love for Dolores, and the pair navigate rivals and promises as Lola schemes to prove him false.
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England
White Cliffe
Squire Cliefden
Lord Rhysworth
Eeping Hurst
Dolores Cliefden
de Squire
Dolores
Sir Karl
Allanmore
Scarsdale
Lola de Ferras
Karl
Lola
France
Beaulieu
Deeping Yhurst
Green Sickness and its Remedies in Young Women
Describes chlorosis in girls approaching womanhood and its symptoms. Notes changes in disposition appetite and fatigue. Claims Dr Chase's Nerve Food restores blood quality reconstructs tissue and adds vitality to organs. Mentions iron as a treatment and targets chlorosis feminine weaknesses from poor blood and exhausted nerves.
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Dr. Chase
Dr Chase's Nerve Food Boxes Offered For Sale
Dr Chase's Nerve Food at 50 cents per box, six boxes for 2.50, available through all dealers or Edmanson Bates & Co Toronto agents for Dr Chase's Last and Complete Receipt Book and Household Physician.
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Edmanson, Bates & Co
Toronto
Unspoken Hope Strains Lola and Lady Fielden at Dinner
Lola notices a knowing smile on Lady Fielden as Sir Karl returns from abroad. At a small dinner, Mrs Marabout and others hint Sir Karl should marry within the county. Dolores appears as the woman Lady Fielden suspects Sir Karl preferred, deepening Lola’s worry over her own fate and past shadows.
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Lady Rhysworth
Dolores
Lola de Ferras
Lord Rhysworth
Lola de Terras
Lola
Beaulieu
Miss Fielden
Deeping Hurst
Sir Karl
England
Kathleen
Lady Fielden
Mrs. Marabout
Abbysworth
Wellington's boyhood drubbing by a farmer's sister
An English visitor recalls Arthur Wellesley at Trevor on the Welsh frontier where a quarrel over marbles led to a hand to hand fight. He nearly won when a farmer's sister burst in with a wet towel ending the contest, a tale that echoes the Duke of Wellington's later fortunes.
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Wales
Arthur Wellesley
Trevor Homestead
Duke of Wellington
Trevor
Dungannon
Napoleon
Eton
Waterloo
Trench
Wellesley
Lito Sreurai on the Farm. Cells Sgossi Lito Sreurai
Lands long regarded as used up can be revived by chemical analysis of dormant plant food. With skilled cultivation and intelligent manuring, soil mechanical condition can improve to meet needed duty. Cut and run farming offends nature’s God.
Proper use of chemicals in hill farming advised by J W Sanborn
J W Sanborn notes chemicals can be used without dilution and warns against large hill quantities. Avoid nitrate of soda and muriate of potash early, as excess retards growth. He advocates half yard manure a half chemicals, broadcasting 600 lbs per acre for corn to encourage root development and steady final yield.
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J. W. Sanborn
Outgrowing Old Agricultural Ruts
A farming correspondent urges farmers to abandon long held rut-like habits such as skipping agricultural papers and neglecting education for their children. He contrasts patronizing unreliable literature with supporting strong agricultural journals and stresses modern knowledge, business farming, and continual improvement for better outcomes.
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Dickens
Stable Sanitation and Cow Housing Essentials
A writer emphasizes three essentials for cow stables light temperature and ventilation. North south barns with ample windows capture sun most of the day, sun acting as a germicide. Large window areas cools. use double windows or inside curtains to maintain warmth without sacrificing light.
Stable Temperature and Ventilation for Cattle Barns
A guide on stable climate control recommends keeping barns at 64 to 60 degrees, allowing 500 cubic feet of air per animal. It describes a wide 86 by 90 foot stable with 312 foot stalls facing the wall, prefers cement floors with roughened finish, and suggests three to four box stalls per barn. Ventilation relies on tight intake tubes placed below the eaves to move air up into the rafters and settle downward, with five inch intake tubes per cow.
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Prof. King
Glass as a Material of the Future Revealed
The article surveys glass as a versatile, durable material beyond windows. It traces uses from ship sheathing and lithographic plates to glass casks, machine bearings, electrical components, and railroad ties. It notes armored and perforated glazing, protected glass for security, prismatic glass for light, and advanced forms like devitrified glass bricks and hollow hermetically sealed units.
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Switzerland
Ready for Emergencies: Ameer of Afghanistan’s wartime prep creed
An excerpt from The Life of Abdur Rahman Amir of Afghanistan describes the ruler as always prepared for emergencies. He keeps loaded public safety items and daily bread in his pockets, swords near his bed, saddled horses ready for courtiers, and gold coins sewn into horse saddles for journeys. He asserts a sovereign must stay as ready as a marching soldier.
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Ameer
Afghanistan
Abdur Rahman
Amir
The Other Half World Incidents and Occurrences
A compilation of scattered notes from Europe and Asia including Berlin repairs costing 15000 pounds, Kruger's grandfather's trade, a fatal glacier accident near Ventimiglia, plague news from Singapore, 1900 gains by German steamship lines, and various geopolitical, educational, and social items across Italy, Turkey, Persia, and Cape Town. The report notes diverse topics from nobility, census read/write rates, and Ottoman transit prohibitions to university study plans and charity fraud.
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Berlin
Vienna Pharmaceutical Post
Kruger
Odorf
Huringia
M. Adolph Sputher
Mont Nero
Ventimiglia
Singapore
China
Baron Schott von Schottenstein
Wurtemberg
Italy
Bank of England
London
Cape Town
England
Vossische Zeitung
Bonn University
Rue Des Nations
Martin
Turin
Arnold
Costa
Lisbon
Macomba
Portugal
Norddeutsche Allegeine Zeitung
Cape
Cape Colony
Agricultural Department
Persia
One on the Bishop in Norwich Gate Incident
A visit by the Protestant Bishop of Norwich ends in gentle humor after he helps a young girl through a gate. The girl explains she cannot open it because the paint is wet and she would soil her hands.
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Norwich
England
Reinterpreting a Historic Workplace Exchange
A dialogue piece shows a master apologizing for discharge while offering a recommendation, praising the worker as wakeful, diligent, and first-rate. The worker replies with gratitude and hints at possible future job prospects.
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Sam
Wileawake
Nutty Exchange Between Hoboes Over Bread Thief
In a fragmentary dialogue a first hobo asks a second if he left a loaf of bread in a rail car and the second confirms. The first claims the bread was taken from a third husband and that he will protect it as far as possible, illustrating a rough street scene with passing freight trains.
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White
Paradise
Rhys
Madame
Iola
Wellington
Lito Sreurai
Sgossi
Old Land
Nolt
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