Edith Kent and the Dinner Party Trick
Edith Kent receives a six o clock invitation from Mrs. Jasper French to dine with Miss Constance Gordon and Harry Case. The evening reveals Harriet French’s careful plan to shield her nephew from a potentially compromising attachment while Edith enjoys a rare prestige social occasion.
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Edith
Miss Kent
Mrs. French
Miss Gordon
Harry Case
Jasper French
Constance Gordon
Eeith
Edith Kent
Edith Keat
Ing
Harry
Harriet French
Josephine Bonaparte Early Life and Family Ties
Josephine, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, was born in Martinique, a French island in the West Indies. Her first husband Viscount Beauharnais produced two children Eugene, later viceroy of Italy, and Hortense, mother of Louis Napoleon. Napoleon divorced her in 1809 to wed Maria Louisa of Austria. Josephine died in 1814.
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Josephine
Napoleon Bonaparte
Martinique
West Indies
Viscount Beauharnois
Eugene
Italy
Hortense
Napoleon
Louis Napoleon
Napoleon III
Maria Louisa
Emperor of Austria
How old are you inquired the visitor of his host
Quoted comic line from Success Magazine about a boy answering age questions with multiple age types. The speaker cites psychological age twelve moral age four anatomical age seven physiological age six and chronological age eight. The host concludes eight is the relevant age in playful exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Success Magazine
Capacity for Love in Maeterlinck Quote
A compact reflection on perfect love noting that true happiness hinges on a deeper love from one partner. The text asserts that even close unions differ in balance as the more deeply loving person gains happiness from their greater devotion.
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Maeterlinck
General Knowledge Quiz Questions Across Topics
A compilation of twenty questions covering geography history science literature and sports. Includes inquiries on cost of living rankings historic quotes authors monuments river outflows ship battles curfews engines and military actions with varied factual answers.
Answers and identifications from a 1920 quiz list
A numbered trivia set lists items including a May 1 1920 baseball tie between Boston and Brooklyn, names such as Andrew Johnson Wilson and Mrs G H Stetson, the medulla oblongata, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Russia, Hindu sacred literature, General Zachary Taylor, rules of English usage, Bible verses, Mary Pickford, and the Volga with Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. The list also mentions Persia’s national stone and the First Book of Kings.
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Zachary Taylor
God
Heaven
Earth
G. H. Stetson
Philadelphia
Georgia
George IT
Mary Pickford
The
Volga
Russia
Vanity Fair
Thackeray
Persia
Cyclone tale from Mace ends with crowd dispersal
Altoona Kansas Tribune recalls Mace Liverwurst telling a Civil War cyclone yarn at a blacksmith shop. He claimed a lightning strike killed a hog, wind rendered fat to lard, a frying pan flew upright, a chicken fried in grease, and grass fires followed. Listeners left as he boasted he could prove it with a dozen people.
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Mace Liverwurst
Mace
Altoona
Kan
Tribune
No Uniform Length Across Historical Leagues
The text compares ancient, Norman, metric, and nautical leagues. It notes the Roman league at 1.876 modern English miles, the Norman league at 2.9 miles, the metric league at four kilometers, and the nautical league as a twentieth of a degree equal to three geographical miles or 3.657 statute miles.
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England
Grading Machines Aid Apple Packing Efficiency
Prof. Joseph Oskamp of New York State College of Agriculture notes grading machines, especially with a belt, speed sorting and improve packing of high quality apples. He advises packing barrels tightly with careful racking, as overfilling causes bruising and reduces efficiency.
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Joseph Oskamp
New York State College of Agriculture
Ithaca
N. Y
Oskamp
Diseases Causing Pear Tree Branches to Die
Pear trees suffer from several diseases with bacterial blight often causing branch tips to die and progress downward. Prune out infected limbs and cankers, disinfect wounds with antiseptics, and repaint. Cultivate soil, apply manure or nitrate in spring, and maintain a spraying schedule to reduce pests and diseases.
Horticulture Sprays and Plant Health Guidelines
The article advises using only calendar-recommended spray materials, noting limestone benefits for peaches and arsenate of lead with lime sulfur as top choices. It explains crown gall symptoms, suggests raspberries between trees if they do not hinder future growth, and stresses spraying timing per the calendar as crucial, with regional differences in spraying frequency between North and South.
Women of Middle Age Health Gains Promoted by Lydia E Pinkham
Mrs Annie Kwinski of Milwaukee writes she grew weak and tried Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, taking six bottles and feeling much better. Mrs Mattie Adams of Brewton Alabama reports a transformation after use. Thousands of women past fifty credit the remedy for renewed vigor and health and urge others to try it.
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Annie Kwinski
1St Avenue
Milwaukee
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mattie Adams
Downing Street
Brewton
Ala
Lydia BE
Moone's Emerald Oil Promises Fast Foot Pain Relief
Advertised remedy claims to end aching swollen feet with two to three applications in fifteen minutes. It touts reducing pain swelling and odor, urging use for varicose or swollen veins and promising satisfaction or money back.
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Moone
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D. J. Walsh
Paris
Washington Monument
George A. Birmingham
America
United States
Boston
Brooklyn
Andrew Johnson
Wilson
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Taft
Parker
N.Y
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogue
Fiji
Guaran
Harold Somers
All Druggints . Co
Nashville
Tenn
Haarlem
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