The Usurers Daughter Chapter of Hidden Vow
Hildred Ransome prepares for a marriage to Lord Caraven arranged by her father Arley Ransome. Caraven pressures toward a wedding day while Hildred, wary and solitary, questions the match as relationships sour and a costly union looms. The eve of the ceremony reveals unease and unresolved love.
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Arley Ransome
Hildred Ransome
Lord Caraven
Miss Ransome
Oulric Caraven
Caraven
Mr. Carney
Hildred
Ailey Ransome
St. George
Hanover Square
Tfrances Riche
Lord St. Maure
Riche
Riche To Find You One.” Lady Riche
Hildrea
England
Amice
Hollies
Paris
Hilldred Ransome
Engagment to Wedding Race In Quiet London Plan
In Chapter VI the days between Hildred Ransome engagement and wedding end. Time passes quickly as preparations are complete. A dispute arises between the earl and the lawyer over a quiet ceremony away from London. Arley Ransome is mentioned in the scene.
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Hildred Ransome
Lord Caraven
London
Arley Ransome
Undeserved Cuff From a London Journal
A London journal recalls a scene from Edinburgh where a clergyman in training, heir to a limp, is mocked by a countryman who delivers a sharp box on the ear. The man rebukes the youth’s parody of an old gentleman’s infirmity and warns he may become lame himself.
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London
Dr. X
Princes Street
Edinburgh
Young X
Polite Lawyer Escapes Elevator Trap
A lawyer on the upper floors of a tall building let a hurried woman enter an elevator first. The door closed as the elevator reached capacity, trapping passengers between floors for half an hour. He remarked politeness is its own reward, then later rode a different lift and saw the saved group.
A Mean Musician Feud Over Fiddling Justice
In a heated exchange Jay Green declares Lyman Sawyer the meanest man in the country and vows more. John Medders defends Sawyer noting only fiddling. Green recalls asking for an honest opinion and being arrested for using profane language after his critique.
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Jay Green
Lyman Sawyer
John Medders
Hair forced growth after death noted in exhumation
The unearthing of five year old Edna Driver’s body in Columbia City Indiana revealed hair growth of eighteen inches as investigators probed the deceased child’s burial.
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Little Edna Driver
Columbia City
Ind
Hermit of the Schuylkill Finishes Armored River House
The Schuylkill hermit Valentine Fulbas completed a riverfront house on Reading Railway land near Shawmont after three years of river clay bricks. His doorway features apostles and a white angel chimney. he insists the images are his and refuses to explain their meaning.
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Valentine Fulbas
Schuylkill
Reading
Shawmont
Philadelphia
Buddha's Tooth Revered Amid Blended Faiths In Ceylon
In Ceylon the sacred tooth of Buddha is central to a fusion of Buddhist and Hindu practices. Priests guard the relic as Kandy’s fate and rite unfold during the annual festival, while some deem the event a Hindu procession in Buddhist disguise. The tooth’s famed power and history fuel wars and vast sums, yet its exhibit remains guarded.
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Pattipuwa
Ceylon
Isle of Flowers
Kandy
Gaatama Buddha
Womens Life and Marriage Customs in Sumatra Island
The article describes Sumatra marriage customs with a wife receiving a marriage portion and property in a separation. Wives live separately, with nightly visits by husbands. Sons stay with fathers after age four, daughters wed young and move to a house beside the mother. Widows plant a flag at death, and may remarry once the flag tears.
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Sumatra
The Real Waldersee in Harper’s Weekly portrait
Harper’s Weekly portrays Count Waldersee as a courteous, devout German official amid criticism of German actions in China. Gen Wilson recalls meeting him as civil and respectable, while Americans note his American wife and household prayers.
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Waldersee
Count Waldersee
China
Europe
Gen. Wilson
Harper's Weekly
Toad the Farmer's Friend
The toad aids crops by eating nocturnal insects injurious to fields and gardens. Aids include pest control value, cost of prey saved, and the toad's life cycle from eggs to adults. Protecting toads benefits greenhouse workers and gardeners, with boys cited as chief enemies who destroy many each year.
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W. B. Anderson
Indianapolis News
Value of the Foot Bath and Its Beauty Benefits
Doctors urge nightly foot baths to improve facial eruptions and beauty. Soak feet at 105 to 110 degrees, rub briskly to draw blood to the extremities, add washing soda if perspiration is offensive, then cool and dry thoroughly for better pedal circulation and smoother skin.
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Chicago Chronicle
The Blue Jay Food Habits and Impact
W B Anderson reports in Indianapolis News that the blue jay is common year round with numbers dipping in winter. The bird hunts insects during nesting and roams after. it consumes corn mostly in early year from field waste or crib cracks. It eats mast in fall and injurious insects, with robbing habits exaggerated, doing little harm to agriculture and providing benefit.
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W. B. Anderson
Indianapolis News
Pithy Funeral Service Recalls Colorful Sermon
Representative J. M. Allen recalls a colored preacher delivering a pithy funeral for a deceased man who enjoyed gay parties. The preacher notes mixed judgments of the man's character and offers the lone consolation that the departed is dead, without claiming where he has gone.
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J. M. Allen
Mississippi
Stenches to Compel Surrenders in Medieval Sieges
Describes siege tactics where besiegers hurled carrion from engines to overwhelm defenders with foul smells as a means to force surrender. Notes use of dead dogs swine horseflesh and similar waste to create stench surrounding cities or castles under attack.
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Mite
the Usurers
Charlotte M. Braeme
International Press Association
Ransome
Mr. Ran
Hermit Fulbas
Toad
Blue Jay
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